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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 30 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt | 1 |
3 files changed, 43 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 89a47b5aff07..04e6c819b28a 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -451,3 +451,33 @@ Why: OSS sound_core grabs all legacy minors (0-255) of SOUND_MAJOR will also allow making ALSA OSS emulation independent of sound_core. The dependency will be broken then too. Who: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> + +---------------------------- + +What: Support for VMware's guest paravirtuliazation technique [VMI] will be + dropped. +When: 2.6.37 or earlier. +Why: With the recent innovations in CPU hardware acceleration technologies + from Intel and AMD, VMware ran a few experiments to compare these + techniques to guest paravirtualization technique on VMware's platform. + These hardware assisted virtualization techniques have outperformed the + performance benefits provided by VMI in most of the workloads. VMware + expects that these hardware features will be ubiquitous in a couple of + years, as a result, VMware has started a phased retirement of this + feature from the hypervisor. We will be removing this feature from the + Kernel too. Right now we are targeting 2.6.37 but can retire earlier if + technical reasons (read opportunity to remove major chunk of pvops) + arise. + + Please note that VMI has always been an optimization and non-VMI kernels + still work fine on VMware's platform. + Latest versions of VMware's product which support VMI are, + Workstation 7.0 and VSphere 4.0 on ESX side, future maintainence + releases for these products will continue supporting VMI. + + For more details about VMI retirement take a look at this, + http://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/2009/09/vmi-retirement.html + +Who: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> + +---------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt index 570f9bd9be2b..05d5cf1d743f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt @@ -123,10 +123,18 @@ resuid=n The user ID which may use the reserved blocks. sb=n Use alternate superblock at this location. -quota -noquota -grpquota -usrquota +quota These options are ignored by the filesystem. They +noquota are used only by quota tools to recognize volumes +grpquota where quota should be turned on. See documentation +usrquota in the quota-tools package for more details + (http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota). + +jqfmt=<quota type> These options tell filesystem details about quota +usrjquota=<file> so that quota information can be properly updated +grpjquota=<file> during journal replay. They replace the above + quota options. See documentation in the quota-tools + package for more details + (http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxquota). bh (*) ext3 associates buffer heads to data pages to nobh (a) cache disk block mapping information diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt index 75fddb40f416..4c7f9aee5c4e 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt @@ -359,6 +359,7 @@ STAC9227/9228/9229/927x 5stack-no-fp D965 5stack without front panel dell-3stack Dell Dimension E520 dell-bios Fixes with Dell BIOS setup + volknob Fixes with volume-knob widget 0x24 auto BIOS setup (default) STAC92HD71B* |