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authorDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2017-11-08 03:11:56 +0100
committerDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2017-11-08 03:11:56 +0100
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parentLinux 4.14-rc8 (diff)
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Merge tag 'v4.14-rc8' into next
Merge with mainline to bring in SPDX markings to avoid annoying merge problems when some header files get deleted.
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-remoteproc4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt31
-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst22
3 files changed, 36 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-remoteproc b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-remoteproc
index d188afebc8ba..c3afe9fab646 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-remoteproc
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-remoteproc
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
What: /sys/class/remoteproc/.../firmware
Date: October 2016
-Contact: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>
+Contact: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
Description: Remote processor firmware
Reports the name of the firmware currently loaded to the
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Description: Remote processor firmware
What: /sys/class/remoteproc/.../state
Date: October 2016
-Contact: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@imgtec.com>
+Contact: Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
Description: Remote processor state
Reports the state of the remote processor, which will be one of:
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
index 329e740adea7..f6f80380dff2 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt
@@ -1108,14 +1108,6 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
ld
Link target. Often, LDFLAGS_$@ is used to set specific options to ld.
- objcopy
- Copy binary. Uses OBJCOPYFLAGS usually specified in
- arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile.
- OBJCOPYFLAGS_$@ may be used to set additional options.
-
- gzip
- Compress target. Use maximum compression to compress target.
-
Example:
#arch/x86/boot/Makefile
LDFLAGS_bootsect := -Ttext 0x0 -s --oformat binary
@@ -1139,6 +1131,19 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
resulting in the target file being recompiled for no
obvious reason.
+ objcopy
+ Copy binary. Uses OBJCOPYFLAGS usually specified in
+ arch/$(ARCH)/Makefile.
+ OBJCOPYFLAGS_$@ may be used to set additional options.
+
+ gzip
+ Compress target. Use maximum compression to compress target.
+
+ Example:
+ #arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile
+ $(obj)/vmlinux.bin.gz: $(vmlinux.bin.all-y) FORCE
+ $(call if_changed,gzip)
+
dtc
Create flattened device tree blob object suitable for linking
into vmlinux. Device tree blobs linked into vmlinux are placed
@@ -1219,7 +1224,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly):
that may be shared between individual architectures.
The recommended approach how to use a generic header file is
to list the file in the Kbuild file.
- See "7.3 generic-y" for further info on syntax etc.
+ See "7.2 generic-y" for further info on syntax etc.
--- 6.11 Post-link pass
@@ -1254,13 +1259,13 @@ A Kbuild file may be defined under arch/<arch>/include/uapi/asm/ and
arch/<arch>/include/asm/ to list asm files coming from asm-generic.
See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file.
- --- 7.1 no-export-headers
+--- 7.1 no-export-headers
no-export-headers is essentially used by include/uapi/linux/Kbuild to
avoid exporting specific headers (e.g. kvm.h) on architectures that do
not support it. It should be avoided as much as possible.
- --- 7.2 generic-y
+--- 7.2 generic-y
If an architecture uses a verbatim copy of a header from
include/asm-generic then this is listed in the file
@@ -1287,7 +1292,7 @@ See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file.
Example: termios.h
#include <asm-generic/termios.h>
- --- 7.3 generated-y
+--- 7.3 generated-y
If an architecture generates other header files alongside generic-y
wrappers, generated-y specifies them.
@@ -1299,7 +1304,7 @@ See subsequent chapter for the syntax of the Kbuild file.
#arch/x86/include/asm/Kbuild
generated-y += syscalls_32.h
- --- 7.5 mandatory-y
+--- 7.4 mandatory-y
mandatory-y is essentially used by include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm
to define the minimum set of headers that must be exported in
diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst
index 1e23d4227337..b3170671a1df 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst
@@ -50,8 +50,9 @@ be stronger.
Except where noted below, we speak only for ourselves, and not for any company
we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future.
+ - Laura Abbott
- Bjorn Andersson (Linaro)
- - Andrea Arcangeli (Red Hat)
+ - Andrea Arcangeli
- Neil Armstrong
- Jens Axboe
- Pablo Neira Ayuso
@@ -60,15 +61,17 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future.
- Felipe Balbi
- Arnd Bergmann
- Ard Biesheuvel
- - Paolo Bonzini (Red Hat)
+ - Tim Bird
+ - Paolo Bonzini
- Christian Borntraeger
- Mark Brown (Linaro)
- Paul Burton
- Javier Martinez Canillas
- Rob Clark
- Jonathan Corbet
+ - Dennis Dalessandro
- Vivien Didelot (Savoir-faire Linux)
- - Hans de Goede (Red Hat)
+ - Hans de Goede
- Mel Gorman (SUSE)
- Sven Eckelmann
- Alex Elder (Linaro)
@@ -79,6 +82,7 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future.
- Juergen Gross
- Shawn Guo
- Ulf Hansson
+ - Stephen Hemminger (Microsoft)
- Tejun Heo
- Rob Herring
- Masami Hiramatsu
@@ -104,18 +108,21 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future.
- Viresh Kumar
- Aneesh Kumar K.V
- Julia Lawall
- - Doug Ledford (Red Hat)
+ - Doug Ledford
- Chuck Lever (Oracle)
- Daniel Lezcano
- Shaohua Li
- - Xin Long (Red Hat)
+ - Xin Long
- Tony Luck
+ - Catalin Marinas (Arm Ltd)
- Mike Marshall
- Chris Mason
- Paul E. McKenney
- David S. Miller
- Ingo Molnar
- Kuninori Morimoto
+ - Trond Myklebust
+ - Martin K. Petersen (Oracle)
- Borislav Petkov
- Jiri Pirko
- Josh Poimboeuf
@@ -124,18 +131,20 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future.
- Joerg Roedel
- Leon Romanovsky
- Steven Rostedt (VMware)
- - Ivan Safonov
+ - Frank Rowand
- Ivan Safonov
- Anna Schumaker
- Jes Sorensen
- K.Y. Srinivasan
- Heiko Stuebner
- Jiri Kosina (SUSE)
+ - Willy Tarreau
- Dmitry Torokhov
- Linus Torvalds
- Thierry Reding
- Rik van Riel
- Geert Uytterhoeven (Glider bvba)
+ - Eduardo Valentin (Amazon.com)
- Daniel Vetter
- Linus Walleij
- Richard Weinberger
@@ -145,3 +154,4 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future.
- Masahiro Yamada
- Wei Yongjun
- Lv Zheng
+ - Marc Zyngier (Arm Ltd)