Linux 2.4.0test13pre3ac1

Linux 2.4.0test13pre3ac1

[Alan Cox]

This is mostly so people can see what I have merged in my tree and what
has gone from it. The patch for the adventurous is in

	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4.0test/..


2.4.0test13pre3-ac1 adds
o	Handle TLB flush reruns caused by APIC rexmit	(me)
o	Fix leak in link() syscall			(Al Viro)
o	Fix ramfs deadlock				(Al Viro)
o	Fix udf deadlock				(Al Viro)
o	Improve parport docs				(Tim Waugh)
o	Document some of the macros			(Tim Waugh)
o	Fix ppa timing issues				(Tim Waugh)
o	Mark the parport fifo code as experimental	(Tim Waugh)
o	Resynch ppa changelog				(Tim Waugh)
	| Tim please double check as I got offsets
o	Fix Yam driver for Linux 2.4test		(Hans Grobler)
o	Fix AF_ROSE sockets for 2.4			(Hans Grobler)
o	Fix AF_NETROM sockets for 2.4			(Hans Grobler)
o	Tidy AF_AX25 sockets for 2.4			(Hans Grobler)
o	Teach kernel-doc about const			(Jani Monoses)
o	Add documentation to the PCI api		(Jani Monoses)
o	Fix inode.c documentation			(Jani Monoses)
o	Push Davicom support into the main tulip driver	(Tobias Ringstrom)
o	First block of mkiss driver fixes		(Hans Grobler)
o	Fix bug in VFAT short name handling		(Nicolas Goutte)
o	Clean up the i810 driver			(Tjeerd Mulder)
o	RCPCI45 PCI cleanup fixes (mark 2)		(Rasmus Andersen)
o	Improve the ALSxxx sound driver documentation	(Jonathan Woithe)
o	Fix ext2 modular build				(Jeff Raubitschek)
o	Fix bug in scripts/Configure.in matching	(Matthew Wilcox)
o	Revert accidental amifb change			(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Fix ext2 file size limiting for large files	(Andreas Dilger)
o	Clean up misleading indenting in partition code	(JAmes Antill)
o	Update SiS video drivers			(Can-Ru Yeou)
o	Yamaha audio doc fix				(Pavel Roskin)
o	Fix ACPI driver wakeup races			(David Woodhouse)
o	Remove bogus asserts in 8139too driver		(Jeff Garzik)
o	Fix timeout problms with rocktports at 249 days
o	Update acenic patches				(Jes Sorensen)
o	Fix i810 tco locking				(me)
o	Fix media makefiles				(me)
o	Fix drm makefiles				(Peter Samuelson)

2.4.0test12-ac1 adds
o	ARM bootup/initd fixes				(Russell King)
o	Fix ymf_sb setup bug				(Pavel Roskin)
o	Correctly print names of md10+			(me)
	[Based on code from Roberto Ragusa]
o	Fix sound crashes in various drivers		(Tjeerd Mulder)
o	Update epic100 to new pci api			(Francois Romieu)
o	Fix IOC/SIOC ioctl problems in ac97 code	(Dick Streefland)

To merge
o	Fix Ruffian Alpha boot				(Ivan Kokshaysky)
o	Bridge handling patches needed for Alpha	(Ivan Kokshaysky /
							Richard Henderson)
o	FPU emulator source set for m68k 		(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Fix m68k build with rmw disabled		(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Cleanup ramdisk namespace			(Jeff Garzik)
o	Link correctly with ACPI on ACPI_INTERPRETER off
o	Ramdisk missing blkdev_put
o	Acenic update
o	Epic100 update
o	Support mixed pnp and legacy sb cards
o	Hopefully fix the bugs in the FAT and HPFS file systems that
	caused fs corruption
o	Fix cramfs vanishing data bug
o	Fix NLS config.in bug for SMB
o	Power management locking fixes
o	filemap posix compliance fix
o	Fix pte handling race
o	Remove unneeded inits to 0 in ide code	  (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz)
o	IDE documentation fixes			  (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz)

