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Linus Torvalds
6aa2f9441f This is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v4.15 kernel cycle:
CORE:
 - Fix the semantics of raw GPIO to actually be raw. No
   inversion semantics as before, but also no open draining,
   and allow the raw operations to affect lines used for
   interrupts as the caller supposedly knows what they are
   doing if they are getting the big hammer.
 
 - Rewrote the __inner_function() notation calls to names that
   make more sense. I just find this kind of code disturbing.
 
 - Drop the .irq_base() field from the gpiochip since now all
   IRQs are mapped dynamically. This is nice.
 
 - Support for .get_multiple() in the core driver API. This
   allows us to read several GPIO lines with a single
   register read. This has high value for some usecases: it
   can be used to create oscilloscopes and signal analyzers
   and other things that rely on reading several lines at
   exactly the same instant. Also a generally nice
   optimization. This uses the new assign_bit() macro from
   the bitops lib that was ACKed by Andrew Morton and
   is implemented for two drivers, one of them being the
   generic MMIO driver so everyone using that will be able
   to benefit from this.
 
 - Do not allow requests of Open Drain and Open Source
   setting of a GPIO line simultaneously. If the hardware
   actually supports enabling both at the same time the
   electrical result would be disastrous.
 
 - A new interrupt chip core helper. This will be helpful
   to deal with "banked" GPIOs, which means GPIO controllers
   with several logical blocks of GPIO inside them. This
   is several gpiochips per device in the device model, in
   contrast to the case when there is a 1-to-1 relationship
   between a device and a gpiochip.
 
 NEW DRIVERS:
 
 - Maxim MAX3191x industrial serializer, a very interesting
   piece of professional I/O hardware.
 
 - Uniphier GPIO driver. This is the GPIO block from the
   recent Socionext (ex Fujitsu and Panasonic) platform.
 
 - Tegra 186 driver. This is based on the new banked GPIO
   infrastructure.
 
 OTHER IMPROVEMENTS:
 
 - Some documentation improvements.
 
 - Wakeup support for the DesignWare DWAPB GPIO controller.
 
 - Reset line support on the DesignWare DWAPB GPIO controller.
 
 - Several non-critical bug fixes and improvements for the
   Broadcom BRCMSTB driver.
 
 - Misc non-critical bug fixes like exotic errorpaths, removal
   of dead code etc.
 
 - Explicit comments on fall-through switch() statements.
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Merge tag 'gpio-v4.15-1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio

Pull GPIO updates from Linus Walleij:
 "This is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v4.15 kernel cycle:

  Core:

   - Fix the semantics of raw GPIO to actually be raw. No inversion
     semantics as before, but also no open draining, and allow the raw
     operations to affect lines used for interrupts as the caller
     supposedly knows what they are doing if they are getting the big
     hammer.

   - Rewrote the __inner_function() notation calls to names that make
     more sense. I just find this kind of code disturbing.

   - Drop the .irq_base() field from the gpiochip since now all IRQs are
     mapped dynamically. This is nice.

   - Support for .get_multiple() in the core driver API. This allows us
     to read several GPIO lines with a single register read. This has
     high value for some usecases: it can be used to create
     oscilloscopes and signal analyzers and other things that rely on
     reading several lines at exactly the same instant. Also a generally
     nice optimization. This uses the new assign_bit() macro from the
     bitops lib that was ACKed by Andrew Morton and is implemented for
     two drivers, one of them being the generic MMIO driver so everyone
     using that will be able to benefit from this.

   - Do not allow requests of Open Drain and Open Source setting of a
     GPIO line simultaneously. If the hardware actually supports
     enabling both at the same time the electrical result would be
     disastrous.

   - A new interrupt chip core helper. This will be helpful to deal with
     "banked" GPIOs, which means GPIO controllers with several logical
     blocks of GPIO inside them. This is several gpiochips per device in
     the device model, in contrast to the case when there is a 1-to-1
     relationship between a device and a gpiochip.

  New drivers:

   - Maxim MAX3191x industrial serializer, a very interesting piece of
     professional I/O hardware.

   - Uniphier GPIO driver. This is the GPIO block from the recent
     Socionext (ex Fujitsu and Panasonic) platform.

   - Tegra 186 driver. This is based on the new banked GPIO
     infrastructure.

  Other improvements:

   - Some documentation improvements.

   - Wakeup support for the DesignWare DWAPB GPIO controller.

   - Reset line support on the DesignWare DWAPB GPIO controller.

   - Several non-critical bug fixes and improvements for the Broadcom
     BRCMSTB driver.

   - Misc non-critical bug fixes like exotic errorpaths, removal of dead
     code etc.

   - Explicit comments on fall-through switch() statements"

* tag 'gpio-v4.15-1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio: (65 commits)
  gpio: tegra186: Remove tegra186_gpio_lock_class
  gpio: rcar: Add r8a77995 (R-Car D3) support
  pinctrl: bcm2835: Fix some merge fallout
  gpio: Fix undefined lock_dep_class
  gpio: Automatically add lockdep keys
  gpio: Introduce struct gpio_irq_chip.first
  gpio: Disambiguate struct gpio_irq_chip.nested
  gpio: Add Tegra186 support
  gpio: Export gpiochip_irq_{map,unmap}()
  gpio: Implement tighter IRQ chip integration
  gpio: Move lock_key into struct gpio_irq_chip
  gpio: Move irq_valid_mask into struct gpio_irq_chip
  gpio: Move irq_nested into struct gpio_irq_chip
  gpio: Move irq_chained_parent to struct gpio_irq_chip
  gpio: Move irq_default_type to struct gpio_irq_chip
  gpio: Move irq_handler to struct gpio_irq_chip
  gpio: Move irqdomain into struct gpio_irq_chip
  gpio: Move irqchip into struct gpio_irq_chip
  gpio: Introduce struct gpio_irq_chip
  pinctrl: armada-37xx: remove unused variable
  ...
2017-11-14 17:23:44 -08:00
Tom Saeger
0747c3ecfb Documentation: fix ref to gpio.txt
Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2017-10-19 22:32:40 +02:00
Jens Axboe
b35bd0d9f8 sysctl: remove /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads
This tunable has been obsolete since 2.6.32, and writes to the
file have been failing and complaining in dmesg since then:

nr_pdflush_threads exported in /proc is scheduled for removal

That was 8 years ago. Remove the file ABI obsolete notice, and
the sysfs file.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2017-10-04 11:24:16 -06:00
Michal Hocko
ffc10d82ff ACPI / scan: Drop support for force_remove
/sys/firmware/acpi/hotplug/force_remove was presumably added to support
auto offlining in the past. This is, however, inherently dangerous for
some hotplugable resources like memory. The memory offlining fails when
the memory is still in use and cannot be dropped or migrated. If we
ignore the failure we are basically allowing for subtle memory
corruption or a crash.

We have actually noticed the later while hitting BUG() during the memory
hotremove (remove_memory):
	ret = walk_memory_range(PFN_DOWN(start), PFN_UP(start + size - 1), NULL,
			check_memblock_offlined_cb);
	if (ret)
		BUG();

it took us quite non-trivial time realize that the customer had
force_remove enabled. Even if the BUG was removed here and we could
propagate the error up the call chain it wouldn't help at all because
then we would hit a crash or a memory corruption later and harder to
debug. So force_remove is unfixable for the memory hotremove. We haven't
checked other hotplugable resources to be prone to a similar problems.

Remove the force_remove functionality because it is not fixable currently.
Keep the sysfs file and report an error if somebody tries to enable it.
Encourage users to report about the missing functionality and work with
them with an alternative solution.

Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2017-04-13 03:51:47 +02:00
Sergey Senozhatsky
c87d1655c2 zram: remove obsolete sysfs attrs
We had a deprecated_attr_warn() warning for 2 years and now the time has
come and we finally can do the cleanup.

