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Author SHA1 Message Date
Rodolfo Giometti
eae9d2ba0c LinuxPPS: core support
This patch adds the kernel side of the PPS support currently named
"LinuxPPS".

PPS means "pulse per second" and a PPS source is just a device which
provides a high precision signal each second so that an application can
use it to adjust system clock time.

Common use is the combination of the NTPD as userland program with a GPS
receiver as PPS source to obtain a wallclock-time with sub-millisecond
synchronisation to UTC.

To obtain this goal the userland programs shoud use the PPS API
specification (RFC 2783 - Pulse-Per-Second API for UNIX-like Operating
Systems, Version 1.0) which in part is implemented by this patch.  It
provides a set of chars devices, one per PPS source, which can be used to
get the time signal.  The RFC's functions can be implemented by accessing
to these char devices.

Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
42d12f5aa1 V4L/DVB (10870a): remove all references for video_decoder.h
changeset 04934e44e3784a1b969582e2d59afcec278470c6 removed the last implementation
that were still using the V4L1 obsoleted header.
Now, video_decoder.h is not used anymore by any driver.

Let's remove it and all references for it in Kernel.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-03-30 12:43:15 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
cc1139c7cd V4L/DVB(10738a): remove include/linux/video_encoder.h
include/linux/video_encoder.h is not used anymore by a v4l driver.
Let's remove it and its occurences.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-03-30 12:42:59 -03:00
Randy Dunlap
07983f0e36 documentation: update header file paths
Update several Documentation/ files and a few sub-dir files (only one
change in each) to reflect changed header files locations.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-06 15:59:28 -08:00
Artem Bityutskiy
8e26e1d7bc UBI: document UBI ioctls
Update the ioctl-numbers.txt file, add UBI and DVB there
(because they use the same ioctl numbers).

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-12-09 15:59:07 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
31c00fc15e Create/use more directory structure in the Documentation/ tree.
Create Documentation/blockdev/ sub-directory and populate it.
Populate the Documentation/serial/ sub-directory.
Move MSI-HOWTO.txt to Documentation/PCI/.
Move ioctl-number.txt to Documentation/ioctl/.
Update all relevant 00-INDEX files.
Update all relevant Kconfig files and source files.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2008-11-14 17:28:53 +00:00
Márton Németh
d0eb40628e cdrom: update ioctl documentation
Correct copy-paste problem: CDROMCLOSETRAY is about closing the tray,
not opening it.

Signed-off-by: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-09-27 19:32:17 +02:00
Matt LaPlante
d91958815d Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar corrections.
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-26 12:00:06 -07:00
Elias Oltmanns
64a8f00ff1 IDE: Report errors during drive reset back to user space
Make sure that each error condition during the execution of an
HDIO_DRIVE_RESET ioctl is actually reported to the calling process.
Also, unify the exit path of reset_pollfunc() when returning ide_stopped
since the need of ->port_ops->reset_poll() to be treated specially has
vanished (way back, it seems).

Signed-off-by: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
Cc: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-07-16 20:33:48 +02:00
Elias Oltmanns
bb7ee9b1ec Update documentation of HDIO_DRIVE_RESET ioctl
Alter the entry for HDIO_DRIVE_RESET in Documentation/ioctl/hdio.txt to
reflect a functional change in the driver.  Besides, the entry has been
inaccurate before.

Signed-off-by: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
Cc: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-07-16 20:33:48 +02:00
Chuck Ebbert
cf1b939e41 [PATCH] Document how to decode an IOCTL number
Document how to decode a binary IOCTL number.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 09:55:40 -08:00
Matt LaPlante
4ae0edc21b Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z'
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
+words starting with the letters 'U-Z'.

Looks like I made it through the alphabet...just in time to start over again
+too!  Maybe I can fit more profound fixes into the next round...?  Time will
+tell. :)

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
Matt LaPlante
84eb8d0608 Fix "can not" in Documentation and Kconfig
Randy brought it to my attention that in proper english "can not" should always
be written "cannot". I donot see any reason to argue, even if I mightnot
understand why this rule exists.  This patch fixes "can not" in several
Documentation files as well as three Kconfigs.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:53:09 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
575c968718 spelling: s/appropiate/appropriate/
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-15 02:00:17 +01:00
Tobias Klauser
d533f67185 [PATCH] Spelling fixes for Documentation/
The attached patch fixes the following spelling errors in Documentation/
        - double "the"
        - Several misspellings of function/functionality
        - infomation
        - memeory
        - Recieved
        - wether
and possibly others which I forgot ;-)
Trailing whitespaces on the same line as the typo are also deleted.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10 10:06:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00