03 Aug, 2008

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24 Jun, 2008

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01 May, 2008

1 commit

  • Make the PCMCIA core stop using class_interface to hide socket attribute
    registration. This removes the associated section mismatch warnings, and
    helps get to the point where that mechanism can finally be removed.

    Simplify that attribute registration by using an attribute_group.
    This is a net shrink in object size.

    Signed-off-by: David Brownell
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    David Brownell
     

12 Jul, 2007

2 commits

  • Well, first of all, I don't want to change so many files either.

    What I do:
    Adding a new parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in the
    .read/.write methods for the sysfs binary attributes.

    In fact, only the four lines change in fs/sysfs/bin.c and
    include/linux/sysfs.h do the real work.
    But I have to update all the files that use binary attributes
    to make them compatible with the new .read and .write methods.
    I'm not sure if I missed any. :(

    Why I do this:
    For a sysfs attribute, we can get a pointer pointing to the
    struct attribute in the .show/.store method,
    while we can't do this for the binary attributes.
    I don't know why this is different, but this does make it not
    so handy to use the binary attributes as the regular ones.
    So I think this patch is reasonable. :)

    Who benefits from it:
    The patch that exposes ACPI tables in sysfs
    requires such an improvement.
    All the table binary attributes share the same .read method.
    Parameter "struct bin_attribute *" is used to get
    the table signature and instance number which are used to
    distinguish different ACPI table binary attributes.

    Without this parameter, we need to offer different .read methods
    for different ACPI table binary attributes.
    This is impossible as there are various ACPI tables on different
    platforms, and we don't know what they are until they are loaded.

    Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Zhang Rui
     
  • sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game. After
    deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
    so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners. Note that
    often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
    accessing removed modules.

    This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner. Note that with
    this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
    backing module from being unloaded.

    For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
    following message.

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293

    (tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
    merge things properly.)

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
    Cc: Cornelia Huck
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Tejun Heo
     

03 May, 2007

1 commit

  • I noticed that many source files include while they do
    not appear to need it. Here is an attempt to clean it all up.

    In order to find all possibly affected files, I searched for all
    files including but without any other occurence of "pci"
    or "PCI". I removed the include statement from all of these, then I
    compiled an allmodconfig kernel on both i386 and x86_64 and fixed the
    false positives manually.

    My tests covered 66% of the affected files, so there could be false
    positives remaining. Untested files are:

    arch/alpha/kernel/err_common.c
    arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev6.c
    arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev7.c
    arch/ia64/sn/kernel/huberror.c
    arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpnet.c
    arch/m68knommu/kernel/dma.c
    arch/mips/lib/iomap.c
    arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c
    arch/ppc/8260_io/enet.c
    arch/ppc/8260_io/fcc_enet.c
    arch/ppc/8xx_io/enet.c
    arch/ppc/syslib/ppc4xx_sgdma.c
    arch/sh64/mach-cayman/iomap.c
    arch/xtensa/kernel/xtensa_ksyms.c
    arch/xtensa/platform-iss/setup.c
    drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c
    drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
    drivers/media/video/saa711x.c
    drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_cpustate.c
    drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_nexus.c
    drivers/net/au1000_eth.c
    drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_main.c
    drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_mii.c
    drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
    drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fcc.c
    drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fec.c
    drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-scc.c
    drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c
    drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-fec.c
    drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_core.c
    drivers/net/lasi_82596.c
    drivers/parisc/hppb.c
    drivers/sbus/sbus.c
    drivers/video/g364fb.c
    drivers/video/platinumfb.c
    drivers/video/stifb.c
    drivers/video/valkyriefb.c
    include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/dma.h
    sound/oss/au1550_ac97.c

    I would welcome test reports for these files. I am fine with removing
    the untested files from the patch if the general opinion is that these
    changes aren't safe. The tested part would still be nice to have.

    Note that this patch depends on another header fixup patch I submitted
    to LKML yesterday:
    [PATCH] scatterlist.h needs types.h
    http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/01/141

    Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare
    Cc: Badari Pulavarty
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Jean Delvare
     

08 Feb, 2007

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05 Dec, 2006

1 commit


02 Oct, 2006

1 commit

  • The test for the error from pcmcia_replace_cis() was incorrect, and
    would always trigger (because if an error didn't happen, the "ret" value
    would not be zero, it would be the passed-in count).

    Reported and debugged by Fabrice Bellet

    Rather than just fix the single broken test, make the code in question
    use an understandable code-sequence instead, fixing the whole function
    to be more readable.

    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Linus Torvalds
     

31 Mar, 2006

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13 Jan, 2006

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06 Jan, 2006

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29 Oct, 2005

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08 Jul, 2005

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28 Jun, 2005

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17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds