So I finally got around to having a look at this, and one thing caught my
eye:
> read(2) (and similar)
> When the new process exits, reading from the file
> descriptor produces a single clonefd_info structure:
>
>
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015 15:02:24 -0700
j...@joshtriplett.org wrote:
> > This would appear to assume that a clonefd_info structure is the only
> > thing that will ever be read from this descriptor. It seems to me that
> > there is the potential for, someday, wanting to be able to read and write
> > ot
On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 17:30:36 +0300
Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> Memcg/kmem reclaim support has been finally merged. Reflect this in the
> documentation.
So the text you've removed says not to select kmem support "unless for
development purposes." Do we now believe that this feature is ready for
use
On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 12:20:01 -0700
Andrew Morton wrote:
> waah, I use 75 and this patch has ruined my life.
>
> Is there some way I can disable just this check without patching
> checkpatch? I suspect a lot of people will be interested in doing
> this ;)
I use 75 too, FWIW.
It seems to me that
On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 10:27:57 +0200
"Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote:
> Fix an obvious typo in the documentation.
Makes sense, applied to the docs tree.
Thanks,
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On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:48:23 -0400
Chen Hanxiao wrote:
Thank you for working to update the documentation! That said, though, I
have a question and a request with regard to this particular change.
> -Table 1-2: Contents of the status files (as of 3.20.0)
> +Table 1-2: Contents of the status file
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 15:00:02 -0600
Randy Wright wrote:
> The page-types tool was relocated to tools/vm in the 3.4 kernel timeframe.
Good catch. Applied to the docs tree, thanks.
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On Sun, 5 Apr 2015 08:44:28 +0200
Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION is currently not documented but it is
> needed when rebuilding a kernel that should result in the identical
> binary. This is a brief documentation of KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION.
Can we add something like the above to t
On Sun, 5 Apr 2015 12:25:44 +0800
Chen Gang wrote:
> Not all blackfin machines support IRQ_TIMER5, but all machines support
> IRQ_TIMER2.
I don't know enough about Blackfin to judge whether to take this into the
docs tree or not in the absence of a relevant ack. Perhaps one could be
forthcoming
On Sun, 5 Apr 2015 11:50:02 +0800
Chen Gang wrote:
> Miss a ')' for ifneq in Makefile, the related building error:
Seems obviously correct to me, applied to the docs tree. (Would still
like to see this shifted over to tools/, of course).
Thanks,
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On Wed, 1 Apr 2015 17:30:36 +0300
Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> Memcg/kmem reclaim support has been finally merged. Reflect this in the
> documentation.
Applied to the docs tree with Michal's ack.
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On Thu, 9 Apr 2015 12:46:09 -0700 (PDT)
David Rientjes wrote:
> It's been merged into that tree, but I would still appreciate your
> ack!
Easy enough.
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet
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On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:50:42 -0700
Aaron Cohen wrote:
> Fixed the references to kernel version 3.x to kernel version 4.x in the
> README file
As Randy noted already, this is fixed in the docs tree.
Lots of people wanted to make this tweak...but I'm still waiting for
somebody who wants to actua
On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:56:01 -0700
"Luis R. Rodriguez" wrote:
> +Some maintainers and developers may however have a preference to
> +require EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() when adding any new APIs or functionality.
As a nit, I would take out "have a preference to".
>From what I can tell, there are
On Thu, 28 May 2015 21:18:44 +0200
"Luis R. Rodriguez" wrote:
> > As a nit, I would take out "have a preference to".
>
> Fine by me, do you need a new submission on my part of can you amend yourself?
I can tweak it on the way in.
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On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 08:24:53 +0200
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Jon: would you like to receive all patches to Documentation/features/ so you
> can
> collect them in the documentation tree, or can maintainers patch it as part
> of any
> feature work that affects the tables? I think it's all finegraine
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:46:35 +0200
Thomas de Beauchene wrote:
> Updated struct inode_operations documentation in vfs.txt to match
> current implementation
Looks good at a first glance, will probably queue it later. But please be
sure to CC Al Viro (added) on patches like this; he's the expert i
On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 12:53:47 +0900
Masanari Iida wrote:
> This patch fix a spelling typo in Documentation/pps/pps.txt
Applied to the docs tree, thanks.
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On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:21:15 +0600
Alexander Kuleshov wrote:
> The PCI based UART can be specified for earlyprintk with the 'pciserial'
> parameter from the ea9e9d802. This patch adds missing information about
> this parameter.
So I went ahead and applied this to the docs tree since it's better
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 22:32:09 +0200
Thomas de Beauchene wrote:
> added fs_flags possible flags in struct file_system_type documentation.
This one adds whitespace errors. Can I ask you to retry (and to CC Al
Viro on the next version) please?
Thanks,
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On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 00:12:02 +0900
Masanari Iida wrote:
> Recently wikipedia announced to secure access to the servers.
> Now all http access re-route to https.
Applied to the docs tree, thanks.
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On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 16:46:35 +0200
Thomas de Beauchene wrote:
> Updated struct inode_operations documentation in vfs.txt to match
> current implementation
This one conflicts against changes made in the vfs tree. Could you
please regenerate it against -next (or, better, against mainline once
Al'
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 23:44:25 +0900
Masanari Iida wrote:
> Recently wikipedia announced to secure access to the servers.
> Now all http access re-route to https.
Applied to the docs tree, thanks.
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On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:10:25 +0200
Paul Bolle wrote:
> The MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE macro is documented as
> Not Yet Implemented
>
> for over a decade now. It will clearly never be implemented. Remove a
> reference to it from a DocBook template.
The thing is, there's nearly 200 invocations o
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 11:17:20 +0900
Masanari Iida wrote:
> This patch fix some spelling typo in sysfs-bus-fcoe
Applied to the docs tree, thanks.
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On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 21:10:28 -0400
Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The following was seen in linux-next build coverage, which is somewhat
> unique since it uses powerpc host to cross compile x86:
>
> Documentation/vDSO/vdso_standalone_test_x86.c:49:2: error: impossible
> register constraint in 'asm'
> m
On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 16:41:10 -0400
Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> "These compilers are only functional for kernel builds. They cannot be
> used to build userspace code"
I guess that's probably the key point. Maybe I should just apply the
patches and be done with it.
Thanks,
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On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 15:10:28 -0600
Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 16:41:10 -0400
> Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>
> > "These compilers are only functional for kernel builds. They cannot be
> > used to build userspace code"
>
> I guess that'
ption and arch support
status file for 'queued-spinlocks'
Documentation/features/locking: Add feature description and arch support
status file for 'queued-rwlocks'
Documentation/features/core: Add feature description and arch support
status file for 'BPF-JIT'
On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:18:39 +0300
Pavel Fedin wrote:
> Guys, i've seen you reviewing some cross-compiling related changes by Paul
> Gortmaker. Can anybody
> help me with upstreaming this small thing?
I'd suggest aiming it at the trivial tree: triv...@kernel.org.
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On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 12:34:10 +0200
Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
> The check_acl inode operation and the IPERM_FLAG_RCU flag are long gone;
> update
> the documentation.
I was going to toss this into the docs tree, but it won't apply even
after correcting for the line wrapping and white-space mangli
On Mon, 1 Jun 2015 09:36:04 -0400
Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> This patchset was originally submitted and acked here
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=140203008832333&w=2
>
> but lost at some point.
OK, I've applied it to the docs tree with Viresh's ack.
Thanks,
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 21:27:38 +0200
Frans Klaver wrote:
> Documentation/networking/timestamping/txtimestamp.c: In function
> ‘__print_timestamp’:
> Documentation/networking/timestamping/txtimestamp.c:99:3: warning: format
> ‘%ld’ expects argument of type ‘long int’, but argument 3 has type ‘int6
On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 01:11:22 +0200
Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> The check_acl inode operation and the IPERM_FLAG_RCU flag are long gone;
> update
> the documentation.
Applied to the docs tree, thanks.
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On Fri, 5 Jun 2015 21:38:19 +0900
Masanari Iida wrote:
> This patch fix a spelling typo in nfc-hci.txt
Applied to the docs tree, thanks.
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On Sat, 6 Jun 2015 19:05:51 +0900
Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> The document, based solely on kernel source code, tries to group the
> information scattered over different files. This would help in the
> future when adding support for new SoC or when extending features
> related to low power mode
On Sat, 6 Jun 2015 23:43:21 +0900
Masanari Iida wrote:
> This patch fix a spelling typo in ja_JP/HOWTO.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida
> ---
> Documentation/ja_JP/HOWTO | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ja_JP/HOWTO b/Documentation/ja_JP/
On Sat, 6 Jun 2015 15:42:28 +0200
Pali Rohár wrote:
> Documentation/laptops/.gitignore |1 -
> Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX |2 --
> Documentation/laptops/Makefile |2 +-
> tools/Makefile
On Sun, 7 Jun 2015 16:30:23 +0200
Thomas de Beauchene wrote:
> Updated struct file_operations documentation in vfs.txt to match
> current implementation
Applied to the docs tree, thanks.
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On Wed, 3 Jun 2015 13:03:55 +0200
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> A week late but I managed to complete it all and moved it into Git, for
> better
> structure and easy pulling.
Pulled into the docs tree - thanks!
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On Tue, 22 May 2018 21:18:21 -0400
Kent Overstreet wrote:
> All existing users have been converted to generic radix trees
>
> Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet
> ---
> Documentation/core-api/flexible-arrays.rst | 130 ---
> Documentation/flexible-arrays.txt | 123 ---
> include/l
On Wed, 23 May 2018 15:20:14 -0700
Tim Bird wrote:
> Every once in a while, we should update the examples
> to reflect more recent kernel versions.
>
> Update the tables describing kernel releases, the merge window,
> and current longterm maintained kernel, from 2.6-era kernels
> to 4.x.
I dunn
On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:37:36 +0300
Igor Stoppa wrote:
> This patch-set introduces the possibility of protecting memory that has
> been allocated dynamically.
One thing that jumps out at me as I look at the patch set is: you do not
include any users of this functionality. Where do you expect thi
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 05:00:28 -0400
Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> Implement the proc fs write to set the audit container ID of a process,
> emitting an AUDIT_CONTAINER record to document the event.
A little detail, but still...
> +static int audit_set_containerid_perm(struct task_struct *task, u64
On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 05:01:32 -0400
Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > A little detail, but still...
>
> I am understanding that you would prefer more context (as opposed to
> operational detail) in the description, laying out the use case for this
> patch(set)?
No, sorry, "a little detail" was ref
On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:17:09 -0400
Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I just noticed that this was never applied.
>
> Jon, can you take this?
Wow...from November. Not sure what happened...applied now, thanks.
jon
On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:51:39 +0200
Thymo van Beers wrote:
> Some lines used spaces instead of tabs at line start.
> This can cause mangled lines in editors due to inconsistency.
>
> Replace spaces for tabs where appropriate.
Applied, thanks.
jon
On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 12:28:25 +0200
Anders Roxell wrote:
> Add a description that the kernel headers should be used as far as it is
> possible and then the system headers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell
Applied, thanks.
jon
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:08:04 -0600
Mathieu Poirier wrote:
> Now that the perf tools CoreSight support is upstream this set adds
> documentation to go with it and move things around so that topics
> are located together.
I've applied the set, thanks.
jon
On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:07:43 +0300
Mike Rapoport wrote:
> These pacthes begin categorizing memory management documentation. The
> documents that describe userspace APIs and do not overload the reader with
> implementation details can be moved to Documentation/admin-guide, so let's
> do it :)
Lo
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:11:02 -0700
Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Rearrange some kernel-api chapters and sections to group them
> together better.
>
> - move Bit Operations from Basic C Library Functions to Basic
> Kernel Library Functions (now adjacent to Bitmap Operations since
> they are not typic
On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:29:41 -0700
Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Using incorrect :functions: syntax (extra space) causes an odd kernel-doc
> warning, so fix that.
