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Commit 31d1b771 authored by Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz's avatar Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
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Merge tag 'v4.20-rc7' of... 

Merge tag 'v4.20-rc7' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into fbdev-for-next

Linux 4.20-rc7

Sync with upstream (which now contains fbdev-v4.20 changes) to
prepare a base for fbdev-v4.21 changes.
parents 217188d9 7566ec39

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  - 'protocol_for_each_card'

  - 'protocol_for_each_dev'

  - 'queue_for_each_hw_ctx'

  - 'radix_tree_for_each_contig'

  - 'radix_tree_for_each_slot'

  - 'radix_tree_for_each_tagged'

  - 'rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe'

.mailmap

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@@ -119,6 +119,13 @@ Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> 
Mark Yao <markyao0591@gmail.com> <mark.yao@rock-chips.com>

Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> <martin.kepplinger@theobroma-systems.com>

Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> <martin.kepplinger@ginzinger.com>

Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>

Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> <matthew@wil.cx>

Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> <mawilcox@linuxonhyperv.com>

Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> <mawilcox@microsoft.com>

Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> <willy@debian.org>

Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> <willy@linux.intel.com>

Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> <willy@parisc-linux.org>

Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> <maurochehab@gmail.com>
@@ -152,7 +159,13 @@ Peter Oruba <peter@oruba.de> 
Peter Oruba <peter.oruba@amd.com>

Pratyush Anand <pratyush.anand@gmail.com> <pratyush.anand@st.com>

Praveen BP <praveenbp@ti.com>

Punit Agrawal <punitagrawal@gmail.com> <punit.agrawal@arm.com>

Qais Yousef <qsyousef@gmail.com> <qais.yousef@imgtec.com>

Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de> <bug-track@fisher-privat.net>

Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de> <external.Oleksij.Rempel@de.bosch.com>

Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de> <fixed-term.Oleksij.Rempel@de.bosch.com>

Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de> <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>

Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de> <ore@pengutronix.de>

Rajesh Shah <rajesh.shah@intel.com>

Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>

CREDITS

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D: Soundblaster driver fixes, ISAPnP quirk

S: California, USA



N: Jarkko Lavinen

E: jarkko.lavinen@nokia.com

D: OMAP MMC support



N: Jonathan Layes

D: ARPD support
@@ -2200,6 +2204,10 @@ S: Post Office Box 371 
S: North Little Rock, Arkansas 72115

S: USA



N: Christopher Li

E: sparse@chrisli.org

D: Sparse maintainer 2009 - 2018



N: Stephan Linz

E: linz@mazet.de

E: Stephan.Linz@gmx.de
@@ -2533,6 +2541,10 @@ S: Ormond 
S: Victoria 3163

S: Australia



N: Eric Miao

E: eric.y.miao@gmail.com

D: MMP support



N: Pauline Middelink

E: middelin@polyware.nl

D: General low-level bug fixes, /proc fixes, identd support
@@ -4107,6 +4119,10 @@ S: 1507 145th Place SE #B5 
S: Bellevue, Washington 98007

S: USA



N: Haojian Zhuang

E: haojian.zhuang@gmail.com

D: MMP support



N: Richard Zidlicky

E: rz@linux-m68k.org, rdzidlic@geocities.com

W: http://www.geocities.com/rdzidlic

Documentation/00-INDEX

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This is a brief list of all the files in ./linux/Documentation and what

they contain. If you add a documentation file, please list it here in

alphabetical order as well, or risk being hunted down like a rabid dog.

Please keep the descriptions small enough to fit on one line.

							 Thanks -- Paul G.



Following translations are available on the WWW:



   - Japanese, maintained by the JF Project (jf@listserv.linux.or.jp), at

     http://linuxjf.sourceforge.jp/



00-INDEX

	- this file.

ABI/

	- info on kernel <-> userspace ABI and relative interface stability.

CodingStyle

	- nothing here, just a pointer to process/coding-style.rst.

DMA-API.txt

	- DMA API, pci_ API & extensions for non-consistent memory machines.

DMA-API-HOWTO.txt

	- Dynamic DMA mapping Guide

DMA-ISA-LPC.txt

	- How to do DMA with ISA (and LPC) devices.

DMA-attributes.txt

	- listing of the various possible attributes a DMA region can have

EDID/

	- directory with info on customizing EDID for broken gfx/displays.

IPMI.txt

	- info on Linux Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Driver.

IRQ-affinity.txt

	- how to select which CPU(s) handle which interrupt events on SMP.

IRQ-domain.txt

	- info on interrupt numbering and setting up IRQ domains.

IRQ.txt

	- description of what an IRQ is.

Intel-IOMMU.txt

	- basic info on the Intel IOMMU virtualization support.

Makefile

	- It's not of interest for those who aren't touching the build system.

PCI/

	- info related to PCI drivers.

RCU/

	- directory with info on RCU (read-copy update).

SAK.txt

	- info on Secure Attention Keys.

SM501.txt

	- Silicon Motion SM501 multimedia companion chip

SubmittingPatches

	- nothing here, just a pointer to process/coding-style.rst.

accounting/

	- documentation on accounting and taskstats.

acpi/

	- info on ACPI-specific hooks in the kernel.

admin-guide/

	- info related to Linux users and system admins.

aoe/

	- description of AoE (ATA over Ethernet) along with config examples.

arm/

	- directory with info about Linux on the ARM architecture.

arm64/

	- directory with info about Linux on the 64 bit ARM architecture.

auxdisplay/

	- misc. LCD driver documentation (cfag12864b, ks0108).

backlight/

	- directory with info on controlling backlights in flat panel displays

block/

	- info on the Block I/O (BIO) layer.

blockdev/

	- info on block devices & drivers

bt8xxgpio.txt

	- info on how to modify a bt8xx video card for GPIO usage.

btmrvl.txt

	- info on Marvell Bluetooth driver usage.

bus-devices/

	- directory with info on TI GPMC (General Purpose Memory Controller)

bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt

	- how to access I/O mapped memory from within device drivers.

cdrom/

	- directory with information on the CD-ROM drivers that Linux has.

cgroup-v1/

	- cgroups v1 features, including cpusets and memory controller.

cma/

	- Continuous Memory Area (CMA) debugfs interface.

conf.py

	- It's not of interest for those who aren't touching the build system.

connector/

	- docs on the netlink based userspace<->kernel space communication mod.

console/

	- documentation on Linux console drivers.

core-api/

	- documentation on kernel core components.

cpu-freq/

	- info on CPU frequency and voltage scaling.

cpu-hotplug.txt

	- document describing CPU hotplug support in the Linux kernel.

cpu-load.txt

	- document describing how CPU load statistics are collected.

cpuidle/

	- info on CPU_IDLE, CPU idle state management subsystem.

cputopology.txt

	- documentation on how CPU topology info is exported via sysfs.

crc32.txt

	- brief tutorial on CRC computation

crypto/

	- directory with info on the Crypto API.

dcdbas.txt

	- information on the Dell Systems Management Base Driver.

debugging-modules.txt

	- some notes on debugging modules after Linux 2.6.3.

debugging-via-ohci1394.txt

	- how to use firewire like a hardware debugger memory reader.

dell_rbu.txt

	- document demonstrating the use of the Dell Remote BIOS Update driver.

dev-tools/

	- directory with info on development tools for the kernel.

device-mapper/

	- directory with info on Device Mapper.

dmaengine/

	- the DMA engine and controller API guides.

devicetree/

	- directory with info on device tree files used by OF/PowerPC/ARM

digsig.txt

	-info on the Digital Signature Verification API

dma-buf-sharing.txt

	- the DMA Buffer Sharing API Guide

docutils.conf

	- nothing here. Just a configuration file for docutils.

dontdiff

	- file containing a list of files that should never be diff'ed.

driver-api/

	- the Linux driver implementer's API guide.

driver-model/

	- directory with info about Linux driver model.

early-userspace/

	- info about initramfs, klibc, and userspace early during boot.

efi-stub.txt

	- How to use the EFI boot stub to bypass GRUB or elilo on EFI systems.

eisa.txt

	- info on EISA bus support.

extcon/

	- directory with porting guide for Android kernel switch driver.

isa.txt

	- info on EISA bus support.

fault-injection/

	- dir with docs about the fault injection capabilities infrastructure.

fb/

	- directory with info on the frame buffer graphics abstraction layer.

features/

	- status of feature implementation on different architectures.

filesystems/

	- info on the vfs and the various filesystems that Linux supports.

firmware_class/

	- request_firmware() hotplug interface info.

flexible-arrays.txt

	- how to make use of flexible sized arrays in linux

fmc/

	- information about the FMC bus abstraction

fpga/

	- FPGA Manager Core.

futex-requeue-pi.txt

	- info on requeueing of tasks from a non-PI futex to a PI futex

gcc-plugins.txt

	- GCC plugin infrastructure.

gpio/

	- gpio related documentation

gpu/

	- directory with information on GPU driver developer's guide.

hid/

	- directory with information on human interface devices

highuid.txt

	- notes on the change from 16 bit to 32 bit user/group IDs.

hwspinlock.txt

	- hardware spinlock provides hardware assistance for synchronization

timers/

	- info on the timer related topics

hw_random.txt

	- info on Linux support for random number generator in i8xx chipsets.

hwmon/

	- directory with docs on various hardware monitoring drivers.

i2c/

	- directory with info about the I2C bus/protocol (2 wire, kHz speed).

