18 Nov, 2013

1 commit

  • I just can't find any value in MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(WATCHDOG_MINOR)
    and MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(TEMP_MINOR) statements.

    Either the device is enumerated and the driver already has a module
    alias (e.g. PCI, USB etc.) that will get the right driver loaded
    automatically.

    Or the device is not enumerated and loading its driver will lead to
    more or less intrusive hardware poking. Such hardware poking should be
    limited to a bare minimum, so the user should really decide which
    drivers should be tried and in what order. Trying them all in
    arbitrary order can't do any good.

    On top of that, loading that many drivers at once bloats the kernel
    log. Also many drivers will stay loaded afterward, bloating the output
    of "lsmod" and wasting memory. Some modules (cs5535_mfgpt which gets
    loaded as a dependency) can't even be unloaded!

    If defining char-major-10-130 is needed then it should happen in
    user-space.

    Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare
    Acked-by: Guenter Roeck
    Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck
    Cc: Stephen Warren
    Cc: Mike Frysinger
    Cc: Wan ZongShun
    Cc: Ben Dooks
    Cc: Kukjin Kim
    Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo
    Cc: Jim Cromie

    Jean Delvare
     

28 Mar, 2012

2 commits


06 Jan, 2012

1 commit

  • Rather than just defining static spinlock_t variables and then
    initializing them later in init functions, simply define them with
    DEFINE_SPINLOCK() and remove the calls to spin_lock_init().

    Signed-off-by: Axel Lin
    Cc: Nicolas Thill
    Cc: Heiko Ronsdorf
    Cc: Rodolfo Giometti
    Cc: Andrey Panin
    Cc: Guido Guenther
    Cc: Curt E Bruns
    Cc: Deepak Saxena
    Cc: Andrew Victor
    Cc: George G. Davis
    Cc: Sylver Bruneau
    Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck

    Axel Lin
     

18 Sep, 2009

1 commit


13 Jun, 2009

1 commit


09 Aug, 2008

1 commit

  • Conflicts:

    drivers/watchdog/at91rm9200_wdt.c
    drivers/watchdog/davinci_wdt.c
    drivers/watchdog/ep93xx_wdt.c
    drivers/watchdog/ixp2000_wdt.c
    drivers/watchdog/ixp4xx_wdt.c
    drivers/watchdog/ks8695_wdt.c
    drivers/watchdog/omap_wdt.c
    drivers/watchdog/pnx4008_wdt.c
    drivers/watchdog/sa1100_wdt.c
    drivers/watchdog/wdt285.c

    Russell King
     

07 Aug, 2008

3 commits


06 Aug, 2008

1 commit

  • This brings the watchdog drivers into line with coding style.
    This patch takes cares of the indentation as described in chapter 1.
    Main changes:
    * Re-structure the ioctl switch call for all drivers as follows:
    switch (cmd) {
    case WDIOC_GETSUPPORT:
    case WDIOC_GETSTATUS:
    case WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS:
    case WDIOC_GETTEMP:
    case WDIOC_SETOPTIONS:
    case WDIOC_KEEPALIVE:
    case WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT:
    case WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT:
    case WDIOC_GETTIMELEFT:
    default:
    }

    This to make the migration from the drivers to the uniform watchdog
    device driver easier in the future.

    Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck

    Wim Van Sebroeck
     

28 May, 2008

1 commit


18 Oct, 2007

1 commit