>
> Documentation/driver-api/device_connection.rst:42: ERROR: Error in
> "kernel-doc" directive:
Applied, thanks.
jon
On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 09:40:21 +0300
Mike Rapoport wrote:
> These patches extend KSM documentation with high level design overview and
> some details about reverse mappings and split the userspace interface
> description to Documentation/admin-guide/mm.
>
> The description of some KSM sysfs attrib
e, e.g. using rhashtable_walk*. See
> fs/gfs2/glock.c and drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/vvp_dev.c
For the docs part:
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet
jon
On Sun, 27 May 2018 16:55:55 +0200
Federico Vaga wrote:
> here the doc-guide translated in Italian. This set of patches includes
> some minor changes to the main one. The idea of this first set of patches
> is also to adjust the structure and our expectations.
I've only done a quick scan so far.
that we have kerneldoc comments for
memalloc_no{fs,io}_{save_restore}(), go ahead and pull them into the docs.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
---
Documentation/core-api/gfp_mask-from-fs-io.rst | 5 +
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/gfp_mask-from-fs-io.rst
b/Docu
On Tue, 29 May 2018 14:37:25 +0300
Mike Rapoport wrote:
> The are terms that seem obvious to the mm developers, but may be somewhat
> obscure for, say, less involved readers.
>
> The concepts overview can be seen as an "extended glossary" that introduces
> such terms to the readers of the kernel
On Wed, 16 May 2018 14:08:00 +0200
Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer
Applied, thanks.
jon
On Mon, 14 May 2018 17:55:10 -0400
Thomas Hebb wrote:
> Remove dead links, make spacing consistent, and note that the family was
> acquired by Synaptics in 2017.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Hebb
Applied to the docs tree, thanks.
jon
On Mon, 14 May 2018 12:19:59 -0500
Kim Phillips wrote:
> - Align and show updated ls devices output from the TC2, based on
> current driver
>
> - Provide an example from an ETMv4 based system (Juno)
>
> - Reflect changes to the way the RAM write pointer is accessed since
> it got changed in
On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:47:01 +0300
Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Apr 2018, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> > Using reStructuredText literal-block element with ascii-art.
> > That prevents the ascii art from being processed as
> > reStructuredText.
> >
> > Reported-by: Masanari Iida
> > Fixes: bdecb3
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:16:28 -0500
Kangjie Lu wrote:
> create_singlethread_workqueue may fail and return NULL. The fix
> checks if it is NULL to avoid NULL pointer dereference.
> Also, the fix moves the call of create_singlethread_workqueue
> earlier to avoid resource-release issues.
>
> Signed-
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 14:16:57 +0530
Kamalesh Babulal wrote:
> Fix the spelling of 'functionnality' -> 'functionality'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kamalesh Babulal
Applied, thanks.
jon
On Sun, 3 Feb 2019 21:00:19 +0100
Otto Sabart wrote:
> Legacy IO schedulers (cfq, deadline and noop) were removed in
> f382fb0bcef4.
>
> The documentation for deadline was retained because it carries over to
> mq-deadline as well, but location of the doc file was changed over time.
>
> The old
On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 10:29:11 +0300
Alexey Budankov wrote:
> Extend perf-security.rst file with perf_events/Perf resource control
> section describing RLIMIT_NOFILE and perf_event_mlock_kb settings for
> performance monitoring user processes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov
Overall these patc
On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 10:30:58 +0300
Alexey Budankov wrote:
> Elaborate on possible perf_event/Perf privileged users groups
> and document steps about creating such groups.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/perf-security.rst | 43 +
> 1 file
On Wed, 06 Feb 2019 23:55:38 +0100
Federico Vaga wrote:
> I am having a look at this document and I am wandering if this is an
> useful
> document? Clearly I see value in the table with all requirements
> summarised,
> but I do not see it for the rest of the document.
