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2006-05-21[PATCH] drivers/base/firmware_class.c: cleanupsAdrian Bunk
- remove the following global function that is both unused and unimplemented: - register_firmware() - make the following needlessly global function static: - firmware_class_uevent() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-06[CLASS DEVICE]: add attribute_group creationStephen Hemminger
Extend the support of attribute groups in class_device's to allow groups to be created as part of the registration process. This allows network device's to avoid race between registration and creating groups. Note that unlike attributes that are a property of the class object, the groups are a property of the class_device object. This is done because there are different types of network devices (wireless for example). Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-26[PATCH] Remove __devinit and __cpuinit from notifier_call definitionsChandra Seetharaman
Few of the notifier_chain_register() callers use __init in the definition of notifier_call. It is incorrect as the function definition should be available after the initializations (they do not unregister them during initializations). This patch fixes all such usages to _not_ have the notifier_call __init section. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-14[PATCH] pm: print name of failed suspend functionAndrew Morton
Print more diagnostic info to help identify the source of power management suspend failures. Example: usb_hcd_pci_suspend(): pci_set_power_state+0x0/0x1af() returns -22 pci_device_suspend(): usb_hcd_pci_suspend+0x0/0x11b() returns -22 suspend_device(): pci_device_suspend+0x0/0x34() returns -22 Work-in-progress. It needs lots more suspend_report_result() calls sprinkled everywhere. Cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-14[PATCH] driver core: driver_bind attribute returns incorrect valueRyan Wilson
The manual driver <-> device binding attribute in sysfs doesn't return the correct value on failure or success of driver_probe_device. driver_probe_device returns 1 on success (the driver accepted the device) or 0 on probe failure (when the driver didn't accept the device but no real error occured). However, the attribute can't just return 0 or 1, it must return the number of bytes consumed from buf or an error value. Returning 0 indicates to userspace that nothing was written (even though the kernel has tried to do the bind/probe and failed). Returning 1 indicates that only one character was accepted in which case userspace will re-try the write with a partial string. A more correct version of driver_bind would return count (to indicate the entire string was consumed) when driver_probe_device returns 1 and -ENODEV when driver_probe_device returns 0. This patch makes that change. Signed-off-by: Ryan Wilson <hap9@epoch.ncsc.mil> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-14[PATCH] driver core: fix unnecessary NULL check in drivers/base/class.cJayachandran C
This patch tries to fix an issue in drivers/base/class.c, please review and apply if correct. Patch Description: "parent_class" is checked for NULL already, so removed the unnecessary check. Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C. <c.jayachandran@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-14[PATCH] driver core: safely unbind drivers for devices not on a busAlan Stern
This patch (as667) changes the __device_release_driver() routine to prevent it from crashing when it runs across a device not on any bus. This seems logical, inasmuch as the corresponding bus_add_device() routine has an explicit check allowing it to accept such devices. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-11[PATCH] Fix NULL pointer dereference in node_read_numastat()Christoph Lameter
zone_pcp() only returns valid values if the processor is online. Change node_read_numastat() to only scan online processors. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27[PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changesAlan Stern
The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe. There is no protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the chain is in use. The issues were discussed in this thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2 We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage classes: "Blocking" chains are always called from a process context and the callout routines are allowed to sleep; "Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and the callout routines are not allowed to sleep. We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API. Therefore this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is really just the old API under a new name). New kinds of data structures are used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for registration, unregistration, and calling a chain. The three APIs are explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in kernel/sys.c. With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by entries being added or removed. For raw chains the implementation provides no guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections. (The idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to handle these things in their own way.) There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with. For atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem. Also, a callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister entries on its own chain. (This did happen in a couple of places and the code had to be changed to avoid it.) Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use spinlocks for synchronization. Instead we use RCU. The overhead falls almost entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much less frequent that calling a chain. Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications. None of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder. ATOMIC CHAINS ------------- arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: i386die_chain arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c: ia64die_chain arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c: powerpc_die_chain arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c: sparc64die_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c: die_chain drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: xaction_notifier_list kernel/panic.c: panic_notifier_list kernel/profile.c: task_free_notifier net/bluetooth/hci_core.c: hci_notifier net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_chain net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_expect_chain net/ipv6/addrconf.c: inet6addr_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_expect_chain net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_chain BLOCKING CHAINS --------------- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c: pSeries_reconfig_chain arch/s390/kernel/process.c: idle_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c idle_notifier drivers/base/memory.c: memory_chain drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_policy_notifier_list drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_transition_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/adb.c: adb_client_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c wf_client_list drivers/usb/core/notify.c usb_notifier_list drivers/video/fbmem.c fb_notifier_list kernel/cpu.c cpu_chain kernel/module.c module_notify_list kernel/profile.c munmap_notifier kernel/profile.c task_exit_notifier kernel/sys.c reboot_notifier_list net/core/dev.c netdev_chain net/decnet/dn_dev.c: dnaddr_chain net/ipv4/devinet.c: inetaddr_chain It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong. If they are, please let us know or submit a patch to fix them. Note that any chain that gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems. (However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be atomic.) The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew Morton. [jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros] Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] Check if cpu can be onlined before calling smp_prepare_cpu()Ashok Raj
- Moved check for online cpu out of smp_prepare_cpu() - Moved default declaration of smp_prepare_cpu() to kernel/cpu.c - Removed lock_cpu_hotplug() from smp_prepare_cpu() to around it, since its called from cpu_up() as well now. - Removed clearing from cpu_present_map during cpu_offline as it breaks using cpu_up() directly during a subsequent online operation. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23[PATCH] swsusp: add check for suspension of X-controlled devicesRafael J. Wysocki
It is unsafe to suspend devices if the hardware is controlled by X. Add an extra check to prevent this from happening. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-22Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: fixed path to moved file in include/linux/device.h Fix spelling in E1000_DISABLE_PACKET_SPLIT Kconfig description Documentation/dvb/get_dvb_firmware: fix firmware URL Documentation: Update to BUG-HUNTING Remove superfluous NOTIFY_COOKIE_LEN define add "tags" to .gitignore Fix "frist", "fisrt", typos fix rwlock usage example It's UTF-8
2006-03-22Fix "frist", "fisrt", typosUwe Zeisberger
Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger <Uwe_Zeisberger@digi.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-21Merge ../linux-2.6James Bottomley
2006-03-20[PATCH] get_cpu_sysdev() signedness fixAndrew Morton
Doing (int < NR_CPUS) doesn't dtrt if it's negative.. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20[PATCH] firmware: fix BUG: in fw_realloc_bufferJeff Moyer
The fw_realloc_buffer routine does not handle an increase in buffer size of more than 4k. It's not clear to me why it expects that it will only get an extra 4k of data. The attached patch modifies fw_realloc_buffer to vmalloc as much memory as is requested, instead of what we previously had + 4k. I've tested this on my laptop, which would crash occaisionally on boot without the patch. With the patch, it hasn't crashed, but I can't be certain that this code path is exercised. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20[PATCH] kobj_map semaphore to mutex conversionJes Sorensen
Convert the kobj_map code to use a mutex instead of a semaphore. It converts the single two users as well, genhd.c and char_dev.c. Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20[PATCH] driver core: platform_get_irq*(): return -ENXIO on errorDavid Vrabel
platform_get_irq*() cannot return 0 on error as 0 is a valid IRQ on some platforms, return -ENXIO instead. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-14[SCSI] drivers/base/bus.c - export reprobeMoore, Eric
Adding support for exposing hidden raid components for sg interface. The sdev->no_uld_attach flag will set set accordingly. The sas module supports adding/removing raid volumes using online storage management application interface. This patch was provided to me by Christoph Hellwig. Signed-off-by: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsil.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-02-07[PATCH] fix __user annotations in drivers/base/memory.cAl Viro
sysfs store doesn't deal with userland pointers Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-06[PATCH] Fix Userspace interface breakage in power/statePavel Machek
Prevent passing invalid values down to the drivers. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-02-06[PATCH] drivers/base/: proper prototypesAdrian Bunk
This patch contains the following changes: - move prototypes to base.h - sys.c should #include "base.h" for getting the prototype of it's global function system_bus_init() Note that hidden in this patch there's a bugfix: Caller and callee disagreed regarding the return type of sysdev_shutdown(). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-02-06[PATCH] Fix compiler warning in driver core for CONFIG_HOTPLUG=NRussell King
FYI, while running a build test, I found: drivers/base/bus.c:166: warning: `driver_attr_unbind' defined but not used drivers/base/bus.c:194: warning: `driver_attr_bind' defined but not used Looks like these two attributes and supporting functions want to be #ifdef HOTPLUG'd Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-02-03[PATCH] Export cpu topology in sysfsZhang, Yanmin
The patch implements cpu topology exportation by sysfs. Items (attributes) are similar to /proc/cpuinfo. 1) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/physical_package_id: represent the physical package id of cpu X; 2) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_id: represent the cpu core id to cpu X; 3) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings: represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same core; 4) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings: represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same physical package; To implement it in an architecture-neutral way, a new source file, driver/base/topology.c, is to export the 5 attributes. If one architecture wants to support this feature, it just needs to implement 4 defines, typically in file include/asm-XXX/topology.h. The 4 defines are: #define topology_physical_package_id(cpu) #define topology_core_id(cpu) #define topology_thread_siblings(cpu) #define topology_core_siblings(cpu) The type of **_id is int. The type of siblings is cpumask_t. To be consistent on all architectures, the 4 attributes should have deafult values if their values are unavailable. Below is the rule. 1) physical_package_id: If cpu has no physical package id, -1 is the default value. 2) core_id: If cpu doesn't support multi-core, its core id is 0. 3) thread_siblings: Just include itself, if the cpu doesn't support HT/multi-thread. 4) core_siblings: Just include itself, if the cpu doesn't support multi-core and HT/Multi-thread. So be careful when declaring the 4 defines in include/asm-XXX/topology.h. If an attribute isn't defined on an architecture, it won't be exported. Thank Nathan, Greg, Andi, Paul and Venki. The patch provides defines for i386/x86_64/ia64. Signed-off-by: Zhang, Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14[PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functionsArjan van de Ven
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-13[PATCH] device_shutdown can loop if the driver frees itselfMichael Richardson
This patch changes device_shutdown() to use the newly introduced safe reverse list traversal. We experienced loops on system reboot if we had removed and re-inserted our device from the device list. We noticed this problem on PPC405. Our PCI IDE device comes and goes a lot. Our hypothesis was that there was a loop caused by the driver->shutdown freeing memory. It is possible that we do something wrong as well, but being unable to reboot is kind of nasty. Signed-off-by: Michael Richardson <mcr@marajade.sandelman.ca> Cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13[PATCH] platform-device-del typo fixJean Delvare
Please fold this typo fix into platform-device-del.patch, as was discussed earlier on LKML: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/10/76 Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13[PATCH] Add bus_type probe, remove, shutdown methods.Russell King
Add bus_type probe, remove and shutdown methods to replace the corresponding methods in struct device_driver. This matches the way we handle the suspend/resume methods. Since the bus methods override the device_driver methods, warn if a device driver is registered whose methods will not be called. The long-term idea is to remove the device_driver methods entirely. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-11[PATCH] move capable() to capability.hRandy.Dunlap
- Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h; - Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used (in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/, mm/, security/, & sound/; many more drivers/ to go) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] DocBook: fix kernel-doc commentsMartin Waitz
Fix typos in comments to remove kernel-doc warnings. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] kdump: export per cpu crash notes pointer through sysfs (fix)Vivek Goyal
Removes the call to get_cpu() and put_cpu() as it is not required. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] kdump: export per cpu crash notes pointer through sysfsVivek Goyal
- Kexec on panic functionality allocates memory for saving cpu registers in case of system crash event. Address of this allocated memory needs to be exported to user space, which is used by kexec-tools. - Previously, a single /sys/kernel/crash_notes entry was being exported as memory allocated was a single continuous array. Now memory allocation being dyanmic and per cpu based, address of per cpu buffer is exported through "/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/crash_notes" Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] memhotplug: register_memory should be globalAndy Whitcroft
register_memory is global and declared so in linux/memory.h. Update the HOTPLUG specific definition to match. This fixes a compile warning when HOTPLUG is enabled. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] memhotplug: register_ and unregister_memory_notifier should be globalAndy Whitcroft
Both register_memory_notifer and unregister_memory_notifier are global and declared so in linux/memory.h. Update the HOTPLUG specific definitions to match. This fixes a compile warning when HOTPLUG is enabled. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06[PATCH] pcmcia: merge suspend into device modelDominik Brodowski
Merge the suspend and resume methods for 16-bit PCMCIA cards into the device model -- for both runtime power management and suspend to ram/disk. Bugfix in ds.c by Richard Purdie Signed-Off-By: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-01-04[PATCH] drivers/base/power/runtime.c: #if 0 dpm_set_power_state()Adrian Bunk
