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Joe Perches
8a6e25357d MAINTAINERS: document and add "Q" patchwork queue entries
Patchwork queues show the acceptance/rejection state of submitted patches
for various MAINTAINER trees.  Document their existence.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:35 -08:00
Joe Perches
e200e0ec91 MAINTAINERS: WAVELAN moved to staging
by commit 0234f84ebb
Update patterns

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:35 -08:00
Joe Perches
931812cb1b MAINTAINERS: STARMODE RADIO IP (STRIP) moved to staging
by commit 955015bb0b

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:34 -08:00
Joe Perches
dc95ec6fbd MAINTAINERS: update PERFORMANCE EVENTS F: patterns
To match arch/*/kernel perf_event location changes

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:34 -08:00
Joe Perches
a9582206c5 MAINTAINERS: remove HAYES ESP SERIAL DRIVER
Commit f53a2ade0b ("tty: esp: remove
broken driver") removed it

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:34 -08:00
Joe Perches
82cc834735 MAINTAINERS: remove AMD GEODE F: arch/x86/kernel/geode_32.c
Commit c95d1e53ed ("cs5535: drop the
Geode-specific MFGPT/GPIO code") removed it.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-06 11:26:34 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
c812a51d11 Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.34' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (145 commits)
  KVM: x86: Add KVM_CAP_X86_ROBUST_SINGLESTEP
  KVM: VMX: Update instruction length on intercepted BP
  KVM: Fix emulate_sys[call, enter, exit]()'s fault handling
  KVM: Fix segment descriptor loading
  KVM: Fix load_guest_segment_descriptor() to inject page fault
  KVM: x86 emulator: Forbid modifying CS segment register by mov instruction
  KVM: Convert kvm->requests_lock to raw_spinlock_t
  KVM: Convert i8254/i8259 locks to raw_spinlocks
  KVM: x86 emulator: disallow opcode 82 in 64-bit mode
  KVM: x86 emulator: code style cleanup
  KVM: Plan obsolescence of kernel allocated slots, paravirt mmu
  KVM: x86 emulator: Add LOCK prefix validity checking
  KVM: x86 emulator: Check CPL level during privilege instruction emulation
  KVM: x86 emulator: Fix popf emulation
  KVM: x86 emulator: Check IOPL level during io instruction emulation
  KVM: x86 emulator: fix memory access during x86 emulation
  KVM: x86 emulator: Add Virtual-8086 mode of emulation
  KVM: x86 emulator: Add group9 instruction decoding
  KVM: x86 emulator: Add group8 instruction decoding
  KVM: do not store wqh in irqfd
  ...

Trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
2010-03-05 13:12:34 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b037bba71b Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86: (45 commits)
  compal-laptop: Make it depend on CONFIG_RFKILL
  classmate-laptop: Added some keys present in other devices
  MAINTAINERS: Add git tree to x86 Platform Drivers
  asus-acpi: remove duplicate comparison of asus_model strings
  toshiba-acpi: fix multimedia keys on some machines
  dell-laptop: Fix errors on failure and exit paths
  dell-laptop: Fix build error by making buffer_mutex static
  asus-laptop: fix style problems reported by checkpath.pl
  asus-laptop: use device_create_file() instead of platform_group
  asus-laptop: clean led code
  asus-laptop: add gps rfkill
  asus-laptop: set initial lcd state
  asus-laptop: leds, remove dead code and fix asus_led_exit()/asus_led_init()
  asus-laptop: add backlight changes notifications
  asus-laptop: add bluetooth keys found on M9V
  asus-laptop: switch to sparse keymap library
  asus-laptop: rename wireless_status to wlan_status to avoid confusion
  asus-laptop: add error check for write_acpi_int calls
  asus-laptop: stop using ASUS_HANDLE and use relative methods instead
  asus-laptop: rename function talking directly to acpi with asus_xxx scheme
  ...
2010-03-03 07:41:24 -08:00
Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
661cb9fbf2 MAINTAINERS: Add git tree to x86 Platform Drivers
Add the x86 platform driver git tree to MAINTAINERS.

Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
2010-03-01 14:04:36 -05:00
Alexander Graf
ddf0289db2 KVM: powerpc: Change maintainer
Progress on KVM for Embedded PowerPC has stalled, but for Book3S there's quite
a lot of work to do and going on.

So in agreement with Hollis and Avi, we should switch maintainers for PowerPC.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollis@penguinppc.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2010-03-01 12:35:42 -03:00
David S. Miller
47871889c6 Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
	drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c
2010-02-28 19:23:06 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
642c4c75a7 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (44 commits)
  rcu: Fix accelerated GPs for last non-dynticked CPU
  rcu: Make non-RCU_PROVE_LOCKING rcu_read_lock_sched_held() understand boot
  rcu: Fix accelerated grace periods for last non-dynticked CPU
  rcu: Export rcu_scheduler_active
  rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() take boot time into account
  rcu: Make lockdep_rcu_dereference() message less alarmist
  sched, cgroups: Fix module export
  rcu: Add RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE to dump detailed per-task information
  rcu: Fix rcutorture mod_timer argument to delay one jiffy
  rcu: Fix deadlock in TREE_PREEMPT_RCU CPU stall detection
  rcu: Convert to raw_spinlocks
  rcu: Stop overflowing signed integers
  rcu: Use canonical URL for Mathieu's dissertation
  rcu: Accelerate grace period if last non-dynticked CPU
  rcu: Fix citation of Mathieu's dissertation
  rcu: Documentation update for CONFIG_PROVE_RCU
  security: Apply lockdep-based checking to rcu_dereference() uses
  idr: Apply lockdep-based diagnostics to rcu_dereference() uses
  radix-tree: Disable RCU lockdep checking in radix tree
  vfs: Abstract rcu_dereference_check for files-fdtable use
  ...
2010-02-28 10:13:16 -08:00
David S. Miller
ce300c7ffa Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-02-27 02:05:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
98723153dc Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86:
  toshiba_acpi: Add full hotkey support
  hp-wmi: Add support for tablet rotation key
  dell-laptop: Add another Dell laptop to the DMI whitelist
  classmate-laptop: use a single MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE to get correct aliases
  dell-laptop: Pay attention to which devices the hardware switch controls
  dell-laptop: Use buffer with 32-bit physical address
  dell-laptop: Blacklist machines not supporting dell-laptop
  dell-laptop: Block software state changes when rfkill hard blocked
  dell-laptop: Fix small memory leak
  dell-laptop: Fix platform device unregistration
  dell-laptop: Update rfkill state on kill switch
  compal-laptop: Replace sysfs support with rfkill support
  compal-laptop: Add support for known Compal made Dell laptops
  MAINTAINERS: update drivers/platform/x86 information
2010-02-26 17:20:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
41630959ed Merge branch 'ibft-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/ibft-2.6
* 'ibft-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/ibft-2.6:
  ibft: Update MAINTAINERS file.
  drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c: remove NIPQUAD_FMT, use %pI4
2010-02-26 17:18:11 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2b8c70b217 Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6
* 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6: (362 commits)
