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Linus Torvalds 5ebe0ee802 There is a nice new document from Neil on how pathname lookups work and

some new CAN driver documentation.  Beyond that, we have kernel-doc fixes,
 a bit more work to support reproducible builds, and the usual collection of
 small fixes.
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Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation update from Jon Corbet:
 "There is a nice new document from Neil on how pathname lookups work
  and some new CAN driver documentation.  Beyond that, we have
  kernel-doc fixes, a bit more work to support reproducible builds, and
  the usual collection of small fixes"

* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (34 commits)
  Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup.
  Documentation/vm/slub.txt: document slabinfo-gnuplot.sh
  Doc: ABI/stable: Fix typo in ABI/stable
  doc: Clarify that nmi_watchdog param is for hardlockups
  Typo correction for description in gpio document.
  DocBook: Fix kernel-doc to be case-insensitive for private:
  kernel-docs.txt: update kernelnewbies reference
  Doc:kvm: Fix typo in Doc/virtual/kvm
  Documentation/Changes: Add bc in "Current Minimal Requirements" section
  Documentation/email-clients.txt: remove trailing whitespace
  DocBook: Use a fixed encoding for output
  MAINTAINERS: The docs tree has moved
  Docs/kernel-parameters: Add earlycon devicetree usage
  SubmittingPatches: make Subject examples match the de facto standard
  Documentation: gpio: mention that <function>-gpio has been deprecated
  Documentation: cgroups: just fix a few typos
  Documentation: Update kselftest.txt
  Documentation: DMA API: Be more explicit that nents is always the same
  Documentation: Update the default value of crashkernel low
  zram: update documentation
  ...

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Intro

This document is designed to provide a list of the minimum levels of software necessary to run the 3.0 kernels.

This document is originally based on my "Changes" file for 2.0.x kernels and therefore owes credit to the same people as that file (Jared Mauch, Axel Boldt, Alessandro Sigala, and countless other users all over the 'net).

Current Minimal Requirements

Upgrade to at least these software revisions before thinking you've encountered a bug! If you're unsure what version you're currently running, the suggested command should tell you.

Again, keep in mind that this list assumes you are already functionally running a Linux kernel. Also, not all tools are necessary on all systems; obviously, if you don't have any ISDN hardware, for example, you probably needn't concern yourself with isdn4k-utils.

o GNU C 3.2 # gcc --version o GNU make 3.80 # make --version o binutils 2.12 # ld -v o util-linux 2.10o # fdformat --version o module-init-tools 0.9.10 # depmod -V o e2fsprogs 1.41.4 # e2fsck -V o jfsutils 1.1.3 # fsck.jfs -V o reiserfsprogs 3.6.3 # reiserfsck -V o xfsprogs 2.6.0 # xfs_db -V o squashfs-tools 4.0 # mksquashfs -version o btrfs-progs 0.18 # btrfsck o pcmciautils 004 # pccardctl -V o quota-tools 3.09 # quota -V o PPP 2.4.0 # pppd --version o isdn4k-utils 3.1pre1 # isdnctrl 2>&1|grep version o nfs-utils 1.0.5 # showmount --version o procps 3.2.0 # ps --version o oprofile 0.9 # oprofiled --version o udev 081 # udevd --version o grub 0.93 # grub --version || grub-install --version o mcelog 0.6 # mcelog --version o iptables 1.4.2 # iptables -V o openssl & libcrypto 1.0.0 # openssl version o bc 1.06.95 # bc --version

Kernel compilation

GCC

The gcc version requirements may vary depending on the type of CPU in your computer.

Make

You will need GNU make 3.80 or later to build the kernel.

Binutils

Linux on IA-32 has recently switched from using as86 to using gas for assembling the 16-bit boot code, removing the need for as86 to compile your kernel. This change does, however, mean that you need a recent release of binutils.

Perl

You will need perl 5 and the following modules: Getopt::Long, Getopt::Std, File::Basename, and File::Find to build the kernel.

BC

You will need bc to build kernels 3.10 and higher

OpenSSL

Module signing and external certificate handling use the OpenSSL program and crypto library to do key creation and signature generation.

You will need openssl to build kernels 3.7 and higher if module signing is enabled. You will also need openssl development packages to build kernels 4.3 and higher.

System utilities

Architectural changes

DevFS has been obsoleted in favour of udev (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/)

32-bit UID support is now in place. Have fun!

Linux documentation for functions is transitioning to inline documentation via specially-formatted comments near their definitions in the source. These comments can be combined with the SGML templates in the Documentation/DocBook directory to make DocBook files, which can then be converted by DocBook stylesheets to PostScript, HTML, PDF files, and several other formats. In order to convert from DocBook format to a format of your choice, you'll need to install Jade as well as the desired DocBook stylesheets.

