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Linux kernel release 3.x <http://kernel.org/>
These are the release notes for Linux version 3. Read them carefully,
as they tell you what this is all about, explain how to install the
kernel, and what to do if something goes wrong.
WHAT IS LINUX?
Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by
Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across
the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance.
It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix,
including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand
loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management,
and multistack networking including IPv4 and IPv6.
It is distributed under the GNU General Public License - see the
accompanying COPYING file for more details.
ON WHAT HARDWARE DOES IT RUN?
Although originally developed first for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or higher),
today Linux also runs on (at least) the Compaq Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC and
UltraSPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, PowerPC64, ARM, Hitachi SuperH, Cell,
IBM S/390, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, DEC VAX, AMD x86-64, AXIS CRIS,
Xtensa, Tilera TILE, AVR32 and Renesas M32R architectures.
Linux is easily portable to most general-purpose 32- or 64-bit architectures
as long as they have a paged memory management unit (PMMU) and a port of the
GNU C compiler (gcc) (part of The GNU Compiler Collection, GCC). Linux has
also been ported to a number of architectures without a PMMU, although
functionality is then obviously somewhat limited.
Linux has also been ported to itself. You can now run the kernel as a
userspace application - this is called UserMode Linux (UML).
DOCUMENTATION:
- There is a lot of documentation available both in electronic form on
the Internet and in books, both Linux-specific and pertaining to
general UNIX questions. I'd recommend looking into the documentation
subdirectories on any Linux FTP site for the LDP (Linux Documentation
Project) books. This README is not meant to be documentation on the
system: there are much better sources available.
- There are various README files in the Documentation/ subdirectory:
these typically contain kernel-specific installation notes for some
drivers for example. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what
is contained in each file. Please read the Changes file, as it
contains information about the problems, which may result by upgrading
your kernel.
- The Documentation/DocBook/ subdirectory contains several guides for
kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a
number of formats: PostScript (.ps), PDF, HTML, & man-pages, among others.
After installation, "make psdocs", "make pdfdocs", "make htmldocs",
or "make mandocs" will render the documentation in the requested format.
INSTALLING the kernel source:
- If you install the full sources, put the kernel tarball in a
directory where you have permissions (eg. your home directory) and
unpack it:
gzip -cd linux-3.X.tar.gz | tar xvf -
or
bzip2 -dc linux-3.X.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
Replace "X" with the version number of the latest kernel.
Do NOT use the /usr/src/linux area! This area has a (usually
incomplete) set of kernel headers that are used by the library header
files. They should match the library, and not get messed up by
whatever the kernel-du-jour happens to be.
- You can also upgrade between 3.x releases by patching. Patches are
distributed in the traditional gzip and the newer bzip2 format. To
install by patching, get all the newer patch files, enter the
top level directory of the kernel source (linux-3.X) and execute:
gzip -cd ../patch-3.x.gz | patch -p1
or
bzip2 -dc ../patch-3.x.bz2 | patch -p1
Replace "x" for all versions bigger than the version "X" of your current
source tree, _in_order_, and you should be ok. You may want to remove
the backup files (some-file-name~ or some-file-name.orig), and make sure
that there are no failed patches (some-file-name# or some-file-name.rej).
If there are, either you or I have made a mistake.
Unlike patches for the 3.x kernels, patches for the 3.x.y kernels
(also known as the -stable kernels) are not incremental but instead apply
directly to the base 3.x kernel. For example, if your base kernel is 3.0
and you want to apply the 3.0.3 patch, you must not first apply the 3.0.1
and 3.0.2 patches. Similarly, if you are running kernel version 3.0.2 and
want to jump to 3.0.3, you must first reverse the 3.0.2 patch (that is,
patch -R) _before_ applying the 3.0.3 patch. You can read more on this in
Documentation/applying-patches.txt
Alternatively, the script patch-kernel can be used to automate this
process. It determines the current kernel version and applies any
patches found.
linux/scripts/patch-kernel linux
The first argument in the command above is the location of the
kernel source. Patches are applied from the current directory, but
an alternative directory can be specified as the second argument.