  V4L-DVB: cx88-dvb: remove extra attribution for core
  V4L/DVB: v4l: soc_camera: fix bound checking of mbus_fmt[] index
  V4L/DVB: Add support for SMT7020 to cx88
  V4L/DVB: radio-si470x: Use UTF-8 encoding on a comment
  V4L/DVB: MAINTAINERS: Telegent tlg2300 section fix
  V4L/DVB: gspca_stv06xx: Add support for camera button
  V4L/DVB: gspca_ov519: add support for the button on ov511 based cams
  V4L/DVB: gspca_ov519: Add support for the button on ov518 based cams
  V4L/DVB: gspca_ov519: add support for the button on ov519 based cams
  V4L/DVB: gspca_main: Fix a compile error when CONFIG_INPUT is not set
  V4L/DVB: gspca_main: some input error handling fixes
  V4L/DVB: gspca_main: Allow use of input device creation code for non int. inputs
  V4L/DVB: gspca_pac7302: much improved exposure control
  V4L/DVB: gspca_sonixb: Make sonixb driver handle pas106 and pas202 cameras
  V4L/DVB: gspca_sonixb: pas106: fixup bright ctrl and add gain and exposure ctrls
  V4L/DVB: Documentation: gspca.txt: update known mr97310a cams
  V4L/DVB: gspca_mr97310a: add support for the Sakar 1638x CyberPix
  V4L/DVB: gscpa_sonixb: limit ov7630 max framerate at 640x480
  V4L/DVB: gspca_sonixb: pas202: fixup brightness ctrl and add gain and exposure ctrls
  V4L/DVB: gscpa_sonixb: Differentiate between sensors with a coarse and fine expo ctrl
  ...
2010-02-26 17:16:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
654451748b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (158 commits)
  [SCSI] Fix printing of failed 32-byte commands
  [SCSI] Fix printing of variable length commands
  [SCSI] libsrp: fix bug in ADDITIONAL CDB LENGTH interpretation
  [SCSI] scsi_dh_alua: Add IBM Power Virtual SCSI ALUA device to dev list
  [SCSI] scsi_dh_alua: add netapp to dev list
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.03.02-k1.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: EEH: Restore PCI saved state during pci slot reset.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Add firmware ETS burst support.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct loop-resync issues during SNS scans.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct use-after-free issue in terminate_rport_io callback.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct EH bus-reset handling.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Proper clean-up of BSG requests when request times out.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Initialize payload receive length in failure path of vendor commands
  [SCSI] fix duplicate removal on error path in scsi_sysfs_add_sdev
  [SCSI] fix refcounting bug in scsi_get_host_dev
  [SCSI] fix memory leak in scsi_report_lun_scan
  [SCSI] lpfc: correct PPC build failure
  [SCSI] raid_class: add raid1e
  [SCSI] mpt2sas: Do not call sas_is_tlr_enabled for RAID volumes.
  [SCSI] zfcp: Introduce header file for qdio structs and inline functions
  ...
2010-02-26 16:55:27 -08:00
Lennert Buytenhek
a040d532b9 MAINTAINERS: update mwl8k maintenance status
I am no longer with Marvell.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-26 16:59:10 -05:00
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
c4d1409bbe ibft: Update MAINTAINERS file.
Provide the right e-mail and names for me and Peter.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
2010-02-26 21:02:15 +00:00
Joe Perches
d2fa218761 V4L/DVB: MAINTAINERS: Telegent tlg2300 section fix
linux-next commit 2ff8223957d901999bf76aaf2c6183e33a6ad14e
exposes an infinite loop defect in scripts/get_maintainer.pl

Fix the incorrect format of the MAINTAINERS "M:" entries.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-02-26 15:11:10 -03:00
Huang Shijie
5b3f03f044 V4L/DVB: Add driver for Telegent tlg2300
pd-common.h contains the common data structures, while
vendorcmds.h contains the vendor commands for firmware.

[mchehab@redhat.com: Folded the 10 patches with the driver]
Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-02-26 15:10:58 -03:00
David S. Miller
19bc291c99 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
Conflicts:
	drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h
	drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800pci.c
2010-02-25 23:26:21 -08:00
David S. Miller
0448873480 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-02-25 23:22:42 -08:00
Matthew Garrett
d094485323 MAINTAINERS: update drivers/platform/x86 information
Many of the drivers/platform/x86 drivers have nothing to do with ACPI, so
it's kind of inappropriate for them to be stuck under the ACPI mailing
list. Add a new mailing list (platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org) and,
with Len's blessing, add myself as subsystem maintainer.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
Cc: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: Cezary Jackiewicz <cezary.jackiewicz@gmail.com>
Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Cc: Daniel Oliveira Nascimento <don@syst.com.br>
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <ibm-acpi@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
Cc: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc: Karol Kozimor <sziwan@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Cc: Peter Feuerer <peter@piie.net>
Cc: Sujith Thomas <sujith.thomas@intel.com>
Cc: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
2010-02-25 11:50:37 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
10df38cafc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (44 commits)
  Add MAINTAINERS entry for virtio_console
  virtio: console: Fill ports' entire in_vq with buffers
  virtio: console: Error out if we can't allocate buffers for control queue
  virtio: console: Add ability to remove module
  virtio: console: Ensure no memleaks in case of unused buffers
  virtio: console: show error message if hvc_alloc fails for console ports
  virtio: console: Add debugfs files for each port to expose debug info
  virtio: console: Add ability to hot-unplug ports
  virtio: console: Handle port hot-plug
  virtio: console: Remove cached data on port close
  virtio: console: Register with sysfs and create a 'name' attribute for ports
  virtio: console: Ensure only one process can have a port open at a time
  virtio: console: Add file operations to ports for open/read/write/poll
  virtio: console: Associate each port with a char device
  virtio: console: Prepare for writing to userspace buffers
  virtio: console: Add a new MULTIPORT feature, support for generic ports
  virtio: console: Introduce a send_buf function for a common path for sending data to host
  virtio: console: Introduce function to hand off data from host to readers
  virtio: console: Separate out find_vqs operation into a different function
  virtio: console: Separate out console init into a new function
  ...
2010-02-25 07:22:59 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
996de8c6fe Merge commit 'v2.6.33' into core/rcu
Merge reason: Update from -rc4 to -final.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25 09:40:26 +01:00
Amit Shah
c610028611 Add MAINTAINERS entry for virtio_console
I'm taking ownership of the virtio_console module; but I'll continue
feeding patches via Rusty.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2010-02-24 14:23:07 +10:30
Linus Torvalds
75ef7cdda2 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  net: bug fix for vlan + gro issue
  tc35815: Remove a wrong netif_wake_queue() call which triggers BUG_ON
  cdc_ether: new PID for Ericsson C3607w to the whitelist (resubmit)
  IPv6: better document max_addresses parameter
  MAINTAINERS: update mv643xx_eth maintenance status
  e1000: Fix DMA mapping error handling on RX
  iwlwifi: sanity check before counting number of tfds can be free
  iwlwifi: error checking for number of tfds in queue
  iwlwifi: set HT flags after channel in rxon
2010-02-23 19:44:07 -08:00
Lennert Buytenhek
f5ca8502f7 MAINTAINERS: update mv643xx_eth maintenance status
I am no longer with Marvell.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-23 01:25:00 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
cf7ad04300 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
  ARM: allow alignment fault mode to be configured at kernel boot
  ARM: Update mach-types
  ARM: 5951/1: ARM: fix documentation of the PrimeCell bus
  ARM: 5950/1: ARM: Fix build error for arm1026ej-s processor
  MAINTAINERS: fix my e-mail and status for Gemini and FA526
  Gemini: wrong registers used to set reg_level in gpio_set_irq_type()
  ARM: 5944/1: scsi: fix timer setup in fas216.c
  ARM: 5938/1: ARM: L2: export outer_cache_fns
2010-02-20 16:55:05 -08:00
Ajit Khaparde
f66d744d23 MAINTAINERS: Add two maintainers for be2net driver
Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajitk@serverengines.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-19 17:11:54 -08:00
Kalle Valo
54f2d7361d MAINTAINERS: update Kalle's email address
My nokia.com email address won't work anymore, use my private iki.fi address
instead.

Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-02-19 15:52:48 -05:00
Chrissie Caulfield
f546444d0b Orphan DECnet
Due to lack of time, space, motivation, hardware and probably expertise,
I have reluctantly decided to orphan the DECnet code in the kernel.

Judging by the deafening silence on the linux-decnet mailing list I
suspect it's either not being used anyway, or the few people that are
using it are happy with their older kernels.

