- 11 May, 2007 40 commits
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Tejun Heo authored
This patch cleans up libata-acpi such that it looks similar to other libata files. This patch doesn't introuce any behavior changes. * make libata-acpi functions take ata_device instead of ata_port + device index * s/atadev/dev/ * de-indent local variable declarations Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
ACPI applies to both SATA and PATA. Drop the 'S' from the config variable. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
After certain errors, some devices report complete garbage on IDENTIFY. This can cause ata_dev_read_id() to fail with -EINVAL resulting in immediate disabling of the device. Give the device one last chance after -EINVAL to allow recovery from such situations. As -EINVAL is triggered very rarely, this shouldn't cause any noticeable affect on more common error paths. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@t-online.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
It seems the world isn't as frank as we thought and some devices lie about who they are. Fallback to the other IDENTIFY if IDENTIFY is aborted by the device. As this is the strategy used by IDE for a long time, it shouldn't cause too much problem. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: William Thompson <wt@electro-mechanical.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
libata enables SCSI host during ATA host activation which happens after IRQ handler is registered and IRQ is enabled. All ATA ports are in frozen state when IRQ is enabled but frozen ports may raise limited number of IRQs after being frozen - IOW, ->freeze() is not responsible for clearing pending IRQs. During normal operation, the IRQ handler is responsible for clearing spurious IRQs on frozen ports and it usually doesn't require any extra code. Unfortunately, during host initialization, the IRQ handler can end up scheduling EH for a port whose SCSI host isn't initialized yet. This results in OOPS in the SCSI midlayer. This is relatively short window and scheduling EH for probing is the first thing libata does after initialization, so ignoring EH scheduling until initialization is complete solves the problem nicely. This problem was spotted by Berck E. Nash in the following thread. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/519412Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: Berck E. Nash <flyboy@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
The intention of using port_mask in SFF init helpers was to eventually support exoctic configurations such as combination of legacy and native port on the same controller. This never became actually necessary and the related code always has been subtly broken one way or the other. Now that new init model is in place, there is no reason to make common helpers capable of handling all corner cases. Exotic cases can simply dealt within LLDs as necessary. This patch removes port_mask handling in SFF init helpers. SFF init helpers don't take n_ports argument and interpret it into port_mask anymore. All information is carried via port_info. n_ports argument is dropped and always two ports are allocated. LLD can tell SFF to skip certain port by marking it dummy. Note that SFF code has been treating unuvailable ports this way for a long time until recent breakage fix from Linus and is consistent with how other drivers handle with unavailable ports. This fixes 1-port legacy host handling still broken after the recent native mode fix and simplifies SFF init logic. The following changes are made... * ata_pci_init_native_host() and ata_init_legacy_host() both now try to initialized whatever they can and mark failed ports dummy. They return 0 if any port is successfully initialized. * ata_pci_prepare_native_host() and ata_pci_init_one() now doesn't take n_ports argument. All info should be specified via port_info array. Always two ports are allocated. * ata_pci_init_bmdma() exported to be used by LLDs in exotic cases. * port_info handling in all LLDs are standardized - all port_info arrays are const stack variable named ppi. Unless the second port is different from the first, its port_info is specified as NULL (tells libata that it's identical to the last non-NULL port_info). * pata_hpt37x/hpt3x2n: don't modify static variable directly. Make an on-stack copy instead as ata_piix does. * pata_uli: It has 4 ports instead of 2. Don't use ata_pci_prepare_native_host(). Allocate the host explicitly and use init helpers. It's simple enough. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
Now that libata uses sd->manage_start_stop, libata spins down disk on shutdown. In an attempt to compensate libata's previous shortcoming, some distros sync and spin down disks attached via libata in their shutdown(8). Some disks spin back up just to spin down again on STANDBYNOW1 if the command is issued when the disk is spun down, so this double spinning down causes problem. This patch implements module parameter libata.spindown_compat which, when set to one (default value), prevents libata from spinning down disks on shutdown thus avoiding double spinning down. Note that libata spins down disks for suspend to mem and disk, so with libata.spindown_compat set to one, disks should be properly spun down in all cases without modifying shutdown(8). shutdown(8) should be fixed eventually. Some drive do spin up on SYNCHRONZE_CACHE even when their cache is clean. Those disks currently spin up briefly when sd tries to shutdown the device and then the machine powers off immediately, which can't be good for the head. We can't skip SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE during shudown as it can be dangerous data integrity-wise. So, this spindown_compat parameter is already scheduled for removal by the end of the next year and here's what shutdown(8) should do. * Check whether /sys/modules/libata/parameters/spindown_compat exists. If it does, write 0 to it. * For each libata harddisk { * Check whether /sys/class/scsi_disk/h:c:i:l/manage_start_stop exists. Iff it doesn't, synchronize cache and spin the disk down as before. } The above procedure will make shutdown(8) work properly with kernels before this change, ones with this workaround and later ones without it. To accelerate shutdown(8) updates, if the compat mode is in use, this patch prints BIG FAT warning for five seconds during shutdown (the optimal interval to annoy the user just the right amount discovered by hours of tireless usability testing). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Tejun Heo authored
Reimplement suspend/resume support using sdev->manage_start_stop. * Device suspend/resume is now SCSI layer's responsibility and the code is simplified a lot. * DPM is dropped. This also simplifies code a lot. Suspend/resume status is port-wide now. * ata_scsi_device_suspend/resume() and ata_dev_ready() removed. * Resume now has to wait for disk to spin up before proceeding. I couldn't find easy way out as libata is in EH waiting for the disk to be ready and sd is waiting for EH to complete to issue START_STOP. * sdev->manage_start_stop is set to 1 in ata_scsi_slave_config(). This fixes spindown on shutdown and suspend-to-disk. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa: (122 commits) [ALSA] version 1.0.14rc4 [ALSA] Add speaker pin sequencing to hda_codec.c:snd_hda_parse_pin_def_config() [ALSA] hda-codec - Add ALC861VD Lenovo support [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix connection list in generic parser [ALSA] usb-audio: work around wrong wMaxPacketSize on ESI M4U [ALSA] usb-audio: work around broken M-Audio MidiSport Uno firmware [ALSA] usb-audio: explicitly match Logitech QuickCam [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix a typo [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix ALC880 uniwill auto-mutes [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix AD1988 SPDIF playback route control [ALSA] wm8750 typo fix [ALSA] wavefront: only declare isapnp on CONFIG_PNP [ALSA] hda-codec - bug fixes for stac92xx HDA codecs. [ALSA] add MODULE_FIRMWARE entries [ALSA] do not depend on FW_LOADER when internal firmware images are used [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix resume of STAC92xx codecs [ALSA] usbaudio - Revert the minimal period size fix patch [ALSA] hda-codec - Add support for new HP DV series laptops [ALSA] usb-audio - Fix the minimum period size per transfer mode [ALSA] sound/pcmcia/vx/vxpocket.c: fix an if() condition ...
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ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvbLinus Torvalds authored
* 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (44 commits) V4L/DVB (5571): V4l1-compat: Make VIDIOCSPICT return errors in a useful way V4L/DVB (5624): Radio-maestro.c cleanup V4L/DVB (5623): Dsbr100.c Replace usb_dsbr100_do_ioctl to use video_ioctl2 V4L/DVB (5622): Radio-zoltrix.c cleanup V4L/DVB (5621): Radio-cadet.c Replace cadet_do_ioctl to use video_ioctl2 V4L/DVB (5619): Dvb-usb: fix typo V4L/DVB (5618): Cx88: Drop the generic i2c client from cx88-vp3054-i2c V4L/DVB (5617): V4L2: videodev, allow debugging V4L/DVB (5614): M920x: Disable second adapter on LifeView TV Walker Twin V4L/DVB (5613): M920x: loosen up 80-col limit V4L/DVB (5612): M920x: rename function prefixes from m9206_foo to m920x_foo V4L/DVB (5611): M920x: replace deb_rc with deb V4L/DVB (5610): M920x: remove duplicated code V4L/DVB (5609): M920x: group like functions together V4L/DVB (5608): M920x: various whitespace cleanups V4L/DVB (5607): M920x: Initial support for devices likely manufactured by Dposh V4L/DVB (5606): M920x: add "c-basic-offset: 8" to help emacs to enforce tabbing V4L/DVB (5605): M920x: Add support for LifeView TV Walker Twin V4L/DVB (5603): V4L: Prevent queueing queued buffers. V4L/DVB (5602): Enable DiSEqC in Starbox II (vp7021a) ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] Quicklist support for IA64 [IA64] fix Kprobes reentrancy [IA64] SN: validate smp_affinity mask on intr redirect [IA64] drivers/char/snsc_event.c:206: warning: unused variable `p' [IA64] mca.c:121: warning: 'cpe_poll_timer' defined but not used [IA64] Fix - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:mvec_name [IA64] more warning cleanups [IA64] Wire up epoll_pwait and utimensat [IA64] Fix warnings resulting from type-checking in dev_dbg() [IA64] typo s/kenrel/kernel/
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Andi Kleen authored
The code was ok, but triggered warnings for calling __init from __cpuinit. Instead call it from check_bugs instead. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Hastings authored
I'm using a custom BIOS to configure the northbridge GART at address 0x80000000, size 2G. Linux complains: "Aperture from northbridge cpu 0 beyond 4GB. Ignoring." I think there's an off-by-two error in arch/x86_64/kernel/aperture.c: AK: use correct types for i386 Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andi Kleen authored
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: further UTF-8 fixes and name correction Fix wrong identifier name in Documentation/kref.txt
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David Woodhouse authored
> -** Copyright 1994 by Bj<94>rn Brauel > +** Copyright 1994 by Bj”rn Brauel I think these were cp437, and it should read 'Björn'. (asm-m68k/atari*.h) Also note that Arnaldo just put more legacy noise into CREDITS... Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Satyam Sharma authored
There's a typo / wrong identifier name in Documentation/kref.txt. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-ip22Linus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-ip22: Convert SGI IP22 and specific drivers to platform_device.
