This patch introduces the CAIF SPI Protocol Driver for
CAIF Link Layer.
This driver implements a platform driver to accommodate for a
platform specific SPI device. A general platform driver is not
possible as there are no SPI Slave side Kernel API defined.
A sample CAIF SPI Platform device can be found in
.../Documentation/networking/caif/spi_porting.txt
Signed-off-by: Sjur Braendeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT has been deprecated for awhile and
was originally scheduled for removal by 2.6.29.
Removing support for this config option also stops
this deprecation warning message in the kernel log.
[ 61.669627] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536 max)
[ 61.669850] CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT is deprecated and will be removed soon. Please use
[ 61.669852] nf_conntrack.acct=1 kernel parameter, acct=1 nf_conntrack module option or
[ 61.669853] sysctl net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct=1 to enable it.
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
[Patrick: changed default value to 0]
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/21367
Enable LED by default and update the MODULE_PARM_DESC. The original
reason for defaulting to disabled was documented in 2005 and noted, "The
LED code has been reported to hang some systems when running ifconfig
and is therefore disabled by default." This no longer appears
applicable and users have been requesting this be enabled for several
years.
Signed-off-by: TJ <ubuntu@tjworld.net>
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch increases the granularity of the rate generated by pktgen.
The previous version of pktgen uses micro seconds (udelay) resolution when it
was delayed causing gaps in the rates. It is changed to nanosecond (ndelay).
Now any rate is possible.
Also it allows to set, the desired rate in Mb/s or packets per second.
The documentation has been updated.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Turull <daniel.turull@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
v2: changed bonding module version, modified to apply on top of changes
from previous patch in series, and updated documentation to elaborate on
multiqueue awareness that now exists in bonding driver.
This patch give the user the ability to control the output slave for
round-robin and active-backup bonding. Similar functionality was
discussed in the past, but Jay Vosburgh indicated he would rather see a
feature like this added to existing modes rather than creating a
completely new mode. Jay's thoughts as well as Neil's input surrounding
some of the issues with the first implementation pushed us toward a
design that relied on the queue_mapping rather than skb marks.
Round-robin and active-backup modes were chosen as the first users of
this slave selection as they seemed like the most logical choices when
considering a multi-switch environment.
Round-robin mode works without any modification, but active-backup does
require inclusion of the first patch in this series and setting
the 'all_slaves_active' flag. This will allow reception of unicast traffic on
any of the backup interfaces.
This was tested with IPv4-based filters as well as VLAN-based filters
with good results.
More information as well as a configuration example is available in the
patch to Documentation/networking/bonding.txt.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now it's possible to update the DNS record for $HOST_NAME with
ip=::::$HOST_NAME::dhcp
CC: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds a setting, PACKET_TIMESTAMP, to specify the packet
timestamp source that is exported to capture utilities like tcpdump by
packet_mmap.
PACKET_TIMESTAMP accepts the same integer bit field as
SO_TIMESTAMPING. However, only the SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE and
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE values are currently recognized by
PACKET_TIMESTAMP. SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE takes precedence over
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RAW_HARDWARE if both bits are set.
If PACKET_TIMESTAMP is not set, a software timestamp generated inside
the networking stack is used (the behavior before this setting was
added).
Signed-off-by: Scott McMillan <scott.a.mcmillan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This option causes a gratuitous ARP request, not a reply as the documentation
currently suggests.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
remove detritus left by "mm: make read_cache_page synchronous"
fix fs/sysv s_dirt handling
fat: convert to use the new truncate convention.
ext2: convert to use the new truncate convention.
tmpfs: convert to use the new truncate convention
fs: convert simple fs to new truncate
kill spurious reference to vmtruncate
fs: introduce new truncate sequence
fs/super: fix kernel-doc warning
fs/minix: bugfix, number of indirect block ptrs per block depends on block size
rename the generic fsync implementations
drop unused dentry argument to ->fsync
fs: Add missing mutex_unlock
Fix racy use of anon_inode_getfd() in perf_event.c
get rid of the magic around f_count in aio
VFS: fix recent breakage of FS_REVAL_DOT
Revert "anon_inode: set S_IFREG on the anon_inode"
Add some documentation in Documentation/arm/Samsung for the GPIO code
and where to look for the necessary functions. Update the S3C24XX case
as well.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Add section to the S3C24XX GPIO documentation on the recent changes
to move towards gpiolib integration.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Upate the S3C24XX GPIO documentation after the changes for gpiolib
and show which calls are being replaced by gpiolib or the new s3c
generic calls.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Update the directory layout in Documentation/arm/Samsung/Overview.txt
to reflect the changes that have been made in the latest kernel
updates.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Introduce a new truncate calling sequence into fs/mm subsystems. Rather than
setattr > vmtruncate > truncate, have filesystems call their truncate sequence
from ->setattr if filesystem specific operations are required. vmtruncate is
deprecated, and truncate_pagecache and inode_newsize_ok helpers introduced
previously should be used.
simple_setattr is introduced for simple in-ram filesystems to implement
the new truncate sequence. Eventually all filesystems should be converted
to implement a setattr, and the default code in notify_change should go
away.
simple_setsize is also introduced to perform just the ATTR_SIZE portion
of simple_setattr (ie. changing i_size and trimming pagecache).
To implement the new truncate sequence:
- filesystem specific manipulations (eg freeing blocks) must be done in
the setattr method rather than ->truncate.
- vmtruncate can not be used by core code to trim blocks past i_size in
the event of write failure after allocation, so this must be performed
in the fs code.
- convert usage of helpers block_write_begin, nobh_write_begin,
cont_write_begin, and *blockdev_direct_IO* to use _newtrunc postfixed
variants. These avoid calling vmtruncate to trim blocks (see previous).
- inode_setattr should not be used. generic_setattr is a new function
to be used to copy simple attributes into the generic inode.
- make use of the better opportunity to handle errors with the new sequence.
Big problem with the previous calling sequence: the filesystem is not called
until i_size has already changed. This means it is not allowed to fail the
call, and also it does not know what the previous i_size was. Also, generic
code calling vmtruncate to truncate allocated blocks in case of error had
no good way to return a meaningful error (or, for example, atomically handle
block deallocation).
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
libata: implement dump_id force param
libata: disable ATAPI AN by default
libata-sff: make BMDMA optional
libata-sff: kill dummy BMDMA ops from sata_qstor and pata_octeon_cf
libata-sff: separate out BMDMA init
libata-sff: separate out BMDMA irq handler
libata-sff: ata_sff_irq_clear() is BMDMA specific
sata_mv: drop unncessary EH callback resetting
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging: (23 commits)
hwmon: (lm75) Add support for the Texas Instruments TMP105
hwmon: (ltc4245) Read only one GPIO pin
hwmon: (dme1737) Add SCH5127 support
hwmon: (tmp102) Don't always stop chip at exit
hwmon: (tmp102) Fix suspend and resume functions
hwmon: (tmp102) Various fixes
hwmon: Driver for TI TMP102 temperature sensor
hwmon: EMC1403 thermal sensor support
hwmon: (applesmc) Add temperature sensor labels to sysfs interface
hwmon: (applesmc) Add generic support for MacBook Pro 7
hwmon: (applesmc) Add generic support for MacBook Pro 6
hwmon: (applesmc) Add support for MacBook Pro 5,3 and 5,4
hwmon: (tmp401) Reorganize code to get rid of static forward declarations
hwmon: (tmp401) Use constants for sysfs file permissions
hwmon: (adm1031) Allow setting update rate
hwmon: Add description of the update_rate sysfs attribute
hwmon: (lm90) Use programmed update rate
hwmon: (f71882fg) Acquire I/O regions while we're working with them
hwmon: (f71882fg) Code cleanup
hwmon: (f71882fg) Use strict_stro(l|ul) instead of simple_strto$1
...
Read only one of the GPIO pins as an analog voltage. The ADC can be
switched to a different GPIO pin at runtime, but this is not supported.
Previously, this driver would report the analog voltage of the currently
selected GPIO pin as all three GPIO voltages: in9_input, in10_input and
in11_input.
Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Add support for the hardware monitoring capabilities of the SCH5127
chip to the dme1737 driver.
Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Tested-by: Jeff Rickman <jrickman@myamigos.us>
Fixes from my driver review:
http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2010-March/028051.html
Only the small changes are in there, more important changes will come
later separately as time permits.
* Drop the remnants of the now gone detect function
* The TMP102 has no known compatible chip
* Include the right header files
* Clarify why byte swapping of register values is needed
* Strip resolution info bit from temperature register value
* Set cache lifetime to 1/3 second
* Don't arbitrarily reject limit values; clamp as needed
* Make limit writing unconditional
* Don't check for transaction types the driver doesn't use
* Properly check for error when setting configuration
* Report error on failed probe
* Make the driver load automatically where needed
* Various other minor fixes
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Steven King <sfking@fdwdc.com>
Driver for the TI TMP102.
The TI TMP102 is similar to the LM75. It differs from the LM75 by
having a 16-bit conf register and the temp registers have a minimum
resolution of 12 bits; the extended conf register can select 13-bit
resolution (which this driver does) and also change the update rate
(which this driver currently doesn't use).
[JD: Fix tmp102_exit tag, must be __exit, not __init.]
Signed-off-by: Steven King <sfking@fdwdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
The update_rate attribute can be used by drivers to let userspace choose
the update rate of the chip, if it is configurable.
Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
The LM64 appears to be an LM63 with added GPIO lines. Add support for the
hwmon functionality - GPIO can be added at some later stage if someone
has a need for them.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
* 'sfi-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-sfi-2.6:
SFI: add sysfs interface for SFI tables.
SFI: add support for v0.81 spec
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
ieee1394: schedule for removal
firewire: core: use separate timeout for each transaction
firewire: core: Fix tlabel exhaustion problem
firewire: core: make transaction label allocation more robust
firewire: core: clean up config ROM related defined constants
ieee1394: mark char device files as not seekable
firewire: cdev: mark char device files as not seekable
firewire: ohci: cleanups and fix for nonstandard build without debug facility
firewire: ohci: wait for PHY register accesses to complete
firewire: ohci: fix up configuration of TI chips
firewire: ohci: enable 1394a enhancements
firewire: ohci: do not clear PHY interrupt status inadvertently
firewire: ohci: add a function for reading PHY registers
Trivial conflicts in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
Analogous to ACPI's /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/...
create /sys/firmware/sfi/tables/
The tables are primariy for the kernel,
but sometimes it is useful for user-space to be
able to read them.
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Kamezawa Hiroyuki requested documentation for the numa_mem_id() and slab
related changes. He suggested Documentation/vm/numa for this
documentation. Looking at this file, it seems to me to be hopelessly out
of date relative to current Linux NUMA support. At the risk of going down
a rathole, I have made an attempt to rewrite the doc at a slightly higher
level [I think] and provide pointers to other in-tree documents and
out-of-tree man pages that cover the details.
Let the games begin.
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The inode's i_size is not protected by the big kernel lock. Therefore it
does not make sense to recommend taking the BKL in filesystems llseek
operations. Instead it should use the inode's mutex or use just use
i_size_read() instead. Add a note that this is not protecting
file->f_pos.
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Handing DMA mapping errors is essential. Let's put it in the more
appropriate place rather than the end of the doc.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now we have <asm-generic/scatterlist.h>. Architectures should use it
instead of inventing the own scatterlist struct. Let's update the
description.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add the concrete DMA mapping error handling for SCSI drivers on the
queuecommand path.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adds the concrete DMA mapping error handling for Networking drivers on the
transmit path.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Some information are old, and I think current document doesn't work as "a
guide for users". We need summary of all of our controls, at least.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds support for moving charge of file pages, which include
normal file, tmpfs file and swaps of tmpfs file. It's enabled by setting
bit 1 of <target cgroup>/memory.move_charge_at_immigrate.
