Loading .gitignore +1 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ modules.builtin *.gz *.bz2 *.lzma *.xz *.lzo *.patch *.gcno Loading .mailmap +6 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -20,9 +20,11 @@ Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@de.ibm.com> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com> Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu> Archit Taneja <archit@ti.com> Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Axel Dyks <xl@xlsigned.net> Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com> Ben M Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com> Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> Loading Loading @@ -69,6 +71,7 @@ Leonid I Ananiev <leonid.i.ananiev@intel.com> Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr> Mayuresh Janorkar <mayur@ti.com> Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de> Michel Dänzer <michel@tungstengraphics.com> Loading @@ -77,6 +80,7 @@ Morten Welinder <terra@gnome.org> Morten Welinder <welinder@anemone.rentec.com> Morten Welinder <welinder@darter.rentec.com> Morten Welinder <welinder@troll.com> Mythri P K <mythripk@ti.com> Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com> Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Loading @@ -97,6 +101,7 @@ S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@pardus.org.tr> Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk> Stéphane Witzmann <stephane.witzmann@ubpmes.univ-bpclermont.fr> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@ti.com> Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Loading @@ -105,3 +110,4 @@ Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> Uwe Kleine-König <ukl@pengutronix.de> Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Takashi YOSHII <takashi.yoshii.zj@renesas.com> CREDITS +5 −7 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -1677,7 +1677,7 @@ W: http://www.codemonkey.org.uk D: Assorted VIA x86 support. D: 2.5 AGPGART overhaul. D: CPUFREQ maintenance. D: Fedora kernel maintainence. D: Fedora kernel maintenance. D: Misc/Other. S: 314 Littleton Rd, Westford, MA 01886, USA Loading Loading @@ -2365,8 +2365,6 @@ E: acme@redhat.com W: http://oops.ghostprotocols.net:81/blog/ P: 1024D/9224DF01 D5DF E3BB E3C8 BCBB F8AD 841A B6AB 4681 9224 DF01 D: IPX, LLC, DCCP, cyc2x, wl3501_cs, net/ hacks S: R. Brasílio Itiberê, 4270/1010 - Água Verde S: 80240-060 - Curitiba - Paraná S: Brazil N: Karsten Merker Loading Loading @@ -2813,8 +2811,8 @@ D: CDROM driver "sonycd535" (Sony CDU-535/531) N: Stelian Pop E: stelian@popies.net P: 1024D/EDBB6147 7B36 0E07 04BC 11DC A7A0 D3F7 7185 9E7A EDBB 6147 D: sonypi, meye drivers, mct_u232 usb serial hacks S: Paris, France D: random kernel hacks S: Paimpont, France N: Pete Popov E: pete_popov@yahoo.com Loading Loading @@ -3213,7 +3211,7 @@ N: James Simmons E: jsimmons@infradead.org E: jsimmons@users.sf.net D: Frame buffer device maintainer D: input layer developement D: input layer development D: tty/console layer D: various mipsel devices S: 115 Carmel Avenue Loading Loading @@ -3292,7 +3290,7 @@ S: USA N: Manfred Spraul E: manfred@colorfullife.com W: http://www.colorfullife.com/~manfred D: Lots of tiny hacks. Larger improvments to SysV IPC msg, D: Lots of tiny hacks. Larger improvements to SysV IPC msg, D: slab, pipe, select. S: 71701 Schwieberdingen S: Germany Loading Documentation/00-INDEX +2 −6 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -206,8 +206,8 @@ laptops/ - directory with laptop related info and laptop driver documentation. ldm.txt - a brief description of LDM (Windows Dynamic Disks). leds-class.txt - documents LED handling under Linux. leds/ - directory with info about LED handling under Linux. local_ops.txt - semantics and behavior of local atomic operations. lockdep-design.txt Loading Loading @@ -328,8 +328,6 @@ sysrq.txt - info on the magic SysRq key. telephony/ - directory with info on telephony (e.g. voice over IP) support. time_interpolators.txt - info on time interpolators. uml/ - directory with information about User Mode Linux. unicode.txt Loading @@ -346,8 +344,6 @@ vm/ - directory with info on the Linux vm code. volatile-considered-harmful.txt - Why the "volatile" type class should not be used voyager.txt - guide to running Linux on the Voyager architecture. w1/ - directory with documents regarding the 1-wire (w1) subsystem. watchdog/ Loading Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-backlight +20 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -34,3 +34,23 @@ Contact: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Description: Maximum brightness for <backlight>. Users: HAL What: /sys/class/backlight/<backlight>/type Date: September 2010 KernelVersion: 2.6.37 Contact: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Description: The type of interface controlled by <backlight>. "firmware": The driver uses a standard firmware interface "platform": The driver uses a platform-specific interface "raw": The driver controls hardware registers directly In the general case, when multiple backlight interfaces are available for a single device, firmware control should be preferred to platform control should be preferred to raw control. Using a firmware interface reduces the probability of confusion with the hardware and the OS independently updating the backlight state. Platform interfaces are mostly a holdover from pre-standardisation of firmware interfaces. Loading
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.mailmap +6 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -20,9 +20,11 @@ Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@de.ibm.com> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com> Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu> Archit Taneja <archit@ti.com> Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Axel Dyks <xl@xlsigned.net> Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com> Ben M Cahill <ben.m.cahill@intel.com> Björn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de> Loading Loading @@ -69,6 +71,7 @@ Leonid I Ananiev <leonid.i.ananiev@intel.com> Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk> Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr> Mayuresh Janorkar <mayur@ti.com> Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de> Michel Dänzer <michel@tungstengraphics.com> Loading @@ -77,6 +80,7 @@ Morten Welinder <terra@gnome.org> Morten Welinder <welinder@anemone.rentec.com> Morten Welinder <welinder@darter.rentec.com> Morten Welinder <welinder@troll.com> Mythri P K <mythripk@ti.com> Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com> Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Loading @@ -97,6 +101,7 @@ S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@pardus.org.tr> Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk> Stéphane Witzmann <stephane.witzmann@ubpmes.univ-bpclermont.fr> Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@ti.com> Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Loading @@ -105,3 +110,4 @@ Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> Uwe Kleine-König <ukl@pengutronix.de> Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Takashi YOSHII <takashi.yoshii.zj@renesas.com>
CREDITS +5 −7 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -1677,7 +1677,7 @@ W: http://www.codemonkey.org.uk D: Assorted VIA x86 support. D: 2.5 AGPGART overhaul. D: CPUFREQ maintenance. D: Fedora kernel maintainence. D: Fedora kernel maintenance. D: Misc/Other. S: 314 Littleton Rd, Westford, MA 01886, USA Loading Loading @@ -2365,8 +2365,6 @@ E: acme@redhat.com W: http://oops.ghostprotocols.net:81/blog/ P: 1024D/9224DF01 D5DF E3BB E3C8 BCBB F8AD 841A B6AB 4681 9224 DF01 D: IPX, LLC, DCCP, cyc2x, wl3501_cs, net/ hacks S: R. Brasílio Itiberê, 4270/1010 - Água Verde S: 80240-060 - Curitiba - Paraná S: Brazil N: Karsten Merker Loading Loading @@ -2813,8 +2811,8 @@ D: CDROM driver "sonycd535" (Sony CDU-535/531) N: Stelian Pop E: stelian@popies.net P: 1024D/EDBB6147 7B36 0E07 04BC 11DC A7A0 D3F7 7185 9E7A EDBB 6147 D: sonypi, meye drivers, mct_u232 usb serial hacks S: Paris, France D: random kernel hacks S: Paimpont, France N: Pete Popov E: pete_popov@yahoo.com Loading Loading @@ -3213,7 +3211,7 @@ N: James Simmons E: jsimmons@infradead.org E: jsimmons@users.sf.net D: Frame buffer device maintainer D: input layer developement D: input layer development D: tty/console layer D: various mipsel devices S: 115 Carmel Avenue Loading Loading @@ -3292,7 +3290,7 @@ S: USA N: Manfred Spraul E: manfred@colorfullife.com W: http://www.colorfullife.com/~manfred D: Lots of tiny hacks. Larger improvments to SysV IPC msg, D: Lots of tiny hacks. Larger improvements to SysV IPC msg, D: slab, pipe, select. S: 71701 Schwieberdingen S: Germany Loading
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