This patch #if 0's an unused global function. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04[PATCH] Driver core: only all userspace bind/unbind if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is enabledGreg Kroah-Hartman
Thanks to drivers making their id tables __devinit, we can't allow userspace to bind or unbind drivers from devices manually through sysfs. So we only allow this if CONFIG_HOTPLUG is enabled. Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04[PATCH] Driver Core: Rearrange exports in platform.cDmitry Torokhov
Driver core: rearrange exports in platform.c The new way is to specify export right after symbol definition. Rearrange exports to follow new style to avoid mixing two styles in one file. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04[PATCH] Driver Core: Add platform_device_del()Dmitry Torokhov
Driver core: add platform_device_del function Having platform_device_del90 allows more straightforward error handling code in drivers registering platform devices. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04[PATCH] Allow overlapping resources for platform devicesKumar Gala
There are cases in which a device's memory mapped registers overlap with another device's memory mapped registers. On several PowerPC devices this occurs for the MDIO bus, whose registers tended to overlap with one of the ethernet controllers. By switching from request_resource to insert_resource we can register the MDIO bus as a proper platform device and not hack around how we handle its memory mapped registers. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04[PATCH] Hold the device's parent's lock during probe and removeAlan Stern
This patch (as604) makes the driver core hold a device's parent's lock as well as the device's lock during calls to the probe and remove methods in a driver. This facility is needed by USB device drivers, owing to the peculiar way USB devices work: A device provides multiple interfaces, and drivers are bound to interfaces rather than to devices; Nevertheless a reset, reset-configuration, suspend, or resume affects the entire device and requires the caller to hold the lock for the device, not just a lock for one of the interfaces. Since a USB driver's probe method is always called with the interface lock held, the locking order rules (always lock parent before child) prevent these methods from acquiring the device lock. The solution provided here is to call all probe and remove methods, for all devices (not just USB), with the parent lock already acquired. Although currently only the USB subsystem requires these changes, people have mentioned in prior discussion that the overhead of acquiring an extra semaphore in all the prove/remove sequences is not overly large. Up to now, the USB core has been using its own set of private semaphores. A followup patch will remove them, relying entirely on the device semaphores provided by the driver core. The code paths affected by this patch are: device_add and device_del: The USB core already holds the parent lock, so no actual change is needed. driver_register and driver_unregister: The driver core will now lock both the parent and the device before probing or removing. driver_bind and driver_unbind (in sysfs): These routines will now lock both the parent and the device before binding or unbinding. bus_rescan_devices: The helper routine will lock the parent before probing a device. I have not tested this patch for conflicts with other subsystems. As far as I can see, the only possibility of conflict would lie in the bus_rescan_devices pathway, and it seems pretty remote. Nevertheless, it would be good for this to get a lot of testing in -mm. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04[PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"Kay Sievers
Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports the state to userspace and generates events. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-12-15[PATCH] drivers/base/memory.c: unexport the static (sic) memory_sysdev_classAdrian Bunk
We can't export a static struct to modules. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-23[PATCH] Small fixes to driver coreAlan Stern
This patch (as603) makes a few small fixes to the driver core: Change spin_lock_irq for a klist lock to spin_lock; Fix reference count leaks; Minor spelling and formatting changes. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13[PATCH] fix leaks in request_firmware_nowaitmatthieu castet
Wasn't checking return error and forgot to free in some case. Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09[DRIVER MODEL] Add platform_driverRussell King
Introduce struct platform_driver. This allows the platform device driver methods to be passed a platform_device structure instead of instead of a plain device structure, and therefore requiring casting in every platform driver. We introduce this in such a way that any existing platform drivers registered directly via driver_register continue to work as before, thereby allowing a gradual conversion to the new platform_driver methods. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-07[PATCH] fix remaining missing includesTim Schmielau
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>
2005-11-05[DRIVER MODEL] Improved dynamically allocated platform_device interfaceRussell King
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>
2005-10-31Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-drvmodelLinus Torvalds
Manual #include fixups for clashes - there may be some unnecessary
2005-10-30[PATCH] fix missing includesTim Schmielau
I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after this disentangling (patch to follow later). However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this. In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real patch. This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other. So if any hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it. My scripts will pick it up again in the next round. 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>