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2005-09-09kbuild: arm - use generic asm-offsets.h supportSam Ravnborg
Delete obsoleted stuff from arch Makefile and rename constants.h to asm-offsets.h Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-09kbuild: m68k,parisc,ppc,ppc64,s390,xtensa use generic asm-offsets.h supportSam Ravnborg
Delete obsoleted parts form arch makefiles and rename to asm-offsets.h Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-09kbuild: arm26,sparc use generic asm-offset supportSam Ravnborg
Rename all includes to use asm-offsets.h to match generic name Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-09kbuild: h8300,m68knommu,sh,sh64 use generic asm-offsets.h supportSam Ravnborg
h8300, m68knommu, sh and sh64 all used the name asm-offsets.h so minimal changes required. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-09kbuild: full dependency check on asm-offsets.hSam Ravnborg
Building asm-offsets.h has been moved to a seperate Kbuild file located in the top-level directory. This allow us to share the functionality across the architectures. The old rules in architecture specific Makefiles will die in subsequent patches. Furhtermore the usual kbuild dependency tracking is now used when deciding to rebuild asm-offsets.s. So we no longer risk to fail a rebuild caused by asm-offsets.c dependencies being touched. With this common rule-set we now force the same name across all architectures. Following patches will fix the rest. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-08[PATCH] ppc32: Fix head_4xx.S compile errorKumar Gala
head_4xx.S wasn't compiling due to a missing #endif Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-08Merge linux-2.6 with linux-acpi-2.6Len Brown
2005-09-07Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 Linus Torvalds
2005-09-07[PATCH] bogus #if (simserial)viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] CHECKFLAGS on ppc64 got brokenviro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Now that asm-powerpc/* is using ifdefs on __powerpc64__ we need to add it to CHECKFLAGS on ppc64. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] bogus #if (arch/um/kernel/mem.c)viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] bogus symbol used in arch/um/os-Linux/elf_aux.cviro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
elf_aux is userland code; it uses symbol (ELF_CLASS) that doesn't exist in userland headers; pulled into kernel-offsets.h, switched elf_aux to using it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] lost chunk of "uml: build cleanups"viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
A piece of the UML stubs patch got lost - it has Killed STUBS_CFLAGS - it's not needed and the only remaining use had been gratitious - it only polluted CFLAGS in description and does remove it in arch/um/Makefile-x86_64, but forgets to do the same in i386 counterpart. Lost chunk follows: Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] Kconfig fix (BLK_DEV_FD dependencies)viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
Sanitized and fixed floppy dependencies: split the messy dependencies for BLK_DEV_FD by introducing a new symbol (ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC), making BLK_DEV_FD depend on that one and taking declarations of ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC to arch/*/Kconfig. While we are at it, fixed several obvious cases when BLK_DEV_FD should have been excluded (architectures lacking asm/floppy.h are *not* going to have floppy.c compile, let alone work). If you can come up with better name for that ("this architecture might have working PC-compatible floppy disk controller"), you are more than welcome - just s/ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC/your_prefered_name/g in the patch below... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm Linus Torvalds
2005-09-07[PATCH] kprobes: fix bug when probed on task and isr functionsKeshavamurthy Anil S
This patch fixes a race condition where in system used to hang or sometime crash within minutes when kprobes are inserted on ISR routine and a task routine. The fix has been stress tested on i386, ia64, pp64 and on x86_64. To reproduce the problem insert kprobes on schedule() and do_IRQ() functions and you should see hang or system crash. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] kprobes: fix handling of simultaneous probe hit/unregisterJim Keniston
This patch fixes a bug in kprobes's handling of a corner case on i386 and x86_64. On an SMP system, if one CPU unregisters a kprobe just after another CPU hits that probepoint, kprobe_handler() on the latter CPU sees that the kprobe has been unregistered, and attempts to let the CPU continue as if the probepoint hadn't been hit. The bug is that on i386 and x86_64, we were neglecting to set the IP back to the beginning of the probed instruction. This could cause an oops or crash. This bug doesn't exist on ppc64 and ia64, where a breakpoint instruction leaves the IP pointing to the beginning of the instruction. I don't know about sparc64. (Dave, could you please advise?) This fix has been tested on i386 and x86_64 SMP systems. To reproduce the problem, set one CPU to work registering and unregistering a kprobe repeatedly, and another CPU pounding the probepoint in a tight loop. Acked-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] Kprobes/IA64: fix race when break hits and kprobe not foundKeshavamurthy Anil S
This patch addresses a potential race condition for a case where Kprobe has been removed right after another CPU has taken a break hit. The way this is addressed here is when the CPU that has taken a break hit does not find its corresponding kprobe, then we check to see if the original instruction got replaced with other than break. If it got replaced with other than break instruction, then we continue to execute from the replaced instruction, else if we find that it is still a break, then we let the kernel handle this, as this might be the break instruction inserted by other than kprobe(may be kernel debugger). Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] kprobes-prevent-possible-race-conditions-sparc64-changes fixPrasanna S Panchamukhi
This patch adds flags "ax" to .kprobe.text section. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] Kprobes: prevent possible race conditions sparc64 changesPrasanna S Panchamukhi
This patch contains the sparc64 architecture specific changes to prevent the possible race conditions. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] Kprobes: prevent possible race conditions ia64 changesPrasanna S Panchamukhi
This patch contains the ia64 architecture specific changes to prevent the possible race conditions. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] Kprobes: prevent possible race conditions ppc64 changesPrasanna S Panchamukhi
This patch contains the ppc64 architecture specific changes to prevent the possible race conditions. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] kprobes: prevent possible race conditions x86_64 changesPrasanna S Panchamukhi
This patch contains the x86_64 architecture specific changes to prevent the possible race conditions. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] kprobes: prevent possible race conditions i386 changesPrasanna S Panchamukhi
This patch contains the i386 architecture specific changes to prevent the possible race conditions. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] Corgi: Add MMC/SD write protection switch handlingRichard Purdie
Add MMC/SD write protection switch handling for the Corgi platform Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] Corgi: Add keyboard and touchscreen device definitionsRichard Purdie
Add keyboard and touchscreen device definitions for corgi. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] w100fb: Update corgi platform code to match new driverRichard Purdie
This patch moves the platform specific Sharp SL-C7x0 LCD code from the w100fb driver into a more appropriate place and updates the Corgi code to match the new w100fb driver. It also updates the corgi touchscreen code to match the new simplified interface available from w100fb. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] PPC64: convert kcalloc to kzallocPekka Enberg
This patch converts kcalloc(1, ...) calls to use the new kzalloc() function. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] IA64: convert kcalloc to kzallocPekka Enberg
This patch converts kcalloc(1, ...) calls to use the new kzalloc() function. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] fix: dmi_check_systemRobert Love
Background: 1) dmi_check_system() returns the count of the number of matches. Zero thus means no matches. 2) A match callback can return nonzero to stop the match checking. Bug: The count is incremented after we check for the nonzero return value, so it does not reflect the actual count. We could say this is intended, for some dumb reason, except that it means that a match on the first check returns zero--no matches--if the callback returns nonzero. Attached patch implements the count before calling the callback and thus before potentially short-circuiting. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Cc: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] dmi: add onboard devices discoveryAndrey Panin
This patch adds onboard devices and IPMI BMC discovery into DMI scan code. Drivers can use dmi_find_device() function to search for devices by type and name. Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] dmi: make dmi_string() behave like strdup()Andrey Panin
This patch changes dmi_string() function to allocate string copy by itself, to avoid code duplication in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] dmi: remove old debugging codeAndrey Panin
DMI debugging code is unused for ages. This patch removes it. Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] dmi: remove uneeded functionAndrey Panin
After elimination of central DMI blacklist dmi_scan_machine() function became a wrapper for dmi_iterate(). This patch moves some code around to kill unneeded function. Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] remove duplicated sys_open32() code from 64bit archsMiklos Szeredi
64 bit architectures all implement their own compatibility sys_open(), when in fact the difference is simply not forcing the O_LARGEFILE flag. So use the a common function instead. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] cpusets: Move the ia64 domain setup code to the generic codeJohn Hawkes
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] ia64 cpuset + build_sched_domains() mangles structuresJohn Hawkes
