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Linus Torvalds 21f27291f5 Driver Core fixes for 3.5-rc5
Here is a number of printk() fixes, specifically a few reported by the
 crazy blog program that ships in SUSE releases (that's "boot log" and
 not "web log", it predates the general "blog" terminology by many
 years), and the restoration of the continuation line functionality
 reported by Stephen and others.  Yes, the changes seem a bit big this
 late in the cycle, but I've been beating on them for a while now, and
 Stephen has even optimized it a bit, so all looks good to me.
 
 The other change in here is a Documentation update for the stable kernel
 rules describing how some distro patches should be backported, to
 hopefully drive a bit more response from the distros to the stable
 kernel releases.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver Core fixes from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here is a number of printk() fixes, specifically a few reported by the
  crazy blog program that ships in SUSE releases (that's "boot log" and
  not "web log", it predates the general "blog" terminology by many
  years), and the restoration of the continuation line functionality
  reported by Stephen and others.  Yes, the changes seem a bit big this
  late in the cycle, but I've been beating on them for a while now, and
  Stephen has even optimized it a bit, so all looks good to me.

  The other change in here is a Documentation update for the stable
  kernel rules describing how some distro patches should be backported,
  to hopefully drive a bit more response from the distros to the stable
  kernel releases.

  Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>"

* tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
  printk: Optimize if statement logic where newline exists
  printk: flush continuation lines immediately to console
  syslog: fill buffer with more than a single message for SYSLOG_ACTION_READ
  Revert "printk: return -EINVAL if the message len is bigger than the buf size"
  printk: fix regression in SYSLOG_ACTION_CLEAR
  stable: Allow merging of backports for serious user-visible performance issues
2012-06-30 10:11:24 -07:00
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ABI iio: documentation: Add out_altvoltage and friends 2012-06-04 21:15:31 -07:00
DocBook Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media 2012-06-25 14:53:09 -07:00
EDID drm: allow loading an EDID as firmware to override broken monitor 2012-03-20 10:09:28 +00:00
PCI doc: fix broken references 2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
RCU rcu: Introduce rcutorture testing for rcu_barrier() 2012-04-30 10:48:18 -07:00
accounting Documentation: update cgroupfs mount point 2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
acpi Update documentation for parameter *notrigger* in einj.txt 2012-03-30 03:30:19 -04:00
aoe Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf 2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
arm Viresh has moved 2012-06-20 14:39:36 -07:00
auxdisplay
backlight backlight: new backlight driver for LP855x devices 2012-03-23 16:58:33 -07:00
blackfin Documentation: Fix typo in multiple files in Documentation 2012-04-16 14:37:13 +02:00
block Documentation: drop as block elevator reference in switching-sched.txt 2011-11-04 12:01:48 -07:00
blockdev Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf 2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
cdrom doc: fix broken references 2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
cgroups memcg: move charges to root cgroup if use_hierarchy=0 2012-05-29 16:22:27 -07:00
connector
console
cpu-freq Doc: cpufreq: Fix typo and outdated line 2011-11-08 10:23:29 +01:00
cpuidle cpuidle: add a sysfs entry to disable specific C state for debug purpose. 2012-03-30 01:52:58 -04:00
cris CRIS: Update documentation 2012-04-03 13:09:18 +02:00
crypto
development-process Documentation: Update stable address 2011-12-12 14:14:31 -08:00
device-mapper dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata 2012-06-03 00:30:01 +01:00
devicetree i2c: Add generic I2C multiplexer using pinctrl API 2012-06-04 16:49:43 +02:00
driver-model Pin control subsystem changes for kernel 3.5: 2012-05-21 16:58:23 -07:00
dvb Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media 2012-05-24 10:21:51 -07:00
early-userspace
extcon Documentation/extcon: porting guide for Android kernel switch driver. 2012-04-20 09:24:27 -07:00
fault-injection fault-injection: update documentation with the mmc module param 2011-10-26 16:32:13 -04:00
fb Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf 2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
filesystems Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-06-01 10:34:35 -07:00
firmware_class firmware: Update hotplug script 2010-08-05 13:53:34 -07:00
frv doc: fix broken references 2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
hid HID: Move hiddev.txt to the new Documentation/hid directory 2011-03-22 11:43:51 +01:00
hwmon hwmon: (coretemp) Document TjMax for 3rd generation i5/i7 processors 2012-06-17 18:05:06 +02:00
i2c i2c: Split I2C_M_NOSTART support out of I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING 2012-05-30 10:55:34 +02:00
i2o Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation 2012-03-07 16:08:24 +01:00
ia64 Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
ide Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf 2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
infiniband Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
input Documentation: input.txt: clarify mousedev 'cat' command syntax 2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
ioctl mei: update Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt 2012-05-09 14:00:31 -07:00
isdn Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf 2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
ja_JP Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6 2011-07-25 23:06:24 -07:00
kbuild Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2012-05-28 10:37:56 -07:00
kdump [S390] Add s390x description to Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt 2011-12-27 11:27:13 +01:00
ko_KR driver-core: documentation: fix up Greg's email address 2012-02-15 14:48:01 -08:00
laptops Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf 2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
leds leds: add new transient trigger for one shot timer activation 2012-05-29 16:22:32 -07:00
m68k Documentation: add pointer to name_to_dev_t for root= values 2011-08-03 14:25:21 -10:00
make kbuild: introduce HDR_ARCH_LIST for headers_install_all 2010-12-14 22:16:19 +01:00
memory-devices memory: emif: add basic infrastructure for EMIF driver 2012-05-02 00:10:49 -07:00
mips Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
misc-devices mei: Documentation: add generated example binary into .gitignore file 2012-05-14 15:43:44 -07:00
mmc mmc: core: Fixup delayed work clock gating patch 2012-01-11 23:58:43 -05:00
mn10300
mtd Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
namespaces
netlabel
networking stmmac: update driver's doc 2012-06-06 09:34:56 -07:00
nfc NFC: Update Documentation/nfc-hci.txt 2012-05-15 17:28:01 -04:00
parisc Documentation: Fix typo in multiple files in Documentation 2012-04-16 14:37:13 +02:00
pcmcia pcmcia: use autoconfiguration feature for ioports and iomem 2010-09-29 17:20:24 +02:00
power A bunch of fixes for v3.5, nothing extraordinary. 2012-05-31 12:10:15 -07:00
powerpc Revert "powerpc/hw-breakpoint: Use generic hw-breakpoint interfaces for new PPC ptrace flags" 2012-05-22 14:37:24 +10:00
pps pps: add parallel port PPS signal generator 2011-01-13 08:03:21 -08:00
prctl Documentation: prctl/seccomp_filter 2012-04-14 11:13:22 +10:00
pti Kernel documentation for the PTI feature. 2011-05-13 16:31:00 -07:00
ptp ptp: Added a brand new class driver for ptp clocks. 2011-05-23 13:01:00 -07:00
rapidio RapidIO: documentation update 2011-11-02 16:07:02 -07:00
s390 Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf 2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
scheduler sched: Remove stale power aware scheduling remnants and dysfunctional knobs 2012-05-17 13:48:56 +02:00
scsi Merge branch 'delete-mca' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2012-05-23 17:12:06 -07:00
security Smack: allow for significantly longer Smack labels v4 2012-05-14 22:48:38 -07:00
serial serial: delete the MCA specific 8250 support. 2012-05-17 19:02:14 -04:00
sh sh: clkfwk: Kill off unused clk_set_rate_ex(). 2010-11-15 18:25:12 +09:00
sound Sound updates for 3.5-rc1 2012-05-23 13:05:43 -07:00
spi spi: create a message queueing infrastructure 2012-03-07 19:19:48 -07:00
sysctl mqueue: separate mqueue default value from maximum value 2012-05-31 17:49:31 -07:00
target Documentation: Fix typo in tcm_mod_builder.py 2012-02-10 09:52:18 +01:00
telephony Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
thermal thermal: Rename generate_netlink_event 2012-01-23 03:15:25 -05:00
timers doc: fix broken references 2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
trace tracing: Fix kconfig warning due to a typo 2012-05-08 14:17:25 +02:00
usb Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-05-22 19:22:50 -07:00
vDSO Document the vDSO and add a reference parser 2011-07-14 17:57:09 -07:00