The plan was as follows:

: per-stat sysfs attributes are considered to be deprecated.
: The basic strategy is:
: -- the existing RW nodes will be downgraded to WO nodes (in linux 4.11)
: -- deprecated RO sysfs nodes will eventually be removed (in linux 4.11)
:
: The list of deprecated attributes can be found here:
: Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram
:
: Basically, every attribute that has its own read accessible sysfs
: node (e.g. num_reads) *AND* is accessible via one of the stat files
: (zram<id>/stat or zram<id>/io_stat or zram<id>/mm_stat) is considered
: to be deprecated.

The patch also removes `obsolete/sysfs-block-zram', clean ups
`testing/sysfs-block-zram' and tweaks zram.txt files.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118035838.11090-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
Kees Cook
08559657b2 Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes
This fixes several spelling mistakes in the Documentation/ tree, which
are caught by checkpatch.pl's spell checking.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-04-28 07:51:59 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
1200b6809d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Support more Realtek wireless chips, from Jes Sorenson.

   2) New BPF types for per-cpu hash and arrap maps, from Alexei
      Starovoitov.

   3) Make several TCP sysctls per-namespace, from Nikolay Borisov.

   4) Allow the use of SO_REUSEPORT in order to do per-thread processing
   of incoming TCP/UDP connections.  The muxing can be done using a
   BPF program which hashes the incoming packet.  From Craig Gallek.

   5) Add a multiplexer for TCP streams, to provide a messaged based
      interface.  BPF programs can be used to determine the message
      boundaries.  From Tom Herbert.

   6) Add 802.1AE MACSEC support, from Sabrina Dubroca.

   7) Avoid factorial complexity when taking down an inetdev interface
      with lots of configured addresses.  We were doing things like
      traversing the entire address less for each address removed, and
      flushing the entire netfilter conntrack table for every address as
      well.

   8) Add and use SKB bulk free infrastructure, from Jesper Brouer.

   9) Allow offloading u32 classifiers to hardware, and implement for
      ixgbe, from John Fastabend.

  10) Allow configuring IRQ coalescing parameters on a per-queue basis,
      from Kan Liang.

  11) Extend ethtool so that larger link mode masks can be supported.
      From David Decotigny.

  12) Introduce devlink, which can be used to configure port link types
      (ethernet vs Infiniband, etc.), port splitting, and switch device
      level attributes as a whole.  From Jiri Pirko.

  13) Hardware offload support for flower classifiers, from Amir Vadai.

  14) Add "Local Checksum Offload".  Basically, for a tunneled packet
      the checksum of the outer header is 'constant' (because with the
      checksum field filled into the inner protocol header, the payload
      of the outer frame checksums to 'zero'), and we can take advantage
      of that in various ways.  From Edward Cree"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1548 commits)
  bonding: fix bond_get_stats()
  net: bcmgenet: fix dma api length mismatch
  net/mlx4_core: Fix backward compatibility on VFs
  phy: mdio-thunder: Fix some Kconfig typos
  lan78xx: add ndo_get_stats64
  lan78xx: handle statistics counter rollover
  RDS: TCP: Remove unused constant
  RDS: TCP: Add sysctl tunables for sndbuf/rcvbuf on rds-tcp socket
  net: smc911x: convert pxa dma to dmaengine
  team: remove duplicate set of flag IFF_MULTICAST
  bonding: remove duplicate set of flag IFF_MULTICAST
  net: fix a comment typo
  ethernet: micrel: fix some error codes
  ip_tunnels, bpf: define IP_TUNNEL_OPTS_MAX and use it
  bpf, dst: add and use dst_tclassid helper
  bpf: make skb->tc_classid also readable
  net: mvneta: bm: clarify dependencies
  cls_bpf: reset class and reuse major in da
  ldmvsw: Checkpatch sunvnet.c and sunvnet_common.c
  ldmvsw: Add ldmvsw.c driver code
  ...
2016-03-19 10:05:34 -07:00
João Paulo Rechi Vita
4b636dc659 rfkill: Move "state" sysfs file back to stable
There is still quite a bit of code using this interface, so we can't
just remove it. Hopefully it will be possible in the future, but since
its scheduled removal date is past 2 years already, we are better having
the documentation reflecting the current state of things.

