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* Add a bunch of cycle_kernel_lock() callsJonathan Corbet2008-06-201-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | All of the open() functions which don't need the BKL on their face may still depend on its acquisition to serialize opens against driver initialization. So make those functions acquire then release the BKL to be on the safe side. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Add "no BKL needed" comments to several driversJonathan Corbet2008-06-201-0/+2
| | | | | | | | This documents the fact that somebody looked at the relevant open() functions and concluded that, due to their trivial nature, no locking was needed. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* dtlk: fix error checks in module_init()Akinobu Mita2007-05-081-4/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes two things in module_init. - fix register_chrdev() error check Currently dtlk doesn't check register_chrdev() failure correctly. register_chrdev() returns a errno on failure. - check probe failure dtlk ignores probe failure and allows the module loading without such device. I got "Trying to free nonexistent resource" message by release_region() when unloading module without device. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix error code return] Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Chris Pallotta <chris@allmedia.com> Cc: Jim Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not usedRandy Dunlap2007-05-081-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed. Suggested by Al Viro. Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc, sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] Char: timers cleanupJiri Slaby2007-02-121-5/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Use timer macros to set function and data members and to modify expiration time. - Use DEFINE_TIMER for global timers and do not init them at run-time in these cases. - del_timer_sync is common in most cases -- we want to wait for timer function if it's still running. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> (Input bits) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [PATCH] struct path: convert char-driversJosef Sipek2006-12-081-2/+2
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] make more file_operation structs staticArjan van de Ven2006-07-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Mark the static struct file_operations in drivers/char as const. Making them const prevents accidental bugs, and moves them to the .rodata section so that they no longer do any false sharing; in addition with the proper debug option they are then protected against corruption.. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the treeGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-06-261-1/+0
| | | | | | Also fixes up all files that #include it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel treeGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-06-261-1/+0
| | | | | | Removes the devfs_remove() function and all callers of it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel treeGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-06-261-3/+0
| | | | | | Removes the devfs_mk_cdev() function and all callers of it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] Remove extraneous \n in doubletalk init printk.Dave Jones2006-04-111-1/+1
| | | | | | | | Doubletalk printk's an extraneous \n Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] misc verify_area cleanupsJesper Juhl2005-05-011-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There were still a few comments left refering to verify_area, and two functions, verify_area_skas & verify_area_tt that just wrap corresponding access_ok_skas & access_ok_tt functions, just like verify_area does for access_ok - deprecate those. There was also a few places that still used verify_area in commented-out code, fix those up to use access_ok. After applying this one there should not be anything left but finally removing verify_area completely, which will happen after a kernel release or two. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+659
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!
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