Loading .mailmap +4 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com> Rudolf Marek <R.Marek@sh.cvut.cz> Rui Saraiva <rmps@joel.ist.utl.pt> Sachin P Sant <ssant@in.ibm.com> Sarangdhar Joshi <spjoshi@codeaurora.org> Sam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org> Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org> Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.org> Loading @@ -150,10 +151,13 @@ Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> <shuah.kh@samsung.com> Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk> Stéphane Witzmann <stephane.witzmann@ubpmes.univ-bpclermont.fr> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org> Subhash Jadavani <subhashj@codeaurora.org> Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com> Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@ti.com> Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Thomas Pedersen <twp@codeaurora.org> Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Tsuneo Yoshioka <Tsuneo.Yoshioka@f-secure.com> Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> Loading CREDITS +8 −6 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Linus ---------- M: Matt Mackal N: Matt Mackal E: mpm@selenic.com D: SLOB slab allocator Loading Loading @@ -1910,7 +1910,7 @@ S: Ra'annana, Israel N: Andi Kleen E: andi@firstfloor.org U: http://www.halobates.de W: http://www.halobates.de D: network, x86, NUMA, various hacks S: Schwalbenstr. 96 S: 85551 Ottobrunn Loading Loading @@ -2089,8 +2089,8 @@ D: ST Microelectronics SPEAr13xx PCI host bridge driver D: Synopsys Designware PCI host bridge driver N: Gabor Kuti M: seasons@falcon.sch.bme.hu M: seasons@makosteszta.sote.hu E: seasons@falcon.sch.bme.hu E: seasons@makosteszta.sote.hu D: Original author of software suspend N: Jaroslav Kysela Loading Loading @@ -2775,6 +2775,10 @@ S: C/ Mieses 20, 9-B S: Valladolid 47009 S: Spain N: Peter Oruba D: AMD Microcode loader driver S: Germany N: Jens Osterkamp E: jens@de.ibm.com D: Maintainer of Spidernet network driver for Cell Loading Loading @@ -3945,8 +3949,6 @@ E: gwingerde@gmail.com D: Ralink rt2x00 WLAN driver D: Minix V2 file-system D: Misc fixes S: Geessinkweg 177 S: 7544 TX Enschede S: The Netherlands N: Lars Wirzenius Loading Documentation/00-INDEX +85 −121 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -14,13 +14,8 @@ Following translations are available on the WWW: - this file. ABI/ - info on kernel <-> userspace ABI and relative interface stability. BUG-HUNTING - brute force method of doing binary search of patches to find bug. Changes - list of changes that break older software packages. CodingStyle - how the maintainers expect the C code in the kernel to look. - 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 Loading @@ -33,8 +28,6 @@ DocBook/ - directory with DocBook templates etc. for kernel documentation. EDID/ - directory with info on customizing EDID for broken gfx/displays. HOWTO - the process and procedures of how to do Linux kernel development. IPMI.txt - info on Linux Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Driver. IRQ-affinity.txt Loading @@ -46,62 +39,43 @@ IRQ.txt Intel-IOMMU.txt - basic info on the Intel IOMMU virtualization support. Makefile - This file does nothing. Removing it breaks make htmldocs and make distclean. ManagementStyle - how to (attempt to) manage kernel hackers. - It's not of interest for those who aren't touching the build system. Makefile.sphinx - 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 SecurityBugs - procedure for reporting security bugs found in the kernel. SubmitChecklist - Linux kernel patch submission checklist. SubmittingDrivers - procedure to get a new driver source included into the kernel tree. SubmittingPatches - procedure to get a source patch included into the kernel tree. VGA-softcursor.txt - how to change your VGA cursor from a blinking underscore. - 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. applying-patches.txt - description of various trees and how to apply their patches. arm/ - directory with info about Linux on the ARM architecture. arm64/ - directory with info about Linux on the 64 bit ARM architecture. assoc_array.txt - generic associative array intro. atomic_ops.txt - semantics and behavior of atomic and bitmask operations. auxdisplay/ - misc. LCD driver documentation (cfag12864b, ks0108). backlight/ - directory with info on controlling backlights in flat panel displays bad_memory.txt - how to use kernel parameters to exclude bad RAM regions. basic_profiling.txt - basic instructions for those who wants to profile Linux kernel. bcache.txt - Block-layer cache on fast SSDs to improve slow (raid) I/O performance. binfmt_misc.txt - info on the kernel support for extra binary formats. blackfin/ - directory with documentation for the Blackfin arch. block/ - info on the Block I/O (BIO) layer. blockdev/ - info on block devices & drivers