- Make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around:
cd linux
make mrproper
You should now have the sources correctly installed.
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
Compiling and running the 3.x kernels requires up-to-date
versions of various software packages. Consult
Documentation/Changes for the minimum version numbers required
and how to get updates for these packages. Beware that using
excessively old versions of these packages can cause indirect
errors that are very difficult to track down, so don't assume that
you can just update packages when obvious problems arise during
build or operation.
BUILD directory for the kernel:
When compiling the kernel, all output files will per default be
stored together with the kernel source code.
Using the option "make O=output/dir" allow you to specify an alternate
place for the output files (including .config).
Example:
kernel source code: /usr/src/linux-3.X
build directory: /home/name/build/kernel
To configure and build the kernel, use:
cd /usr/src/linux-3.X
make O=/home/name/build/kernel menuconfig
make O=/home/name/build/kernel
sudo make O=/home/name/build/kernel modules_install install
Please note: If the 'O=output/dir' option is used, then it must be
used for all invocations of make.
CONFIGURING the kernel:
Do not skip this step even if you are only upgrading one minor
version. New configuration options are added in each release, and
odd problems will turn up if the configuration files are not set up
as expected. If you want to carry your existing configuration to a
new version with minimal work, use "make oldconfig", which will
only ask you for the answers to new questions.
- Alternative configuration commands are:
"make config" Plain text interface.
"make menuconfig" Text based color menus, radiolists & dialogs.
"make nconfig" Enhanced text based color menus.
"make xconfig" X windows (Qt) based configuration tool.
"make gconfig" X windows (Gtk) based configuration tool.
"make oldconfig" Default all questions based on the contents of
your existing ./.config file and asking about
new config symbols.
"make silentoldconfig"
Like above, but avoids cluttering the screen
with questions already answered.
Additionally updates the dependencies.
"make olddefconfig"
Like above, but sets new symbols to their default
values without prompting.
"make defconfig" Create a ./.config file by using the default
symbol values from either arch/$ARCH/defconfig
or arch/$ARCH/configs/${PLATFORM}_defconfig,
depending on the architecture.
"make ${PLATFORM}_defconfig"
Create a ./.config file by using the default
symbol values from
arch/$ARCH/configs/${PLATFORM}_defconfig.
Use "make help" to get a list of all available
platforms of your architecture.
"make allyesconfig"
Create a ./.config file by setting symbol
values to 'y' as much as possible.
"make allmodconfig"
Create a ./.config file by setting symbol
values to 'm' as much as possible.
"make allnoconfig" Create a ./.config file by setting symbol
values to 'n' as much as possible.
"make randconfig" Create a ./.config file by setting symbol
values to random values.
"make localmodconfig" Create a config based on current config and
loaded modules (lsmod). Disables any module
option that is not needed for the loaded modules.
To create a localmodconfig for another machine,
store the lsmod of that machine into a file
and pass it in as a LSMOD parameter.
target$ lsmod > /tmp/mylsmod
target$ scp /tmp/mylsmod host:/tmp
host$ make LSMOD=/tmp/mylsmod localmodconfig
The above also works when cross compiling.
"make localyesconfig" Similar to localmodconfig, except it will convert
all module options to built in (=y) options.
You can find more information on using the Linux kernel config tools
in Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt.
- NOTES on "make config":
- Having unnecessary drivers will make the kernel bigger, and can
under some circumstances lead to problems: probing for a
nonexistent controller card may confuse your other controllers
- Compiling the kernel with "Processor type" set higher than 386
will result in a kernel that does NOT work on a 386. The
kernel will detect this on bootup, and give up.
- A kernel with math-emulation compiled in will still use the
coprocessor if one is present: the math emulation will just
never get used in that case. The kernel will be slightly larger,
but will work on different machines regardless of whether they
have a math coprocessor or not.
