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2011-07-25Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6 * 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: updated Documentation/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches debugfs: add documentation for debugfs_create_x64 uio: uio_pdrv_genirq: Add OF support firmware: gsmi: remove sysfs entries when unload the module Documentation/zh_CN: Fix messy code file email-clients.txt driver core: add more help description for "path to uevent helper" driver-core: modify FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL help message driver-core: Kconfig grammar corrections in firmware configuration DOCUMENTATION: Replace create_device() with device_create(). DOCUMENTATION: Update overview.txt in Doc/driver-model. pti: pti_tty_install documentation mispelling.
2011-07-23regmap: Add generic non-memory mapped register access APIMark Brown
There are many places in the tree where we implement register access for devices on non-memory mapped buses, especially I2C and SPI. Since hardware designers seem to have settled on a relatively consistent set of register interfaces this can be effectively factored out into shared code. There are a standard set of formats for marshalling data for exchange with the device, with the actual I/O mechanisms generally being simple byte streams. We create an abstraction for marshaling data into formats which can be sent on the control interfaces, and create a standard method for plugging in actual transport underneath that. This is mostly a refactoring and renaming of the bottom level of the existing code for sharing register I/O which we have in ASoC. A subsequent patch in this series converts ASoC to use this. The main difference in interface is that reads return values by writing to a location provided by a pointer rather than in the return value, ensuring we can use the full range of the type for register data. We also use unsigned types rather than ints for the same reason. As some of the devices can have very large register maps the existing ASoC code also contains infrastructure for managing register caches. This cache work will be moved over in a future stage to allow for separate review, the current patch only deals with the physical I/O. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Acked-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@ti.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2011-07-01driver core: add more help description for "path to uevent helper"Márton Németh
The kernel configuration UEVENT_HELPER_PATH is a string to the uevent helper program. Add more description about how to disable this feature and how to enable it again during runtime. Signed-off-by: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-07-01driver-core: modify FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL help messagematt mooney
The help message for the configuration variable was inconsistent with the way "make firmware_install" really works. Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-07-01driver-core: Kconfig grammar corrections in firmware configurationmatt mooney
Fix some grammatical errors and reword a few sentences. Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-11PM: Remove sysdev suspend, resume and shutdown operationsRafael J. Wysocki
Since suspend, resume and shutdown operations in struct sysdev_class and struct sysdev_driver are not used any more, remove them. Also drop sysdev_suspend(), sysdev_resume() and sysdev_shutdown() used for executing those operations and modify all of their users accordingly. This reduces kernel code size quite a bit and reduces its complexity. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23Introduce ARCH_NO_SYSDEV_OPS config option (v2)Rafael J. Wysocki
Introduce Kconfig option allowing architectures where sysdev operations used during system suspend, resume and shutdown have been completely replaced with struct sycore_ops operations to avoid building sysdev code that will never be used. Make callbacks in struct sys_device and struct sysdev_driver depend on ARCH_NO_SYSDEV_OPS to allows us to verify if all of the references have been actually removed from the code the given architecture depends on. Make x86 select ARCH_NO_SYSDEV_OPS. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
2011-01-20kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERTDavid Rientjes
The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than only small devices. This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc). Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they are making should enable it. Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-22FW_LOADER: fix kconfig dependency warning on HOTPLUGRandy Dunlap
Fix kconfig dependency warning for FW_LOADER. Lots of drivers select FW_LOADER without bothering to depend on HOTPLUG and/or without selecting HOTPLUG. A kernel builds fine when FW_LOADER is enabled, whether HOTPLUG is enabled or not, and a kernel config file (make oldconfig) is not changed by this patch. (Yes, drivers/base/firmware_class.c uses interfaces from linux/kobject.h, which does have some CONFIG_HOTPLUG dependencies, but this patch does not change that.) warning: (MICROCODE || MICROCODE_INTEL && MICROCODE || MICROCODE_AMD && MICROCODE || PCMCIA_LOAD_CIS && PCCARD && PCMCIA && EXPERIMENTAL || USB_IRDA && NET && IRDA && USB || BT_HCIBCM203X && NET && BT && USB || BT_HCIBFUSB && NET && BT && USB || BT_HCIBT3C && NET && BT && PCMCIA || BT_MRVL_SDIO && NET ... !STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD && USB && (X86 || ARM) && WLAN || DRM_NOUVEAU && STAGING && !STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD && DRM && PCI || TI_ST && STAGING && !STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD && RFKILL || DELL_RBU && X86) selects FW_LOADER which has unmet direct dependencies (HOTPLUG) (5200 byte line reduced a lot) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21devtmpfs: support !CONFIG_TMPFSPeter Korsgaard
Make devtmpfs available on (embedded) configurations without SHMEM/TMPFS, using ramfs instead. Saves ~15KB. Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07Driver-Core: disable /sbin/hotplug by defaultKay Sievers
No recent mainstream system uses the /sbin/hotplug fork-bomb any more. Disable it by default to reflect how it is used these days. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and flush out the descriptionKay Sievers
All major distros enable devtmpfs on recent systems, so remove the EXPERIMENTAL flag, and make the description a bit more instructive. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-15Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /devKay Sievers
