Merge branch 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into next

Author: James Morris

Documentation/DocBook/genericirq.tmpl

@@ -440,6 +440,7 @@ desc->chip->end();
      used in the generic IRQ layer.
      </para>
 !Iinclude/linux/irq.h
+!Iinclude/linux/interrupt.h
   </chapter>
 
   <chapter id="pubfunctions">

Documentation/DocBook/mac80211.tmpl

@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@
     </authorgroup>
 
     <copyright>
-      <year>2007</year>
-      <year>2008</year>
+      <year>2007-2009</year>
       <holder>Johannes Berg</holder>
     </copyright>
 
@@ -165,8 +164,8 @@ usage should require reading the full document.
 !Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Frame format
       </sect1>
       <sect1>
-        <title>Alignment issues</title>
-        <para>TBD</para>
+        <title>Packet alignment</title>
+!Pnet/mac80211/rx.c Packet alignment
       </sect1>
       <sect1>
         <title>Calling into mac80211 from interrupts</title>
@@ -223,6 +222,17 @@ usage should require reading the full document.
 !Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_key_flags
     </chapter>
 
+    <chapter id="powersave">
+      <title>Powersave support</title>
+!Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Powersave support
+    </chapter>
+
+    <chapter id="beacon-filter">
+      <title>Beacon filter support</title>
+!Pinclude/net/mac80211.h Beacon filter support
+!Finclude/net/mac80211.h ieee80211_beacon_loss
+    </chapter>
+
     <chapter id="qos">
       <title>Multiple queues and QoS support</title>
       <para>TBD</para>

Documentation/block/switching-sched.txt

@@ -35,9 +35,3 @@ noop anticipatory deadline [cfq]
 # echo anticipatory > /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler
 # cat /sys/block/hda/queue/scheduler
 noop [anticipatory] deadline cfq
-
-Each io queue has a set of io scheduler tunables associated with it. These
-tunables control how the io scheduler works. You can find these entries
-in:
-
-/sys/block/<device>/queue/iosched

Documentation/dontdiff

@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ aic7*reg_print.c*
 aic7*seq.h*
 aicasm
 aicdb.h*
-asm
 asm-offsets.h
 asm_offsets.h
 autoconf.h*

Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

@@ -6,20 +6,47 @@ be removed from this file.
 
 ---------------------------
 
-What:	old static regulatory information and ieee80211_regdom module parameter
-When:	2.6.29
+What:	The ieee80211_regdom module parameter
+When:	March 2010 / desktop catchup
+
+Why:	This was inherited by the CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY code,
+	and currently serves as an option for users to define an
+	ISO / IEC 3166 alpha2 code for the country they are currently
+	present in. Although there are userspace API replacements for this
+	through nl80211 distributions haven't yet caught up with implementing
+	decent alternatives through standard GUIs. Although available as an
+	option through iw or wpa_supplicant its just a matter of time before
+	distributions pick up good GUI options for this. The ideal solution
+	would actually consist of intelligent designs which would do this for
+	the user automatically even when travelling through different countries.
+	Until then we leave this module parameter as a compromise.
+
+	When userspace improves with reasonable widely-available alternatives for
+	this we will no longer need this module parameter. This entry hopes that
+	by the super-futuristically looking date of "March 2010" we will have
+	such replacements widely available.
+
+Who:	Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What:	CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY - old static regulatory information
+When:	March 2010 / desktop catchup
+
 Why:	The old regulatory infrastructure has been replaced with a new one
 	which does not require statically defined regulatory domains. We do
 	not want to keep static regulatory domains in the kernel due to the
 	the dynamic nature of regulatory law and localization. We kept around
 	the old static definitions for the regulatory domains of:
+
 		* US
 		* JP
 		* EU
+
 	and used by default the US when CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY was
-	set. We also kept around the ieee80211_regdom module parameter in case
-	some applications were relying on it. Changing regulatory domains
-	can now be done instead by using nl80211, as is done with iw.
+	set. We will remove this option once the standard Linux desktop catches
+	up with the new userspace APIs we have implemented.
+
 Who:	Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
 
 ---------------------------
@@ -229,7 +256,9 @@ Who:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
 ---------------------------
 
 What:	b43 support for firmware revision < 410
-When:	July 2008
+When:	The schedule was July 2008, but it was decided that we are going to keep the
+        code as long as there are no major maintanance headaches.
+	So it _could_ be removed _any_ time now, if it conflicts with something new.
 Why:	The support code for the old firmware hurts code readability/maintainability
 	and slightly hurts runtime performance. Bugfixes for the old firmware
 	are not provided by Broadcom anymore.
@@ -344,3 +373,20 @@ Why:	See commits 129f8ae9b1b5be94517da76009ea956e89104ce8 and
 	Removal is subject to fixing any remaining bugs in ACPI which may
 	cause the thermal throttling not to happen at the right time.
 Who:	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
+
+-----------------------------
+
+What:	__do_IRQ all in one fits nothing interrupt handler
+When:	2.6.32
+Why:	__do_IRQ was kept for easy migration to the type flow handlers.
+	More than two years of migration time is enough.
+Who:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
+
+-----------------------------
+
+What:	obsolete generic irq defines and typedefs
+When:	2.6.30
+Why:	The defines and typedefs (hw_interrupt_type, no_irq_type, irq_desc_t)
+	have been kept around for migration reasons. After more than two years
+	it's time to remove them finally
+Who:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

Documentation/filesystems/Locking

@@ -437,8 +437,11 @@ grab BKL for cases when we close a file that had been opened r/w, but that
 can and should be done using the internal locking with smaller critical areas).
 Current worst offender is ext2_get_block()...
 
-->fasync() is a mess. This area needs a big cleanup and that will probably
-affect locking.
+->fasync() is called without BKL protection, and is responsible for
+maintaining the FASYNC bit in filp->f_flags.  Most instances call
+fasync_helper(), which does that maintenance, so it's not normally
+something one needs to worry about.  Return values > 0 will be mapped to
+zero in the VFS layer.
 
 ->readdir() and ->ioctl() on directories must be changed. Ideally we would
 move ->readdir() to inode_operations and use a separate method for directory

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -493,10 +493,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			Default: 64
 
 	hpet=		[X86-32,HPET] option to control HPET usage
-			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force }
+			Format: { enable (default) | disable | force |
+				verbose }
 			disable: disable HPET and use PIT instead
 			force: allow force enabled of undocumented chips (ICH4,
 			VIA, nVidia)
+			verbose: show contents of HPET registers during setup
 
 	com20020=	[HW,NET] ARCnet - COM20020 chipset
 			Format:
@@ -830,6 +832,9 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
 	hvc_iucv=	[S390] Number of z/VM IUCV hypervisor console (HVC)
 			       terminal devices. Valid values: 0..8
+	hvc_iucv_allow=	[S390] Comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
+			       If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
+			       from listed z/VM user IDs only.
 
 	i8042.debug	[HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
 	i8042.direct	[HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode

Documentation/networking/dccp.txt

@@ -141,7 +141,8 @@ rx_ccid = 2
 	Default CCID for the receiver-sender half-connection; see tx_ccid.
 
 seq_window = 100
-	The initial sequence window (sec. 7.5.2).
+	The initial sequence window (sec. 7.5.2) of the sender. This influences
+	the local ackno validity and the remote seqno validity windows (7.5.1).
 
 tx_qlen = 5
 	The size of the transmit buffer in packets. A value of 0 corresponds