braille-console.txt - info on how to use serial devices for Braille support. bt8xxgpio.txt - info on how to modify a bt8xx video card for GPIO usage. btmrvl.txt Loading @@ -114,18 +88,24 @@ cachetlb.txt - describes the cache/TLB flushing interfaces Linux uses. cdrom/ - directory with information on the CD-ROM drivers that Linux has. cgroups/ - cgroups features, including cpusets and memory controller. cgroup-v1/ - cgroups v1 features, including cpusets and memory controller. cgroup-v2.txt - cgroups v2 features, including cpusets and memory controller. circular-buffers.txt - how to make use of the existing circular buffer infrastructure clk.txt - info on the common clock framework coccinelle.txt - info on how to get and use the Coccinelle code checking tool. 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 Loading @@ -150,42 +130,42 @@ 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. development-process/ - how to work with the mainline kernel development process. dev-tools/ - directory with info on development tools for the kernel. device-mapper/ - directory with info on Device Mapper. devices.txt - plain ASCII listing of all the nodes in /dev/ with major minor #'s. 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. dvb/ - info on Linux Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) subsystem. dynamic-debug-howto.txt - how to use the dynamic debug (dyndbg) feature. early-userspace/ - info about initramfs, klibc, and userspace early during boot. edac.txt - information on EDAC - Error Detection And Correction 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. email-clients.txt - info on how to use e-mail to send un-mangled (git) patches. 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/ Loading @@ -194,20 +174,22 @@ flexible-arrays.txt - how to make use of flexible sized arrays in linux fmc/ - information about the FMC bus abstraction fpga/ - FPGA Manager Core. frv/ - Fujitsu FR-V Linux documentation. futex-requeue-pi.txt - info on requeueing of tasks from a non-PI futex to a PI futex gcov.txt - use of GCC's coverage testing tool "gcov" with the Linux kernel 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. hsi.txt - HSI subsystem overview. hwspinlock.txt - hardware spinlock provides hardware assistance for synchronization timers/ Loading @@ -218,18 +200,18 @@ hwmon/ - directory with docs on various hardware monitoring drivers. i2c/ - directory with info about the I2C bus/protocol (2 wire, kHz speed). i2o/ - directory with info about the Linux I2O subsystem. 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. init.txt - what to do when the kernel can't find the 1st process to run. initrd.txt - how to use the RAM disk as an initial/temporary root filesystem. input/ - info on Linux input device support. intel_txt.txt Loading @@ -248,28 +230,16 @@ isapnp.txt - info on Linux ISA Plug & Play support. isdn/ - directory with info on the Linux ISDN support, and supported cards. java.txt - info on the in-kernel binary support for Java(tm). ja_JP/ - directory with Japanese translations of various documents kbuild/ - directory with info about the kernel build process. kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt - outdated info about kernel-doc documentation. kdump/ - directory with mini HowTo on getting the crash dump code to work. kernel-docs.txt - listing of various WWW + books that document kernel internals. kernel-documentation.rst doc-guide/ - how to write and format reStructuredText kernel documentation kernel-parameters.txt - summary listing of command line / boot prompt args for the kernel. kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt - List of all per-CPU kthreads and how they introduce jitter. kmemcheck.txt - info on dynamic checker that detects uses of uninitialized memory. kmemleak.txt - info on how to make use of the kernel memory leak detection system ko_KR/ - directory with Korean translations of various documents kobject.txt - info of the kobject infrastructure of the Linux kernel. kprobes.txt Loading @@ -284,8 +254,8 @@ ldm.txt - a brief description of LDM (Windows Dynamic Disks). leds/ - directory with info about LED handling under Linux. local_ops.txt - semantics and behavior of local atomic operations. livepatch/ - info on kernel live patching. locking/ - directory with info about kernel locking primitives lockup-watchdogs.txt Loading @@ -298,22 +268,24 @@ lzo.txt - kernel LZO decompressor input formats m68k/ - directory with info about Linux on Motorola 68k architecture. magic-number.txt - list of magic numbers used to mark/protect kernel data structures. mailbox.txt - How to write drivers for the common mailbox framework (IPC). md.txt - info on boot arguments for the multiple devices driver. media-framework.txt - info on media framework, its data structures, functions and usage. md-cluster.txt - info on shared-device RAID MD cluster. 