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Linus Torvalds
5ebe0ee802 There is a nice new document from Neil on how pathname lookups work and
some new CAN driver documentation.  Beyond that, we have kernel-doc fixes,
 a bit more work to support reproducible builds, and the usual collection of
 small fixes.
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Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation update from Jon Corbet:
 "There is a nice new document from Neil on how pathname lookups work
  and some new CAN driver documentation.  Beyond that, we have
  kernel-doc fixes, a bit more work to support reproducible builds, and
  the usual collection of small fixes"

* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (34 commits)
  Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup.
  Documentation/vm/slub.txt: document slabinfo-gnuplot.sh
  Doc: ABI/stable: Fix typo in ABI/stable
  doc: Clarify that nmi_watchdog param is for hardlockups
  Typo correction for description in gpio document.
  DocBook: Fix kernel-doc to be case-insensitive for private:
  kernel-docs.txt: update kernelnewbies reference
  Doc:kvm: Fix typo in Doc/virtual/kvm
  Documentation/Changes: Add bc in "Current Minimal Requirements" section
  Documentation/email-clients.txt: remove trailing whitespace
  DocBook: Use a fixed encoding for output
  MAINTAINERS: The docs tree has moved
  Docs/kernel-parameters: Add earlycon devicetree usage
  SubmittingPatches: make Subject examples match the de facto standard
  Documentation: gpio: mention that <function>-gpio has been deprecated
  Documentation: cgroups: just fix a few typos
  Documentation: Update kselftest.txt
  Documentation: DMA API: Be more explicit that nents is always the same
  Documentation: Update the default value of crashkernel low
  zram: update documentation
  ...
2015-11-05 15:59:24 -08:00
Benoit Lemarchand
1c3a54e257 Documentation/Changes: Add bc in "Current Minimal Requirements" section
bc is mentioned lower in a dedicated section.
Yet it is useful to have all dependencies listed in
"Current Minimal Requirements" section.

Signed-off-by: Benoit Lemarchand <benoit.lemarchand@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-10-11 15:33:50 -06:00
David Howells
283e8ba2df MODSIGN: Change from CMS to PKCS#7 signing if the openssl is too old
The sign-file.c program actually uses CMS rather than PKCS#7 to sign a file
since that allows the target X.509 certificate to be specified by
subjectKeyId rather than by issuer + serialNumber.

However, older versions of the OpenSSL crypto library (such as may be found
in CentOS 5.11) don't support CMS.  Assume everything prior to
OpenSSL-1.0.0 doesn't support CMS and switch to using PKCS#7 in that case.

Further, the pre-1.0.0 OpenSSL only supports PKCS#7 signing with SHA1, so
give an error from the sign-file script if the caller requests anything
other than SHA1.

The compiler gives the following error with an OpenSSL crypto library
that's too old:

  HOSTCC  scripts/sign-file
scripts/sign-file.c:23:25: fatal error: openssl/cms.h: No such file or directory
 #include <openssl/cms.h>

Reported-by: Vinson Lee <vlee@twopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2015-09-25 16:31:46 +01:00
David Howells
3f1d44ae64 Documentation/Changes: Now need OpenSSL devel packages for module signing
The module signing script (sign-file) used to be a wrapper around the
openssl program.  It has now been replaced by a C program that uses the
crypto library from the OpenSSL package meaning that the OpenSSL devel
packages are necessary to provide the devel library link and the header
files.

This would be openssl-devel on Fedora and libssl-dev on Debian.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
2015-08-28 08:00:30 +10:00
Kevin
bf5777bcdc Documentation: GNU is frequently spelled Gnu
The official spelling of GNU is GNU and not Gnu.
Bug 89551 https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89551

Signed-off-by: Kevin Law <kevin@stealsyour.pw>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2014-12-29 15:33:17 -07:00
Andrew Shewmaker
5d330cddb9 Update old iproute2 and Xen Remus links
Signed-off-by: Andrew Shewmaker <agshew@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-12-09 13:38:13 -05:00
Simon Danner
00703e0b79 Documentation: remove obsolete pcmcia-cs from Changes
remove pcmcia-cs from Changes, since it seems to be obsolete since a long time

Signed-off-by: Simon Danner <danner.simon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-09-09 10:35:58 +02:00
Simon Danner
03ebb7d03f Documentation: update links in Changes
Update broken links in Changes

