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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-02-09 10:32:48 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-02-09 10:32:48 +0100 |
commit | 4ad476e11f94fd3724c6e272d8220e99cd222b27 (patch) | |
tree | a8684d4ecbfe1d2b2b1e29ed74de65394ad21b43 /Documentation | |
parent | ring_buffer: remove unused flags parameter, fix (diff) | |
parent | Linux 2.6.29-rc4 (diff) | |
download | linux-4ad476e11f94fd3724c6e272d8220e99cd222b27.tar.xz linux-4ad476e11f94fd3724c6e272d8220e99cd222b27.zip |
Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc4' into tracing/core
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt | 16 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt | 13 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 17 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 ---------------------------------------- |