video4linux Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media 2012-05-24 10:21:51 -07:00
virtual Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm 2012-05-24 16:17:30 -07:00
vm Frontswap provides a "transcendent memory" interface for swap pages. 2012-06-04 12:28:45 -07:00
w1 Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
watchdog Watchdog: DA9052/53 PMIC watchdog support 2012-05-30 07:56:12 +02:00
wimax
x86 x86, efi: Add EFI boot stub documentation 2012-06-01 09:11:41 -07:00
zh_CN Fix a mistake sentence in the file 'Documentation/zh_CN/magic-number.txt' 2012-05-07 17:20:27 -07:00
.gitignore
00-INDEX MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support. 2012-05-17 19:06:13 -04:00
BUG-HUNTING
Changes Documentation/Changes: remove some really obsolete text 2011-07-11 16:48:38 -07:00
CodingStyle CodingStyle: add kmalloc_array() to memory allocators 2012-05-31 17:49:26 -07:00
DMA-API-HOWTO.txt Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt: fix misleading example 2011-07-26 16:49:45 -07:00
DMA-API.txt include/linux/dma-mapping.h: add dma_zalloc_coherent() 2011-11-02 16:07:02 -07:00
DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
DMA-attributes.txt common: DMA-mapping: add NON-CONSISTENT attribute 2012-03-28 16:36:44 +02:00
HOWTO docs: update HOWTO for 2.6.x -> 3.x versioning 2012-04-19 19:13:08 -07:00
IPMI.txt IPMI: Add the document description of ipmi_get_smi_info 2010-12-14 00:22:00 -05:00
IRQ-affinity.txt bitmap, irq: add smp_affinity_list interface to /proc/irq 2011-05-25 08:39:45 -07:00
IRQ-domain.txt irq_domain: add documentation and MAINTAINERS entry. 2012-02-14 14:06:47 -07:00
IRQ.txt
Intel-IOMMU.txt
Makefile mei: move doc files Documentation/misc-devices/mei 2012-05-09 13:59:09 -07:00
ManagementStyle
SAK.txt
SM501.txt
SecurityBugs Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
SubmitChecklist Documentation/SubmitChecklist: add RCU debug config options 2011-07-25 20:57:17 -07:00
SubmittingDrivers Documentation: SubmittingDrivers: fix Linus's git tree URL 2011-08-13 18:34:03 -07:00
SubmittingPatches Documentation/SubmittingPatches: suggested the use of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2012-05-25 16:18:30 +02:00
VGA-softcursor.txt
applying-patches.txt
atomic_ops.txt doc: Add load/store guarantees to Documentation/atomic-ops.txt 2011-12-11 10:31:58 -08:00
bad_memory.txt
basic_profiling.txt
binfmt_misc.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
braille-console.txt
bt8xxgpio.txt
btmrvl.txt
bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt doc: fix broken references 2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
cachetlb.txt mm: convert mm->cpu_vm_cpumask into cpumask_var_t 2011-05-25 08:39:21 -07:00
circular-buffers.txt
clk.txt Documentation: common clk API 2012-03-16 20:35:01 +00:00
coccinelle.txt coccinelle.txt: update documentation to include M= option 2012-01-14 22:25:56 +01:00
cpu-hotplug.txt documentation: remove references to cpu_*_map. 2012-03-29 15:38:31 +10:30
cpu-load.txt
cputopology.txt topology/sysfs: Provide book id and siblings attributes 2010-09-09 20:41:25 +02:00
crc32.txt crc32: move long comment about crc32 fundamentals to Documentation/ 2012-03-23 16:58:37 -07:00
dcdbas.txt
debugging-modules.txt
debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
dell_rbu.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
devices.txt Merge branch 'delete-mca' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2012-05-23 17:12:06 -07:00
digsig.txt crypto: digital signature verification support 2011-11-09 12:10:37 +02:00
dma-buf-sharing.txt dma-buf: add initial vmap documentation 2012-05-25 12:51:11 +05:30
dmaengine.txt Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation 2012-03-07 16:08:24 +01:00
dontdiff Documentation: remove 'mach' from dontdiff file 2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
dynamic-debug-howto.txt dynamic_debug: update Documentation/*, Kconfig.debug 2012-04-30 16:26:30 -04:00
edac.txt Documentation: Fix typo in multiple files in Documentation 2012-04-16 14:37:13 +02:00
eisa.txt MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support. 2012-05-17 19:06:13 -04:00
email-clients.txt Documentation: email-clients: Add better Thunderbird information 2011-08-13 18:34:03 -07:00
feature-removal-schedule.txt Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-05-31 10:32:36 -07:00
flexible-arrays.txt flex_array: flex_array_prealloc takes a number of elements, not an end 2011-04-28 16:12:47 -04:00
futex-requeue-pi.txt
gcov.txt
gpio.txt gpio: add flags to export GPIOs when requesting 2012-04-05 21:24:06 -07:00
highuid.txt
hw_random.txt
hwspinlock.txt hwspinlock/core: register a bank of hwspinlocks in a single API call 2011-09-21 19:45:34 +03:00
