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2010-11-01tree-wide: fix comment/printk typosUwe Kleine-König1-1/+1
"gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address", "between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already", "equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest", "relative", "memory", "offset", "already", Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
2010-10-26Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c: add supporting info for hpet_exampleJaswinder Singh Rajput1-0/+27
$./hpet_example info /dev/hpet -hpet: executing info hpet_info: hi_irqfreq 0x0 hi_flags 0x0 hi_hpet 0 hi_timer 2 Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <[email protected]> Cc: Clemens Ladisch <[email protected]> Cc: "Venkatesh Pallipadi (Venki)" <[email protected]> Cc: john stultz <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2010-08-04Documentation: Add timers/timers-howto.txtPatrick Pannuto1-0/+105
This file seeks to explain the nuances in various delays; many driver writers are not necessarily familiar with the various kernel timers, their shortfalls, and quirks. When faced with ndelay, udelay, mdelay, usleep_range, msleep, and msleep_interrubtible the question "How do I just wait 1 ms for my hardware to latch?" has the non-intuitive "best" answer: usleep_range(1000,1500) This patch is followed by a series of checkpatch additions that seek to help kernel hackers pick the best delay. Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
2010-06-01Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c: only build on X86Randy Dunlap1-1/+1
We should only build hpet_example on x86[-64], where it is implemented. It can cause build errors on other architectures. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]> Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2010-05-24Documentation/timers/hpet_example: drop duplicate header filesAndrea Gelmini1-2/+0
Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c: fcntl.h is included more than once. Documentation/timers/hpet_example.c: signal.h is included more than once. Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2010-03-12Documentation/timers/: split txt and source filesRandy Dunlap4-271/+281
Documentation/timers/hpet.txt: Expose example and tool source files in the Documentation/timers/ directory in their own files instead of being buried (almost hidden) in readme/txt files. This should help to prevent bitrot. This will make them more visible/usable to users who may need to use them, to developers who may need to test with them, and to anyone who would fix/update them if they were more visible. Also, if any of these possibly should not be in the kernel tree at all, it will be clearer that they are here and we can discuss if they should be removed. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2009-11-09fix URL in hpet.txtAmerigo Wang1-1/+1
That URL is out of date. Update it. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Cc: Matt LaPlante <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <[email protected]> Acked-by: Matt LaPlante <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
2009-06-12trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixesMatt LaPlante2-2/+2
Fix various typos in documentation txts. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
2008-07-31hpet: /dev/hpet - fixes and cleanupDavid Brownell1-22/+21
Minor /dev/hpet updates and bugfixes: * Remove dead code, mostly remnants of an incomplete/unusable kernel interface ... noted when addressing "sparse" warnings: + hpet_unregister() and a routine it calls + hpet_task and all references, including hpet_task_lock + hpet_data.hd_flags (and HPET_DATA_PLATFORM) * Correct and improve boot message: + displays *counter* (shared between comparators) bit width, not *timer* bit widths (which are often mixed) + relabel "timers" as "comparators"; this is less confusing, they are not independent like normal timers are (sigh) + display MHz not Hz; it's never less than 10 MHz. * Tighten and correct the userspace interface code + don't accidentally program comparators in 64-bit mode using 32-bit values ... always force comparators into 32-bit mode + provide the correct bit definition flagging comparators with periodic capability ... the ABI is unchanged * Update Documentation/hpet.txt + be more correct and current + expand description a bit + don't mention that now-gone kernel interface Plus, add a FIXME comment for something that could cause big trouble on systems with more capable HPETs than at least Intel seems to ship. It seems that few folk use this userspace interface; it's not very usable given the general lack of HPET IRQ routing. I'm told that the only real point of it any more is to mmap for fast timestamps; IMO that's handled better through the gettimeofday() vsyscall. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <[email protected]> Acked-by: Clemens Ladisch <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
2008-07-31Merge branch 'linus' into timers/hpetIngo Molnar1-1/+1
2008-07-26Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar ↵Matt LaPlante1-1/+1
corrections. Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
2008-07-24documentation: move hpet.txt to timers/ subdirectoryRandy Dunlap2-0/+310
Move hpet.txt to Documentation/timers/ subdirectory. Add 00-INDEX to Documentation/timers/ subdirectory. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Cc: tglx <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
2008-04-17Documentation: move timer related documentation to a single placeThomas Gleixner3-0/+500
We have two directories with timer related information in Documentation/: hrtimers/ and hrtimer/. timer_stats are not restricted to hrtimers. Move all those files into Documentation/timers where we can pile up other timer related docs as well. Pointed-out-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>