[PATCH] gfp_t: drivers/usb

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

[PATCH] USB: URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag removed from the kernel

29 July 2005, Cambridge, MA:

This afternoon Alan Stern submitted a patch to remove the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK
flag from the

[PATCH] USB: URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag removed from the kernel

29 July 2005, Cambridge, MA:

This afternoon Alan Stern submitted a patch to remove the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK
flag from the Linux kernel. Mr. Stern explained, "This flag is a relic
from an earlier, less-well-designed system. For over a year it hasn't
been used for anything other than printing warning messages."

An anonymous spokesman for the Linux kernel development community
commented, "This is exactly the sort of thing we see happening all the
time. As the kernel evolves, support for old techniques and old code can
be jettisoned and replaced by newer, better approaches. Proprietary
operating systems do not have the freedom or flexibility to change so
quickly."

Mr. Stern, a staff member at Harvard University's Rowland Institute who
works on Linux only as a hobby, noted that the patch (labelled as548) did
not update two files, keyspan.c and option.c, in the USB drivers' "serial"
subdirectory. "Those files need more extensive changes," he remarked.
"They examine the status field of several URBs at times when they're not
supposed to. That will need to be fixed before the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag
is removed."

Greg Kroah-Hartman, the kernel maintainer responsible for overseeing all
of Linux's USB drivers, did not respond to our inquiries or return our
calls. His only comment was "Applied, thanks."

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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[PATCH] USB: Fix kmalloc's flags type in USB

Greg,

This patch fixes the kmalloc() flags argument type in USB
subsystem; hopefully all of its occurences. The patch was
made a

[PATCH] USB: Fix kmalloc's flags type in USB

Greg,

This patch fixes the kmalloc() flags argument type in USB
subsystem; hopefully all of its occurences. The patch was
made against patch-2.6.12-git2 from Jun 20.

Cleanup of flags for kmalloc() in USB subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Olav Kongas <ok@artecdesign.ee>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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[PATCH] USB: Spelling fixes for drivers/usb.

Here are some spelling corrections for drivers/usb.

cancelation -> cancellation
succesful -> successful
cancelation -> cancellat

[PATCH] USB: Spelling fixes for drivers/usb.

Here are some spelling corrections for drivers/usb.

cancelation -> cancellation
succesful -> successful
cancelation -> cancellation
decriptor -> descriptor
Initalize -> Initialize
wierd -> weird
Protocoll -> Protocol
occured -> occurred
successfull -> successful
Procesing -> Processing
devide -> divide
Isochronuous -> Isochronous
noticable -> noticeable
Basicly -> Basically
transfering -> transferring
intialize -> initialize
Incomming -> Incoming
additionnal -> additional
asume -> assume
Unfortunatly -> Unfortunately
retreive -> retrieve
tranceiver -> transceiver
Compatiblity -> Compatibility
Incorprated -> Incorporated
existance -> existence
Ununsual -> Unusual

Signed-off-by: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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[PATCH] USB: USB API documentation modification

In response to complaints about excessive latency in the uhci-hcd driver
I'm planning to convert it to a top-half/bottom-half design. It

[PATCH] USB: USB API documentation modification

In response to complaints about excessive latency in the uhci-hcd driver
I'm planning to convert it to a top-half/bottom-half design. It turns out
that to do this, the USB API has to be modified slightly since the driver
will not be able to meet one of the guarantees in the current API. This
patch changes some kerneldoc, specifying the weaker guarantee.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!

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