init.txt
initrd.txt Documentation/initrd.txt: Change the location of util-linux 2012-05-25 16:18:34 +02:00
intel_txt.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
io-mapping.txt
io_ordering.txt
iostats.txt Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc. 2011-03-23 20:44:18 +01:00
irqflags-tracing.txt Fix common misspellings 2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
isapnp.txt
java.txt
kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt docbook: warn on unused doc entries 2010-09-11 16:49:21 -07:00
kernel-docs.txt doc: fix broken references 2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
kernel-parameters.txt Merge branch 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2012-06-04 11:25:31 -07:00
kmemcheck.txt
kmemleak.txt kmemleak: Handle percpu memory allocation 2011-12-02 16:12:42 +00:00
kobject.txt driver-core: documentation: fix up Greg's email address 2012-02-15 14:48:01 -08:00
kprobes.txt tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos 2010-11-01 15:38:34 -04:00
kref.txt kref: Fix typo in kref documentation 2011-03-07 13:20:05 -08:00
ldm.txt Documentation: update broken web addresses. 2010-08-04 15:21:40 +02:00
local_ops.txt
lockdep-design.txt lockdep: Update documentation for lock-class leak detection 2011-12-11 10:31:23 -08:00
lockstat.txt Documentation: Add statistics about nested locks 2011-05-28 17:03:29 +02:00
lockup-watchdogs.txt watchdog: Update documentation 2012-02-11 15:11:28 +01:00
logo.gif
logo.txt
magic-number.txt drivers/net: fix up stale paths from driver reorg 2012-01-30 12:54:40 -05:00
md.txt md: create externally visible flags for supporting hot-replace. 2011-12-23 10:17:51 +11:00
media-framework.txt [media] media: Add link_validate() op to check links to the sink pad 2012-05-14 08:44:11 -03:00
memory-barriers.txt doc: fix broken references 2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
memory-hotplug.txt Documentation: Fix typo in multiple files in Documentation 2012-04-16 14:37:13 +02:00
memory.txt
mono.txt Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf 2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
mutex-design.txt mutex: Fix annotations to include it in kernel-locking docbook 2010-09-03 08:19:51 +02:00
nommu-mmap.txt
numastat.txt Doc: Update numastat.txt 2012-02-28 16:05:06 +01:00
oops-tracing.txt module,bug: Add TAINT_OOT_MODULE flag for modules not built in-tree 2011-11-07 07:54:42 +10:30
padata.txt Documentation/padata.txt: fix typos etc. 2010-08-11 08:59:18 -07:00
parport-lowlevel.txt
parport.txt Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.conf 2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
pi-futex.txt
pinctrl.txt pinctrl: implement devm_pinctrl_get()/put() 2012-04-18 13:53:13 +02:00
pnp.txt
preempt-locking.txt
printk-formats.txt Documentation: update printk-formats.txt 2011-06-15 21:52:50 -07:00
prio_tree.txt
ramoops.txt pstore/ram: Add ECC support 2012-05-17 08:51:59 -07:00
rbtree.txt Documentation: Update augmented rbtree documentation 2011-07-24 10:03:05 -07:00
remoteproc.txt remoteproc: remove the single rpmsg vdev limitation 2012-03-06 19:14:12 +02:00
rfkill.txt doc: fix broken references 2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
robust-futex-ABI.txt
robust-futexes.txt
rpmsg.txt rpmsg: add virtio-based remote processor messaging bus 2012-02-08 22:53:58 +02:00
rt-mutex-design.txt variable name fix to Documentation/rt-mutex-design.txt 2010-06-05 17:39:09 +02:00
rt-mutex.txt
rtc.txt RTC: Fix up rtc.txt documentation to reflect changes to generic rtc layer 2011-03-09 11:25:10 -08:00
serial-console.txt
sgi-ioc4.txt
sgi-visws.txt
sparse.txt update email address 2010-07-19 10:56:54 +02:00
spinlocks.txt Documentation/spinlocks.txt: Remove reference to sti()/cli() 2011-07-11 12:45:04 -07:00
stable_api_nonsense.txt doc: stable_api_nonsense.txt: fix paragraph to make more sense. 2011-03-30 12:02:05 +02:00
stable_kernel_rules.txt stable: Allow merging of backports for serious user-visible performance issues 2012-06-25 12:11:58 -07:00
static-keys.txt Documentation: Fix typo in multiple files in Documentation 2012-04-16 14:37:13 +02:00
svga.txt
sysfs-rules.txt
sysrq.txt Documentation: sysrq: Crutcher Dunnavant is unavailable 2012-03-30 16:03:15 -07:00
unaligned-memory-access.txt
unicode.txt
unshare.txt
vgaarbiter.txt misc latin1 to utf8 conversions 2012-01-02 13:04:55 +01:00
video-output.txt
vme_api.txt VME: Move API documentation to Documentation folder 2012-05-08 16:01:34 -07:00
volatile-considered-harmful.txt
workqueue.txt workqueue: Document debugging tricks 2011-03-31 13:40:42 +02:00
xz.txt decompressors: add XZ decompressor module 2011-01-13 08:03:24 -08:00
zorro.txt