linux/drivers/Kconfig, branch v3.6

vfio: VFIO core

2012-07-31T14:16:22Z

VFIO is a secure user level driver for use with both virtual machines and user level drivers. VFIO makes use of IOMMU groups to ensure the isolation of devices in use, allowing unprivileged user access. It's intended that VFIO will replace KVM device assignment and UIO drivers (in cases where the target platform includes a sufficiently capable IOMMU). New in this version of VFIO is support for IOMMU groups managed through the IOMMU core as well as a rework of the API, removing the group merge interface. We now go back to a model more similar to original VFIO with UIOMMU support where the file descriptor obtained from /dev/vfio/vfio allows access to the IOMMU, but only after a group is added, avoiding the previous privilege issues with this type of model. IOMMU support is also now fully modular as IOMMUs have vastly different interface requirements on different platforms. VFIO users are able to query and initialize the IOMMU model of their choice. Please see the follow-on Documentation commit for further description and usage example. Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson

pwm: Add PWM framework support

2012-06-15T10:56:50Z

This patch adds framework support for PWM (pulse width modulation) devices. The is a barebone PWM API already in the kernel under include/linux/pwm.h, but it does not allow for multiple drivers as each of them implements the pwm_*() functions. There are other PWM framework patches around from Bill Gatliff. Unlike his framework this one does not change the existing API for PWMs so that this framework can act as a drop in replacement for the existing API. Why another framework? Several people argue that there should not be another framework for PWMs but they should be integrated into one of the existing frameworks like led or hwmon. Unlike these frameworks the PWM framework is agnostic to the purpose of the PWM. In fact, a PWM can drive a LED, but this makes the LED framework a user of a PWM, like already done in leds-pwm.c. The gpio framework also is not suitable for PWMs. Every gpio could be turned into a PWM using timer based toggling, but on the other hand not every PWM hardware device can be turned into a gpio due to the lack of hardware capabilities. This patch does not try to improve the PWM API yet, this could be done in subsequent patches. Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer Acked-by: Kurt Van Dijck Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Reviewed-by: Matthias Kaehlcke Reviewed-by: Mark Brown Reviewed-by: Shawn Guo [thierry.reding@avionic-design.de: fixup typos, kerneldoc comments] Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding

Merge tag 'staging-3.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging

2012-05-22T23:34:21Z

Pull staging tree changes from Greg Kroah-Hartman: "Here is the big staging tree pull request for the 3.5-rc1 merge window. Loads of changes here, and we just narrowly added more lines than we added: 622 files changed, 28356 insertions(+), 26059 deletions(-) But, good news is that there is a number of subsystems that moved out of the staging tree, to their respective "real" portions of the kernel. Code that moved out was: - iio core code - mei driver - vme core and bridge drivers There was one broken network driver that moved into staging as a step before it is removed from the tree (pc300), and there was a few new drivers added to the tree: - new iio drivers - gdm72xx wimax USB driver - ipack subsystem and 2 drivers All of the movements around have acks from the various subsystem maintainers, and all of this has been in the linux-next tree for a while. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman " Fixed up various trivial conflicts, along with a non-trivial one found in -next and pointed out by Olof Johanssen: a clean - but incorrect - merge of the arch/arm/boot/dts/at91sam9g20.dtsi file. Fix up manually as per Stephen Rothwell. * tag 'staging-3.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (536 commits) Staging: bcm: Remove two unused variables from Adapter.h Staging: bcm: Removes the volatile type definition from Adapter.h Staging: bcm: Rename all "INT" to "int" in Adapter.h Staging: bcm: Fix warning: __packed vs. __attribute__((packed)) in Adapter.h Staging: bcm: Correctly format all comments in Adapter.h Staging: bcm: Fix all whitespace issues in Adapter.h Staging: bcm: Properly format braces in Adapter.h Staging: ipack/bridges/tpci200: remove unneeded casts Staging: ipack/bridges/tpci200: remove TPCI200_SHORTNAME constant Staging: ipack: remove board_name and bus_name fields from struct ipack_device Staging: ipack: improve the register of a bus and a device in the bus. staging: comedi: cleanup all the comedi_driver 'detach' functions staging: comedi: remove all 'default N' in Kconfig staging: line6/config.h: Delete unused header staging: gdm72xx depends on NET staging: gdm72xx: Set up parent link in sysfs for gdm72xx devices staging: drm/omap: initial dmabuf/prime import support staging: drm/omap: dmabuf/prime mmap support pstore/ram: Add ECC support pstore/ram: Switch to persistent_ram routines ...

memory: emif: add basic infrastructure for EMIF driver

2012-05-02T07:10:49Z

EMIF is an SDRAM controller used in various Texas Instruments SoCs. EMIF supports, based on its revision, one or more of LPDDR2/DDR2/DDR3 protocols. Add the basic infrastructure for EMIF driver that includes driver registration, probe, parsing of platform data etc. Signed-off-by: Aneesh V Reviewed-by: Santosh Shilimkar Reviewed-by: Benoit Cousson [santosh.shilimkar@ti.com: Moved to drivers/memory from drivers/misc] Signed-off-by: Santosh Shilimkar Tested-by: Lokesh Vutla Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Staging: VME: move VME drivers out of staging

2012-04-26T19:34:58Z

This moves the VME core, VME board drivers, and VME bridge drivers out of the drivers/staging/vme/ area to drivers/vme/. The VME device drivers have not moved out yet due to some API questions they are still working through, that should happen soon, hopefully. Cc: Martyn Welch Cc: Manohar Vanga Cc: Vincent Bossier Cc: "Emilio G. Cota" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

IIO: Move the core files to drivers/iio

2012-04-25T18:11:38Z

Take the core support + the kfifo buffer implentation out of staging. Whilst we are far from done in improving this subsystem it is now at a stage where the userspae interfaces (provided by the core) can be considered stable. Drivers will follow over a longer time scale. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Extcon (external connector): import Android's switch class and modify.

