From 917aef61f4c27063b873eaffce2fdc03d6e3d416 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pranith Kumar Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 11:55:21 -0400 Subject: doc: RCU: update reference, kerneltrap.org no longer works kerneltrap.org no longer works, update to a working reference Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt index 2f0fcb2112d2..f29bcbc463e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt @@ -2451,8 +2451,8 @@ lot of {Linux} into your technology!!!" ,month="February" ,year="2010" ,note="Available: -\url{http://kerneltrap.com/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2010/2/26/6270589} -[Viewed March 20, 2011]" +\url{http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/153338} +[Viewed June 9, 2014]" ,annotation={ Use a pair of list_head structures to support RCU-protected resizable hash tables. -- cgit v1.2.3 From d0a5ccc99ebcc100bf3e4316286a9f07ac180494 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pranith Kumar Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 11:55:22 -0400 Subject: doc: SubmittingPatches: remove dead link, kerneltrap.org no longer works kerneltrap.org no longer works, remove the dead reference Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/SubmittingDrivers | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers b/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers index 36d16bbf72c6..31d372609ac0 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers @@ -146,10 +146,6 @@ LWN.net: Porting drivers from prior kernels to 2.6: http://lwn.net/Articles/driver-porting/ -KernelTrap: - Occasional Linux kernel articles and developer interviews - http://kerneltrap.org/ - KernelNewbies: Documentation and assistance for new kernel programmers http://kernelnewbies.org/ -- cgit v1.2.3 From 591bcb18eec308a5f6ed0f089e437a0c32d642b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pranith Kumar Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 11:55:23 -0400 Subject: doc: LSM: update reference, kerneltrap.org no longer works kerneltrap.org no longer works, update to a working reference Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/security/LSM.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/security/LSM.txt b/Documentation/security/LSM.txt index c335a763a2ed..3db7e671c440 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/LSM.txt +++ b/Documentation/security/LSM.txt @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ system, building their checks on top of the defined capability hooks. For more details on capabilities, see capabilities(7) in the Linux man-pages project. -Based on http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Documenting_Security_Module_Intent, +Based on https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/26/215, a new LSM is accepted into the kernel when its intent (a description of what it tries to protect against and in what cases one would expect to use it) has been appropriately documented in Documentation/security/. -- cgit v1.2.3 From 7981e729448d8c7538c294e3022257b142259c37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pranith Kumar Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 11:55:26 -0400 Subject: doc: CN: remove dead link, kerneltrap.org no longer works kerneltrap.org no longer works, remove dead reference Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingDrivers | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingDrivers b/Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingDrivers index 5889f8df6312..d313f5d8448d 100644 --- a/Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingDrivers +++ b/Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingDrivers @@ -150,10 +150,6 @@ LWN.net: 将旧版内核的驱动程序移植到 2.6 版： http://lwn.net/Articles/driver-porting/ -KernelTrap： - Linux 内核的最新动态以及开发者访谈 - http://kerneltrap.org/ - 内核新手(KernelNewbies): 为新的内核开发者提供文档和帮助 http://kernelnewbies.org/ -- cgit v1.2.3 From 429a91db3b3e7f755b1e9fa3bcd95660d84697ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremiah Mahler Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 12:29:17 -0700 Subject: usb: doc: hotplug.txt code typos Fixed several typos in the code examples given in Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt. - missing [] with array of struct usb_device_id - checkpatch.pl warning: space between function name and parenthesis - missing terminating ';' Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt b/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt index 6424b130485c..a80b0e9a7a0b 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt @@ -105,13 +105,13 @@ macros such as these, and use driver_info to store more information. A short example, for a driver that supports several specific USB devices and their quirks, might have a MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE like this: - static const struct usb_device_id mydriver_id_table = { + static const struct usb_device_id mydriver_id_table[] = { { USB_DEVICE (0x9999, 0xaaaa), driver_info: QUIRK_X }, { USB_DEVICE (0xbbbb, 0x8888), driver_info: QUIRK_Y|QUIRK_Z }, ... { } /* end with an all-zeroes entry */ - } - MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE (usb, mydriver_id_table); + }; + MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(usb, mydriver_id_table); Most USB device drivers should pass these tables to the USB subsystem as well as to the module management subsystem. Not all, though: some driver @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ something like this: if exposing any operations through usbdevfs: .ioctl = my_ioctl, */ - } + }; When the USB subsystem knows about a driver's device ID table, it's used when choosing drivers to probe(). The thread doing new device processing checks -- cgit v1.2.3 From d5ae11dc402f64a3b79ef6754487429b772f3e71 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rickard Strandqvist Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 23:28:10 +0200 Subject: doc: hpfall.c: fix missing null-terminate after strncpy call Added a guaranteed null-terminate after call to strncpy. This was partly found using a static code analysis program called cppcheck. Signed-off-by: Rickard Strandqvist Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/laptops/hpfall.