- The "kernel hacking" configuration details usually result in a
bigger or slower kernel (or both), and can even make the kernel
less stable by configuring some routines to actively try to
break bad code to find kernel problems (kmalloc()). Thus you
should probably answer 'n' to the questions for "development",
"experimental", or "debugging" features.
COMPILING the kernel:
- Make sure you have at least gcc 3.2 available.
For more information, refer to Documentation/Changes.
Please note that you can still run a.out user programs with this kernel.
- Do a "make" to create a compressed kernel image. It is also
possible to do "make install" if you have lilo installed to suit the
kernel makefiles, but you may want to check your particular lilo setup first.
To do the actual install, you have to be root, but none of the normal
build should require that. Don't take the name of root in vain.
- If you configured any of the parts of the kernel as `modules', you
will also have to do "make modules_install".
- Verbose kernel compile/build output:
Normally, the kernel build system runs in a fairly quiet mode (but not
totally silent). However, sometimes you or other kernel developers need
to see compile, link, or other commands exactly as they are executed.
For this, use "verbose" build mode. This is done by inserting
"V=1" in the "make" command. E.g.:
make V=1 all
To have the build system also tell the reason for the rebuild of each
target, use "V=2". The default is "V=0".
- Keep a backup kernel handy in case something goes wrong. This is
especially true for the development releases, since each new release
contains new code which has not been debugged. Make sure you keep a
backup of the modules corresponding to that kernel, as well. If you
are installing a new kernel with the same version number as your
working kernel, make a backup of your modules directory before you
do a "make modules_install".
Alternatively, before compiling, use the kernel config option
"LOCALVERSION" to append a unique suffix to the regular kernel version.
LOCALVERSION can be set in the "General Setup" menu.
- In order to boot your new kernel, you'll need to copy the kernel
image (e.g. .../linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage after compilation)
to the place where your regular bootable kernel is found.
- Booting a kernel directly from a floppy without the assistance of a
bootloader such as LILO, is no longer supported.
If you boot Linux from the hard drive, chances are you use LILO, which
uses the kernel image as specified in the file /etc/lilo.conf. The
kernel image file is usually /vmlinuz, /boot/vmlinuz, /bzImage or
/boot/bzImage. To use the new kernel, save a copy of the old image
and copy the new image over the old one. Then, you MUST RERUN LILO
to update the loading map!! If you don't, you won't be able to boot
the new kernel image.
Reinstalling LILO is usually a matter of running /sbin/lilo.
You may wish to edit /etc/lilo.conf to specify an entry for your
old kernel image (say, /vmlinux.old) in case the new one does not
work. See the LILO docs for more information.
After reinstalling LILO, you should be all set. Shutdown the system,
reboot, and enjoy!
If you ever need to change the default root device, video mode,
ramdisk size, etc. in the kernel image, use the 'rdev' program (or
alternatively the LILO boot options when appropriate). No need to
recompile the kernel to change these parameters.
- Reboot with the new kernel and enjoy.
IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG:
- If you have problems that seem to be due to kernel bugs, please check
the file MAINTAINERS to see if there is a particular person associated
with the part of the kernel that you are having trouble with. If there
isn't anyone listed there, then the second best thing is to mail
them to me (torvalds@linux-foundation.org), and possibly to any other
relevant mailing-list or to the newsgroup.
- In all bug-reports, *please* tell what kernel you are talking about,
how to duplicate the problem, and what your setup is (use your common
sense). If the problem is new, tell me so, and if the problem is
old, please try to tell me when you first noticed it.
- If the bug results in a message like
unable to handle kernel paging request at address C0000010
Oops: 0002
EIP: 0010:XXXXXXXX
eax: xxxxxxxx ebx: xxxxxxxx ecx: xxxxxxxx edx: xxxxxxxx
esi: xxxxxxxx edi: xxxxxxxx ebp: xxxxxxxx
ds: xxxx es: xxxx fs: xxxx gs: xxxx
Pid: xx, process nr: xx
xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx xx
or similar kernel debugging information on your screen or in your
system log, please duplicate it *exactly*. The dump may look
incomprehensible to you, but it does contain information that may
help debugging the problem. The text above the dump is also
important: it tells something about why the kernel dumped code (in
the above example, it's due to a bad kernel pointer). More information
on making sense of the dump is in Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
- If you compiled the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS you can send the dump
as is, otherwise you will have to use the "ksymoops" program to make
sense of the dump (but compiling with CONFIG_KALLSYMS is usually preferred).
This utility can be downloaded from
ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/ksymoops/ .
Alternatively, you can do the dump lookup by hand:
- In debugging dumps like the above, it helps enormously if you can
look up what the EIP value means. The hex value as such doesn't help
me or anybody else very much: it will depend on your particular
kernel setup. What you should do is take the hex value from the EIP
line (ignore the "0010:"), and look it up in the kernel namelist to
see which kernel function contains the offending address.
To find out the kernel function name, you'll need to find the system
binary associated with the kernel that exhibited the symptom. This is
the file 'linux/vmlinux'. To extract the namelist and match it against
the EIP from the kernel crash, do:
nm vmlinux | sort | less
This will give you a list of kernel addresses sorted in ascending
order, from which it is simple to find the function that contains the
offending address. Note that the address given by the kernel
debugging messages will not necessarily match exactly with the
function addresses (in fact, that is very unlikely), so you can't
just 'grep' the list: the list will, however, give you the starting
point of each kernel function, so by looking for the function that
has a starting address lower than the one you are searching for but
is followed by a function with a higher address you will find the one
you want. In fact, it may be a good idea to include a bit of
"context" in your problem report, giving a few lines around the
interesting one.
If you for some reason cannot do the above (you have a pre-compiled
kernel image or similar), telling me as much about your setup as
possible will help. Please read the REPORTING-BUGS document for details.
- Alternatively, you can use gdb on a running kernel. (read-only; i.e. you
cannot change values or set break points.) To do this, first compile the
kernel with -g; edit arch/i386/Makefile appropriately, then do a "make
clean". You'll also need to enable CONFIG_PROC_FS (via "make config").
After you've rebooted with the new kernel, do "gdb vmlinux /proc/kcore".
You can now use all the usual gdb commands. The command to look up the
point where your system crashed is "l *0xXXXXXXXX". (Replace the XXXes
with the EIP value.)
gdb'ing a non-running kernel currently fails because gdb (wrongly)
disregards the starting offset for which the kernel is compiled.
Linux kernel mirror (for testing)
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
kernel
os
linux
code
Clone this repository
https://tangled.org/tjh.dev/kernel
git@gordian.tjh.dev:tjh.dev/kernel
For self-hosted knots, clone URLs may differ based on your setup.
Pull USB fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are a number of USB driver fixes for 3.12-rc3.
These are all for host controller issues that have been reported, and
there's a fix for an annoying error message that gets printed every
time you remove a USB 3 device from the system that's been bugging me
for a while"
* tag 'usb-3.12-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb:
usb: dwc3: add support for Merrifield
USB: fsl/ehci: fix failure of checking PHY_CLK_VALID during reinitialization
USB: Fix breakage in ffs_fs_mount()
fsl/usb: Resolve PHY_CLK_VLD instability issue for ULPI phy
usb/core/devio.c: Don't reject control message to endpoint with wrong direction bit
usb: chipidea: USB_CHIPIDEA should depend on HAS_DMA
usb: chipidea: udc: free pending TD at removal procedure
usb: chipidea: imx: Add usb_phy_shutdown at probe's error path
usb: chipidea: Fix memleak for ci->hw_bank.regmap when removal
usb: chipidea: udc: fix the oops after rmmod gadget
USB: fix PM config symbol in uhci-hcd, ehci-hcd, and xhci-hcd
USB: OHCI: accept very late isochronous URBs
USB: UHCI: accept very late isochronous URBs
USB: iMX21: accept very late isochronous URBs
usbcore: check usb device's state before sending a Set SEL control transfer
xhci: Fix race between ep halt and URB cancellation
usb: Fix xHCI host issues on remote wakeup.
