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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-08-22 06:06:51 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-08-22 06:06:51 +0200 |
| commit | 8b53b57576292b92b27769f9e213df19b6e57786 (patch) | |
| tree | cd851ce4fa71b2653f120d7f11a9c6cbcf311b19 /Documentation/usb | |
| parent | ab7e79243746e2a9c5f00243e60108189c44c9eb (diff) | |
| parent | 38cc1c3df77c1bb739a4766788eb9fa49f16ffdf (diff) | |
| download | lwn-8b53b57576292b92b27769f9e213df19b6e57786.tar.gz lwn-8b53b57576292b92b27769f9e213df19b6e57786.zip | |
Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/pat
Conflicts:
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/usb')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/usb/auerswald.txt | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/usb/power-management.txt | 7 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 31 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/auerswald.txt b/Documentation/usb/auerswald.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 7ee4d8f69116..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/usb/auerswald.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,30 +0,0 @@ - Auerswald USB kernel driver - =========================== - -What is it? What can I do with it? -================================== -The auerswald USB kernel driver connects your linux 2.4.x -system to the auerswald usb-enabled devices. - -There are two types of auerswald usb devices: -a) small PBX systems (ISDN) -b) COMfort system telephones (ISDN) - -The driver installation creates the devices -/dev/usb/auer0..15. These devices carry a vendor- -specific protocol. You may run all auerswald java -software on it. The java software needs a native -library "libAuerUsbJNINative.so" installed on -your system. This library is available from -auerswald and shipped as part of the java software. - -You may create the devices with: - mknod -m 666 /dev/usb/auer0 c 180 112 - ... - mknod -m 666 /dev/usb/auer15 c 180 127 - -Future plans -============ -- Connection to ISDN4LINUX (the hisax interface) - -The maintainer of this driver is wolfgang@iksw-muees.de diff --git a/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt b/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt index b2fc4d4a9917..9d31140e3f5b 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt @@ -436,7 +436,12 @@ post_reset; the USB core guarantees that this is true of internal suspend/resume events as well. If a driver wants to block all suspend/resume calls during some -critical section, it can simply acquire udev->pm_mutex. +critical section, it can simply acquire udev->pm_mutex. Note that +calls to resume may be triggered indirectly. Block IO due to memory +allocations can make the vm subsystem resume a device. Thus while +holding this lock you must not allocate memory with GFP_KERNEL or +GFP_NOFS. + Alternatively, if the critical section might call some of the usb_autopm_* routines, the driver can avoid deadlock by doing: |