Eric Lee / smarc-fsl-linux-kernel

12 Jul, 2007

2 commits

  • 91a690295   sysfs: add parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in .read/.write methods for sysfs binary attributes ... Browse Code »

    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
     
  • 7b595756e   sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner ... Browse Code »

    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
     

26 Apr, 2007

3 commits

  • 98486fa2f   [BRIDGE]: Missing rtnl. ... Browse Code »

    Writing to /sys/class/net/brX/bridge/stp_state causes a warning because
    RTNL is not held when call br_stp_if.c

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Stephen Hemminger
     
  • 9cde07087   bridge: add support for user mode STP ... Browse Code »

    This patchset based on work by Aji_Srinivas@emc.com provides allows
    spanning tree to be controled from userspace. Like hotplug, it
    uses call_usermodehelper when spanning tree is enabled so there
    is no visible API change. If call to start usermode STP fails
    it falls back to existing kernel STP.

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger

    Stephen Hemminger
     
  • 9cf637473   bridge: add sysfs hook to flush forwarding table ... Browse Code »

    The RSTP daemon needs to be able to flush all dynamic forwarding
    entries in the case of topology change.

    This is a temporary interface. It will change to a netlink interface
    before RSTP daemon is officially released.

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger

    Stephen Hemminger
     

11 Feb, 2007

1 commit

08 Feb, 2007

1 commit

26 Oct, 2006

1 commit

21 Mar, 2006

1 commit

  • fda93d92d   [BRIDGE]: allow show/store of group multicast address ... Browse Code »

    Bridge's communicate with each other using Spanning Tree Protocol
    over a standard multicast address. There are times when testing or
    layering bridges over existing topologies or tunnels, when it is
    useful to use alternative multicast addresses for STP packets.

    The 802.1d standard has some unused addresses, that can be used for this.
    This patch is restrictive in that it only allows one of the possible
    addresses in the standard.

    Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Stephen Hemminger
     

12 Jan, 2006

1 commit

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • 1da177e4c   Linux-2.6.12-rc2 ... Browse Code »

    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