x86/i386/

	- directory with info about Linux on Intel 32 bit architecture.

ia64/

	- directory with info about Linux on Intel 64 bit architecture.

ide/

	- Information regarding the Enhanced IDE drive.

iio/

	- info on industrial IIO configfs support.

index.rst

	- main index for the documentation at ReST format.

infiniband/

	- directory with documents concerning Linux InfiniBand support.

input/

	- info on Linux input device support.

intel_txt.txt

	- info on intel Trusted Execution Technology (intel TXT).

io-mapping.txt

	- description of io_mapping functions in linux/io-mapping.h

io_ordering.txt

	- info on ordering I/O writes to memory-mapped addresses.

ioctl/

	- directory with documents describing various IOCTL calls.

iostats.txt

	- info on I/O statistics Linux kernel provides.

irqflags-tracing.txt

	- how to use the irq-flags tracing feature.

isapnp.txt

	- info on Linux ISA Plug & Play support.

isdn/

	- directory with info on the Linux ISDN support, and supported cards.

kbuild/

	- directory with info about the kernel build process.

kdump/

	- directory with mini HowTo on getting the crash dump code to work.

doc-guide/

	- how to write and format reStructuredText kernel documentation

kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt

	- List of all per-CPU kthreads and how they introduce jitter.

kobject.txt

	- info of the kobject infrastructure of the Linux kernel.

kprobes.txt

	- documents the kernel probes debugging feature.

kref.txt

	- docs on adding reference counters (krefs) to kernel objects.

laptops/

	- directory with laptop related info and laptop driver documentation.

ldm.txt

	- a brief description of LDM (Windows Dynamic Disks).

leds/

	- directory with info about LED handling under Linux.

livepatch/

	- info on kernel live patching.

locking/

	- directory with info about kernel locking primitives

lockup-watchdogs.txt

	- info on soft and hard lockup detectors (aka nmi_watchdog).

logo.gif

	- full colour GIF image of Linux logo (penguin - Tux).

logo.txt

	- info on creator of above logo & site to get additional images from.

lsm.txt

	- Linux Security Modules: General Security Hooks for Linux

lzo.txt

	- kernel LZO decompressor input formats

m68k/

	- directory with info about Linux on Motorola 68k architecture.

mailbox.txt

	- How to write drivers for the common mailbox framework (IPC).

md/

	- directory with info about Linux Software RAID

media/

	- info on media drivers: uAPI, kAPI and driver documentation.

memory-barriers.txt

	- info on Linux kernel memory barriers.

memory-devices/

	- directory with info on parts like the Texas Instruments EMIF driver

memory-hotplug.txt

	- Hotpluggable memory support, how to use and current status.

men-chameleon-bus.txt

	- info on MEN chameleon bus.

mic/

	- Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture device driver.

mips/

	- directory with info about Linux on MIPS architecture.

misc-devices/

	- directory with info about devices using the misc dev subsystem

mmc/

	- directory with info about the MMC subsystem

mtd/

	- directory with info about memory technology devices (flash)

namespaces/

	- directory with various information about namespaces

netlabel/

	- directory with information on the NetLabel subsystem.

networking/

	- directory with info on various aspects of networking with Linux.

nfc/

	- directory relating info about Near Field Communications support.

nios2/

	- Linux on the Nios II architecture.

nommu-mmap.txt

	- documentation about no-mmu memory mapping support.

numastat.txt

	- info on how to read Numa policy hit/miss statistics in sysfs.

ntb.txt

	- info on Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) drivers.

nvdimm/

	- info on non-volatile devices.

nvmem/

	- info on non volatile memory framework.

output/

	- default directory where html/LaTeX/pdf files will be written.

padata.txt

	- An introduction to the "padata" parallel execution API

parisc/

	- directory with info on using Linux on PA-RISC architecture.

parport-lowlevel.txt

	- description and usage of the low level parallel port functions.

pcmcia/

	- info on the Linux PCMCIA driver.

percpu-rw-semaphore.txt

	- RCU based read-write semaphore optimized for locking for reading

perf/

	- info about the APM X-Gene SoC Performance Monitoring Unit (PMU).

phy/

	- ino on Samsung USB 2.0 PHY adaptation layer.

phy.txt

	- Description of the generic PHY framework.

pi-futex.txt

	- documentation on lightweight priority inheritance futexes.

pinctrl.txt

	- info on pinctrl subsystem and the PINMUX/PINCONF and drivers

platform/

	- List of supported hardware by compal and Dell laptop.

pnp.txt

	- Linux Plug and Play documentation.

power/

	- directory with info on Linux PCI power management.

powerpc/

	- directory with info on using Linux with the PowerPC.