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. metag/ - directory with info about Linux on Meta architecture. mic/ - Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture device driver. mips/ - directory with info about Linux on MIPS architecture. misc-devices/ Loading @@ -322,12 +294,8 @@ mmc/ - directory with info about the MMC subsystem mn10300/ - directory with info about the mn10300 architecture port module-signing.txt - Kernel module signing for increased security when loading modules. mtd/ - directory with info about memory technology devices (flash) mono.txt - how to execute Mono-based .NET binaries with the help of BINFMT_MISC. namespaces/ - directory with various information about namespaces netlabel/ Loading @@ -336,30 +304,42 @@ 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. oops-tracing.txt - how to decode those nasty internal kernel error dump messages. 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.txt - how to use the parallel-port driver. 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/ Loading @@ -372,14 +352,16 @@ preempt-locking.txt - info on locking under a preemptive kernel. printk-formats.txt - how to get printk format specifiers right 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 ramoops.txt - documentation of the ramoops oops/panic logging module. rapidio/ - directory with info on RapidIO packet-based fabric interconnect rbtree.txt Loading @@ -406,8 +388,6 @@ security/ - directory that contains security-related info serial/ - directory with info on the low level serial API. serial-console.txt - how to set up Linux with a serial line console as the default. sgi-ioc4.txt - description of the SGI IOC4 PCI (multi function) device. sh/ Loading @@ -416,24 +396,20 @@ smsc_ece1099.txt -info on the smsc Keyboard Scan Expansion/GPIO Expansion device. sound/ - directory with info on sound card support. sparse.txt - info on how to obtain and use the sparse tool for typechecking. spi/ - overview of Linux kernel Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) support. stable_api_nonsense.txt - info on why the kernel does not have a stable in-kernel api or abi. stable_kernel_rules.txt - rules and procedures for the -stable kernel releases. 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. sysfs-rules.txt - How not to use sysfs. sync_file.txt - Sync file API guide. sysctl/ - directory with info on the /proc/sys/* files. sysrq.txt - info on the magic SysRq key. target/ - directory with info on generating TCM v4 fabric .ko modules this_cpu_ops.txt Loading @@ -442,39 +418,29 @@ 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. unicode.txt - info on the Unicode character/font mapping used in Linux. unshare.txt - description of the Linux unshare system call. usb/ - directory with info regarding the Universal Serial Bus. vDSO/ - directory with info regarding virtual dynamic shared objects vfio.txt - info on Virtual Function I/O used in guest/hypervisor instances. vgaarbiter.txt - info on enable/disable the legacy decoding on different VGA devices video-output.txt - sysfs class driver interface to enable/disable a video output device. video4linux/ - directory with info regarding video/TV/radio cards and linux. virtual/ - directory with information on the various linux virtualizations. vm/ - directory with info on the Linux vm code. vme_api.txt - file relating info on the VME bus API in linux volatile-considered-harmful.txt - Why the "volatile" type class should not be used 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 workqueue.txt 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. Loading @@ -484,7 +450,5 @@ xtensa/ - directory with documents relating to arch/xtensa port/implementation xz.txt - how to make use of the XZ data compression within linux kernel zh_CN/ - directory with Chinese translations of various documents zorro.txt - info on writing drivers for Zorro bus devices found on Amigas. Documentation/ABI/README +1 −1 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -84,4 +84,4 @@ stable: - Kernel-internal symbols. Do not rely on the presence, absence, location, or type of any kernel symbol, either in System.map files or the kernel binary itself. See Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt. itself. See Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst. Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices +14 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -8,3 +8,17 @@ Description: Any device associated with a device-tree node will have an of_path symlink pointing to the corresponding device node in /sys/firmware/devicetree/ What: /sys/devices/*/devspec Date: October 2016 Contact: Device Tree mailing list <devicetree@vger.kernel.org> Description: If CONFIG_OF is enabled, then this file is present. When read, it returns full name of the device node. What: /sys/devices/*/obppath Date: October 2016 Contact: Device Tree mailing list <devicetree@vger.kernel.org> Description: If CONFIG_OF is enabled, then this file is present. When read, it returns full name of the device node. Loading
.mailmap +4 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com> Rudolf Marek <R.Marek@sh.cvut.cz> Rui Saraiva <rmps@joel.ist.utl.pt> Sachin P Sant <ssant@in.ibm.com> Sarangdhar Joshi <spjoshi@codeaurora.org> Sam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org> Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org> Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.org> Loading @@ -150,10 +151,13 @@ Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org> <shuah.kh@samsung.com> Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk> Stéphane Witzmann <stephane.witzmann@ubpmes.univ-bpclermont.fr> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org> Subhash Jadavani <subhashj@codeaurora.org> Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> Sudeep KarkadaNagesha <sudeep.karkadanagesha@arm.com> Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@ti.com> Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Thomas Pedersen <twp@codeaurora.org> Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Tsuneo Yoshioka <Tsuneo.Yoshioka@f-secure.com> Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> Loading
CREDITS +8 −6 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Linus ---------- M: Matt Mackal N: Matt Mackal E: mpm@selenic.com D: SLOB slab allocator Loading Loading @@ -1910,7 +1910,7 @@ S: Ra'annana, Israel N: Andi Kleen E: andi@firstfloor.org U: http://www.halobates.de W: http://www.halobates.de D: network, x86, NUMA, various hacks S: Schwalbenstr. 96 S: 85551 Ottobrunn Loading Loading @@ -2089,8 +2089,8 @@ D: ST Microelectronics SPEAr13xx PCI host bridge driver D: Synopsys Designware PCI host bridge driver N: Gabor Kuti M: seasons@falcon.sch.bme.hu M: seasons@makosteszta.sote.hu E: seasons@falcon.sch.bme.hu E: seasons@makosteszta.sote.hu D: Original author of software suspend N: Jaroslav Kysela Loading Loading @@ -2775,6 +2775,10 @@ S: C/ Mieses 20, 9-B S: Valladolid 47009 S: Spain N: Peter Oruba D: AMD Microcode loader driver S: Germany N: Jens Osterkamp E: jens@de.ibm.com D: Maintainer of Spidernet network driver for Cell Loading Loading @@ -3945,8 +3949,6 @@ E: gwingerde@gmail.com D: Ralink rt2x00 WLAN driver D: Minix V2 file-system D: Misc fixes S: Geessinkweg 177 S: 7544 TX Enschede S: The Netherlands N: Lars Wirzenius Loading
Documentation/00-INDEX +85 −121 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -14,13 +14,8 @@ Following translations are available on the WWW: - this file. ABI/ - info on kernel <-> userspace ABI and relative interface stability. BUG-HUNTING - brute force method of doing binary search of patches to find bug. Changes - list of changes that break older software packages. CodingStyle - how the maintainers expect the C code in the kernel to look. - 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 Loading @@ -33,8 +28,6 @@ DocBook/ - directory with DocBook templates etc. for kernel documentation. EDID/ - directory with info on customizing EDID for broken gfx/displays. HOWTO - the process and procedures of how to do Linux kernel development. IPMI.txt - info on Linux Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Driver. IRQ-affinity.txt Loading @@ -46,62 +39,43 @@ IRQ.txt Intel-IOMMU.txt - basic info on the Intel IOMMU virtualization support. Makefile - This file does nothing. Removing it breaks make htmldocs and make distclean. ManagementStyle - how to (attempt to) manage kernel hackers. - It's not of interest for those who aren't touching the build system. Makefile.sphinx - 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 SecurityBugs - procedure for reporting security bugs found in the kernel. SubmitChecklist - Linux kernel patch submission checklist. SubmittingDrivers - procedure to get a new driver source included into the kernel tree. SubmittingPatches - procedure to get a source patch included into the kernel tree. VGA-softcursor.txt - how to change your VGA cursor from a blinking underscore. - 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. applying-patches.txt - description of various trees and how to apply their patches. arm/ - directory with info about Linux on the ARM architecture. arm64/ - directory with info about Linux on the 64 bit ARM architecture. assoc_array.txt - generic associative array intro. atomic_ops.txt - semantics and behavior of atomic and bitmask operations. auxdisplay/ - misc. LCD driver documentation (cfag12864b, ks0108). backlight/ - directory with info on controlling backlights in flat panel displays bad_memory.txt - how to use kernel parameters to exclude bad RAM regions. basic_profiling.txt - basic instructions for those who wants to profile Linux kernel. bcache.txt - Block-layer cache on fast SSDs to improve slow (raid) I/O performance. binfmt_misc.txt - info on the kernel support for extra binary formats. blackfin/ - directory with documentation for the Blackfin arch. block/ - info on the Block I/O (BIO) layer. blockdev/ - info on block devices & drivers braille-console.txt - info on how to use serial devices for Braille support. bt8xxgpio.txt - info on how to modify a bt8xx video card for GPIO usage. btmrvl.txt Loading @@ -114,18 +88,24 @@ cachetlb.txt - describes the cache/TLB flushing interfaces Linux uses. cdrom/ - directory with information on the CD-ROM drivers that Linux has. cgroups/ - cgroups features, including cpusets and memory controller. cgroup-v1/ - cgroups v1 features, including cpusets and memory controller. cgroup-v2.txt - cgroups v2 features, including cpusets and memory controller. circular-buffers.txt - how to make use of the existing circular buffer infrastructure clk.txt - info on the common clock framework coccinelle.txt - info on how to get and use the Coccinelle code checking tool. 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 Loading @@ -150,42 +130,42 @@ 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. development-process/ - how to work with the mainline kernel development process. dev-tools/ - directory with info on development tools for the kernel. device-mapper/ - directory with info on Device Mapper. devices.txt - plain ASCII listing of all the nodes in /dev/ with major minor #'s. 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. dvb/ - info on Linux Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) subsystem. dynamic-debug-howto.txt - how to use the dynamic debug (dyndbg) feature. early-userspace/ - info about initramfs, klibc, and userspace early during boot. edac.txt - information on EDAC - Error Detection And Correction 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. email-clients.txt - info on how to use e-mail to send un-mangled (git) patches. 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/ Loading @@ -194,20 +174,22 @@ flexible-arrays.txt - how to make use of flexible sized arrays in linux fmc/ - information about the FMC bus abstraction fpga/ - FPGA Manager Core. frv/ - Fujitsu FR-V Linux documentation. futex-requeue-pi.txt - info on requeueing of tasks from a non-PI futex to a PI futex gcov.txt - use of GCC's coverage testing tool "gcov" with the Linux kernel 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. hsi.txt - HSI subsystem overview. hwspinlock.txt - hardware spinlock provides hardware assistance for synchronization timers/ Loading @@ -218,18 +200,18 @@ hwmon/ - directory with docs on various hardware monitoring drivers. i2c/ - directory with info about the I2C bus/protocol (2 wire, kHz speed). i2o/ - directory with info about the Linux I2O subsystem. 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. init.txt - what to do when the kernel can't find the 1st process to run. initrd.txt - how to use the RAM disk as an initial/temporary root filesystem. input/ - info on Linux input device support. intel_txt.txt Loading @@ -248,28 +230,16 @@ isapnp.txt - info on Linux ISA Plug & Play support. isdn/ - directory with info on the Linux ISDN support, and supported cards. java.txt - info on the in-kernel binary support for Java(tm). ja_JP/ - directory with Japanese translations of various documents kbuild/ - directory with info about the kernel build process. kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt - outdated info about kernel-doc documentation. kdump/ - directory with mini HowTo on getting the crash dump code to work. kernel-docs.txt - listing of various WWW + books that document kernel internals. kernel-documentation.rst doc-guide/ - how to write and format reStructuredText kernel documentation kernel-parameters.txt - summary listing of command line / boot prompt args for the kernel. kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt - List of all per-CPU kthreads and how they introduce jitter. kmemcheck.txt - info on dynamic checker that detects uses of uninitialized memory. kmemleak.txt - info on how to make use of the kernel memory leak detection system ko_KR/ - directory with Korean translations of various documents kobject.txt - info of the kobject infrastructure of the Linux kernel. kprobes.txt Loading @@ -284,8 +254,8 @@ ldm.txt - a brief description of LDM (Windows Dynamic Disks). leds/ - directory with info about LED handling under Linux. local_ops.txt - semantics and behavior of local atomic operations. livepatch/ - info on kernel live patching. locking/ - directory with info about kernel locking primitives lockup-watchdogs.txt Loading @@ -298,22 +268,24 @@ lzo.txt - kernel LZO decompressor input formats m68k/ - directory with info about Linux on Motorola 68k architecture. magic-number.txt - list of magic numbers used to mark/protect kernel data structures. mailbox.txt - How to write drivers for the common mailbox framework (IPC). md.txt - info on boot arguments for the multiple devices driver. media-framework.txt - info on media framework, its data structures, functions and usage. md-cluster.txt - info on shared-device RAID MD cluster. 