kernel.git/Documentation/ABI/stable, branch linux-3.3.y

Merge branch 'stable/docs-for-3.3' into stable/for-linus-3.3

2011-11-21T22:10:54Z

* stable/docs-for-3.3: xen: document backend sysfs files xen: document balloon driver sysfs files

xen: document backend sysfs files

2011-11-11T20:37:29Z

Add ABI documentation for the /sys/bus/xen-backend sysfs files, including those specific to blkback devices. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

xen: document balloon driver sysfs files

2011-11-09T21:00:46Z

Add ABI documentation for the balloon driver's sysfs files. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper [v2: Added comments from Daniel] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk

ACPI: Export FADT pm_profile integer value to userspace

2011-11-07T01:48:42Z

There are a lot userspace approaches to detect the usage of the platform (laptop, workstation, server, ...) and adjust kernel tunables accordingly (io/process scheduler, power management, ...). These approaches need constant maintaining and are ugly to implement (detect PCMCIA controller -> laptop, does not work on recent systems anymore, ...) On ACPI systems there is an easy and reliable way (if implemented in BIOS and most recent platforms have this value set). -> export it to userspace. Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Len Brown

Merge branch 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2011-07-23T00:05:15Z

* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86-64, vdso: Do not allocate memory for the vDSO clocksource: Change __ARCH_HAS_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA to a CONFIG option x86, vdso: Drop now wrong comment Document the vDSO and add a reference parser ia64: Replace clocksource.fsys_mmio with generic arch data x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO clocksource: Replace vread with generic arch data x86-64: Add --no-undefined to vDSO build x86-64: Allow alternative patching in the vDSO x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative x86-64: Improve vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls x86-64: Fill unused parts of the vsyscall page with 0xcc x86-64: Remove vsyscall number 3 (venosys) x86-64: Map the HPET NX x86-64: Remove kernel.vsyscall64 sysctl x86-64: Give vvars their own page x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable

firewire: document the sysfs ABIs

2011-07-16T05:24:33Z

of firewire-core and firewire-sbp2. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

firewire: cdev: ABI documentation enhancements

2011-07-16T05:24:32Z

Add overview documentation in Documentation/ABI/stable/firewire-cdev. Improve the inline reference documentation in firewire-cdev.h: - Add /* available since kernel... */ comments to event numbers consistent with the comments on ioctl numbers. - Shorten some documentation on an event and an ioctl that are less interesting to current programming because there are newer preferable variants. - Spell Configuration ROM (name of an IEEE 1212 register) in upper case. - Move the dummy FW_CDEV_VERSION out of the reader's field of vision. We should remove it from the header next year or so. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter

Document the vDSO and add a reference parser

2011-07-15T00:57:09Z

It turns out that parsing the vDSO is nontrivial if you don't already have an ELF dynamic loader around. So document it in Documentation/ABI and add a reference CC0-licenced parser. This code is dedicated to Go issue 1933: http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=1933 Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a315a9514cd71bcf29436cc31e35aada21a5ff21.1310563276.git.luto@mit.edu Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

backlight: add backlight type

2011-03-23T00:43:59Z

There may be multiple ways of controlling the backlight on a given machine. Allow drivers to expose the type of interface they are providing, making it possible for userspace to make appropriate policy decisions. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett Cc: Richard Purdie Cc: Chris Wilson Cc: David Airlie Cc: Alex Deucher Cc: Ben Skeggs Cc: Zhang Rui Cc: Len Brown Cc: Jesse Barnes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

efivars: Add Documentation

2011-03-14T15:40:51Z

This patch documents the interface exposed by the 'efivars' module. Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison Cc: Matt Domsch , Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman