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Alan Cox
c17ee88697 tty-usb-console: Fix termios
Setting CFLAG bits is all well and good but you must sort out ispeed and
ospeed properly.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 13:03:23 -07:00
Alan Cox
4dbd5a0961 tty-usb-console: tidy the USB console code
Code tidy

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 13:03:22 -07:00
Alan Cox
c97611c16d usb-serial-bus: tidy coding style
Tidy up

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 13:03:22 -07:00
Alan Cox
b69c14992e belkin_sa: clean up code
Coding style tidy up for belkin_sa

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 13:03:22 -07:00
Alan Cox
72e2741256 whiteheat: fix bugs found in the tidy and audit
Termios tidy up, plus fix break and DTR.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 13:03:22 -07:00
Alan Cox
80359a9c5c whiteheat: coding style
Bring ezusb and whiteheat into line with the coding style

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 13:03:22 -07:00
Alan Cox
95da310e66 usb_serial: API all change
USB serial likes to use port->tty back pointers for the real work it does and
to do so without any actual locking. Unfortunately when you consider hangup
events, hangup/parallel reopen or even worse hangup followed by parallel close
events the tty->port and port->tty pointers are not guaranteed to be the same
as port->tty is the active tty while tty->port is the port the tty may or
may not still be attached to.

So rework the entire API to pass the tty struct. For console cases we need
to pass both for now. This shows up multiple drivers that immediately crash
with USB console some of which have been fixed in the process.

Longer term we need a proper tty as console abstraction

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 13:03:22 -07:00
Alan Cox
1aa3692da5 ttydev: Fix up compile failures in the PPC build
Fix up a couple of reported merge problems

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 13:03:22 -07:00
Mathieu Desnoyers
d35cb360c2 markers: fix duplicate modpost entry
When a kernel was rebuilt, the previous Module.markers was not cleared.
It caused markers with different format strings to appear as duplicates
when a markers was changed.  This problem is present since
scripts/mod/modpost.c started to generate Module.markers, commit
b2e3e658b3

It therefore applies to 2.6.25, 2.6.26 and linux-next.

I merely merged the patches from Roland, Wenji and Takashi here.

Credits to
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
and
Takashi Nishiie <t-nishiie@np.css.fujitsu.com>

for providing the individual fixes.

- Changelog :
  - Integrated Takashi's Makefile modification to clear Module.markers upon
    make clean.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
Cc: Takashi Nishiie <t-nishiie@np.css.fujitsu.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 09:59:41 -07:00
Atsushi Nemoto
5f17156fc5 Fix build on COMPAT platforms when CONFIG_EPOLL is disabled
Add missing cond_syscall() entry for compat_sys_epoll_pwait.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 09:59:41 -07:00
Rajiv Andrade
141c024036 tpm: MAINTAINERS whitespace fix and email addresses addition
Signed-off-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 09:59:41 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
ee1e6ab605 proc: fix /proc/*/pagemap some more
struct pagemap_walk was placed on stack, some hooks are initialized, the
rest (->pgd_entry, ->pud_entry, ->pte_entry) are valid but junk.

Reported-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: "Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.25.x, 2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 09:59:41 -07:00
Miao Xie
91cd4d6ef0 cpusets: fix wrong domain attr updates
Fix wrong domain attr updates, or we will always update the first sched
domain attr.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>	[2.6.26.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 09:59:41 -07:00
David Brownell
1673ad52bd gpio: pcf857x: add lock and handle more chips
Two small updates to the pcf857x driver: (a) the max732[89] chips are
also second sources for the pcf8574/a, and (b) add a mutex to prevent
trashing the cached state.  Adding the lock is effectively a bugfix,
although it seems unlikely that anyone would have run into the issue it
protects against.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 09:59:41 -07:00
Juergen Beisert
0c36ec3147 gpio: gpio driver for max7301 SPI GPIO expander
Maxim's MAX7301 is an SPI GPIO expander with 28 GPIOs.  Note: MAX7301's
interrupt feature is not supported yet.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[g.liakhovetski@pengutronix.de: Fix inaccuracies in comments, check spi_setup()
return code, mask off high byte in max7301_read()]
Signed-off-by: Juergen Beisert <j.beisert@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 09:59:40 -07:00
John Reiser
6519108746 execve filename: document and export via auxiliary vector
The Linux kernel puts the filename argument of execve() into the new
address space.  Many developers are surprised to learn this.  Those who
know and could use it, object "But it's not documented."

Those who want to use it dislike the expression
  (char *)(1+ strlen(env[-1+ n_env]) + env[-1+ n_env])
because it requires locating the last original environment variable,
and assumes that the filename follows the characters.

This patch documents the insertion of the filename, and makes it easier
to find by adding a new tag AT_EXECFN in the ElfXX_auxv_t; see <elf.h>.

In many cases readlink("/proc/self/exe",) gives the same answer.  But if
all the original pages get unmapped, then the kernel erases the symlink
for /proc/self/exe.  This can happen when a program decompressor does a
good job of cleaning up after uncompressing directly to memory, so that
the address space of the target program looks the same as if compression
had never happened.  One example is http://upx.sourceforge.net .

One notable use of the underlying concept (what path containED the
executable) is glibc expanding $ORIGIN in DT_RUNPATH.  In practice for
the near term, it may be a good idea for user-mode code to use both
/proc/self/exe and AT_EXECFN as fall-back methods for each other.
/proc/self/exe can fail due to unmapping, AT_EXECFN can fail because it
won't be present on non-new systems.  The auxvec or {AT_EXECFN}.d_val
also can get overwritten, although in nearly all cases this would be the
result of a bug.

The runtime cost is one NEW_AUX_ENT using two words of stack space.  The
underlying value is maintained already as bprm->exec; setup_arg_pages()
in fs/exec.c slides it for stack_shift, etc.

Signed-off-by: John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-22 09:59:40 -07:00
Jan Kratochvil
d536b1f865 x86: fix crash due to missing debugctlmsr on AMD K6-3
currently if you use PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK on AMD K6-3 (i586) it will crash.
Kernel now wrongly assumes existing DEBUGCTLMSR MSR register there.

Removed the assumption also for some other non-K6 CPUs but I am not sure there
(but it can only bring small inefficiency there if my assumption is wrong).

Based on info from Roland McGrath, Chuck Ebbert and Mikulas Patocka.
More info at:
	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456175

Signed-off-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-22 14:16:37 +02:00
Johannes Berg
a1ef5adb4c remove CONFIG_KMOD from core kernel code
Always compile request_module when the kernel allows modules.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-22 19:24:31 +10:00
Johannes Berg
a00caa1fa9 remove CONFIG_KMOD from lib
textsearch algorithms can be loaded, make the code depend
on CONFIG_MODULES instead of CONFIG_KMOD.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-22 19:24:31 +10:00
Johannes Berg
184b6c7682 remove CONFIG_KMOD from sparc64
One place is just a comment, the other a conditional, unused
inclusion of linux/kmod.h.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-22 19:24:30 +10:00
Johannes Berg
df648c9fbe rework try_then_request_module to do less in non-modular kernels
This reworks try_then_request_module to only invoke the "lookup"
function "x" once when the kernel is not modular.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-22 19:24:29 +10:00
Johannes Berg
a81792f668 remove mention of CONFIG_KMOD from documentation
Also includes a few Kconfig files (xtensa, blackfin)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
2008-07-22 19:24:29 +10:00
Johannes Berg
baabaae981 make CONFIG_KMOD invisible
... as preparation for removing it completely, make it an
invisible bool defaulting to yes.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-22 19:24:28 +10:00
Rusty Russell
3a642e99ba modules: Take a shortcut for checking if an address is in a module
This patch keeps track of the boundaries of module allocation, in
order to speed up module_text_address().

Inspired by Arjan's version, which required arch-specific defines:

	Various pieces of the kernel (lockdep, latencytop, etc) tend
	to store backtraces, sometimes at a relatively high
	frequency. In itself this isn't a big performance deal (after
	all you're using diagnostics features), but there have been
	some complaints from people who have over 100 modules loaded
	that this is a tad too slow.

	This is due to the new backtracer code which looks at every
	slot on the stack to see if it's a kernel/module text address,
	so that's 1024 slots.  1024 times 100 modules... that's a lot
	of list walking.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-22 19:24:28 +10:00
Denys Vlasenko
2f0f2a334b module: turn longs into ints for module sizes
This shrinks module.o and each *.ko file.

And finally, structure members which hold length of module
code (four such members there) and count of symbols
are converted from longs to ints.

We cannot possibly have a module where 32 bits won't
be enough to hold such counts.

For one, module loading checks module size for sanity
before loading, so such insanely big module will fail
that test first.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-22 19:24:27 +10:00
Denys Vlasenko
f7f5b67557 Shrink struct module: CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS ifdefs
module.c and module.h conatains code for finding
exported symbols which are declared with EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL,
and this code is compiled in even if CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS is not set
and thus there can be no EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOLs in modules anyway
(because EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(x) are compiled out to nothing then).

This patch adds required #ifdefs.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-22 19:24:27 +10:00
Richard Kennedy
af5406895a module: reorder struct module to save space on 64 bit builds
reorder struct module to save space on 64 bit builds.
saves 1 cacheline_size  (128 on default x86_64 & 64 on AMD
Opteron/athlon) when CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y.

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-22 19:24:26 +10:00
Rusty Russell
dafd0940c9 module: generic each_symbol iterator function
Introduce an each_symbol() iterator to avoid duplicating the knowledge
about the 5 different sections containing symbols.  Currently only
used by find_symbol(), but will be used by symbol_put_addr() too.

(Includes NULL ptr deref fix by Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>)

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2008-07-22 19:24:26 +10:00
Rusty Russell
da39ba5e1d module: don't use stop_machine for waiting rmmod
rmmod has a little-used "-w" option, meaning that instead of failing if the
module is in use, it should block until the module becomes unused.

In this case, we don't need to use stop_machine: Max Krasnyansky
indicated that would be useful for SystemTap which loads/unloads new
modules frequently.

Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-22 19:24:25 +10:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
77be1fabd0 x86: add PTE_FLAGS_MASK
PTE_PFN_MASK was getting lonely, so I made it a friend.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-22 10:43:45 +02:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
59438c9fc4 x86: rename PTE_MASK to PTE_PFN_MASK
Rusty, in his peevish way, complained that macros defining constants
should have a name which somewhat accurately reflects the actual
purpose of the constant.

Aside from the fact that PTE_MASK gives no clue as to what's actually
being masked, and is misleadingly similar to the functionally entirely
different PMD_MASK, PUD_MASK and PGD_MASK, I don't really see what the
problem is.

But if this patch silences the incessent noise, then it will have
achieved its goal (TODO: write test-case).

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-22 10:43:44 +02:00
Rusty Russell
c2e3277f87 x86: fix pte_flags() to only return flags, fix lguest (updated)
(Jeremy said:
	rusty: use PTE_MASK
	rusty: use PTE_MASK
	rusty: use PTE_MASK
 When I asked:
	jsgf: does that include the NX flag?
 He responded eloquently:
	rusty: use PTE_MASK
	rusty: use PTE_MASK
	yes, it's the official constant of masking flags out of ptes
)

Change a15af1c9ea 'x86/paravirt: add
pte_flags to just get pte flags' removed lguest's private pte_flags()
in favor of a generic one.

Unfortunately, the generic one doesn't filter out the non-flags bits:
this results in lguest creating corrupt shadow page tables and blowing
up host memory.

Since noone is supposed to use the pfn part of pte_flags(), it seems
safest to always do the filtering.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-and-morning-tea-spilled-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-22 10:41:18 +02:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
8725f25acc Merge commit 'origin/master'
Manually fixed up:

	drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
2008-07-22 17:12:37 +10:00
Yinghai Lu
988781dc3e x86: use setup_clear_cpu_cap with disable_apic, fix
beauty fix: /proc/cpuinfo will still show apic feature even if
we booted up with it disabled.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-22 09:05:45 +02:00
Kay Sievers
3f9787046e arm: bus_id -> dev_name() and dev_set_name() conversions
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:55:03 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
2222c313e9 sparc64: fix up bus_id changes in sparc core code
This converts all instances of bus_id in the sparc core kernel to use
either dev_set_name(), or dev_name() depending on the need.

This is done in anticipation of removing the bus_id field from struct
driver.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:55:03 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
361d5ee3c0 3c59x: handle pci_name() being const
This changes vortex_prob1() to handle pci_name() now returning a
constant string.

Cc: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:55:03 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
eadcf0d704 MTD: handle pci_name() being const
This changes the MTD core to handle pci_name() now returning a constant
string.

Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:55:03 -07:00
David Altobelli
89bcb05d9b HP iLO driver
A driver for the HP iLO/iLO2 management processor, which allows userspace
programs to query the management processor.  Programs can open a channel
to the device (/dev/hpilo/dXccbN), and use this to send/receive queries.  
The O_EXCL open flag is used to indicate that a particular channel cannot
be shared between processes.  This driver will replace various packages
HP has shipped, including hprsm and hp-ilo.

Signed-off-by: David Altobelli <david.altobelli@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:55:02 -07:00
Andi Kleen
d95d62c018 sysdev: Convert the x86 mce tolerant sysdev attribute to generic attribute
Use the new generic int attribute accessors for the x86 mce tolerant
attribute. Simple example to illustrate the new macros.

There are much more places all over the tree that could be converted
like this.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:55:02 -07:00
Andi Kleen
9800794ac1 sysdev: Add utility functions for simple int/ulong variable sysdev attributes
This adds a new sysdev_ext_attribute that stores a pointer to the variable
it manages and some utility functions/macro to easily use them.

Previously all users wrote custom macros to generate show/store
functions for each variable, with this it is possible to avoid
that in many cases.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:55:02 -07:00
Andi Kleen
4a0b2b4dbe sysdev: Pass the attribute to the low level sysdev show/store function
This allow to dynamically generate attributes and share show/store
functions between attributes. Right now most attributes are generated
by special macros and lots of duplicated code. With the attribute
passed it's instead possible to attach some data to the attribute
and then use that in shared low level functions to do different things.

I need this for the dynamically generated bank attributes in the x86
machine check code, but it'll allow some further cleanups.

I converted all users in tree to the new show/store prototype. It's a single
huge patch to avoid unbisectable sections.

Runtime tested: x86-32, x86-64
Compiled only: ia64, powerpc
Not compile tested/only grep converted: sh, arm, avr32

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:55:02 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
36ce6dad6e driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().
driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().

Renaming network devices to an already existing name is not
something we want sysfs to print a scary warning for, since the
callers can deal with this correctly. So let's introduce
sysfs_create_link_nowarn() which gets rid of the common warning.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:55:01 -07:00
Wang Chen
0ad1d6f37c kobject: Transmit return value of call_usermodehelper() to caller
kobject_uevent_env() drops the return value of call_usermodehelper().
It will make upper caller, such as dm_send_uevents(), to lose error
information.

BTW, Previously kobject_uevent_env() transmitted return of
call_usermodehelper() to callers, but
commit	5f123fbd80
"[PATCH] merge kobject_uevent and kobject_hotplug" removed it.

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:55:00 -07:00
Nathan Lynch
83c79b55f0 sysfs-rules.txt: reword API stability statement
The first paragraph of this document implies that user space developers
shouldn't use sysfs at all, but then it goes on to describe rules that
developers should follow when accessing sysfs.  Not only is this somewhat
self-contradictory, it has been shown to discourage developers from using
established sysfs interfaces.

A note of caution is more appropriate than a blanket "sysfs will never
be stable" assertion.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:59 -07:00
Haavard Skinnemoen
9505e63756 debugfs: Implement debugfs_remove_recursive()
debugfs_remove_recursive() will remove a dentry and all its children.
Drivers can use this to zap their whole debugfs tree so that they don't
need to keep track of every single debugfs dentry they created.

It may fail to remove the whole tree in certain cases:

sh-3.2# rmmod atmel-mci < /sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/ios/clock
mmc0: card b368 removed
atmel_mci atmel_mci.0: Lost dma0chan1, falling back to PIO
sh-3.2# ls /sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/
ios

But I'm not sure if that case can be handled in any sane manner.

Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:59 -07:00
Tsugikazu Shibata
43166141f7 HOWTO: change email addresses of James in HOWTO
Signed-off-by: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:59 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
d9b19199e4 always enable FW_LOADER unless EMBEDDED=y
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>
2008-07-21 21:54:58 -07:00
Mike Frysinger
4f7e53096c uio-howto.tmpl: use unique output names
The Userspace I/O HOWTO template sets two different sections with the same
html output name (about.html).  This clearly won't work, so change the
first one to a unique "aboutthis.html" to prevent clobbering.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:58 -07:00
Mike Frysinger
17149d9fff uio-howto.tmpl: use standard copyright/legal markings
The Userspace I/O HOWTO document uses straight <sect1> tags and plain text
to describe copyright/legal information.  It should instead use the
<copyright> and <legalnotice> tags like all other documents in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:58 -07:00