>
> So, I propose to actu
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 15:11:40 +0100 (CET)
Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2019, Jessica Yu wrote:
> > +++ Thomas Gleixner [28/01/19 23:38 +0100]:
> > > +"GPL" Module is licensed under GPL version
> > > 2. This
> > > + does not expre
On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 21:22:55 +0100
Federico Vaga wrote:
> This patch translates in Italian the content of the following patch
>
> 7967656ffbfa coding-style: Clarify the expectations around bool
>
> Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga
Applied, thanks.
jon
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 22:30:47 +0100
Federico Vaga wrote:
> This patch adds the Italian translation for the following documents
> in Documentation/process:
>
> - applying-patches
> - submit-checklist
> - submitting-drivers
> - changes
> - stable api nonsense
>
> Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga
App
On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 12:07:00 -0600
Jeremy Linton wrote:
> For a while Arm64 has been capable of force enabling
> or disabling the kpti mitigations. Lets make sure the
> documentation reflects that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet
> Cc: linux-...@
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 11:17:21 +
Quentin Perret wrote:
> The recently introduced Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) feature relies on
> a large set of concepts, assumptions, and design choices that are
> probably not obvious for an outsider. Moreover, enabling EAS on a
> particular platform isn't st
On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 22:19:56 +0100
Federico Vaga wrote:
> It translates the maintainer-pgp-guide in Italian.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alessia Mantegazza
> Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga
Applied, thanks.
I do wonder, though, given this:
> +:Translator: Alessia Mantegazza
Should this patch have had
On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 14:44:50 -0700
Sean Christopherson wrote:
> Now that Docbook has been deprecated in favor of Sphinx, the -nofunction
> option in kernel-doc is defunct, e.g. Sphinx doesn't currently support
> it. Furthermore, "functions only" behavior was used by Docproc to avoid
> duplicatin
On Tue, 9 Apr 2019 18:42:59 +0200
"Rafael J. Wysocki" wrote:
> > Hardware guide
>
> This is more about documenting the expectations regarding the platform
> firmware, so what about firmware-guide instead?
I had imagined a slightly wider focus, but this seems OK for now. We can
always rename
On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 18:02:47 +0100
"H. Nikolaus Schaller" wrote:
> From: Linus Walleij
>
> The mounting matrix for sensors was introduced in
> commit dfc57732ad38 ("iio:core: mounting matrix support")
>
> However the device tree bindings are very terse and since this is
> a widely applicable p
On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 23:45:23 +0800
Zenghui Yu wrote:
> As linux-5.0 is coming up soon, the howto.rst document can be
> updated for the new kernel version. Change all 4.x references
> to 5.x now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zenghui Yu
Overall: I think there's value in having the docs reflect current
num
On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 19:24:36 +0100
Linus Walleij wrote:
> > > .../devicetree/bindings/iio/mount-matrix.txt | 204 ++
>
> So this is a device tree binding.
Ah, duh, I blame caffeine deficiency. Ignore me, sorry for the noise.
jon
Florian Fainelli writes:
> Update the documentation regarding "nohlt" and indicate that it is not
> only for bugs, but can be useful to disable the architecture specific
> sleep instructions. ARM, ARM64, SuperH and Microblaze all use
> CONFIG_GENERIC_IDLE_POLL_SETUP which takes care of honoring t
Colin King writes:
> From: Colin Ian King
>
> There is a spelling mistake in the perf-security documentation. Fix it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/perf-security.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/adm
Bhaskar Chowdhury writes:
> s/fuck//
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury
> ---
> Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
> b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
> index c3
Randy Dunlap writes:
> Address Jon's feedback on the previous patch by adding info about
> field separators in the /proc/loadavg file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet
> Cc: linux-...@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
Masahiro Yamada writes:
> You should use KCFLAGS to pass additional compiler flags from the
> command line. Using EXTRA_CFLAGS is wrong.
>
> EXTRA_CFLAGS is supposed to specify flags applied only to the current
> Makefile (and now deprecated in favor of ccflags-y).
