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* [PATCH] ipmi: bt restart reset fixesCorey Minyard2005-11-071-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current BT retry/reset mechanism fails to succeed on a PowerEdge 1650, when the controller is wedged with B2H_ATN asserted at XACTION_START. If this occurs, no further commands will ever succeed unless the state of the controller is first cleared out. Furthermore, the soft reset would only occur if the first command after insmod was the one that timed out, not if a later command timed out. This patch changes the retry/reset mechanism to be as follows: Before retrying a command, clear the state of the BT controller such that the flags represent ready for a new transaction. This increases the chance of success of the restarted transaction. After 2 retries, issue a soft reset and retry one more time before giving up and reporting back a failure. Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Acked-by: Rocky Craig <rocky.craig@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ipmi: si start transaction hookCorey Minyard2005-11-071-0/+84
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some commands, on some system BMCs, don't respond at at all. This is seen on Dell PowerEdge x6xx and x7xx systems with IPMI 1.0 BT controllers when a "Get SDR" command is issued, with a length field of 0x3A, which happens to be the length of about SDR entries. If another length is passed, this command succeeds. This patch adds general infrastructure for receiving commands before they're passed down to the low-level drivers, such that they can be completed immediately, or modified, prior to being sent to ->start_transaction(). Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ipmi: more dell fixesCorey Minyard2005-11-072-9/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make SMIC driver ignore EVT_AVAIL and SMS_ATN bits in flags register, as they're used by systems management interrupts, not the host OS. Make the OEM0 Data Available handler work for pre-IPMI 1.5 systems from Dell too. Without these two fixes, PowerEdge 2650 and other similar systems with SMIC may hang a process (modprobe or anything using /dev/ipmi0). Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ipmi: poweroff cleanupsCorey Minyard2005-11-071-3/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | Make module_param and MODULE_PARAM_DESC agree on poweroff_powercycle name. There was an extraneous ifdef in the IPMI poweroff code that prevented it from working if PROC_FS was disabled. Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ipmi: watchdog parms in sysfsCorey Minyard2005-11-071-50/+196
| | | | | | | | | | | Modify the IPMI watchdog parameters (the ones that make sense) to be exported from sysfs. This is somewhat complicated because these parameters have side-effects that must be handled. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ipmi: various si cleanupCorey Minyard2005-11-074-37/+47
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A number of small changes for the various system interface drivers, consolidated from a number of patches from Matt Domsch. Clear B2H_ATN and drain the BMC message buffer on command timeout. This prevents further commands from failing after a timeout. Add bt_debug and smic_debug module parameters, expose them in sysfs. This lets you enable and disable debugging messages at runtime. Unsigned jiffies math in ipmi_si_intf.c causes a too-large value to be passed to ->event() after jiffies wrap-around. The BT driver had caught this, but didn't know how to fix it. Now all calls to ->event() use a sane value for time. Increase timeout for commands handed to the BT driver from 2 seconds to 5 seconds. This is necessary particularly when the previous command was a "Clear SEL", as that command completes, yet the BMC isn't really ready to handle another command yet. Silence BT debugging messages which were being printed on the console. Increase SMIC timeout form 1/10s to 2s. This is needed on Dell PowerEdge 2650 and PowerEdge 750 with ERA/O cards to allow commands to complete without timing out. Adds kcs_debug module param, to match behavior of BT and SMIC. This also prevents messages from being sent to the console unless explicitly requested. Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ipmi: use refcount in message handlerCorey Minyard2005-11-071-455/+498
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is rather large, but it really can't be done in smaller chunks easily and I believe it is an important change. This has been out and tested for a while in the latest IPMI driver release. There are no functional changes, just changes as necessary to convert the locking over (and a few minor style updates). The IPMI driver uses read/write locks to ensure that things exist while they are in use. This is bad from a number of points of view. This patch removes the rwlocks and uses refcounts and RCU lists to manage what the locks did. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] as: cooperating processesNick Piggin2005-11-071-145/+165
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce the notion of cooperating processes (those that submit requests close to one another), and use these statistics to make better choices about whether or not to do anticipatory waiting. Help and analysis from Seetharami Seelam <seelam@cs.utep.edu> Performance testing from Seelam: I set up my system and executed a couple of tests that I used for OLS. I tested with AS, cooperative process patch merged in -mm tree (which I called Nick, below) and the cooperative patch with modifications to as_update_iohist (which I called Seelam). I used a dual-processor (2.28GHz Pentium 4 Xeon) system, with 1 GB main memory and 1 MB L2 cache, running Linux 2.6.9. Only a single processor is used for the experiments. I used 7.2K RPM Maxtor 10GB drive configured with ext2 file system. Experiment 1 (ex1) consists of reading one Linux source trees using find . -type f -exec cat '{}' ';' > /dev/null. Experiment 2 (ex2) consists of reading two disjoint Linux source trees using find . -type f -exec cat '{}' ';' > /dev/null. Experiment 3 (ex3) consists of streaming read of a 2GB file in the background and 1 instance of the chunk reads in Experiment 1. Timings for reading the Linux source are shown below: AS Nick Seelam ex1: 0m25.813s 0m27.859s 0m27.640s ex2: 1m11.468s 1m13.918s 1m5.869s ex3: 81m44.352s 10m38.572s 6m47.994s The difference between the numbers in Experiment 3 must be due to the code in as_update_iohist. (akpm: that's not part of this patch. So this patch is "Nick"). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fix remaining missing includesTim Schmielau2005-11-0719-0/+32
| | | | | | | | | | Fix more include file problems that surfaced since I submitted the previous fix-missing-includes.patch. This should now allow not to include sched.h from module.h, which is done by a followup patch. Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Only disallow _setting_ of function key stringMarcelo Tosatti2005-11-071-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> noted that the current 2.6-git (and 2.4) patch to disallow KDSKBSENT for unpriviledged users should be less restrictive allowing reading of current function key string entry, but not writing. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] dell_rbu: Adding BIOS memory floor supportAbhay Salunke2005-11-071-26/+95
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch has the changes to support the memory floor fix done in Dell BIOS. The BIOS incase of packet update mechanism would not accept packet placed in memory below a cretain address. This address is by default 128K but can change. The driver now can accept the memory floor if the user chooses to make it will try to allocate contiguous physical memory above the memory floor by allocating a set of packets till a valid memory allocation is made. All the allocates then are freed. This repeats for everty packet. This patch was created by Michael E Brown and has been tested on 2.6.14-rc5 Signed-of-by: Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown@Dell.com> Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] tpm: Fix lack of driver_unregister in init failcasesKylene Jo Hall2005-11-071-25/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | driver_unregister is not being properly called when the init function returns an error case. Restructured the return logic such that this and the other cleanups all happen in one place. Preformed many of the cleanups that Andrew Morton's patch on Thursday made in tpm_atmel.c. Fixed Matthieu's concern about writing before discovery. (akpm: rmk said: This driver is buggy. You must not provide your own release function - it doesn't solve the problem which the warning (which you get when you don't provide one) is telling you about. You should convert your device driver over to the replacement dynamic platform support, once it is merged. IOW, something like: pdev = platform_device_alloc("mydev", id); if (pdev) { err = platform_device_add_resources(pdev, &resources, ARRAY_SIZE(resources)); if (err == 0) err = platform_device_add_data(pdev, &platform_data, sizeof(platform_data)); if (err == 0) err = platform_device_add(pdev); } else { err = -ENOMEM; } if (err) platform_device_put(pdev); ) Signed-off-by: Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] serial moxa: fix wrong BUGKirill Smelkov2005-11-071-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is a wrong BUG in mxser_close. The BUG is triggered when tty->driver_data == NULL, But in fact this is not a bug, because tty->driver->close is called even when tty->driver->open fails. LDD3 tells us to do nothing in such cases. Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] serial moxa: fix leaks of struct tty_driverKirill Smelkov2005-11-071-11/+11
| | | | | | | | | Fix leak of struct tty_driver in mxser_init & mxser_module_exit Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] serial moxa: cleanup mxser_initKirill Smelkov2005-11-071-18/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Remove explicit tty_driver ops initialisation, because this is already done by tty_set_operations. Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Process Events ConnectorMatt Helsley2005-11-073-0/+231
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a connector that reports fork, exec, id change, and exit events for all processes to userspace. It replaces the fork_advisor patch that ELSA is currently using. Applications that may find these events useful include accounting/auditing (e.g. ELSA), system activity monitoring (e.g. top), security, and resource management (e.g. CKRM). Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] serial console: touch NMI watchdogAndrew Morton2005-11-071-0/+3
| | | | | | | | Large console spews from IRQ or local_irq_disable() sections can cause the NMI watchdog to go off. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: fix memory leak in vmcpChristian Borntraeger2005-11-071-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | If vmcp is interrupted by a signal the vmcp command buffer is not freed. Found by Pete Zaitcev. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: duplicate timeout in qdioUrsula Braun-Krahl2005-11-071-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | Remove duplicate timeout in qdio_establish(). Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun-Krahl <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: dasd diag with block sizes > 512Peter Oberparleiter2005-11-071-20/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Access to FBA disks via DIAG fails for block sizes > 512 byte. The device analysis code of the DIAG discipline does not properly initialize the DIAG250 device environment after completion of the analysis. This results in VM only serving 512 bytes per block I/O request whereas Linux expects larger block sizes. Add proper device environment setup to end of analysis code. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: dasd diag inline assemblyPeter Oberparleiter2005-11-072-13/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | Future versions of gcc may remove initialization code for control blocks used by the diag250 inline assembly due to incompletely specified constraints. This may lead to erratic behavior. Fix the diag250 inline assembly constraints. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: ccwgroup online attributeCornelia Huck2005-11-071-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | Make the interface for setting ccw group devices on-/offline consistent with that for ccw devices: Check if the device driver provided a set_{on,off}line function and just set the device on-/offline if not. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] superhyway: multiple block support and VCR reworkPaul Mundt2005-11-072-21/+56
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This extends the API somewhat to allow for platform-specific VCR reading and writing. Some platforms (like SH4-202) implement the VCR in a split VCRL and VCRH, but end up being in reverse order or have other quirks that need to be dealt with, so we add a set of superhyway_ops per-bus to accomodate this. We also have to extend the per-device resources somewhat, as some devices now conveniently split control and data blocks. So we allow a platform to register its set of SuperHyway devices via superhyway_add_devices() with the control block always ordered as the first resource (as this is the one that userspace cares about). Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sh: Re-add sh to drivers/MakefilePaul Mundt2005-11-071-0/+1
| | | | | | | | drivers/sh/ got dropped from drivers/Makefile, so add it back in.. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] 3c59x: don't enable scatter/gather w/o checksum supportStephen Hemminger2005-11-071-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | It is not valid to enable scatter/gather without hardware checksum support of some kind. (akpm: applies only to the old boomerang cards). Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] 3c59x: enable use of memory-mapped PCI I/OJohn W. Linville2005-11-071-3/+26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add capability for 3c59x driver to use memory-mapped PCI I/O resources. This may improve performance for those devices so equipped. This will be the default behaviour for IS_CYCLONE and IS_TORNADO devices. Additionally, it can be enabled/disabled individually for up to MAX_UNITS number of devices via the use_mmio module option or for all units via the global_use_mmio option. The use_mmio option overrides the global_use_mmio option for those devices specified. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] 3c59x: correct rx_dropped countingJohn W. Linville2005-11-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Only increment rx_dropped in case of lack of resources (i.e. not for frames with errors). Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] 3c59x: support ETHTOOL_GPERMADDRJohn W. Linville2005-11-071-0/+2
| | | | | | | | Add support for ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR to 3c59x. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] 3c59x: fix some grammar in module parameter descriptionsJohn W. Linville2005-11-071-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Correct several (apparently cut & paste) grammatical typos in module parameter descriptions. They seem to have originated as copies of the description for "global_options". Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] 3c59x: cleanup init of module parameter arraysJohn W. Linville2005-11-071-5/+5
| | | | | | | | Beautify the array initilizations for the module parameters. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] 3c59x: bounds checking for hw_checksumsJohn W. Linville2005-11-071-7/+9
| | | | | | | | Add bounds checking to usage of hw_checksums module parameter array. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] 3c59x: avoid blindly reading link status twiceTommy Christensen2005-11-071-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | In order to spare some I/O operations, be more intelligent about when to read from the PHY. Pointed out by Bogdan Costescu. Signed-off-by: Tommy S. Christensen <tommy.christensen@tpack.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] 3c59x: cleanup of mdio_read routines to use MII_* macrosNeil Horman2005-11-071-8/+8
| | | | | | | | | Clean up mdio_read routines in 3c59x.c to use the MII_* macros defined in include/linux/mii.h Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] 3c59x: convert to use of pci_iomap APIJohn W. Linville2005-11-071-247/+260
| | | | | | | | | Convert 3c59x driver to use pci_iomap API. This makes it easier to enable the use of memory-mapped PCI I/O resources. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-drvmodelLinus Torvalds2005-11-067-123/+176
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| * [DRIVER MODEL] Fix sgivwfbRussell King2005-11-051-14/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Statically allocated devices in module data is a potential cause of oopsen. The device may be in use by a userspace process, which will keep a reference to the device. If the module is unloaded, the module data will be freed. Subsequent use of the platform device will cause a kernel oops. Use generic platform device allocation/release code in modules. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [DRIVER MODEL] Fix gbefbRussell King2005-11-051-6/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Statically allocated devices in module data is a potential cause of oopsen. The device may be in use by a userspace process, which will keep a reference to the device. If the module is unloaded, the module data will be freed. Subsequent use of the platform device will cause a kernel oops. Use generic platform device allocation/release code in modules. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [DRIVER MODEL] Fix arcfbRussell King2005-11-051-14/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Release code in driver modules is a potential cause of oopsen. The device may be in use by a userspace process, which will keep a reference to the device. If the module is unloaded, the module text will be freed. Subsequently, when the last reference is dropped, the release code will be called, which no longer exists. Use generic platform device allocation/release code in modules. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [DRIVER MODEL] Fix macsonicRussell King2005-11-051-22/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Release code in driver modules is a potential cause of oopsen. The device may be in use by a userspace process, which will keep a reference to the device. If the module is unloaded, the module text will be freed. Subsequently, when the last reference is dropped, the release code will be called, which no longer exists. Use generic platform device allocation/release code in modules. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [DRIVER MODEL] Fix jazzsonicRussell King2005-11-051-23/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Release code in driver modules is a potential cause of oopsen. The device may be in use by a userspace process, which will keep a reference to the device. If the module is unloaded, the module text will be freed. Subsequently, when the last reference is dropped, the release code will be called, which no longer exists. Use generic platform device allocation/release code in modules. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [DRIVER MODEL] Fix depcaRussell King2005-11-051-17/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Release code in driver modules is a potential cause of oopsen. The device may be in use by a userspace process, which will keep a reference to the device. If the module is unloaded, the module text will be freed. Subsequently, when the last reference is dropped, the release code will be called, which no longer exists. Use generic platform device allocation/release code in modules. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [DRIVER MODEL] Improved dynamically allocated platform_device interfaceRussell King2005-11-051-27/+126
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Re-jig the simple platform device support to allow private data to be attached to a platform device, as well as allowing the parent device to be set. Example usage: pdev = platform_device_alloc("mydev", id); if (pdev) { err = platform_device_add_resources(pdev, &resources, ARRAY_SIZE(resources)); if (err == 0) err = platform_device_add_data(pdev, &platform_data, sizeof(platform_data)); if (err == 0) err = platform_device_add(pdev); } else { err = -ENOMEM; } if (err) platform_device_put(pdev); Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [SERIAL] Support Au1x00 8250 UARTs using the generic 8250 driver.Pantelis Antoniou2005-11-066-3/+183
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The offsets of the registers are in a different place, and some parts cannot handle a full set of modem control signals. Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis@embeddedalley.ocm> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* | [PATCH] Set the vga cursor even when hiddenSamuel Thibault2005-11-051-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some visually impaired people use hardware devices which directly read the vga screen. When newt for instance asks to hide the cursor for better visual aspect, the kernel puts the vga cursor out of the screen, so that the cursor position can't be read by the hardware device. This is a great loss for such people. Here is a patch which uses the same technique as CUR_NONE for hiding the cursor while still moving it. Mario, you should apply it to the speakup kernel for access floppies asap. I'll submit a 2.4 patch too. Signed-off-by: samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2005-11-0513-460/+628
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| * | [PATCH] phy address mask support for generic phy layerMatt Porter2005-11-051-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds a phy_mask field to struct mii_bus and uses it. This field indicates each phy address to be ignored when probing the mdio bus. This support is needed for the fs_enet and ibm_emac drivers to be converted to the generic phy layer among other drivers. Many systems lock up on probing certain phy addresses or probing doesn't return 0xffff when nothing is found at the address. A new driver I'm working on also makes use of this mask. Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
| * | [PATCH] pcnet32: Prevent hang with 79c976Don Fry2005-11-051-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some boards using the 79c976 pcnet32 chip will hang the system if the ethtool --register-dump is performed with the device operational. The request to read bcr30 is retried by the PCI device infinitely without returning data, hanging the system. Tested ia32 and ppc64. Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
| * | [PATCH] pcnet32: AT2700/2701 and Bugzilla 2699 & 4551Don Fry2005-11-051-7/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is a better fix for Allied Telesyn 2700/2701 FX boards than the change made in early January this year. It allows the user to select the speed/duplex via module_param, but if no selection is made, forces the speed to 100 FD. It fixes both Bugzilla bugs 2669 and 4551. Tested ia32 and ppc64 by myself, and by the originator of bug 2669. Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
| * | [PATCH] pcnet32: show name of failing deviceDon Fry2005-11-051-21/+41
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Display the name eth%d or pci_name() of device which fails to allocate memory. When changing ring size via ethtool, it also releases the lock before returning on error. Added comment that the caller of pcnet32_alloc_ring must call pcnet32_free_ring on error, to avoid leak. Tested ia32 by forcing allocation errors. Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
| * | [PATCH] S2io: Multi buffer mode supportAnanda Raju2005-11-053-409/+455
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hi, This patch provides dynamic two buffer-mode and 3 buffer-mode options. Previously 2 buffer-mode was compilation option. Now with this patch applied one can load driver in 2 buffer-mode with module-load parameter ie. #insmod s2io.ko rx_ring_mode=2 This patch also provides 3 buffer-mode which provides header separation functionality. In 3 buffer-mode skb->data will have L2/L3/L4 headers and "skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list->data" will have have L4 payload. one can load driver in 3 buffer-mode with same above module-load parameter ie. #insmod s2io.ko rx_ring_mode=3 Please review the patch. Signed-off-by: Ananda Raju <ananda.raju@neterion.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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