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Commit f1dccedc authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

parents c943aa85 0238cb4e

Documentation/SubmittingDrivers

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	http://kernelnewbies.org/



Linux USB project:

	http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/

	http://www.linux-usb.org/



How to NOT write kernel driver by arjanv@redhat.com

	http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/olspaper.pdf

Documentation/SubmittingPatches

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Jeff Garzik, "Linux kernel patch submission format."

  <http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html>



Greg Kroah, "How to piss off a kernel subsystem maintainer".

Greg Kroah-Hartman "How to piss off a kernel subsystem maintainer".

  <http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/03/31/>

  <http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/07/08/>

  <http://www.kroah.com/log/2005/10/19/>

  <http://www.kroah.com/log/2006/01/11/>



NO!!!! No more huge patch bombs to linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org people!.

  <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112112749912944&w=2>

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

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---------------------------



What:	CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING

When:	June 2006

Why:	Config option is there to see if gcc is good enough. (in january

        2006). If it is, the behavior should just be the default. If it's not,

	the option should just go away entirely.

Who:    Arjan van de Ven



---------------------------



What:	START_ARRAY ioctl for md

When:	July 2006

Files:	drivers/md/md.c

Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.txt

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that instance in a system with many cpus making intensive use of it.





tmpfs has a mount option to set the NUMA memory allocation policy for

all files in that instance:

mpol=interleave		prefers to allocate memory from each node in turn

mpol=default		prefers to allocate memory from the local node

mpol=bind		prefers to allocate from mpol_nodelist

mpol=preferred		prefers to allocate from first node in mpol_nodelist



The following mount option is used in conjunction with mpol=interleave,

mpol=bind or mpol=preferred:

mpol_nodelist:	nodelist suitable for parsing with nodelist_parse.





To specify the initial root directory you can use the following mount

options:

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

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			arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c.



	elevator=	[IOSCHED]

			Format: {"as" | "cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}

			Format: {"anticipatory" | "cfq" | "deadline" | "noop"}

			See Documentation/block/as-iosched.txt and

			Documentation/block/deadline-iosched.txt for details.
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	load_ramdisk=	[RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy

			See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.



	lockd.udpport=	[NFS]

	lockd.nlm_grace_period=P  [NFS] Assign grace period.

			Format: <integer>



	lockd.nlm_tcpport=N	[NFS] Assign TCP port.

			Format: <integer>



	lockd.tcpport=	[NFS]

	lockd.nlm_timeout=T	[NFS] Assign timeout value.

			Format: <integer>



	lockd.nlm_udpport=M	[NFS] Assign UDP port.

			Format: <integer>



	logibm.irq=	[HW,MOUSE] Logitech Bus Mouse Driver

			Format: <irq>