Signed-off-by: Simon Danner <danner.simon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-09-09 10:35:40 +02:00
Paul Bolle
c8c3f7d621 Documentation/Changes: clean up mcelog paragraph
The paragraph on mcelog currently describes kernel v2.6.31. In that
kernel the mce code (for i386, that is) was in transition. Ever since
v2.6.32 the situation is much simpler (eg, mcelog is now needed to
process events on almost all x86 machines, i386 and x86-64). Since this
"document is designed to provide a list of the minimum levels of
software necessary to run the 3.0 kernels" let's just describe that
situation.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-07-12 11:30:36 -07:00
Alan
221069bed0 doc: Note need of bc in the kernel build from 3.10 onwards
HPA did the world a favour and reduced the number of perl scripts in the
universe. However we do now need bc

Resolves-bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60575
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2014-05-19 16:27:20 +02:00
Dave Jones
dad337501d remove obsolete references to powertweak
This tool hasn't been maintained in over a decade, and is pretty much
useless these days.  Let's pretend it never happened.

Also remove a long-dead email address.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-27 20:34:32 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
5adaf851d2 Documentation/Changes: remove some really obsolete text
That file harkens back to the days of the big 2.4 -> 2.6 version jump,
and was based even then on older versions.  Some of it is just obsolete,
and Jesper Juhl points out that it talks about kernel versions 2.6 and
should be updated to 3.0.

Remove some obsolete text, and re-phrase some other to not be 2.6-specific.

Reported-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-11 16:48:38 -07:00
Christian Kujau
e06c374400 Documentation/Changes: minor corrections
I noticed the 'mcelog' program had no comment and then ended up "fixing"
a few more things:

  * reiserfsck -V does not print "reiserfsprogs" (any more?)
  * is "udevinfo" still shipped? udevd certainly is
  * grub2 doesn't have a 'grub' binary
  * add a "# how to get the mcelog version" comment

Signed-off-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:17 -07:00
Justin P. Mattock
a655773758 Documentation update broken web addresses
I've found some web addresses not responding, giving the cannot
connect error when trying to load them. The below patch updates
the addresses that are not connecting with the best that I can find,
and also fixes a couple of addresses, so people can either choose an older
version of the package and/or a newer version(i.e. ppp).

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-07-11 21:55:42 +02:00
Jan Engelhardt
d879e19e18 netfilter: xtables: remove xt_string revision 0
Superseded by xt_string revision 1 (linux v2.6.26-rc8-1127-g4ad3f26,
iptables 1.4.2-rc1).

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
2010-03-25 17:04:57 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
7a92263705 netfilter: xtables: document minimal required version
For both .33 and .32-stable.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-12-14 14:52:10 +01:00
Jose Luis Perez Diez
082196242e Documentation/Changes: perl is needed to build the kernel
Perl is used on the kernel Makefile to generate documentation, firmwares
in c source form, sources, graphs, and some headers and this fact is
undocumented.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: 80-columns, please]
Signed-off-by: Jose Luis Perez Diez <jluis@escomposlinux.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:03:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
45e3e1935e Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-next: (53 commits)
  .gitignore: ignore *.lzma files
  kbuild: add generic --set-str option to scripts/config
  kbuild: simplify argument loop in scripts/config
  kbuild: handle non-existing options in scripts/config
  kallsyms: generalize text region handling
  kallsyms: support kernel symbols in Blackfin on-chip memory
  documentation: make version fix
  kbuild: fix a compile warning
  gitignore: Add GNU GLOBAL files to top .gitignore
  kbuild: fix delay in setlocalversion on readonly source
  README: fix misleading pointer to the defconf directory
  vmlinux.lds.h update
  kernel-doc: cleanup perl script
  Improve vmlinux.lds.h support for arch specific linker scripts
  kbuild: fix headers_exports with boolean expression
  kbuild/headers_check: refine extern check
  kbuild: fix "Argument list too long" error for "make headers_check",
  ignore *.patch files
  Remove bashisms from scripts
  menu: fix embedded menu presentation
  ...
2009-06-14 14:12:18 -07:00
Adam Lackorzynski
2185a5ecd9 documentation: make version fix
The Makefiles in the build directories use the internal make variable
MAKEFILE_LIST which is available from make 3.80 only.  (The patch would be
valid back to 2.6.25)

Signed-off-by: Adam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2009-06-14 22:38:59 +02:00
Andi Kleen
172d899db4 x86, mce: document new 32bit mcelog requirement in Documentation/Changes
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-05-28 09:24:13 -07:00
Bill Nottingham
242f45da5b Documentation/Changes: add required versions for new filesystems
btrfs requires version 0.18 of its tools, and squashfs requires 4.0.
ext3 should use and ext4 requires v1.41.4 of e2fsprogs.

