- 07 1月, 2009 25 次提交
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由 Jean Delvare 提交于
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: NHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Acked-by: NDavid Hubbard <david.c.hubbard@gmail.com>
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由 Manuel Lauss 提交于
The Texas Instruments TMP121 is a SPI temperature sensor very similar to the LM70, with slightly higher resolution. This patch extends the LM70 driver to support the TMP121. The TMP123 differs in pin assign- ment. Signed-off-by: NManuel Lauss <mano@roarinelk.homelinux.net> Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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由 Kaiwan N Billimoria 提交于
This fixes a byteswap bug in the LM70 temperature sensor driver, which was previously covered up by a converse bug in the driver for the LM70EVAL-LLP board (which is also fixed). Other fixes: doc updates, remove an annoying msleep(), and improve three-wire protocol handling. Signed-off-by: NKaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan@designergraphix.com> [ dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: doc and whitespace tweaks ] Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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由 Hans de Goede 提交于
Now that the new merged fschmd driver has gained support for the watchdog integrated into these IC's, there is no more reason to keep the old fscher and fscpos drivers around, so mark them as deprecated. Signed-off-by: NHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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由 Jean-Marc Spaggiari 提交于
Allow it87.c to handle IT8720 chipset like IT8718 in order to retrieve voltage, temperatures and fans speed from sensors tools. Also updating the related documentation. Signed-off-by: NJean-Marc Spaggiari <jean-marc@spaggiari.org> Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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由 Ira Snyder 提交于
Add Linux support for the Linear Technology LTC4245 Multiple Supply Hot Swap controller I2C monitoring interface. Signed-off-by: NIra W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu> Acked-by: NHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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由 Hans de Goede 提交于
Add some documentation about the f71882fg driver, and update the Kconfig documentation to report the new supported models. Signed-off-by: NHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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由 Graf Yang 提交于
Add document about bfin-gpio when requesting a pin both as gpio and gpio interrupt. Signed-off-by: NGraf Yang <graf.yang@analog.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
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由 Hidehiro Kawai 提交于
Introduce a new kernel parameter `coredump_filter'. Setting a value to this parameter causes the default bitmask of coredump_filter to be changed. It is useful for users to change coredump_filter settings for the whole system at boot time. Without this parameter, users have to change coredump_filter settings for each /proc/<pid>/ in an initializing script. Signed-off-by: NHidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
Reformat text to (mostly) stay within 80 columns of text. Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
Add some (more) early_param boot options to kernel-parameters.txt. Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
Add info on how to use DOC: sections in kernel-doc. DOC: sections enable the addition of inline source file comments that are general in nature instead of being specific to a function, struct, union, enum, or typedef. Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
Update Documentation/s390/ files to reflect changed header files locations. Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
Update several Documentation/ files and a few sub-dir files (only one change in each) to reflect changed header files locations. Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
Add documentation on how to use kernel-doc for function parameters that are "..." (varargs). Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
Allows kprobes to probe __exit routine. This adds flags member to struct kprobe. When module is freed(kprobes hooks module_notifier to get this event), kprobes which probe the functions in that module are set to "Gone" flag to the flags member. These "Gone" probes are never be enabled. Users can check the GONE flag through debugfs. This also removes mod_refcounted, because we couldn't free a module if kprobe incremented the refcount of that module. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: document some locking] [mhiramat@redhat.com: bugfix: pass aggr_kprobe to arch_remove_kprobe] [mhiramat@redhat.com: bugfix: release old_p's insn_slot before error return] Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: NAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Darrick J. Wong 提交于
It turns out that the adt7470's automatic fan control algorithm only works when the temperature sensors get updated. This in turn happens only when someone tells the chip to read its temperature sensors. Regrettably, this means that we have to drive the chip periodically. Signed-off-by: NDarrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
