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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt | 13 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt | 7 |
4 files changed, 16 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt index e3443ddcfb89..917918f84fc7 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt @@ -195,19 +195,3 @@ scaling_setspeed. By "echoing" a new frequency into this you can change the speed of the CPU, but only within the limits of scaling_min_freq and scaling_max_freq. - - -3.2 Deprecated Interfaces -------------------------- - -Depending on your kernel configuration, you might find the following -cpufreq-related files: -/proc/cpufreq -/proc/sys/cpu/*/speed -/proc/sys/cpu/*/speed-min -/proc/sys/cpu/*/speed-max - -These are files for deprecated interfaces to cpufreq, which offer far -less functionality. Because of this, these interfaces aren't described -here. - diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt index 68ef48839c04..9f8740ca3f3b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ that support it. For example, a given bus might look like this: | |-- class | |-- config | |-- device + | |-- enable | |-- irq | |-- local_cpus | |-- resource @@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ files, each with their own function. class PCI class (ascii, ro) config PCI config space (binary, rw) device PCI device (ascii, ro) + enable Whether the device is enabled (ascii, rw) irq IRQ number (ascii, ro) local_cpus nearby CPU mask (cpumask, ro) resource PCI resource host addresses (ascii, ro) @@ -57,10 +59,19 @@ used to do actual device programming from userspace. Note that some platforms don't support mmapping of certain resources, so be sure to check the return value from any attempted mmap. +The 'enable' file provides a counter that indicates how many times the device +has been enabled. If the 'enable' file currently returns '4', and a '1' is +echoed into it, it will then return '5'. Echoing a '0' into it will decrease +the count. Even when it returns to 0, though, some of the initialisation +may not be reversed. + The 'rom' file is special in that it provides read-only access to the device's ROM file, if available. It's disabled by default, however, so applications should write the string "1" to the file to enable it before attempting a read -call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file. +call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file. Note +that the device must be enabled for a rom read to return data succesfully. +In the event a driver is not bound to the device, it can be enabled using the +'enable' file, documented above. Accessing legacy resources through sysfs ---------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt index 84da2a4ba25a..12fedb7834c6 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ubifs.txt @@ -79,13 +79,6 @@ Mount options (*) == default. -norm_unmount (*) commit on unmount; the journal is committed - when the file-system is unmounted so that the - next mount does not have to replay the journal - and it becomes very fast; -fast_unmount do not commit on unmount; this option makes - unmount faster, but the next mount slower - because of the need to replay the journal. bulk_read read more in one go to take advantage of flash media that read faster sequentially no_bulk_read (*) do not bulk-read diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt index d73fbd2b2b45..026ec7d57384 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt @@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ Only comments so marked will be considered by the kernel-doc scripts, and any comment so marked must be in kernel-doc format. Do not use "/**" to be begin a comment block unless the comment block contains kernel-doc formatted comments. The closing comment marker for -kernel-doc comments can be either "*/" or "**/". +kernel-doc comments can be either "*/" or "**/", but "*/" is +preferred in the Linux kernel tree. Kernel-doc comments should be placed just before the function or data structure being described. @@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ Example kernel-doc function comment: * comment lines. * * The longer description can have multiple paragraphs. - **/ + */ The first line, with the short description, must be on a single line. @@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ Example kernel-doc data structure comment. * perhaps with more lines and words. * * Longer description of this structure. - **/ + */ The kernel-doc function comments describe each parameter to the function, in order, with the @name lines. |