I've already sent this to the maintainers, and this is now being sent to a larger community audience. I have fixed a problem with the ia64 version of build_sched_domains(), but a similar fix still needs to be made to the generic build_sched_domains() in kernel/sched.c. The "dynamic sched domains" functionality has recently been merged into 2.6.13-rcN that sees the dynamic declaration of a cpu-exclusive (a.k.a. "isolated") cpuset and rebuilds the CPU Scheduler sched domains and sched groups to separate away the CPUs in this cpu-exclusive cpuset from the remainder of the non-isolated CPUs. This allows the non-isolated CPUs to completely ignore the isolated CPUs when doing load-balancing. Unfortunately, build_sched_domains() expects that a sched domain will include all the CPUs of each node in the domain, i.e., that no node will belong in both an isolated cpuset and a non-isolated cpuset. Declaring a cpuset that violates this presumption will produce flawed data structures and will oops the kernel. To trigger the problem (on a NUMA system with >1 CPUs per node): cd /dev/cpuset mkdir newcpuset cd newcpuset echo 0 >cpus echo 0 >mems echo 1 >cpu_exclusive I have fixed this shortcoming for ia64 NUMA (with multiple CPUs per node). A similar shortcoming exists in the generic build_sched_domains() (in kernel/sched.c) for NUMA, and that needs to be fixed also. The fix involves dynamically allocating sched_group_nodes[] and sched_group_allnodes[] for each invocation of build_sched_domains(), rather than using global arrays for these structures. Care must be taken to remember kmalloc() addresses so that arch_destroy_sched_domains() can properly kfree() the new dynamic structures. Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] remove verify_area(): remove verify_area() from various uaccess.h ↵Jesper Juhl
headers Remove the deprecated (and unused) verify_area() from various uaccess.h headers. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] NTP: ntp-helper functionsjohn stultz
This patch cleans up a commonly repeated set of changes to the NTP state variables by adding two helper inline functions: ntp_clear(): Clears the ntp state variables ntp_synced(): Returns 1 if the system is synced with a time server. This was compile tested for alpha, arm, i386, x86-64, ppc64, s390, sparc, sparc64. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] Additions to .data.read_mostly sectionRavikiran G Thirumalai
Mark variables which are usually accessed for reads with __readmostly. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] remove the second arg of do_timer_interrupt()Adrian Bunk
The second arg of do_timer_interrupt() is not used in the functions, and all callers pass NULL. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@Linux-SH.ORG> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] arm26: one -g is enough for everyoneAdrian Bunk
The main Makefile is already adding -g to the CFLAGS if CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y. Not that two -g would do harm, but one works as well. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] Fix function/macro name collision on i386 oprofileDavid Gibson
The i386 OProfile code has a function named nmi_exit(), which collides with the nmi_exit() macro in linux/hardirq.h. At the moment, we get away with it, because hardirq.h isn't included in the oprofile code. I hit this as a bug when working with a patch which (indirectly) adds a #include of hardirq.h to oprofile. Regardless, the name collision is probably not a good idea, so this patch fixes it, renaming the oprofile function to op_nmi_exit(). It also renames the nmi_init() and nmi_timer_init() functions similarly, for consistency. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] Make the bzImage format self-terminatingH. Peter Anvin
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] move m68k rtc drivers over to initcallsChristoph Hellwig
this gets rid of the last two explicit initializations in misc.c Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] compat: be more consistent about [ug]id_tStephen Rothwell
When I first wrote the compat layer patches, I was somewhat cavalier about the definition of compat_uid_t and compat_gid_t (or maybe I just misunderstood :-)). This patch makes the compat types much more consistent with the types we are being compatible with and hopefully will fix a few bugs along the way. compat type type in compat arch __compat_[ug]id_t __kernel_[ug]id_t __compat_[ug]id32_t __kernel_[ug]id32_t compat_[ug]id_t [ug]id_t The difference is that compat_uid_t is always 32 bits (for the archs we care about) but __compat_uid_t may be 16 bits on some. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] NMI: Update NMI users of RCU to use new APIPaul E. McKenney
Uses of RCU for dynamically changeable NMI handlers need to use the new rcu_dereference() and rcu_assign_pointer() facilities. This change makes it clear that these uses are safe from a memory-barrier viewpoint, but the main purpose is to document exactly what operations are being protected by RCU. This has been tested on x86 and x86-64, which are the only architectures affected by this change. Signed-off-by: <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] More __read_mostly variablesChristoph Lameter
Move some more frequently read variables that showed up during some of our performance tests as sometimes ending up in hot cachelines to the read_mostly section. Fix: Move the __read_mostly from before hpet_usec_quotient to follow the variable like the other uses of __read_mostly. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] detect soft lockupsIngo Molnar
This patch adds a new kernel debug feature: CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP. When enabled then per-CPU watchdog threads are started, which try to run once per second. If they get delayed for more than 10 seconds then a callback from the timer interrupt detects this condition and prints out a warning message and a stack dump (once per lockup incident). The feature is otherwise non-intrusive, it doesnt try to unlock the box in any way, it only gets the debug info out, automatically, and on all CPUs affected by the lockup. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07[PATCH] x86_64: Fix off by one in e820_mappedEric W. Biederman
This allows a valid iommu placed immediately after memory to work, to be recognized as after the last byte of memory and not overlapping it. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>