Submitted to Linus
o	Add firestream ATM driver		     (Patrick van de Lageweg)
o	Add the powermac extras to the input and	(Franz Sirl)
	keyboard drivers
o	Fix reference counting in ATM		     (Patrick van de Lageweg)
o	Update Changes to give correct modutils rev	(Steven Cole)
o	Fix xconfig/menuconfig problems with config  (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
	scripts in 2.4test
o	Fix kd_mksound declaration			(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Fix warning in sim710 driver			(Pavel Rabel)
o	Merge bttv 0.7.50				(Gerd Knorr)
o	Clean it up to use pci_pci_quirks properly	(me)
o	SMC token ring driver update			(Jay Schulist)
o	Support kgcc autodetect
o	Rusty's fixes/review of unsafe set_bit usage
	(A few left to go)
o	I2C bus driver updates				(Frodo Looijaard)
o	Fix pcmcia ordering on socket remove		(David Woodhouse)
o	Update USB documentation			(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o	Tidy the tachyon 5526 driver			(Rasmus Andersen)
o	Clean old old compile time config stuff from	(Pavel Rabel)
	mad16 driver
o	Tidy riscom8 and sx namespace			(Jeff Garzik)
o	Rename block_til_ready in generic_serial      (Patrick van de Lageweg)

Merged by Linus from -ac or direct
o	Add clocking option to maestro (broken laptop	(me)
	stuff again)
o	Put back the module locking in soundcore	(David Schleef)
	that someone disabled
o	Abyss driver cleanup				(Jeff Garzik)
o	Fix most of the tq changes			(Mohammad A. Haque)
o	DOC1000 driver fixes				(David Woodhouse)
o	Switch tvaudio and msp3400 to use up_and_exit	(David Woodhouse)
o	usb-uhci was using constants not flags for	(Jeff Garzik)
	pci interface
o	Small fix for kdoc				(Tim Waugh)
o	Fix nubus build					(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	atari/sun3lance update				(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Amiga gayle pcmcia fixups			(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Fixes for amiga scsi drivers			(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Simplify amiga irq handling code		(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Amiga sound/fb driver update			(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Amiga/Mac/Atari keyboard driver changes		(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Integrate atari stram with bootmem 		(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Restore atafb_fix that someone deleted		(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	m68k include updates for 64bit structs		(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Add driver for MVME147 onboard scsi		(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Enable Q40 ide interface			(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Replace init with initdata in places on m68k	(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	MMU code changes for m68k			(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	dma_addr_t and other minor updates for m68k	(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	m68k ptrace update 				(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Fix pmc551 when used without bugfix enabled	(David Woodhouse)
o	Fix endianness on ftl layer			(David Woodhouse)
o	Fix atm build					(Markus Kossmann)
o	Update 8139too driver				(Jeff Garzik)
o	Fix readdir returns on procfs			(Matt Kraai)
o	Make SET_MODULE_OWNER macro safer		(Jeff Garzik)
o	Hisax needed __init				(Jeff Garzik)
o	APM updates, fix the Dell 5000e check for APM=m	(Stephen Rothwell)
o	Fix module initialization oops 			(Keith Owens)
o	Clean up Abyss driver				(Jeff Garzik)
o	Fix raid linking order				(Neil Brown)
o	Cleanup console_verbose() duplication
o	Radio driver cleanups
o	BTTV radio config option
o	Fix qcam VIDIOCGWIN bugs
o	8390 seperate tx timeout path
o	Tulip crash fix on weird eeproms
o	ISAPnP hang on boot port fix
o	Maestro pci_enable fix
o	Fix function prototype in wacom drivr
o	Fix SCSI / PCI dependancies			(Jeff Garzik)
o	m68k config fixes				(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Fix dquot overflow/recovery			(Jan Kara)
o	Make uid16 macros safer				(Andreas Schwab)
o	Fix missing Config doc and sound doc error	(Thierry Vignaud)
o	APM update 					(Stephen Rothwell)
o	Fix SMP build on x86				(Steven Cole)
o	Maestro ioctl locking fix			(Zach Brown)
o	Make console_* static inline not extern		(Jeff Garzik)
o	Work arounds for broken Dell laptop APM		(me)
o	Fix aha1542 memory scribbles			(Phil Stracchino)
o	Fix ide scsi printk				(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Update EATA driver and Ultrastor driver		(Dario Ballabio)
o	Clean up printk formatting in a few drivers	(me)
o	Documentation for CONFIG_TOSHIBA
o	Updated version of Rusty's kernel-hacking doc
o	Updated SubmittingDrivers
o	Added SubmittingPatches
o	Updated procfs docs
o	Updated initrd docs
o	Tidy network drivers module locking		(Jeff Garzik)
	(Some in, a few to go)
o	Alpha PCI fixes (update resource not __init,	(Ivan Kokshaysky)
	off by one on check)
o	Fix warning in rclan driver			(Rasmus Andersen)
o	Clean up rcpci driver (new style pci etc)	(Jeff Garzik)
o	Fix generic bitops bugs
o	Fix pcnet32 printk problems			(Vojtech Pavlik)
o	Network driver check/request region fixes
o	MDAcon cleanup					(Pavel Rabel)
o	Tidy up mad16 driver				(Pavel Rabel)