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. metag/ - directory with info about Linux on Meta architecture. mic/ - Intel Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture device driver. mips/ - directory with info about Linux on MIPS architecture. misc-devices/ Loading @@ -322,12 +294,8 @@ mmc/ - directory with info about the MMC subsystem mn10300/ - directory with info about the mn10300 architecture port module-signing.txt - Kernel module signing for increased security when loading modules. mtd/ - directory with info about memory technology devices (flash) mono.txt - how to execute Mono-based .NET binaries with the help of BINFMT_MISC. namespaces/ - directory with various information about namespaces netlabel/ Loading @@ -336,30 +304,42 @@ 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. oops-tracing.txt - how to decode those nasty internal kernel error dump messages. 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.txt - how to use the parallel-port driver. 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/ Loading @@ -372,14 +352,16 @@ preempt-locking.txt - info on locking under a preemptive kernel. printk-formats.txt - how to get printk format specifiers right 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 ramoops.txt - documentation of the ramoops oops/panic logging module. rapidio/ - directory with info on RapidIO packet-based fabric interconnect rbtree.txt Loading @@ -406,8 +388,6 @@ security/ - directory that contains security-related info serial/ - directory with info on the low level serial API. serial-console.txt - how to set up Linux with a serial line console as the default. sgi-ioc4.txt - description of the SGI IOC4 PCI (multi function) device. sh/ Loading @@ -416,24 +396,20 @@ smsc_ece1099.txt -info on the smsc Keyboard Scan Expansion/GPIO Expansion device. sound/ - directory with info on sound card support. sparse.txt - info on how to obtain and use the sparse tool for typechecking. spi/ - overview of Linux kernel Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) support. stable_api_nonsense.txt - info on why the kernel does not have a stable in-kernel api or abi. stable_kernel_rules.txt - rules and procedures for the -stable kernel releases. 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. sysfs-rules.txt - How not to use sysfs. sync_file.txt - Sync file API guide. sysctl/ - directory with info on the /proc/sys/* files. sysrq.txt - info on the magic SysRq key. target/ - directory with info on generating TCM v4 fabric .ko modules this_cpu_ops.txt Loading @@ -442,39 +418,29 @@ 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. unicode.txt - info on the Unicode character/font mapping used in Linux. unshare.txt - description of the Linux unshare system call. usb/ - directory with info regarding the Universal Serial Bus. vDSO/ - directory with info regarding virtual dynamic shared objects vfio.txt - info on Virtual Function I/O used in guest/hypervisor instances. vgaarbiter.txt - info on enable/disable the legacy decoding on different VGA devices video-output.txt - sysfs class driver interface to enable/disable a video output device. video4linux/ - directory with info regarding video/TV/radio cards and linux. virtual/ - directory with information on the various linux virtualizations. vm/ - directory with info on the Linux vm code. vme_api.txt - file relating info on the VME bus API in linux volatile-considered-harmful.txt - Why the "volatile" type class should not be used 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 workqueue.txt 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. Loading @@ -484,7 +450,5 @@ xtensa/ - directory with documents relating to arch/xtensa port/implementation xz.txt - how to make use of the XZ data compression within linux kernel zh_CN/ - directory with Chinese translations of various documents zorro.txt - info on writing drivers for Zorro bus devices found on Amigas.
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Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices +14 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -8,3 +8,17 @@ Description: Any device associated with a device-tree node will have an of_path symlink pointing to the corresponding device node in /sys/firmware/devicetree/ What: /sys/devices/*/devspec Date: October 2016 Contact: Device Tree mailing list <devicetree@vger.kernel.org> Description: If CONFIG_OF is enabled, then this file is present. When read, it returns full name of the device node. What: /sys/devices/*/obppath Date: October 2016 Contact: Device Tree mailing list <devicetree@vger.kernel.org> Description: If CONFIG_OF is enabled, then this file is present. When read, it returns full name of the device node.