Signed-Off-By: Christine Caulfield <christine.caulfield@googlemail.com>

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-18 15:43:10 -08:00
Paulius Zaleckas
083c88fcf1 MAINTAINERS: fix my e-mail and status for Gemini and FA526
Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@gmail.com>
2010-02-18 21:54:12 +02:00
Christine Caulfield
f8b55f2510 Orphan DECnet
Due to lack of time, space, motivation, hardware and probably expertise,
I have reluctantly decided to orphan the DECnet code in the kernel.

Judging by the deafening silence on the linux-decnet mailing list I
suspect it's either not being used anyway, or the few people that are
using it are happy with their older kernels.

Signed-off-by: Christine Caulfield <christine.caulfield@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-02-18 08:34:54 -08:00
Kristoffer Glembo
d4c41139df net: Add Aeroflex Gaisler 10/100/1G Ethernet MAC driver
Adds device driver for Aeroflex Gaisler 10/100 and 10/100/1G Ethernet
MAC IP cores.

Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Glembo <kristoffer@gaisler.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-17 15:59:40 -08:00
Robert Love
cae727db30 [SCSI] MAINTAINERS: Adding FCoE information to the MAINTAINERS file.
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2010-02-17 17:43:57 -06:00
David S. Miller
2bb4646fce Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-02-16 22:09:29 -08:00
Rishikesh
763458e0db MAINTAINERS: changed LTP maintainership responsibilities
Change the LTP maintainer responsibities from 2010.

Ref: http://marc.info/?l=ltp-list&m=126502242912536&w=2

Signed-off-by : Rishikesh K Rajak <risrajak@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Subrata Modak <subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-02-11 13:59:42 -08:00
David S. Miller
b1109bf085 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-02-09 11:44:44 -08:00
Joe Perches
3af26f58d1 MAINTAINERS: networking drivers - Add git net-next tree
During the rc period, patches that are not bugfixes
should be done using the net-next tree.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-08 22:42:40 -08:00
David S. Miller
05ba712d7e Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-01-28 06:12:38 -08:00
Jeff Kirsher
de4fc07aff MAINTAINERS: Add Intel igbvf maintainer
Add igbvf to the list of supported Intel drivers and Alex to the list of
maintainers.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-23 01:20:22 -08:00
David S. Miller
51c24aaaca Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-01-23 00:31:06 -08:00
David S. Miller
6be325719b Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2010-01-22 22:45:46 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
c42405096b MAINTAINERS: ivtv-devel is moderated
Mark ivtv-devel@ivtvdriver.org as 'moderated for non-subscribers'.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-01-17 11:31:37 -02:00
Hans Verkuil
8e21cbbcac MAINTAINERS: Andy Walls is the new ivtv maintainer
Replaces Hans Verkuil by Andy Walls as the ivtv maintainer.

After 4 1/2 years, Hans decided to hand over the ivtv driver to Andy.
Andy was already doing more work on ivtv than him, so this just makes
official what was happening in practice.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-01-17 11:31:37 -02:00
Amit Kumar Salecha
0ec00f0392 NET: Add Qlogic ethernet driver for CNA devices
o Separate Ethernet driver for Qlogic CNA devices

Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-16 01:17:16 -08:00
Dan Williams
9fe3b69128 MAINTAINERS: transfer maintainership of I/OAT
Dan Williams takes over I/OAT from Maciej Sosnowski

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-15 01:47:37 -08:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
3a4d5c94e9 vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server
What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce
the number of system calls involved in virtio networking.
Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification.

There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope
- uses eventfd for signalling
- structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for
  migration, bug work-arounds in userspace)
- write logging is supported (good for migration)
- support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm)

common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and
can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear.  I used
Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied
me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself.

What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system
call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls.
Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm.

How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by
userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap
device.  Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac
etc.

Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes.
Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to
4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU
utilization.

Features that I plan to look at in the future:
- mergeable buffers
- zero copy
- scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to use

Note on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near
private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU):
what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a
workqueue item.  The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of
execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of
execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by
flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply
some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to
INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage.

(Includes fixes by Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>)

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-15 01:43:29 -08:00