Devtmpfs lets the kernel create a tmpfs instance called devtmpfs very early at kernel initialization, before any driver-core device is registered. Every device with a major/minor will provide a device node in devtmpfs. Devtmpfs can be changed and altered by userspace at any time, and in any way needed - just like today's udev-mounted tmpfs. Unmodified udev versions will run just fine on top of it, and will recognize an already existing kernel-created device node and use it. The default node permissions are root:root 0600. Proper permissions and user/group ownership, meaningful symlinks, all other policy still needs to be applied by userspace. If a node is created by devtmps, devtmpfs will remove the device node when the device goes away. If the device node was created by userspace, or the devtmpfs created node was replaced by userspace, it will no longer be removed by devtmpfs. If it is requested to auto-mount it, it makes init=/bin/sh work without any further userspace support. /dev will be fully populated and dynamic, and always reflect the current device state of the kernel. With the commonly used dynamic device numbers, it solves the problem where static devices nodes may point to the wrong devices. It is intended to make the initial bootup logic simpler and more robust, by de-coupling the creation of the inital environment, to reliably run userspace processes, from a complex userspace bootstrap logic to provide a working /dev. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Tested-By: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com> Tested-By: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-06trivial: Fix misspelled firmware in KconfigNick Andrew
Fix misspelled firmware in Kconfig It's spelled "firmware". Signed-off-by: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2008-10-16Fix typo in the FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL helpAlberto Bertogli
Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-21always enable FW_LOADER unless EMBEDDED=yAdrian Bunk
James Bottomley recently discovered that we have {request,release}_firmware() dummies for the case of the actual functions not being available and has a fix for the bug that was actually causing build errors for built-in users with CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m. But now missing selects on FW_LOADER are no longer visible at compile-time at all and can become runtime problems. FW_LOADER is infrastructure with relatively small codesize we can safely enable for everyone, and only for people who really need small kernels (and can be expected to know what they are doing) it matters being able to disable it. This patch therefore always sets FW_LOADER=y and allows users only to disable it with EMBEDDED=y. As a bonus, we can then get rid of all "select FW_LOADER" plus the due to it required "depends on HOTPLUG" which removes some complexity from our Kconfig files. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-10firmware: Add CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL option.David Woodhouse
This will control whether we build firmware into the kernel image for _every_ driver which we convert to request_firmware(), to avoid a proliferation of 'CONFIG_XXX_FIRMWARE' options for each one. Default to 'y' for now, which is the wrong thing to do but people seem to be insisting on it and refusing to even review patches until it's done. And it does preserve the existing behaviour for built-in drivers. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-07-10firmware: Add CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE optionDavid Woodhouse
This allows arbitrary firmware files to be included in the static kernel where the firmware loader can find them without requiring userspace to be alive. (Updated and CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR added with lots of help from Johannes Berg). Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
2007-10-12Driver core: add CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATHKay Sievers
The kernel creates a process for every event that is send, even when there is no binary it could execute. We are needlessly creating around 200-300 failing processes during early bootup, until we have the chance to disable it from userspace. This change allows us to disable /sbin/hotplug entirely, if you want to, by setting UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="" in the kernel config. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-09devres: device resource managementTejun Heo
Implement device resource management, in short, devres. A device driver can allocate arbirary size of devres data which is associated with a release function. On driver detach, release function is invoked on the devres data, then, devres data is freed. devreses are typed by associated release functions. Some devreses are better represented by single instance of the type while others need multiple instances sharing the same release function. Both usages are supported. devreses can be grouped using devres group such that a device driver can easily release acquired resources halfway through initialization or selectively release resources (e.g. resources for port 1 out of 4 ports). This patch adds devres core including documentation and the following managed interfaces. * alloc/free : devm_kzalloc(), devm_kzfree() * IO region : devm_request_region(), devm_release_region() * IRQ : devm_request_irq(), devm_free_irq() * DMA : dmam_alloc_coherent(), dmam_free_coherent(), dmam_declare_coherent_memory(), dmam_pool_create(), dmam_pool_destroy() * PCI : pcim_enable_device(), pcim_pin_device(), pci_is_managed() * iomap : devm_ioport_map(), devm_ioport_unmap(), devm_ioremap(), devm_ioremap_nocache(), devm_iounmap(), pcim_iomap_table(), pcim_iomap(), pcim_iounmap() Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-28[PATCH] move SYS_HYPERVISOR inside the Generic Driver menuRandy Dunlap
Put SYS_HYPERVISOR inside the Generic Driver Config menu where it should be. Otherwise xconfig displays it as a dangling (lost) menu item under Device Drivers, all by itself (when all options are displayed). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-10[PATCH] don't select CONFIG_HOTPLUGAndrew Morton
It's useful to be able to turn off CONFIG_HOTPLUG for compile-coverage testing and for section-checking coverage. But a few things go and select CONFIG_HOTPLUG, making it a royal PITA to turn the thing off. It's only turnable offable if CONFIG_EMBEDDED anyway. So let's make those things depend on HOTPLUG, not select it. Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-21[PATCH] Driver Core: Add /sys/hypervisor when neededMichael Holzheu
To have a home for all hypervisors, this patch creates /sys/hypervisor. A new config option SYS_HYPERVISOR is introduced, which should to be set by architecture dependent hypervisors (e.g. s390 or Xen). Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04[PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"Kay Sievers
Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports the state to userspace and generates events. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
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!