From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
So-called \So"-called`\, a.
So named; called by such a name (but perhaps called thus with
doubtful propriety).
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
so-called
adj : doubtful or suspect; "these so-called experts are no help"
[syn: {alleged(a)}, {supposed}]
My strong conviction is that widespread use of 'so gennant'
or 'sogennant' in German has led to the creeping misuse of
'so-called' in English (especially through technical writings).
In English, it would be better to use:
what is called
or a better translation of 'so gennant':
so named
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (29 commits)
bridge: fix a possible net_device leak
net: Documentation: RFC 2553bis is now RFC 3493
atm: br2684: Fix oops due to skb->dev being NULL
ipv6: Fix ipv6_getsockopt for IPV6_2292PKTOPTIONS
net: netdev-features.txt update to Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
vlan: reset headers on accel emulation path
forcedeth: call vlan_mode only if hw supports vlans
via-velocity: remove non-tagged packet filtering
bonding:reset backup and inactive flag of slave
net_sched: fix port mirror/redirect stats reporting
sit tunnels: propagate IPv6 transport class to IPv4 Type of Service
gianfar: reduce stack usage in gianfar_ethtool.c
net: minor update to Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
net: add missing entries to Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
gianfar: prevent buggy hw rx vlan tagging
net: sh_eth: Fix build by forgot including linux/interrupt.h
drivers/net/can/sja1000/plx_pci.c: eliminate double free
usbnet/cdc_ncm: Don't use stack variables for DMA
vmxnet3: Don't enable vlan filters in promiscuous mode.
iwlagn: sysfs couldn't find the priv pointer
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits)
Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs."
block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags
block: improve rq_affinity placement
blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support
Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area
allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH
xen/blkback: Make description more obvious.
cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling
block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected
block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table
block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show()
drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse
bsg-lib: add module.h include
cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction
blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio
loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other
loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices
loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation
loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index
...
Update netdev-features.txt entry in 00-INDEX to incorporate
feedback by Michał Mirosław.
v2: restored tabs that were inadvertently changed to spaces in v1.
sorry for the error.
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs:
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: MSI -> MSIs
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Insert a comma
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: can -> could
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Use `unknown ...' rather than `... know about.'
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: may -> might
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Insert a comma
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: API -> function
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: , -> ;
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Move a sentence to another paragraph
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Insert `that'
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Offset modifier with a comma, and insert `yet' for emphasis
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Put the `because' subordinate clause first
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Streamline some wording
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: `asked for' -> `requested'
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Use present tense and streamline some wording
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Use the subjunctive, and change `can' to `may'
The CONFIG_RELOCATABLE code tries to align the unpack destination to
the value of 'kernel_alignment' in the setup_hdr. If that's 0, it
tries to unpack to address 0, which in fact causes the gunzip code
to call 'error("Out of memory while allocating output buffer")'.
The bootloader (ie. the lguest Launcher in this case) should be doing
setting this field; the normal bzImage is 16M, we can use the same.
Reported-by: Stefanos Geraggelos <sgerag@cslab.ece.ntua.gr>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Remove the name of Sergey Kostyliov as maintainer of befs.
In the MAINTAINERS file, befs is orphaned.
Signed-off-by: Marcos Souza <marcos.mage@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
General cleanups to kernel-parameters.txt:
- add missing $ARCH that are being used/referenced
- alphabetize the parameter restrictions list
- spell "IA-64" as listed in arch/ia64/Kconfig instead of "IA64"
- remove trailing whitespace
- use hyphen in 32-bit etc.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Usually kernel parameters are documented in kernel-parameters.txt
but user_debug is only documented in the Kconfig. Document the
option and point to the Kconfig help text for more info.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dropping LSD (Linux Source Driver) since it hasn't been available
for a long time.
Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luis@debethencourt.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Incorporate last comments about hyperthreading, interrupt coalescing and
the definition of cache domains into the network scaling document scaling.txt
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
A simple janitor duty patch that adds a one sentence overview to
00-INDEX for all files that lacked it.
- does not add entries for subdirectories
- does not modify existing entries.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip:
x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter
x86-64: Wire up getcpu syscall
x86: Remove unnecessary compile flag tweaks for vsyscall code
x86-64: Add vsyscall:emulate_vsyscall trace event
x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op
x86-64, xen: Enable the vvar mapping
x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023
x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment.
x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary
There are three choices:
vsyscall=native: Vsyscalls are native code that issues the
corresponding syscalls.
vsyscall=emulate (default): Vsyscalls are emulated by instruction
fault traps, tested in the bad_area path. The actual contents of
the vsyscall page is the same as the vsyscall=native case except
that it's marked NX. This way programs that make assumptions about
what the code in the page does will not be confused when they read
that code.
vsyscall=none: Trying to execute a vsyscall will segfault.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8449fb3abf89851fd6b2260972666a6f82542284.1312988155.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Describes RSS, RPS, RFS, accelerated RFS, and XPS.
This version incorporates comments by Randy Dunlap and Rick Jones.
Besides text cleanup, it adds an explicit "Suggested Configuration"
heading to each section.
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Acked-By: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Commit 655f8919d5
bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad
and commit ebd8e4977a
bonding: add all_slaves_active parameter
introduced new options to bonding, but didn't provide the documentation
for those options.
V2: add the default value for both options.
V3: document the exact behavior of min_links default value.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Michael Witten