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/hpfall.c b/Documentation/laptops/hpfall.c index b85dbbac0499..67084321dab4 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptops/hpfall.c +++ b/Documentation/laptops/hpfall.c @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ int set_unload_heads_path(char *device) if (strlen(device) <= 5 || strncmp(device, "/dev/", 5) != 0) return -EINVAL; strncpy(devname, device + 5, sizeof(devname)); + devname[sizeof(devname) - 1] = '\0'; snprintf(unload_heads_path, sizeof(unload_heads_path) - 1, "/sys/block/%s/device/unload_heads", devname); -- cgit v1.2.3 From ae9fbcac197d7ad1f0c3a4004bac36eb7414f607 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Bolle Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 09:01:05 +0200 Subject: scsi: doc: fix 'SCSI_NCR_SETUP_MASTER_PARITY' Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt b/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt index cda5f8fa2c66..1d508dcbf859 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt @@ -1095,7 +1095,7 @@ SCSI_NCR_SETUP_FORCE_SYNC_NEGO (default: not defined) SCSI_NCR_SETUP_MASTER_PARITY (default: defined) If defined, master parity checking is enabled. -SCSI_NCR_SETUP_MASTER_PARITY (default: defined) +SCSI_NCR_SETUP_SCSI_PARITY (default: defined) If defined, SCSI parity checking is enabled. SCSI_NCR_PROFILE_SUPPORT (default: not defined) -- cgit v1.2.3 From 305af08c5398bab6c7029da53eb15d85a53eef0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremiah Mahler Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 00:04:26 -0700 Subject: doc: replace "practise" with "practice" in Documentation To keep the Documentation consistent either "practise" or "practice" should be used. Since there are 3 lines with "practise" ~/linux/Documentation$ grep -r practise * | wc -l 3 and 108 lines with "practice" ~/linux/Documentation$ grep -r practice * | wc -l 108 this patch converts "practise" to "practice". Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt | 2 +- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt index 10a93696e55a..0d920d54536d 100644 --- a/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/PCI/MSI-HOWTO.txt @@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ Some devices are known to have faulty MSI implementations. Usually this is handled in the individual device driver, but occasionally it's necessary to handle this with a quirk. Some drivers have an option to disable use of MSI. While this is a convenient workaround for the driver author, -it is not good practise, and should not be emulated. +it is not good practice, and should not be emulated. 5.4. Finding why MSIs are disabled on a device diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 26b1e31d5a13..04c1eddb78aa 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -369,13 +369,13 @@ you are responsible for last-minute changes. Example : [lucky@maintainer.example.org: struct foo moved from foo.c to foo.h] Signed-off-by: Lucky K Maintainer -This practise is particularly helpful if you maintain a stable branch and +This practice is particularly helpful if you maintain a stable branch and want at the same time to credit the author, track changes, merge the fix, and protect the submitter from complaints. Note that under no circumstances can you change the author's identity (the From header), as it is the one which appears in the changelog. -Special note to back-porters: It seems to be a common and useful practise +Special note to back-porters: It seems to be a common and useful practice to insert an indication of the origin of a patch at the top of the commit message (just after the subject line) to facilitate tracking. For instance, here's what we see in 2.6-stable : -- cgit v1.2.3 From 51a7097426f2243e192df4979c2bf197e6f2ce61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sangjung Woo Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 09:56:21 +0900 Subject: doc: fix two typos in watchdog-api.txt This patch changes 'go of' to 'go off' and 'pretimout' to 'pretimeout'. Signed-off-by: Sangjung Woo Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt index eb7132ed8bbc..b3a701f48118 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ resets. Note that the pretimeout is the number of seconds before the time when the timeout will go off. It is not the number of seconds until the pretimeout. So, for instance, if you set the timeout to 60 seconds -and the pretimeout to 10 seconds, the pretimout will go of in 50 +and the pretimeout to 10 seconds, the pretimeout will go off in 50 seconds. Setting a pretimeout to zero disables it. There is also a get function for getting the pretimeout: -- cgit v1.2.3