>
> It is still used in arch/mi
Aditya Srivastava writes:
> Currently, kernel-doc causes an unexpected error when array element (i.e.,
> "type (*foo[bar])(args)") is present as pointer parameter in
> pointer-to-function parsing.
>
> For e.g., running kernel-doc -none on kernel/gcov/gcc_4_7.c causes this
> error:
> "Use of unini
Aditya Srivastava writes:
> There are files in kernel, which use 'typedef struct' syntax for defining
> struct. For eg, include/linux/zstd.h, drivers/scsi/megaraid/mega_common.h,
> etc.
> However, kernel-doc still does not support it, causing a parsing error.
>
> For eg, running scripts/kernel-do
Michael Weiß writes:
> This fixes a minor typo introduced by commit 3442841d:
> "docs: ABI: testing: make the files compatible with ReST output"
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Weiß
> ---
> Documentation/ABI/testing/ima_policy | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Applied, but
Gustavo Pimentel writes:
> Add Documentation for dw-xdata-pcie driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo Pimentel
> ---
> Documentation/misc-devices/dw-xdata-pcie.rst | 40
>
> 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/misc-devices/dw-xdata-pcie
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 11:43:43 +0100
Wolfram Sang wrote:
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
> b/D
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:54:40 +0100
Daniel Kiper wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 04:49:11PM +0800, Cao jin wrote:
> > struct setup_data.len is the length of data field. In case of
> > SETUP_INDIRECT, it should be sizeof(setup_indirect).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Cao jin
>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel K
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:13:41 +0100
Pali Rohár wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár
> ---
> Documentation/arm/marvell.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/arm/marvell.rst b/Documentation/arm/marvell.rst
> index b16e6f7e8dbe..fa22a72d4391 10064
On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:34:17 +0100
Pali Rohár wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár
> ---
> Documentation/arm/index.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/arm/{marvel.rst => marvell.rst} | 0
> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> rename Documentation/arm/{marvel.rst => marvell
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:15:29 +0100
Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Marvell website is documentation accessible without need to register or
> fill any other forms.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár
> ---
> Documentation/arm/marvell.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git
On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 20:32:02 -0800
Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Add qualifying build option legend [CMA] to kernel boot options
> that requirce CMA support to be enabled for them to be usable.
>
> Also capitalize 'CMA' when it is used as an acronym.
>
> Signed-off-by:
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:31:51 +
Milan Lakhani wrote:
> There were two references to devicetree/booting-without-of.rst (which has
> been removed) for DTB format information, and
> devicetree/usage-model.rst pointed to
> https://elinux.org/Device_Tree_Usage. Change all three of these references
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:26:47 +
Eric Curtin wrote:
> max_user_watches for epoll should say 1/25, rather than 1/32
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Curtin
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-
On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 09:03:10 +1000
Peter Hutterer wrote:
> ABS_PRESSURE and ABS_MT_PRESSURE on touch devices usually represent
> contact size (as a finger flattens with higher pressure the contact size
> increases) and userspace translates the kernel pressure value back into
> contact size. For e
On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 09:22:24 +0100
Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> In this project, we can make use of:
>
> - gitdm [git://git.lwn.net/gitdm.git]: gitdm includes some scripts to
> parse MAINTAINERS and obtain the integration tree patch of a commit.
Look also at the 'treeplot' tool there, which determine
Noa Sakurajin writes:
[CC += kbuild maintainers]
> Before the command python was needed for the documentation to build.
> This patch checks if python is available and uses python3 as
> fallback.
>
> This is needed because a lot of distribution (at least Ubuntu)
> only provide python3 and no
Lubomir Rintel writes:
> Lines ending with obscenely long URLs at the end don't look good.
>
> Even if these links are not that long at this point, they will be when
> replaced with an archive link in a subsequent patch -- let's prepare for
> that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel
> ---
> Docu
Masahiro Yamada writes:
> Python retired in 2020, and some distributions do not provide the
> 'python' command any more.
>
> As in commit 51839e29cb59 ("scripts: switch explicitly to Python 3"),
> we need to use more specific 'python3' to invoke scripts even if they
> are written in a way compati
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