f_op->poll is the only vfs operation which is not allowed to sleep. It's because poll and select implementation used task state to synchronize against wake ups, which doesn't have to be the case anymore as wait/wake interface can now use custom wake up functions. The non-sleep restriction can be a bit tricky because ->poll is not called from an atomic context and the result of accidentally sleeping in ->poll only shows up as temporary busy looping when the timing is right or rather wrong. This patch converts poll/select to use custom wake up function and use separate triggered variable to synchronize against wake up events. The only added overhead is an extra function call during wake up and negligible. This patch removes the one non-sleep exception from vfs locking rules and is beneficial to userland filesystem implementations like FUSE, 9p or peculiar fs like spufs as it's very difficult for those to implement non-sleeping poll method. While at it, make the following cosmetic changes to make poll.h and select.c checkpatch friendly. * s/type * symbol/type *symbol/ : three places in poll.h * remove blank line before EXPORT_SYMBOL() : two places in select.c Oleg: spotted missing barrier in poll_schedule_timeout() Davide: spotted missing write barrier in pollwake() Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Brad Boyer <flar@allandria.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Hugh Dickins 提交于
An unfortunate feature of the Unevictable LRU work was that reclaiming an anonymous page involved an extra scan through the anon_vma: to check that the page is evictable before allocating swap, because the swap could not be freed reliably soon afterwards. Now try_to_free_swap() has replaced remove_exclusive_swap_page(), that's not an issue any more: remove try_to_munlock() call from shrink_page_list(), leaving it to try_to_munmap() to discover if the page is one to be culled to the unevictable list - in which case then try_to_free_swap(). Update unevictable-lru.txt to remove comments on the try_to_munlock() in shrink_page_list(), and shorten some lines over 80 columns. Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Acked-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 David Rientjes 提交于
This change introduces two new sysctls to /proc/sys/vm: dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes. dirty_background_bytes is the counterpart to dirty_background_ratio and dirty_bytes is the counterpart to dirty_ratio. With growing memory capacities of individual machines, it's no longer sufficient to specify dirty thresholds as a percentage of the amount of dirtyable memory over the entire system. dirty_background_bytes and dirty_bytes specify quantities of memory, in bytes, that represent the dirty limits for the entire system. If either of these values is set, its value represents the amount of dirty memory that is needed to commence either background or direct writeback. When a `bytes' or `ratio' file is written, its counterpart becomes a function of the written value. For example, if dirty_bytes is written to be 8096, 8K of memory is required to commence direct writeback. dirty_ratio is then functionally equivalent to 8K / the amount of dirtyable memory: dirtyable_memory = free pages + mapped pages + file cache dirty_background_bytes = dirty_background_ratio * dirtyable_memory -or- dirty_background_ratio = dirty_background_bytes / dirtyable_memory AND dirty_bytes = dirty_ratio * dirtyable_memory -or- dirty_ratio = dirty_bytes / dirtyable_memory Only one of dirty_background_bytes and dirty_background_ratio may be specified at a time, and only one of dirty_bytes and dirty_ratio may be specified. When one sysctl is written, the other appears as 0 when read. The `bytes' files operate on a page size granularity since dirty limits are compared with ZVC values, which are in page units. Prior to this change, the minimum dirty_ratio was 5 as implemented by get_dirty_limits() although /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio would show any user written value between 0 and 100. This restriction is maintained, but dirty_bytes has a lower limit of only one page. Also prior to this change, the dirty_background_ratio could not equal or exceed dirty_ratio. This restriction is maintained in addition to restricting dirty_background_bytes. If either background threshold equals or exceeds that of the dirty threshold, it is implicitly set to half the dirty threshold. Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Gary Hade 提交于
Show node to memory section relationship with symlinks in sysfs Add /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX/memoryY symlinks for all the memory sections located on nodeX. For example: /sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory135 -> ../../memory/memory135 indicates that memory section 135 resides on node1. Also revises documentation to cover this change as well as updating Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-memory to include descriptions of memory hotremove files 'phys_device', 'phys_index', and 'state' that were previously not described there. In addition to it always being a good policy to provide users with the maximum possible amount of physical location information for resources that can be hot-added and/or hot-removed, the following are some (but likely not all) of the user benefits provided by this change. Immediate: - Provides information needed to determine the specific node on which a defective DIMM is located. This will reduce system downtime when the node or defective DIMM is swapped out. - Prevents unintended onlining of a memory section that was previously offlined due to a defective DIMM. This could happen during node hot-add when the user or node hot-add assist script onlines _all_ offlined sections due to user or script inability to identify the specific memory sections located on the hot-added node. The consequences of reintroducing the defective memory could be ugly. - Provides information needed to vary the amount and distribution of memory on specific nodes for testing or debugging purposes. Future: - Will provide information needed to identify the memory sections that need to be offlined prior to physical removal of a specific node. Symlink creation during boot was tested on 2-node x86_64, 2-node ppc64, and 2-node ia64 systems. Symlink creation during physical memory hot-add tested on a 2-node x86_64 system. Signed-off-by: NGary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Stephen Rothwell 提交于
These are only ever assigned constant strings and never modified. This was noticed because Wolfram Sang needed to cast the result of of_get_property() in order to assign it to the name field of a struct uio_info. Signed-off-by: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: NHans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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由 Hans J. Koch 提交于
This patch updates UIO documentation with the changes introduced by previous UIO patch. Signed-off-by: NHans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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由 Rusty Russell 提交于
While reading Documentation/kobject.txt: Note kobject_rename does perform any locking or have a solid notion of what names are valid so the provide must provide their own sanity checking and serialization. I expect better: You never see me hard with time word making sentence coherent stuff. Ever. Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Reported-by: NBruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org> Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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- 06 1月, 2009 4 次提交
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由 Nick Andrew 提交于
Fix misspelling of "firmware" in docs for ncr53c8xx/sym53c8xx It's spelled "firmware". Signed-off-by: NNick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net> Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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由 Frederik Schwarzer 提交于
It is always "an" if there is a vowel _spoken_ (not written). So it is: "an hour" (spoken vowel) but "a uniform" (spoken 'j') Signed-off-by: NFrederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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由 Frederik Schwarzer 提交于
- (better, more, bigger ...) then -> (...) than Signed-off-by: NFrederik Schwarzer <schwarzerf@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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由 Tiger Yang 提交于
This patch adds the Kconfig option "CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_POSIX_ACL" and mount options "acl" to enable acls in Ocfs2. Signed-off-by: NTiger Yang <tiger.yang@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NMark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
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- 05 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 Ken Chen 提交于
/proc/*/stack adds the ability to query a task's stack trace. It is more useful than /proc/*/wchan as it provides full stack trace instead of single depth. Example output: $ cat /proc/self/stack [<c010a271>] save_stack_trace_tsk+0x17/0x35 [<c01827b4>] proc_pid_stack+0x4a/0x76 [<c018312d>] proc_single_show+0x4a/0x5e [<c016bdec>] seq_read+0xf3/0x29f [<c015a004>] vfs_read+0x6d/0x91 [<c015a0c1>] sys_read+0x3b/0x60 [<c0102eda>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff [add save_stack_trace_tsk() on mips, ACK Ralf --adobriyan] Signed-off-by: NKen Chen <kenchen@google.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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- 03 1月, 2009 9 次提交
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由 Sam Ravnborg 提交于
Add kbuild.txt to Documentation/kbuild More stuff can be added later - at least we have som of the varous environment variables documented now. Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
Create a kconfig user assistance guide, with a few tips and hints about using menuconfig, xconfig, and gconfig. Mostly contains user interface, environment variables, and search topics, along with mini.config/custom.config usage. Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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由 Mark Lord 提交于
Signed-off-by: NMark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [tobias.lorenz@gmx.net: Code beautifications and documentation added] Signed-off-by: NTobias Lorenz <tobias.lorenz@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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由 Pham Thanh Nam 提交于
This patch adds support for Avermedia AVer TV GO 007 FM Plus (M15C) on saa7134 driver (PCI ID 1461:f31d). Signed-off-by: NPham Thanh Nam <phamthanhnam.ptn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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由 Hans Verkuil 提交于
Since the i2c driver ID will be removed in the near future we have to modify the v4l2 debugging API to use the driver name instead of driver ID. Note that this API is not used in applications other than v4l2-dbg.cpp as it is for debugging and testing only. Should anyone use the old VIDIOC_G_CHIP_IDENT, then this will be logged with a warning that it is deprecated and will be removed in 2.6.30. Signed-off-by: NHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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由 Hans Verkuil 提交于
Mention the new v4l2_file_operations struct. Signed-off-by: NHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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由 Hans Verkuil 提交于
Update the documentation now that the v4l2_dev field is in. Signed-off-by: NHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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由 Hans Verkuil 提交于
Signed-off-by: NHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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由 Sukadev Bhattiprolu 提交于
Changelog [v2]: - Add note indicating strict isolation is not possible unless all mounts of devpts use the 'newinstance' mount option. Signed-off-by: NSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 02 1月, 2009 1 次提交
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由 FUJITA Tomonori 提交于
As planed, this removes ide-scsi. The 2.6 kernel supports direct writing to ide CD drives, which eliminates the need for ide-scsi. ide-scsi has been unmaintained and marked as deprecated. Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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