2012-04-20T16:21:11Z

External connector class (extcon) is based on and an extension of Android kernel's switch class located at linux/drivers/switch/. This patch provides the before-extension switch class moved to the location where the extcon will be located (linux/drivers/extcon/) and updates to handle class properly. The before-extension class, switch class of Android kernel, commits imported are: switch: switch class and GPIO drivers. (splitted) Author: Mike Lockwood switch: Use device_create instead of device_create_drvdata. Author: Arve Hjønnevåg In this patch, upon the commits of Android kernel, we have added: - Relocated and renamed for extcon. - Comments, module name, and author information are updated - Code clean for successing patches - Bugfix: enabling write access without write functions - Class/device/sysfs create/remove handling - Added comments about uevents - Format changes for extcon_dev_register() to have a parent dev. Signed-off-by: MyungJoo Ham Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park Reviewed-by: Mark Brown -- Changes from v7 - Compiler error fixed when it is compiled as a module. - Removed out-of-date Kconfig entry Changes from v6 - Updated comment/strings - Revised "Android-compatible" mode. * Automatically activated if CONFIG_ANDROID && !CONFIG_ANDROID_SWITCH * Creates /sys/class/switch/*, which is a copy of /sys/class/extcon/* Changes from v5 - Split the patch - Style fixes - "Android-compatible" mode is enabled by Kconfig option. Changes from v2 - Updated name_show - Sysfs entries are handled by class itself. - Updated the method to add/remove devices for the class - Comments on uevent send - Able to become a module - Compatible with Android platform Changes from RFC - Renamed to extcon (external connector) from multistate switch - Added a seperated directory (drivers/extcon) - Added kerneldoc comments - Removed unused variables from extcon_gpio.c - Added ABI Documentation. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-next' of git://gitorious.org/kernel-hsi/kernel-hsi

2012-04-02T16:50:40Z

Pull HSI (High Speed Synchronous Serial Interface) framework from Carlos Chinea: "The High Speed Synchronous Serial Interface (HSI) is a serial interface mainly used for connecting application engines (APE) with cellular modem engines (CMT) in cellular handsets. The framework is currently being used for some people and we would like to see it integrated into the kernel for 3.3. There is no HW controller drivers in this pull, but some people have already some of them pending which they would like to push as soon as this integrated. I am also working on the acceptance for an TI OMAP one, based on a compatible legacy version of the interface called SSI." Ok, so it didn't get into 3.3, but here it is pulled into 3.4. Several people piped up to say "yeah, we want this". * 'for-next' of git://gitorious.org/kernel-hsi/kernel-hsi: HSI: hsi_char: Update ioctl-number.txt HSI: Add HSI API documentation HSI: hsi_char: Add HSI char device kernel configuration HSI: hsi_char: Add HSI char device driver HSI: hsi: Introducing HSI framework

Merge tag 'rpmsg' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

2012-03-27T23:30:09Z

Pull "remoteproc/rpmsg: new subsystem" from Arnd Bergmann: "This new subsystem provides a common way to talk to secondary processors on an SoC, e.g. a DSP, GPU or service processor, using virtio as the transport. In the long run, it should replace a few dozen vendor specific ways to do the same thing, which all never made it into the upstream kernel. There is a broad agreement that rpmsg is the way to go here and several vendors have started working on replacing their own subsystems. Two branches each add one virtio protocol number. Fortunately the numbers were agreed upon in advance, so there are only context changes. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann " Fixed up trivial protocol number conflict due to the mentioned additions next to each other. * tag 'rpmsg' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (32 commits) remoteproc: cleanup resource table parsing paths remoteproc: remove the hardcoded vring alignment remoteproc/omap: remove the mbox_callback limitation remoteproc: remove the single rpmsg vdev limitation remoteproc: safer boot/shutdown order remoteproc: remoteproc_rpmsg -> remoteproc_virtio remoteproc: resource table overhaul rpmsg: fix build warning when dma_addr_t is 64-bit rpmsg: fix published buffer length in rpmsg_recv_done rpmsg: validate incoming message length before propagating rpmsg: fix name service endpoint leak remoteproc/omap: two Kconfig fixes remoteproc: make sure we're parsing a 32bit firmware remoteproc: s/big switch/lookup table/ remoteproc: bail out if firmware has different endianess remoteproc: don't use virtio's weak barriers rpmsg: rename virtqueue_add_buf_gfp to virtqueue_add_buf rpmsg: depend on EXPERIMENTAL remoteproc: depend on EXPERIMENTAL rpmsg: add Kconfig menu ... Conflicts: include/linux/virtio_ids.h

telephony: Move to staging

2012-02-09T00:58:04Z

This stuff is really old and in quite poor shape. Does anyone still use it? If not, I think it's appropriate to let it simmer in staging for a few releases. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman