16 Jun, 2009

1 commit

  • In the near future, the driver core is going to not allow direct access
    to the driver_data pointer in struct device. Instead, the functions
    dev_get_drvdata() and dev_set_drvdata() should be used. These functions
    have been around since the beginning, so are backwards compatible with
    all older kernel versions.

    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Greg Kroah-Hartman
     

22 Jul, 2008

1 commit


10 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • This is a change for the EISA bus support to permit drivers to call
    un/registration functions even if EISA support has not been enabled. This is
    similar to what PCI (and now TC) does and reduces the need for #ifdef clutter.

    Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

    Maciej W. Rozycki
     

27 Sep, 2006

1 commit

  • Add modalias attribute support for the almost forgotten now EISA bus and
    (at least some) EISA-aware modules.

    The modalias entry looks like (for an 3c509 NIC):

    eisa:sTCM5093

    and the in-module alias like:

    eisa:sTCM5093*

    The patch moves struct eisa_device_id declaration from include/linux/eisa.h
    to include/linux/mod_devicetable.h (so that the former now #includes the
    latter), adds proper MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(eisa, ...) statements for all
    drivers with EISA IDs I found (some drivers already have that DEVICE_TABLE
    declared), and adds recognision of __mod_eisa_device_table to
    scripts/mod/file2alias.c so that proper modules.alias will be generated.

    There's no support for /lib/modules/$kver/modules.eisamap, as it's not used
    by any existing tools, and because with in-kernel modalias mechanism those
    maps are obsolete anyway.

    The rationale for this patch is:

    a) to make EISA bus to act as other busses with modalias
    support, to unify driver loading

    b) to foget about EISA finally - with this patch, kernel
    (who still supports EISA) will be the only one who knows
    how to choose the necessary drivers for this bus ;)

    [akpm@osdl.org: fix the kbuild bit]
    Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev
    Cc: Rusty Russell
    Cc: Randy Dunlap
    Acked-the-net-bits-by: Jeff Garzik
    Acked-the-tulip-bit-by: Valerie Henson
    Cc: James Bottomley
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Michael Tokarev
     

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