Unlike the case of anonymous pages, file pages(and swaps) in the range
mmapped by the task will be moved even if the task hasn't done page fault,
i.e. they might not be the task's "RSS", but other task's "RSS" that maps
the same file. And mapcount of the page is ignored(the page can be moved
even if page_mapcount(page) > 1). So, conditions that the page/swap
should be met to be moved is that it must be in the range mmapped by the
target task and it must be charged to the old cgroup.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds a feature to disable oom-killer for memcg, if disabled, of
course, tasks under memcg will stop.
But now, we have oom-notifier for memcg. And the world around memcg is
not under out-of-memory. memcg's out-of-memory just shows memcg hits
limit. Then, administrator or management daemon can recover the situation
by
- kill some process
- enlarge limit, add more swap.
- migrate some tasks
- remove file cache on tmps (difficult ?)
Unlike oom-killer, you can take enough information before killing tasks.
(by gcore, or, ps etc.)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Considering containers or other resource management softwares in userland,
event notification of OOM in memcg should be implemented. Now, memcg has
"threshold" notifier which uses eventfd, we can make use of it for oom
notification.
This patch adds oom notification eventfd callback for memcg. The usage is
very similar to threshold notifier, but control file is memory.oom_control
and no arguments other than eventfd is required.
% cgroup_event_notifier /cgroup/A/memory.oom_control dummy
(About cgroup_event_notifier, see Documentation/cgroup/)
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- Add additional location (Git) for the kernel master tree
- Add reference to Git Project
Signed-off-by: Abraham Arce <x0066660@ti.com>
Acked-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>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus:
squashfs: update documentation to include description of xattr layout
squashfs: fix name reading in squashfs_xattr_get
squashfs: constify xattr handlers
squashfs: xattr fix sparse warnings
squashfs: xattr_lookup sparse fix
squashfs: add xattr support configure option
squashfs: add new extended inode types
squashfs: add support for xattr reading
squashfs: add xattr id support
Add dump_id libata.force parameter. If specified, libata dumps full
IDENTIFY data during device configuration. This is to aid debugging.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Larry Baker <baker@usgs.gov>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
This adds:
alias: devname:<name>
to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading
of the kernel module when the device node is accessed.
Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too
much in love with their modularization that we need to cover the common
cases with this new facility. It will allow us to remove a bunch of pretty
useless init scripts and modprobes from init scripts.
The static device node aliases will be carried in the module itself. The
program depmod will extract this information to a file in the module directory:
$ cat /lib/modules/2.6.34-00650-g537b60d-dirty/modules.devname
# Device nodes to trigger on-demand module loading.
microcode cpu/microcode c10:184
fuse fuse c10:229
ppp_generic ppp c108:0
tun net/tun c10:200
dm_mod mapper/control c10:235
Udev will pick up the depmod created file on startup and create all the
static device nodes which the kernel modules specify, so that these modules
get automatically loaded when the device node is accessed:
$ /sbin/udevd --debug
...
static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/cpu/microcode' c10:184
static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/fuse' c10:229
static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/ppp' c108:0
static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/net/tun' c10:200
static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/mapper/control' c10:235
udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/net/tun' 0666
udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/fuse' 0666
A few device nodes are switched to statically allocated numbers, to allow
the static nodes to work. This might also useful for systems which still run
a plain static /dev, which is completely unsafe to use with any dynamic minor
numbers.
Note:
The devname aliases must be limited to the *common* and *single*instance*
device nodes, like the misc devices, and never be used for conceptually limited
systems like the loop devices, which should rather get fixed properly and get a
control node for losetup to talk to, instead of creating a random number of
device nodes in advance, regardless if they are ever used.
This facility is to hide the mess distros are creating with too modualized
kernels, and just to hide that these modules are not compiled-in, and not to
paper-over broken concepts. Thanks! :)
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>