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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 <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

of firewire-core and firewire-sbp2.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

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 <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

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 <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/a315a9514cd71bcf29436cc31e35aada21a5ff21.1310563276.git.luto@mit.edu

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>

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 <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch documents the interface exposed by the 'efivars' module.
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This patch adds event notification support to the generic
thermal sysfs framework in the kernel. The notification is in the
form of a netlink event.
Signed-off-by: R.Durgadoss <durgadoss.r@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

This patch renames the (never officially released) sysfs-knobs
"blocked_hw" and "blocked_sw" to "hard" and "soft", as the hardware vs
software conotation is misleading.

It also gets rid of not needed locks around u32-read-access.
Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This commit introduces two new sysfs knobs.

/sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/blocked_hw: (ro)
	hardblock kill state
/sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/blocked_sw: (rw)
	softblock kill state
Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

This moves sysfs ABI info from Documentation/rfkill.txt to the
ABI subfolder and reformats it.

This also schedules the deprecated sysfs parts to be removed in
2012 (claim file) and 2014 (state file).
Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Add a bare description of what /sys/devices/system/node/nodeX is.  Others
will follow in time but right now, none of that tree is documented.  The
existence of this file might at least encourage people to document new
entries.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Giridhar Malavali <giridhar.malavali@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>

Date and KernelVersion may be wrong because the backlight
interface was introduced before git initial import.

Cc:Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

This driver was originaly written by Stefan Kopp, but massively
reworked by Greg for submission.

Thanks to Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com> for lots of work in cleaning
up this driver.

Thanks to Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> for reviewing previous
versions and pointing out problems.


Cc: Stefan Kopp <stefan_kopp@agilent.com>
Cc: Marcel Janssen <korgull@home.nl>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

/sys/fs is where we really want file system specific sysfs objects.

Ocfs2-tools has been updated to look in /sys/fs/o2cb. We can maintain
backwards compatibility with old ocfs2-tools by using a sysfs symlink. After
some time (2 years), the symlink can be safely removed. This patch also adds
documentation to make it easier for people to figure out what /sys/fs/o2cb
is used for.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>