Superceded by other fixes
o	Features is back to flags for compatibility	(me)
o	MTRR updates (36bit etc)
o	Dont crash on boot with a dual cpu board holding a non intel cpu
o	CS46xx update
o	NFS atomic fixes				(Trond Myklebust)
o	Fix O_SYNC for ext2fs				(Stephen Tweedie)
	[ I believe so anyway ]
o	Disable PMC511 driver - its obviously broken	(me)
o	kbuild documentation improvements		(Neil Brown)
o	Fix ppa and imm hangs on io_request_lock	(Tim Waugh)
o	Fix pport reverse/forward logic error		(Tim Waugh)

---
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Red Hat Kernel Hacker
& Linux 2.2 Maintainer                        Brainbench MVP for TCP/IP
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Re: Linux 2.4.0test13pre3ac1

[Jani Monoses]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> o	Teach kernel-doc about const			(Jani Monoses)

Tim Waugh pointed out this wasn't good as 'const' is part of the function
signature and he now has a better patch.

> o	Add documentation to the PCI api		(Jani Monoses)
> o	Fix inode.c documentation			(Jani Monoses)

For these I've sent Tim more cleaned up patches as I thought nobody picked
them up from the list.Looks like I was wrong ;-)

Jani.



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Re: Linux 2.4.0test13pre3ac1

[Tim Waugh]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 10:17:17PM +0200, Jani Monoses wrote:

> Tim Waugh pointed out this wasn't good as 'const' is part of the function
> signature and he now has a better patch.

I'll sync up with Alan.

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Re: Linux 2.4.0test13pre3ac1

[Tim Waugh]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 07:40:03PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> o	Mark the parport fifo code as experimental	(Tim Waugh)

Needs this:

--- linux-2.4.0test13pre3-ac1/drivers/parport/Config.in	Mon Dec 18 20:45:54 2000
+++ linux-2.4.0-test13-pre3+/drivers/parport/Config.in	Mon Dec 18 16:56:36 2000
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
 if [ "$CONFIG_PARPORT" != "n" ]; then
    dep_tristate '  PC-style hardware' CONFIG_PARPORT_PC $CONFIG_PARPORT
    if [ "$CONFIG_PARPORT_PC" != "n" ]; then
-      bool '    Use FIFO/DMA if available (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO
       if [ "$CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL" = "y" ]; then
+         bool '    Use FIFO/DMA if available (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_FIFO
          bool '    SuperIO chipset support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_SUPERIO
       fi
    fi

Tim.
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Re: Linux 2.4.0test13pre3ac1

[Tim Waugh]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 07:40:03PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> o	Teach kernel-doc about const			(Jani Monoses)

Needs this (also cleans up kernel-doc macro handling and fixes some
regexps):

--- linux-2.4.0test13pre3-ac1/scripts/kernel-doc	Mon Dec 18 20:46:11 2000
+++ linux-2.4.0-test13-pre3+/scripts/kernel-doc	Mon Dec 18 16:56:36 2000
@@ -668,23 +668,42 @@
 sub dump_function {
     my $prototype = shift @_;
 
-    $prototype =~ s/^const+ //;
-    $prototype =~ s/^static+ //;
-    $prototype =~ s/^extern+ //;
-    $prototype =~ s/^inline+ //;
-    $prototype =~ s/^__inline__+ //;
-    $prototype =~ s/^#define+ //; #ak added
+    $prototype =~ s/^static +//;
+    $prototype =~ s/^extern +//;
+    $prototype =~ s/^inline +//;
+    $prototype =~ s/^__inline__ +//;
+    $prototype =~ s/^#define +//; #ak added
+
+    # Yes, this truly is vile.  We are looking for:
+    # 1. Return type (may be nothing if we're looking at a macro)
+    # 2. Function name
+    # 3. Function parameters.
+    #
+    # All the while we have to watch out for function pointer parameters
+    # (which IIRC is what the two sections are for), C types (these
+    # regexps don't even start to express all the possibilities), and
+    # so on.
+    #
+    # If you mess with these regexps, it's a good idea to check that
+    # the following functions' documentation still comes out right:
+    # - parport_register_device (function pointer parameters)
+    # - atomic_set (macro)
+    # - pci_match_device (long return type)
 
     if ($prototype =~ m/^()([a-zA-Z0-9_~:]+)\s*\(([^\(]*)\)/ ||
 	$prototype =~ m/^(\w+)\s+([a-zA-Z0-9_~:]+)\s*\(([^\(]*)\)/ ||
 	$prototype =~ m/^(\w+\s*\*)\s*([a-zA-Z0-9_~:]+)\s*\(([^\(]*)\)/ ||
 	$prototype =~ m/^(\w+\s+\w+)\s+([a-zA-Z0-9_~:]+)\s*\(([^\(]*)\)/ ||
 	$prototype =~ m/^(\w+\s+\w+\s*\*)\s*([a-zA-Z0-9_~:]+)\s*\(([^\(]*)\)/ ||
+	$prototype =~ m/^(\w+\s+\w+\s+\w+)\s+([a-zA-Z0-9_~:]+)\s*\(([^\(]*)\)/ ||
+	$prototype =~ m/^(\w+\s+\w+\s+\w+\s*\*)\s*([a-zA-Z0-9_~:]+)\s*\(([^\(]*)\)/ ||
 	$prototype =~ m/^()([a-zA-Z0-9_~:]+)\s*\(([^\{]*)\)/ ||
 	$prototype =~ m/^(\w+)\s+([a-zA-Z0-9_~:]+)\s*\(([^\{]*)\)/ ||
 	$prototype =~ m/^(\w+\s*\*)\s*([a-zA-Z0-9_~:]+)\s*\(([^\{]*)\)/ ||
 	$prototype =~ m/^(\w+\s+\w+)\s+([a-zA-Z0-9_~:]+)\s*\(([^\{]*)\)/ ||
-	$prototype =~ m/^(\w+\s+\w+\s*\*)\s*([a-zA-Z0-9_~:]+)\s*\(([^\{]*)\)/)  {
+	$prototype =~ m/^(\w+\s+\w+\s*\*)\s*([a-zA-Z0-9_~:]+)\s*\(([^\{]*)\)/ ||
+	$prototype =~ m/^(\w+\s+\w+\s+\w+)\s+([a-zA-Z0-9_~:]+)\s*\(([^\{]*)\)/ ||
+	$prototype =~ m/^(\w+\s+\w+\s+\w+\s*\*)\s*([a-zA-Z0-9_~:]+)\s*\(([^\{]*)\)/)  {
 	$return_type = $1;
 	$function_name = $2;
 	$args = $3;
@@ -729,13 +748,13 @@
 		$param="...";
 		$parameters{"..."} = "variable arguments";
 	    }
-	    if ($type eq "")
+	    elsif ($type eq "" && $param eq "")
 	    {
 		$type="";
 		$param="void";
 		$parameters{void} = "no arguments";
 	    }
-            if ($parameters{$param} eq "") {
+            if ($type ne "" && $parameters{$param} eq "") {
 	        $parameters{$param} = "-- undescribed --";
 	        print STDERR "Warning($file:$lineno): Function parameter '$param' not described in '$function_name'\n";
 	    }
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Re: Linux 2.4.0test13pre3ac1

[Tim Waugh]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 07:40:03PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> o	Add documentation to the PCI api		(Jani Monoses)

Needs this:

--- linux-2.4.0test13pre3-ac1/drivers/pci/pci.c.pcidoc	Mon Dec 18 20:46:08 2000
+++ linux-2.4.0test13pre3-ac1/drivers/pci/pci.c	Mon Dec 18 20:51:20 2000
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
  * found with a matching @vendor, @device, @ss_vendor and @ss_device, a pointer to its
  * device structure is returned.  Otherwise, %NULL is returned.
  * A new search is initiated by passing %NULL to the @from argument.
- * Otherwise if @from is not %NULL, searches continue from that point.
+ * Otherwise if @from is not %NULL, searches continue from next device on the global list.
  */
 struct pci_dev *
 pci_find_subsys(unsigned int vendor, unsigned int device,
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
  * found with a matching @vendor and @device, a pointer to its device structure is
  * returned.  Otherwise, %NULL is returned.
  * A new search is initiated by passing %NULL to the @from argument.
- * Otherwise if @from is not %NULL, searches continue from that point.
+ * Otherwise if @from is not %NULL, searches continue from next device on the global list.
  */
 struct pci_dev *
 pci_find_device(unsigned int vendor, unsigned int device, const struct pci_dev *from)
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
  * found with a matching @class, a pointer to its device structure is
  * returned.  Otherwise, %NULL is returned.
  * A new search is initiated by passing %NULL to the @from argument.
- * Otherwise if @from is not %NULL, searches continue from that point.
+ * Otherwise if @from is not %NULL, searches continue from next device on the global list.
  */
 struct pci_dev *
 pci_find_class(unsigned int class, const struct pci_dev *from)
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@
  * 
  * Adds the driver structure to the list of registered drivers
  * Returns the number of pci devices which were claimed by the driver
- * during registration
+ * during registration.
  */
 int
 pci_register_driver(struct pci_driver *drv)
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@
  * 
  * Deletes the driver structure from the list of registered PCI drivers,
  * gives it a chance to clean up and marks the devices for which it
- * was responsible as driverless 
+ * was responsible as driverless.
  */
 
 void
@@ -461,7 +461,7 @@
  * @dev: the device to insert
  * @bus: where to insert it
  *
- * Add a new device to the device lists and notify userspace (/sbin/hotplug)
+ * Add a new device to the device lists and notify userspace (/sbin/hotplug).
  */
 void
 pci_insert_device(struct pci_dev *dev, struct pci_bus *bus)
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@
  * @dev: the device to remove
  *
  * Delete the device structure from the device lists and 
- * notify userspace (/sbin/hotplug)
+ * notify userspace (/sbin/hotplug).
  */
 void
 pci_remove_device(struct pci_dev *dev)
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@
  * @dev: the device to query
  *
  * Returns the appropriate pci_driver structure or %NULL if there is no 
- * registered driver for the device
+ * registered driver for the device.
  */
 struct pci_driver *
 pci_dev_driver(const struct pci_dev *dev)
@@ -590,7 +590,7 @@
  * @dev: the PCI device to enable
  *
  * Enables bus-mastering on the device and calls pcibios_set_master()
- * to do the needed arch specific settings
+ * to do the needed arch specific settings.
  */
 void
 pci_set_master(struct pci_dev *dev)
@@ -940,7 +940,7 @@
  * vendor,class,memory and IO-space addresses,IRQ lines etc.
  * Called at initialisation of the PCI subsystem and by CardBus services.
  * Returns 0 on success and -1 if unknown type of device (not normal, bridge
- * or CardBus)
+ * or CardBus).
  */
 int pci_setup_device(struct pci_dev * dev)
 {

Tim.
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Re: Linux 2.4.0test13pre3ac1

[Alan Cox]

> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > o	Teach kernel-doc about const			(Jani Monoses)
> 
> Tim Waugh pointed out this wasn't good as 'const' is part of the function
> signature and he now has a better patch.
> For these I've sent Tim more cleaned up patches as I thought nobody picked
> them up from the list.Looks like I was wrong ;-)

Thanks for the info. I'll pick up the changes when Tim sends them on

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Re: Linux 2.4.0test13pre3ac1

[Alexander Viro]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> o	Fix leak in link() syscall			(Al Viro)
							 ^^^^^^^
Originally - by Christopher Yeoh.

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