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git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: (28 commits) [MIPS] Rework cobalt_board_id [MIPS] Use RTC_CMOS for Cobalt [MIPS] Use platform_device for Cobalt UART [MIPS] Separate Alchemy processor based boards config [MIPS] Fix build error in atomic64_cmpxchg [MIPS] Run checksyscalls for N32 and O32 ABI [MIPS] tlbex: use __maybe_unused [MIPS] excite: use __maybe_unused [MIPS] Add extern cobalt_board_id [MIPS] Remove unused CONFIG_TOSHIBA_BOARDS [MIPS] Rename tb0229_defconfig to tb0219_defconfig [MIPS] Update tb0229_defconfig; add CONFIG_GPIO_TB0219. [MIPS] Add minimum defconfig for RBHMA4200 [MIPS] SB1: Build fix. [MIPS] Drop __devinit tag from allocate_irqno() and free_irqno() [MIPS] clocksource: use CLOCKSOURCE_MASK() macro [MIPS] Remove LIMITED_DMA support [MIPS] Remove Momenco Jaguar ATX support [MIPS] Remove Momenco Ocelot G support [MIPS] FPU hazard handling ...
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git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: Fix compile/link of init/do_mounts.c with !CONFIG_BLOCK When stacked block devices are in-use (e.g. md or dm), the recursive calls
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-currentLinus Torvalds authored
* 'audit.b38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: [PATCH] Abnormal End of Processes [PATCH] match audit name data [PATCH] complete message queue auditing [PATCH] audit inode for all xattr syscalls [PATCH] initialize name osid [PATCH] audit signal recipients [PATCH] add SIGNAL syscall class (v3) [PATCH] auditing ptrace
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid: USB HID: hiddev - fix race between hiddev_send_event() and hiddev_release() HID: add hooks for getkeycode() and setkeycode() methods HID: switch to using input_dev->dev.parent USB HID: Logitech wheel 0x046d/0xc294 needs HID_QUIRK_NOGET quirk USB HID: usb_buffer_free() cleanup USB HID: report descriptor of Cypress USB barcode readers needs fixup Bluetooth HID: HIDP - don't initialize force feedback USB HID: update CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT_POWERBOOK description HID: add input mappings for non-working keys on Logitech S510 remote
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Christoph Lameter authored
IA64 is the origin of the quicklist implementation. So cut out the pieces that are now in core code and modify the functions called. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Anil S Keshavamurthy authored
In case of reentrance i.e when a probe handler calls a functions which inturn has a probe, we save a previous kprobe information and just single step the reentrant probe without calling the actual probe handler. During this reentracy period, if an interrupt occurs and if probe happens to trigger in the inturrupt path, then we were corrupting the previous kprobe( as we were overriding the previous kprobe info) info their by crashing the system. This patch fixes this issues by having a an array of previous kprobe info struct(with the array size of 2). This similar technique is not needed on i386 and x86_64 because by default interrupts are turn off in the break/int3 exception handler. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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John Keller authored
On SN, only allow one bit to be set in the smp_affinty mask when redirecting an interrupt. Currently setting multiple bits is allowed, but only the first bit is used in determining the CPU to redirect to. This has caused confusion among some customers. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fixes] Signed-off-by: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (31 commits) [NETFILTER]: xt_conntrack: add compat support [NETFILTER]: iptable_raw: ignore short packets sent by SOCK_RAW sockets [NETFILTER]: iptable_{filter,mangle}: more descriptive "happy cracking" message [NETFILTER]: nf_nat: Clears helper private area when NATing [NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: clear helper area and handle unchanged helper [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: Removes unused destroy operation of l3proto [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: Removes duplicated declarations [NETFILTER]: nf_nat: remove unused argument of function allocating binding [NETFILTER]: Clean up table initialization [NET_SCHED]: Avoid requeue warning on dev_deactivate [NET_SCHED]: Reread dev->qdisc for NETDEV_TX_OK [NET_SCHED]: Rationalise return value of qdisc_restart [NET]: Fix dev->qdisc race for NETDEV_TX_LOCKED case [UDP]: Fix AF-specific references in AF-agnostic code. [IrDA]: KingSun/DonShine USB IrDA dongle support. [IPV6] ROUTE: Assign rt6i_idev for ip6_{prohibit,blk_hole}_entry. [IPV6]: Do no rely on skb->dst before it is assigned. [IPV6]: Send ICMPv6 error on scope violations. [SCTP]: Do not include ABORT chunk header in the notification. [SCTP]: Correctly copy addresses in sctp_copy_laddrs ...