xhci: Ensure a command structure points to the correct trb on the command ring
xhci: Fix oops happening after address device timeout
Pull tty/serial fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are some serial at tty driver fixes for 3.12-rc3
The serial driver fixes some kref leaks, documentation is moved to the
proper places, and the tty and n_tty fixes resolve some reported
regressions. There is still one outstanding tty regression fix that
isn't in here yet, as I want to test it out some more, it will be sent
for 3.12-rc4 if it checks out"
* tag 'tty-3.12-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty:
tty: ar933x_uart: move devicetree binding documentation
tty: Fix SIGTTOU not sent with tcflush()
n_tty: Fix EOF push index when termios changes
serial: pch_uart: remove unnecessary tty_port_tty_get
serial: pch_uart: fix tty-kref leak in dma-rx path
serial: pch_uart: fix tty-kref leak in rx-error path
serial: tegra: fix tty-kref leak
Add PCI id for Intel Merrifield
Signed-off-by: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull staging fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are some staging driver fixes, MAINTAINER updates, and a new
device id. All of these have been in the linux-next tree, and are
pretty simple patches"
* tag 'staging-3.12-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging:
staging: r8188eu: Add new device ID
staging: imx-drm: Fix probe failure
staging: vt6656: [BUG] iwctl_siwencodeext return if device not open
staging: vt6656: [BUG] main_usb.c oops on device_close move flag earlier.
staging: vt6656: rxtx.c [BUG] s_vGetFreeContext dead lock on null apTD.
Staging: rtl8192u: r819xU_cmdpkt: checking NULL value after doing dev_alloc_skb
staging: usbip: Orphan usbip
staging: r8188eu: Add files for new drive: Cocci spatch "noderef"
staging: r8188eu: Cocci spatch "noderef"
staging: octeon-usb: Cocci spatch "noderef"
staging: r8188eu: Add files for new drive: Cocci spatch "noderef"
MAINTAINERS: staging: dgnc and dgap drivers: add maintainer
staging: lustre: Cocci spatch "noderef"
Commit 'tty: ar933x_uart: add device tree support
and binding documentation' introduced a new doc in
bindins/tty/serial.
According to a recent thread [1] on the linux-serial
list, the binding documentation of serial drivers
should be added into bindings/serial.
Move the documentation of qca,ar9330-uart to the
correct place.
1. http://marc.info/?l=linux-serial&m=137771295411517
Cc: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
In case of usb phy reinitialization:
e.g. insmod usb-module(usb works well) -> rmmod usb-module -> insmod usb-module
It found the PHY_CLK_VALID bit didn't work if it's not with the power-on reset.
So we just check PHY_CLK_VALID bit during the stage with POR, this can be met
by the tricky of checking FSL_SOC_USB_PRICTRL register.
Signed-off-by: Shengzhou Liu <Shengzhou.Liu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Merge tag 'driver-core-3.12-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core / sysfs fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are 2 fixes for 3.12-rc3. One fixes a sysfs problem with
mounting caused by 3.12-rc1, and the other is a bug reported by the
chromeos developers with the driver core.
Both have been in linux-next for a bit"
* tag 'driver-core-3.12-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
driver core : Fix use after free of dev->parent in device_shutdown
sysfs: Allow mounting without CONFIG_NET
The DLink DWA-125 Rev D1 also uses this driver.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Reported-by: Sergey Kostanbaev <sergey.kostanbaev@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sergey Kostanbaev <sergey.kostanbaev@gmail.com>
Cc: Sergey Kostanbaev <sergey.kostanbaev@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Commit 'e7f3880cd9b98c5bf9391ae7acdec82b75403776'
tty: Fix recursive deadlock in tty_perform_flush()
introduced a regression where tcflush() does not generate
SIGTTOU for background process groups.
Make sure ioctl(TCFLSH) calls tty_check_change() when
invoked from the line discipline.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
There's a bunch of failure exits in ffs_fs_mount() with
seriously broken recovery logics. Most of that appears to stem
from misunderstanding of the ->kill_sb() semantics; unlike
->put_super() it is called for *all* superblocks of given type,
no matter how (in)complete the setup had been. ->put_super()
is called only if ->s_root is not NULL; any failure prior to
setting ->s_root will have the call of ->put_super() skipped.
->kill_sb(), OTOH, awaits every superblock that has come from
sget().
Current behaviour of ffs_fs_mount():
We have struct ffs_sb_fill_data data on stack there. We do
ffs_dev = functionfs_acquire_dev_callback(dev_name);
and store that in data.private_data. Then we call mount_nodev(),
passing it ffs_sb_fill() as a callback. That will either fail
outright, or manage to call ffs_sb_fill(). There we allocate an
instance of struct ffs_data, slap the value of ffs_dev (picked
from data.private_data) into ffs->private_data and overwrite
data.private_data by storing ffs into an overlapping member
(data.ffs_data). Then we store ffs into sb->s_fs_info and attempt
to set the rest of the things up (root inode, root dentry, then
create /ep0 there). Any of those might fail. Should that
happen, we get ffs_fs_kill_sb() called before mount_nodev()
returns. If mount_nodev() fails for any reason whatsoever,
we proceed to
functionfs_release_dev_callback(data.ffs_data);
That's broken in a lot of ways. Suppose the thing has failed in
allocation of e.g. root inode or dentry. We have
functionfs_release_dev_callback(ffs);
ffs_data_put(ffs);
done by ffs_fs_kill_sb() (ffs accessed via sb->s_fs_info), followed by
functionfs_release_dev_callback(ffs);
from ffs_fs_mount() (via data.ffs_data). Note that the second
functionfs_release_dev_callback() has every chance to be done to freed memory.
Suppose we fail *before* root inode allocation. What happens then?
ffs_fs_kill_sb() doesn't do anything to ffs (it's either not called at all,
or it doesn't have a pointer to ffs stored in sb->s_fs_info). And
functionfs_release_dev_callback(data.ffs_data);
is called by ffs_fs_mount(), but here we are in nasal daemon country - we
are reading from a member of union we'd never stored into. In practice,
we'll get what we used to store into the overlapping field, i.e. ffs_dev.
And then we get screwed, since we treat it (struct gfs_ffs_obj * in
disguise, returned by functionfs_acquire_dev_callback()) as struct
ffs_data *, pick what would've been ffs_data ->private_data from it
(*well* past the actual end of the struct gfs_ffs_obj - struct ffs_data
is much bigger) and poke in whatever it points to.
FWIW, there's a minor leak on top of all that in case if ffs_sb_fill()
fails on kstrdup() - ffs is obviously forgotten.
The thing is, there is no point in playing all those games with union.
Just allocate and initialize ffs_data *before* calling mount_nodev() and
pass a pointer to it via data.ffs_data. And once it's stored in
sb->s_fs_info, clear data.ffs_data, so that ffs_fs_mount() knows that
it doesn't need to kill the sucker manually - from that point on
we'll have it done by ->kill_sb().
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.3+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull char/misc driver fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are some HyperV and MEI driver fixes for 3.12-rc3. They resolve
some issues that people have been reporting for them"
* tag 'char-misc-3.12-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc:
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Terminate vmbus version negotiation on timeout
Drivers: hv: util: Correctly support ws2008R2 and earlier
mei: cancel stall timers in mei_reset
mei: bus: stop wait for read during cl state transition
mei: make me client counters less error prone
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