Signed-off-by: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
cc: Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-29 18:19:30 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin
c3887cd725 [x86 setup] Document grub < 0.93 as broken
Grub older than 0.93 are broken when the kernel setup is bigger than
8K.  This was fixed in 2002, and 0.93 was the first grub version which
fixed this bug.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-08-02 13:50:43 -04:00
Jan Engelhardt
03a67a46af Fix typos in doc and comments
Changes persistant -> persistent. www.dictionary.com does not know
persistant (with an A), but should it be one of those things you can
spell in more than one correct way, let me know.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 05:32:19 +01:00
Robert P. J. Day
e41217129c Documentaion: update Documentation/Changes with minimum versions
Based on conversations with greg kh (and noticing a simple typo),
these are the actual minimal versions for 2.6.18.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-09-25 10:06:15 +02:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
890fbae281 [PATCH] devfs: Last little devfs cleanups throughout the kernel tree.
Just removes a few unused #defines and fixes some comments due to
devfs now being gone.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:09 -07:00
Jochen Hein
44fc355db7 Documentation/Changes: remove outdated translation references
The patch removes references to kernel 2.4 and to translations that
are outdated for 2.6 (german translation is at 2.4.20) or hosts that
are not available.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-20 20:28:13 +01:00
Andrew Morton
a136564702 [PATCH] remove gcc-2 checks
Remove various things which were checking for gcc-1.x and gcc-2.x compilers.

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

    Some documentation updates and removes some code paths for gcc < 3.2.

Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:02 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
62a07e6e9e [PATCH] ksymoops related docs update
Update ksymoops related documentation to reflect current 2.6 reality.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:54 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
ad7e14a55e [PATCH] update required version of udev
The 071 release is needed to handle the input changes.  Older versions
will work properly with module-based systems, but not for users that
build input stuff into the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:55 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
909021ea7a [PATCH] fuse: add required version info
Add information about required version of the userspace library/utilities
to Documentation/Changes.  Also add pointer to this and to FUSE
documentation from Kconfig.

Thanks to Anton Altaparmakov for the reminder.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
ec0344a2c9 [PATCH] Documentation/Changes: document the required udev version
Document that udev 058 is required.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-27 16:26:07 -07:00
Dominik Brodowski
eb05bfe4fb [PATCH] pcmcia: update Documentation
As the information is now exported via sysfs, there's no need for an userspace
tool any longer.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-30 08:45:08 -07:00
Dominik Brodowski
5085cb2650 [PATCH] pcmcia: add some Documentation
Add some information useful for PCMCIA device driver authors to
Documentation/pcmcia/, and reference it in dmesg in case of hash mismatches.

Also add a reference to pcmciautils to Documentation/Changes.  With recent
changes, you don't need to concern yourself with pcmcia-cs even if you have
PCMCIA hardware, so the example above the list needed to be adapted as well.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowksi.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27 18:03:18 -07:00
John Levon
0c0a400d1d [PATCH] oprofile: report anonymous region samples
The below patch passes samples from anonymous regions to userspace instead
of just dropping them.  This provides the support needed for reporting
anonymous-region code samples (today: basic accumulated results; later:
Java and other dynamically compiled code).

As this changes the format, an upgrade to the just-released 0.9 release of
the userspace tools is required.

This patch is based upon an earlier one by Will Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24 00:06:27 -07:00
Martin Waitz
8b0c2d989c [PATCH] DocBook: Use xmlto to process the DocBook files.
xmlto uses standared XSLT templates to generate manpages, (x)html pages, and
XML FO files which can be processed with passivetex.  This is much faster than
using jadetex for everything.  This patch also reduces the number of
kernel-specific scripts that are needed to generate documentation.

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00