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Kenichi Nagai authored
When exporting input device bitmaps via compat_ioctl on BIG_ENDIAN platforms evdev calculates data size incorrectly. This causes buffer overflow if user specifies buffer smaller than maxlen. Signed-off-by: Kenichi Nagai <kenichi3.nagai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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NeilBrown authored
During a 'resync' or similar activity, md checks if the devices in the array are otherwise active and winds back resync activity when they are. This test in done in is_mddev_idle, and it is somewhat fragile - it sometimes thinks there is non-sync io when there isn't. The test compares the total sectors of io (disk_stat_read) with the sectors of resync io (disk->sync_io). This has problems because total sectors gets updated when a request completes, while resync io gets updated when the request is submitted. The time difference can cause large differenced between the two which do not actually imply non-resync activity. The test currently allows for some fuzz (+/- 4096) but there are some cases when it is not enough. The test currently looks for any (non-fuzz) difference, either positive or negative. This clearly is not needed. Any non-sync activity will cause the total sectors to grow faster than the sync_io count (never slower) so we only need to look for a positive differences. If we do this then the amount of in-flight sync io will never cause the appearance of non-sync IO. Once enough non-sync IO to worry about starts happening, resync will be slowed down and the measurements will thus be more precise (as there is less in-flight) and control of resync will still be suitably responsive. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Robert P. J. Day authored
Remove the obsolete "if [ ]" construct from the video console Kconfig file. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Acked-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Antonino A. Daplas authored
Convert internal wait_pm2() function to fb API fb_sync() method. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jean Delvare authored
Let the user enable debugging messages in nvidiafb. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jean Delvare authored
Fix rivafb's I2C getscl callback function, as was done in nvidiafb recently. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nicolas Ferre authored
Adds a framebuffer driver to ATMEL AT91SAM9x and AT32 aka AVR32 platforms. Those chips share quite the same IP and this code is suitable for both architectures. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@rfo.atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Krzysztof Helt authored
This is a basic port from 2.4 kernel to 2.6. Acceleration is lost and big endian support probably too. The driver works in 8, 16 and 32 bit mode. [adaplas] - change VESA_* to FB_BLANK_* constants - removed unused function clear_memory - fix uninitialized variable compiler warning - some whitespace cleaning [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Nuke pestiferous CVS string] Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michal Piotrowski authored
ups... coding style. Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Davide Libenzi authored
Re-arrange epoll code to avoid static functions pre-declarations, and apply akpm-filter on it. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Davide Libenzi authored
Epoll is either compiled it, or not (if EMBEDDED). Remove the module code and use fs_initcall(). Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Davide Libenzi authored
Cut out lots of code from epoll, by reusing the anonymous inode source patch (fs/anon_inodes.c). Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Davide Libenzi authored
This is an example about how to add eventfd support to the current KAIO code, in order to enable KAIO to post readiness events to a pollable fd (hence compatible with POSIX select/poll). The KAIO code simply signals the eventfd fd when events are ready, and this triggers a POLLIN in the fd. This patch uses a reserved for future use member of the struct iocb to pass an eventfd file descriptor, that KAIO will use to post events every time a request completes. At that point, an aio_getevents() will return the completed result to a struct io_event. I made a quick test program to verify the patch, and it runs fine here: http://www.xmailserver.org/eventfd-aio-test.c The test program uses poll(2), but it'd, of course, work with select and epoll too. This can allow to schedule both block I/O and other poll-able devices requests, and wait for results using select/poll/epoll. In a typical scenario, an application would submit KAIO request using aio_submit(), and will also use epoll_ctl() on the whole other class of devices (that with the addition of signals, timers and user events, now it's pretty much complete), and then would: epoll_wait(...); for_each_event { if (curr_event_is_kaiofd) { aio_getevents(); dispatch_aio_events(); } else { dispatch_epoll_event(); } } Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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