Util-linux

New versions of util-linux provide *fdisk support for larger disks, support new options to mount, recognize more supported partition types, have a fdformat which works with 2.4 kernels, and similar goodies. You'll probably want to upgrade.

Ksymoops

If the unthinkable happens and your kernel oopses, you may need the ksymoops tool to decode it, but in most cases you don't. It is generally preferred to build the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS so that it produces readable dumps that can be used as-is (this also produces better output than ksymoops). If for some reason your kernel is not build with CONFIG_KALLSYMS and you have no way to rebuild and reproduce the Oops with that option, then you can still decode that Oops with ksymoops.

Module-Init-Tools

A new module loader is now in the kernel that requires module-init-tools to use. It is backward compatible with the 2.4.x series kernels.

Mkinitrd

These changes to the /lib/modules file tree layout also require that mkinitrd be upgraded.

E2fsprogs

The latest version of e2fsprogs fixes several bugs in fsck and debugfs. Obviously, it's a good idea to upgrade.

JFSutils

The jfsutils package contains the utilities for the file system. The following utilities are available: o fsck.jfs - initiate replay of the transaction log, and check and repair a JFS formatted partition. o mkfs.jfs - create a JFS formatted partition. o other file system utilities are also available in this package.

Reiserfsprogs

The reiserfsprogs package should be used for reiserfs-3.6.x (Linux kernels 2.4.x). It is a combined package and contains working versions of mkreiserfs, resize_reiserfs, debugreiserfs and reiserfsck. These utils work on both i386 and alpha platforms.

Xfsprogs

The latest version of xfsprogs contains mkfs.xfs, xfs_db, and the xfs_repair utilities, among others, for the XFS filesystem. It is architecture independent and any version from 2.0.0 onward should work correctly with this version of the XFS kernel code (2.6.0 or later is recommended, due to some significant improvements).

PCMCIAutils

PCMCIAutils replaces pcmcia-cs. It properly sets up PCMCIA sockets at system startup and loads the appropriate modules for 16-bit PCMCIA devices if the kernel is modularized and the hotplug subsystem is used.

Quota-tools

Support for 32 bit uid's and gid's is required if you want to use the newer version 2 quota format. Quota-tools version 3.07 and newer has this support. Use the recommended version or newer from the table above.

Intel IA32 microcode

A driver has been added to allow updating of Intel IA32 microcode, accessible as a normal (misc) character device. If you are not using udev you may need to:

mkdir /dev/cpu mknod /dev/cpu/microcode c 10 184 chmod 0644 /dev/cpu/microcode

as root before you can use this. You'll probably also want to get the user-space microcode_ctl utility to use with this.

udev

udev is a userspace application for populating /dev dynamically with only entries for devices actually present. udev replaces the basic functionality of devfs, while allowing persistent device naming for devices.

FUSE

Needs libfuse 2.4.0 or later. Absolute minimum is 2.3.0 but mount options 'direct_io' and 'kernel_cache' won't work.

Networking

General changes

If you have advanced network configuration needs, you should probably consider using the network tools from ip-route2.

Packet Filter / NAT

The packet filtering and NAT code uses the same tools like the previous 2.4.x kernel series (iptables). It still includes backwards-compatibility modules for 2.2.x-style ipchains and 2.0.x-style ipfwadm.

PPP

The PPP driver has been restructured to support multilink and to enable it to operate over diverse media layers. If you use PPP, upgrade pppd to at least 2.4.0.

If you are not using udev, you must have the device file /dev/ppp which can be made by:

mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0

as root.

Isdn4k-utils

Due to changes in the length of the phone number field, isdn4k-utils needs to be recompiled or (preferably) upgraded.

NFS-utils

In ancient (2.4 and earlier) kernels, the nfs server needed to know about any client that expected to be able to access files via NFS. This information would be given to the kernel by "mountd" when the client mounted the filesystem, or by "exportfs" at system startup. exportfs would take information about active clients from /var/lib/nfs/rmtab.

This approach is quite fragile as it depends on rmtab being correct which is not always easy, particularly when trying to implement fail-over. Even when the system is working well, rmtab suffers from getting lots of old entries that never get removed.

With modern kernels we have the option of having the kernel tell mountd when it gets a request from an unknown host, and mountd can give appropriate export information to the kernel. This removes the dependency on rmtab and means that the kernel only needs to know about currently active clients.

To enable this new functionality, you need to:

mount -t nfsd nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd

before running exportfs or mountd. It is recommended that all NFS services be protected from the internet-at-large by a firewall where that is possible.

mcelog

On x86 kernels the mcelog utility is needed to process and log machine check events when CONFIG_X86_MCE is enabled. Machine check events are errors reported by the CPU. Processing them is strongly encouraged.