Signed-off-by: João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@endlessm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2016-02-24 09:13:11 +01:00
João Paulo Rechi Vita
e2a35e8929 rfkill: Remove obsolete "claim" sysfs interface
This was scheduled to be removed in 2012 by:

 commit 69c86373c6
 Author: florian@mickler.org <florian@mickler.org>
 Date:   Wed Feb 24 12:05:16 2010 +0100

     Document the rfkill sysfs ABI

     This moves sysfs ABI info from Documentation/rfkill.txt to the
     ABI subfolder and reformats it.

     This also schedules the deprecated sysfs parts to be removed in
     2012 (claim file) and 2014 (state file).

     Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
     Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

Signed-off-by: João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@endlessm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2016-02-24 09:04:24 +01:00
Linus Walleij
fe95046e96 gpio: ABI: mark the sysfs ABI as obsolete
This marks the (optional) sysfs GPIO ABI as obsolete and schedules
it for removal in 2020.

Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org>
Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2016-02-09 11:09:55 +01:00
Stefan Achatz
8d2f8479da HID: roccat: Fixed resubmit: Deprecating most Roccat sysfs attributes
Deprecates all Roccat sysfs attributes except the ones for the old Kone by
moving abi descriptions from testing to obsolete.  For most devices everything
can be done using the hidraw ioctls HIDIOCGFEATURE and HIDIOCSFEATURE, so I
would suggest future removal of device specific drivers.  The userspace tools
don't use these attributes for a year now.  The first Kone is not fully
HID-compliant and will still need a module.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-10-21 11:54:42 +02:00
Sergey Senozhatsky
8f7d282c71 zram: deprecate zram attrs sysfs nodes
Add Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram file and list obsolete and
deprecated attributes there.  The patch also adds additional information
to zram documentation and describes the basic strategy:

- the existing RW nodes will be downgraded to WO nodes (in 4.11)
- deprecated RO sysfs nodes will eventually be removed (in 4.11)

Users will be additionally notified about deprecated attr usage by
pr_warn_once() (added to every deprecated attr _show()), as suggested by
Minchan Kim.

User space is advised to use zram<id>/stat, zram<id>/io_stat and
zram<id>/mm_stat files.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-04-15 16:35:21 -07:00
Jiri Kosina
818b930bc1 Merge branches 'for-3.7/upstream-fixes', 'for-3.8/hidraw', 'for-3.8/i2c-hid', 'for-3.8/multitouch', 'for-3.8/roccat', 'for-3.8/sensors' and 'for-3.8/upstream' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	drivers/hid/hid-core.c
2012-12-12 21:41:55 +01:00
Stefan Achatz
172e2abc19 HID: roccat: deprecate some Kovaplus attributes
Introduced attribute "control" and made profile_settings and profile_buttons
readable, which makes profile[1-5]_settings and profile[1-5]_buttons obsolete.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-11-12 15:30:29 +01:00
Stefan Achatz
bb060d65c3 HID: roccat: deprecate some Koneplus attributes
Introduced attribute "control" and made profile_settings and profile_buttons
readable, which makes profile[1-5]_settings and profile[1-5]_buttons obsolete.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-11-12 15:30:28 +01:00
Stefan Achatz
ecbfe7aa55 HID: roccat: deprecated some Pyra attributes
Introduced attribute "control" and made profile_settings and profile_buttons
readable, which makes profile[1-5]_settings and profile[1-5]_buttons obsolete.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-11-12 15:30:28 +01:00
Stefan Achatz
be34380ef8 HID: roccat: cleanup of pyra module
Partially removed unneeded informations and data caching.
Moved code nearer to format of newer drivers.
Added "info" sysfs attribute to support device reset and deprecate
"firmware_version" attribute.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-11-12 15:30:27 +01:00
Stefan Achatz
94a8fcf9a1 HID: roccat: cleanup of kovaplus module
Partially removed unneeded informations and data caching.
Moved code nearer to format of newer drivers.
Added "info" sysfs attribute to support device reset and deprecate other attributes.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-11-12 15:30:26 +01:00
Stefan Achatz
fabe51eb68 HID: roccat: enable Koneplus device reset
Device can be reset to factory state by sending a command via info sysfs attr.
Added binary attribute info for this purpose, which obsoletes firmware_version
attribute.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-11-05 13:17:39 +01:00
Davidlohr Bueso
01dc52ebdf oom: remove deprecated oom_adj
The deprecated /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is scheduled for removal this month.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-09 16:22:24 +09:00
Wanpeng Li
3965c9ae47 mm: prepare for removal of obsolete /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads
Since per-BDI flusher threads were introduced in 2.6, the pdflush
mechanism is not used any more.  But the old interface exported through
/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads still exists and is obviously useless.

