From 9b170dbd82448826ca3b8b6ee47daf36c4f438f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:28:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Documentation/kernel-parameters: remove autotest and mcatest It has no more users, the last one is gone in "[PATCH] ia64: Kconfig cleanup" aka ("6fd79ab50b"). mcatest is gone in commit "[PATCH] ia64: SGI SN update" ("c6bacd5010ec"). Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Acked-by: Rob Landley Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 62aba89b04a2..1a332c703e1b 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -398,8 +398,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] Use software keyboard repeat - autotest [IA-64] - baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] Format: , @@ -1431,8 +1429,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. devices can be requested on-demand with the /dev/loop-control interface. - mcatest= [IA-64] - mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt From e52d2e1f25f03edf7628fae219150d8dc5023081 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michel Machado Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 22:10:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Documentation/SubmittingPatches: suggested the use of scripts/get_maintainer.pl Had I found a reference to scripts/get_maintainer.pl when I first read Documentation/SubmittingPatches, it would've saved me some time. Signed-off-by: Michel Machado Acked-by: Rob Landley Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 4468ce24427c..c379a2a6949f 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ be able to justify all violations that remain in your patch. Look through the MAINTAINERS file and the source code, and determine if your change applies to a specific subsystem of the kernel, with -an assigned maintainer. If so, e-mail that person. +an assigned maintainer. If so, e-mail that person. The script +scripts/get_maintainer.pl can be very useful at this step. If no maintainer is listed, or the maintainer does not respond, send your patch to the primary Linux kernel developer's mailing list, From 76dab97cd8e21e9d29ed41278b9a5308869a50e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcos Paulo de Souza Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:14:34 -0300 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Documentation/initrd.txt: Change the location of util-linux The address of util-linux seems deprecated. The new util-linux location is in the kernel.org. So, change this for the correct address. Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza Acked-by: Rob Landley Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/initrd.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/initrd.txt b/Documentation/initrd.txt index 1ba84f3584e3..4e1839ccb555 100644 --- a/Documentation/initrd.txt +++ b/Documentation/initrd.txt @@ -362,5 +362,5 @@ Resources http://www.almesberger.net/cv/papers/ols2k-9.ps.gz [2] newlib package (experimental), with initrd example http://sources.redhat.com/newlib/ -[3] Brouwer, Andries; "util-linux: Miscellaneous utilities for Linux" - ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/utils/util-linux/ +[3] util-linux: Miscellaneous utilities for Linux + http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/ From 21848d08bea8f057b3e48c00165dfd42e27eb4e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Hajnoczi Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:32:32 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] doc: ext3: update documentation with barrier=1 default Commit 00eacd6 ("ext3: make ext3 mount default to barrier=1") changed the default barrier mount option for ext3. The documentation needs to be updated, so this patch does that. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi Acked-by: Rob Landley Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt index b100adc38adb..293855e95000 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt @@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ commit=nrsec (*) Ext3 can be told to sync all its data and metadata Setting it to very large values will improve performance. -barrier=<0(*)|1> This enables/disables the use of write barriers in -barrier the jbd code. barrier=0 disables, barrier=1 enables. -nobarrier (*) This also requires an IO stack which can support +barrier=<0|1(*)> This enables/disables the use of write barriers in +barrier (*) the jbd code. barrier=0 disables, barrier=1 enables. +nobarrier This also requires an IO stack which can support barriers, and if jbd gets an error on a barrier write, it will disable again with a warning. Write barriers enforce proper on-disk ordering