prctl/

	- directory with info on the priveledge control subsystem

preempt-locking.txt

	- info on locking under a preemptive kernel.

process/

	- how to work with the mainline kernel development process.

pps/

	- directory with information on the pulse-per-second support

pti/

	- directory with info on Intel MID PTI.

ptp/

	- directory with info on support for IEEE 1588 PTP clocks in Linux.

pwm.txt

	- info on the pulse width modulation driver subsystem

rapidio/

	- directory with info on RapidIO packet-based fabric interconnect

rbtree.txt

	- info on what red-black trees are and what they are for.

remoteproc.txt

	- info on how to handle remote processor (e.g. AMP) offloads/usage.

rfkill.txt

	- info on the radio frequency kill switch subsystem/support.

robust-futex-ABI.txt

	- documentation of the robust futex ABI.

robust-futexes.txt

	- a description of what robust futexes are.

rpmsg.txt

	- info on the Remote Processor Messaging (rpmsg) Framework

rtc.txt

	- notes on how to use the Real Time Clock (aka CMOS clock) driver.

s390/

	- directory with info on using Linux on the IBM S390.

scheduler/

	- directory with info on the scheduler.

scsi/

	- directory with info on Linux scsi support.

security/

	- directory that contains security-related info

serial/

	- directory with info on the low level serial API.

sgi-ioc4.txt

	- description of the SGI IOC4 PCI (multi function) device.

sh/

	- directory with info on porting Linux to a new architecture.

smsc_ece1099.txt

	-info on the smsc Keyboard Scan Expansion/GPIO Expansion device.

sound/

	- directory with info on sound card support.

spi/

	- overview of Linux kernel Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) support.

sphinx/

	- no documentation here, just files required by Sphinx toolchain.

sphinx-static/

	- no documentation here, just files required by Sphinx toolchain.

static-keys.txt

	- info on how static keys allow debug code in hotpaths via patching

svga.txt

	- short guide on selecting video modes at boot via VGA BIOS.

sync_file.txt

	- Sync file API guide.

sysctl/

	- directory with info on the /proc/sys/* files.

target/

	- directory with info on generating TCM v4 fabric .ko modules

tee.txt

	- info on the TEE subsystem and drivers

this_cpu_ops.txt

	- List rationale behind and the way to use this_cpu operations.

thermal/

	- directory with information on managing thermal issues (CPU/temp)

trace/

	- directory with info on tracing technologies within linux

translations/

	- translations of this document from English to another language

unaligned-memory-access.txt

	- info on how to avoid arch breaking unaligned memory access in code.

unshare.txt

	- description of the Linux unshare system call.

usb/

	- directory with info regarding the Universal Serial Bus.

vfio.txt

	- info on Virtual Function I/O used in guest/hypervisor instances.

video-output.txt

	- sysfs class driver interface to enable/disable a video output device.

virtual/

	- directory with information on the various linux virtualizations.

vm/

	- directory with info on the Linux vm code.

w1/

	- directory with documents regarding the 1-wire (w1) subsystem.

watchdog/

	- how to auto-reboot Linux if it has "fallen and can't get up". ;-)

wimax/

	- directory with info about Intel Wireless Wimax Connections

core-api/workqueue.rst

	- information on the Concurrency Managed Workqueue implementation

x86/x86_64/

	- directory with info on Linux support for AMD x86-64 (Hammer) machines.

xillybus.txt

	- Overview and basic ui of xillybus driver

xtensa/

	- directory with documents relating to arch/xtensa port/implementation

xz.txt

	- how to make use of the XZ data compression within linux kernel

zorro.txt

	- info on writing drivers for Zorro bus devices found on Amigas.

Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-driver-usb-usbtmc

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		4.2.2.



		The files are read only.
 




What:		/sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/TermChar

Date:		August 2008

Contact:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Description:

		This file is the TermChar value to be sent to the USB TMC

		device as described by the document, "Universal Serial Bus Test

		and Measurement Class Specification

		(USBTMC) Revision 1.0" as published by the USB-IF.



		Note that the TermCharEnabled file determines if this value is

		sent to the device or not.





What:		/sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/TermCharEnabled

Date:		August 2008

Contact:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Description:

		This file determines if the TermChar is to be sent to the

		device on every transaction or not.  For more details about

		this, please see the document, "Universal Serial Bus Test and

		Measurement Class Specification (USBTMC) Revision 1.0" as

		published by the USB-IF.





What:		/sys/bus/usb/drivers/usbtmc/*/auto_abort

Date:		August 2008

Contact:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Description:

		This file determines if the transaction of the USB TMC

		device is to be automatically aborted if there is any error.

		For more details about this, please see the document,

		"Universal Serial Bus Test and Measurement Class Specification

		(USBTMC) Revision 1.0" as published by the USB-IF.