For back-compatibility, printk warning information and return 2 to notify
the users that the interface is removed.

Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-07-31 18:42:40 -07:00
Masanari Iida
40e47125e6 Documentation: Fix multiple typo in Documentation
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-03-07 16:08:24 +01:00
David Rientjes
11239836c0 oom: remove references to old badness() function
The badness() function in the oom killer was renamed to oom_badness() in
a63d83f427 ("oom: badness heuristic rewrite") since it is a globally
exported function for clarity.

The prototype for the old function still existed in linux/oom.h, so remove
it.  There are no existing users.

Also fixes documentation and comment references to badness() and adjusts
them accordingly.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-25 20:57:09 -07:00
Amerigo Wang
69a60c4d17 ocfs2: remove the /sys/o2cb symlink
It is obsoleted since Dec 2005.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
2011-05-23 23:37:14 -07:00
Stefan Achatz
b50f315cbb HID: roccat: fix actual/startup profile sysfs attribute in koneplus
startup_profile and actual_profile didn't work as expected. Also
as the actual profile is persistent, the distinction between the
two was ambiguous, so both use the same code now and startup_profile
has been deprecated. Also the event is now propagated through
chardev. The userland tool has been updated to support this change.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-05-18 16:34:06 +02:00
David Rientjes
203f40a5a0 oom: document obsolete oom_adj tunable
/proc/pid/oom_adj was deprecated in August 2010 with the introduction of
the new oom killer heuristic.

This patch copies the Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt entry for
this tunable to the Documentation/ABI/obsolete directory so nobody misses
it.

Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-12 07:55:31 -08:00
Stefan Richter
66fa12c571 ieee1394: remove the old IEEE 1394 driver stack
The drivers
  - ohci1394 (controller driver)
  - ieee1394 (core)
  - dv1394, raw1394, video1394 (userspace ABI)
  - eth1394, sbp2 (protocol drivers)
are replaced by
  - firewire-ohci (controller driver)
  - firewire-core (core and userspace ABI)
  - firewire-net, firewire-sbp2 (protocol drivers)
which are more featureful, better performing, and more secure than the older
drivers; all with a smaller and more modern code base.

The driver firedtv in drivers/media/dvb/firewire/ contains backends to both
ieee1394 and firewire-core.  Its ieee1394 backend code can be removed in an
independent commit; firedtv as-is builds and works fine without ieee1394.

The driver pcilynx (an incomplete controller driver) is deleted without
replacement since PCILynx cards are extremely rare.  Owners of these cards
use them with the stand-alone bus sniffer driver nosy instead.

The drivers nosy and init_ohci1394_dma which do not interact with either of
the two IEEE 1394 stacks are not affected by the ieee1394 subsystem removal.

There are still some issues with the newer firewire subsystem compared to
the older one:
  - The rare and quirky controllers ALi M52xx, Apple UniNorth v1, NVIDIA
    NForce2 are even less well supported by firewire-ohci than by ohci1394.
    I am looking into the M52xx issue.
  - The experimental firewire-net is reportedly less stable than its
    experimental cousin eth1394.
  - Audio playback of a certain group of audio devices (ones based on DICE
    chipset with EAP; supported by prerelease FFADO code) does not work yet.
    This issue is still under investigation.
  - There were some ieee1394 based out-of-the-mainline drivers.  Of them,
    only lisight, an audio driver for iSight webcams, seems still useful.
    Work is underway to reimplement it on top of firewire-core.

All these remainig issues are minor; they should not stand in the way of
overall better user experience of IEEE 1394 on Linux, together with a
reduction in support efforts and maintenance burden.  The coexistence of two
IEEE 1394 kernel driver stacks in the mainline since 2.6.22 shall end now,
as announced earlier this year.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-10-11 14:48:03 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
7a9b149212 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (229 commits)
  USB: remove unused usb_buffer_alloc and usb_buffer_free macros
  usb: musb: update gfp/slab.h includes
  USB: ftdi_sio: fix legacy SIO-device header
  USB: kl5usb105: reimplement using generic framework
  USB: kl5usb105: minor clean ups
  USB: kl5usb105: fix memory leak
  USB: io_ti: use kfifo to implement write buffering
  USB: io_ti: remove unsused private counter
  USB: ti_usb: use kfifo to implement write buffering
  USB: ir-usb: fix incorrect write-buffer length
  USB: aircable: fix incorrect write-buffer length
  USB: safe_serial: straighten out read processing
  USB: safe_serial: reimplement read using generic framework
  USB: safe_serial: reimplement write using generic framework
  usb-storage: always print quirks
  USB: usb-storage: trivial debug improvements
  USB: oti6858: use port write fifo
  USB: oti6858: use kfifo to implement write buffering
  USB: cypress_m8: use kfifo to implement write buffering
  USB: cypress_m8: remove unused drain define
  ...

Fix up conflicts (due to usb_buffer_alloc/free renaming) in
	drivers/input/tablet/acecad.c
	drivers/input/tablet/kbtab.c
	drivers/input/tablet/wacom_sys.c
	drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca.c
	sound/usb/usbaudio.c
2010-05-20 21:26:12 -07:00
Alan Stern
a90309860b USB: deprecate the power/level sysfs attribute
This patch (as1367) deprecates USB's power/level sysfs attribute in
favor of the power/control attribute provided by the runtime PM core.
The two attributes do the same thing.

It would be nice to replace power/level with a symlink to
power/control, but at the moment sysfs doesn't offer any way to do so.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-20 13:21:37 -07:00
florian@mickler.org
69c86373c6 Document the rfkill sysfs ABI
This moves sysfs ABI info from Documentation/rfkill.txt to the
ABI subfolder and reformats it.

This also schedules the deprecated sysfs parts to be removed in
2012 (claim file) and 2014 (state file).

Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2010-03-10 17:09:33 -05:00
Mark Fasheh
52f7c21b61 ocfs2: Move /sys/o2cb to /sys/fs/o2cb
/sys/fs is where we really want file system specific sysfs objects.

Ocfs2-tools has been updated to look in /sys/fs/o2cb. We can maintain
backwards compatibility with old ocfs2-tools by using a sysfs symlink. After
some time (2 years), the symlink can be safely removed. This patch also adds
documentation to make it easier for people to figure out what /sys/fs/o2cb
is used for.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2008-04-18 08:56:10 -07:00
Stefan Richter
199c1167f5 ieee1394: change deprecation status of dv1394
Nobody ported ffmpeg from dv1394 to rawiso yet, and there is no
justification to remove dv1394 right now.

Nevertheless, a strong deprecation of this ABI makes a lot of sense,
especially as Kristian H's drivers shape up to be an attractive
alternative to the existing ones.  But we don't have a schedule at the
moment.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2007-04-09 18:52:27 +02:00
jens m. noedler
6d99eb33f5 Documentation/ABI: devfs is not obsolete, but removed!
Signed-off-by: Jens M. Noedler <noedler@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:36 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
c18f6365fd [PATCH] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentation
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-21 12:40:47 -07:00