linux/drivers/misc, branch v2.6.29-rc6

sgi-xp: fix writing past the end of kzalloc()'d space

2009-02-05T20:56:49Z

A missing type cast results in writing way beyond the end of a kzalloc()'d memory segment resulting in slab corruption. But it seems like the better solution is to define ->recv_msg_slots as a 'void *' rather than a 'struct xpc_notify_mq_msg_uv *' and add the type cast. Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

atmel-ssc: fix misuse of dev_dbg when requested ssc instance is not found

2009-02-05T20:56:48Z

The ssc pointer is not valid when the id is not found in the list. Convert the message from a debug one into an error message and avoid dereferencing the bad pointer. Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt Cc: Kay Sievers Cc: Huang Weiyi Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen Cc: David Brownell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

misc: dell-laptop should depend on POWER_SUPPLY

2009-02-05T20:56:46Z

dell-laptop makes use of the power supply class information to choose which backlight interface to change. Add a depends on it. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Len Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hpilo: open/close fix

2009-02-05T20:56:46Z

The device can take a while to respond to an open/close request, so increase the time kernel will wait for response (1 ms to 10ms). Also, properly clean up a channel on a failed open, by calling the channel close routine. Just freeing the memory isn't sufficient, the device needs to be informed that the channel is no longer open, and the device memory cleared of references to freed dma buffer. Signed-off-by: David Altobelli Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sgi-xp: link XPNET's net_device_ops to its net_device structure

2009-02-03T23:16:48Z

A recent patch by Stephen Hemminger to convert XPNET to use net_device_ops and internal net_device_stats failed to link the net_device_ops structure to the net_device structure. See commit e8ac9c55f28482f5b2f497a8e7eb90985db237c2 ("xpnet: convert devices to new API"). Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

hpilo: increment version

2009-01-30T02:04:45Z

Bump hpilo module version to indicate that the open/close bug is fixed. Signed-off-by: David Altobelli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sgi-xpc: fix up stale DBUG_ON statements

2009-01-30T02:04:43Z

Clean up the stale DBUG_ON checks and add a couple new ones. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sgi-xpc: Remove NULL pointer dereference.

2009-01-30T02:04:43Z

If the bte copy fails, the attempt to retrieve payloads merely returns a null pointer deref and not NULL as was expected. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sgi-xpc: ensure flags are updated before bte_copy

2009-01-30T02:04:42Z

The clearing of the msg->flags needs a barrier between it and the notify of the channel threads that the messages are cleaned and ready for use. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

eeprom: More consistent symbol names

2009-01-26T20:19:57Z

Now that all EEPROM drivers live in the same place, let's harmonize their symbol names. Also fix eeprom's dependencies, it definitely needs sysfs, and is no longer experimental after many years in the kernel tree. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Acked-by: Wolfram Sang Cc: David Brownell