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2008-03-26[POWERPC] 85xx: Emerson KSI8560 base supportAlexandr Smirnov
The KSI8560 is a single compact, mid-, or full-size Advanced Mezzanine Card (AdvancedMC™) based on the Freescale™ Semiconductor MPC8560 PowerQUICC III™ microprocessor. This product will serve in data and signaling applications such as signaling gateways (SGW) and softswitch signaling interface cards. The board has altera maxii CPLD, that is used to obtain and manage board configuration. Also there are two SCC UART serial consoles and FCC ethernet, that is routed to the front panel, while other ethernet controlers (TSEC's) are routed to the backplane. Signed-off-by: Alexandr Smirnov <asmirnov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-03-26Merge branch 'linux-2.6'Paul Mackerras
2008-03-26[POWERPC] scanlog_init cleanup and minor fixesNathan Lynch
scanlog_init() could use some love. * properly return -ENODEV if this system doesn't support scan-log-dump * don't printk if scan-log-dump not present; only older systems have it * convert from create_proc_entry() to preferred proc_create() * allocate zeroed data buffer * fix potential memory leak of ent->data on failed create_proc_entry() * simplify control flow Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] Move a.out.h to header-y since it doesn't check __KERNEL__Robert P. J. Day
Since a.out.h doesn't check the value of __KERNEL__, there's no point in unifdef'ing it. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Inform kdump when phyp-dump is loadedManish Ahuja
This adds /sys/kernel/phyp_dump_active so that kdump init scripts may look for it and take appropriate action if this file is found. This file is only created when phyp_dump has been registered. Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Disable phyp-dump through boot-varManish Ahuja
This adds a kernel command line option "phyp_dump", which takes a 0/1 value for disabling/ enabling phyp_dump at boot time. Kdump can use this on cmdline (phyp_dump=0) to disable phyp-dump during boot when enabling itself. This will ensure only one dumping mechanism is active at any given time. Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Add Kconfig file optionManish Ahuja
Add hypervisor-assisted dump to kernel config. Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Tracking memory range freedManish Ahuja
This tracks the size freed. For now it does a simple rudimentary calculation of the ranges freed. The idea is to keep it simple at the external shell script level and send in large chunks for now. Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Invalidate and print dump areasManish Ahuja
This adds routines to a. invalidate dump b. calculate region that is reserved and needs to be freed. This is exported through sysfs interface. Unregister has been removed for now as it wasn't being used. Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Debugging print routinesManish Ahuja
Provide some basic debugging support. Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Register dump areaManish Ahuja
Set up the actual dump header, register it with the hypervisor. Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Use sysfs to release reserved memManish Ahuja
Check to see if there actually is data from a previously crashed kernel waiting. If so, allow user-space tools to grab the data (by reading /proc/kcore). When user-space finishes dumping a section, it must release that memory by writing to sysfs. For example, echo "0x40000000 0x10000000" > /sys/kernel/release_region will release 256MB starting at the 1GB. The released memory becomes free for general use. Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: Reserve and release memoryManish Ahuja
Initial patch for reserving memory in early boot, and freeing it later. If the previous boot had ended with a crash, the reserved memory would contain a copy of the crashed kernel data. Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: DocumentationManish Ahuja
Basic documentation for hypervisor-assisted dump. Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] powerpc32: Remove asm-offsets ptrace cruftRoland McGrath
These items in asm-offsets.c are not used anywhere. This removes them. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] arch/powerpc/platforms/iseries/pci.c: Use time_* macrosS.Çağlar Onur
The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. This implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined at linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wrapping correctly. Signed-off-by: S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@pardus.org.tr> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] Update wait_state_cycles in the VPATony Breeds
The hypervisor can look at the value in the wait_state_cycles field of the VPA for an estimate of how busy dedicated processors are. Currently, as the kernel never touches this field, we appear to be 100% busy. This records the duration the kernel is in powersave and passes that to the HV to provide a reasonable indication of utilisation. Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] Don't touch PT_DTRACE in execRoland McGrath
The PT_DTRACE flag is meaningless and obsolete. Don't touch it. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] Really export empty_zero_pageStephen Rothwell
It was being protected by CONFIG_PPC32, but we want to export it on 64-bit also. This moves it out of the ifdef. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] maple: Enable ipr driver in defconfigNathan Lynch
Some machines supported by the maple platform have an Obsidian controller which can't be used without enabling CONFIG_IPR and the options on which it depends. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] maple: Kill fixup_maple_ideNathan Lynch
This function has been a no-op for about 18 months; it's there in the history should anyone need to resurrect it. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] maple: Use platform name in define_machine()Nathan Lynch
Prevailing practice for define_machine() in powerpc is to use the platform name when the platform has only one define_machine() statement, but maple uses "maple_md". This caused me some head-scratching when writing some new code that uses machine_is(maple). Use "maple" instead of "maple_md". There should not be any behavioral change -- fixup_maple_ide() calls machine_is(maple) but the body of the function is ifdef'd out. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] Add 'model: ...' line to common show_cpuinfo()Marian Balakowicz
Print out 'model' property of '/' node as a machine name in generic show_cpuinfo() routine. Signed-off-by: Marian Balakowicz <m8@semihalf.com> Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: USB: Fix cut-and-paste error in rtl8150.c USB: ehci: stop vt6212 bus hogging USB: sierra: add another device id USB: sierra: dma fixes USB: add support for Motorola ROKR Z6 cellphone in mass storage mode USB: isd200: fix memory leak in isd200_get_inquiry_data USB: pl2303: another product ID USB: new quirk flag to avoid Set-Interface USB: fix gadgetfs class request delegation
2008-03-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: driver core: debug for bad dev_attr_show() return value. UIO: add pgprot_noncached() to UIO mmap code
2008-03-24PCI: revert "pcie: utilize pcie transaction pending bit"Andrew Morton
Revert as it is reported to cause problems for people. commit 4348a2dc49f9baecd34a9b0904245488c6189398 Author: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Date: Wed Oct 24 10:45:08 2007 +0800 pcie: utilize pcie transaction pending bit PCIE has a mechanism to wait for Non-Posted request to complete. I think pci_disable_device is a good place to do this. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Due to the regression reported at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10065 Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Cc: Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24PCI: iova: lockdep false alarm fixMark Gross
lockdep goes off on the iova copy_reserved_iova() because it and a function it calls grabs locks in the from, and the to of the copy operation. The function grab locks of the same lock classes triggering the warning. The first lock grabbed is for the constant reserved areas that is never accessed after early boot. Technically you could do without grabbing the locks for the "from" structure its copying reserved areas from. But dropping the from locks to me looks wrong, even though it would be ok. The affected code only runs in early boot as its setting up the DMAR engines. This patch gives the reserved_ioval_list locks special lockdep classes. Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24driver core: debug for bad dev_attr_show() return value.Andrew Morton
Try to find the culprit who caused http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10150 Cc: <balajirrao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24UIO: add pgprot_noncached() to UIO mmap codeJean-Samuel Chenard
Mapping of physical memory in UIO needs pgprot_noncached() to ensure that IO memory is not cached. Without pgprot_noncached(), it (accidentally) works on x86 and arm, but fails on PPC. Signed-off-by: Jean-Samuel Chenard <jsamch@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Hans J Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24USB: Fix cut-and-paste error in rtl8150.cRobert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24USB: ehci: stop vt6212 bus hoggingRene Herman
The VIA VT6212 defaults to only waiting 1us between passes over EHCI's async ring, which hammers PCI badly ... and by preventing other devices from accessing the bus, causes problems like drops in IDE throughput, a problem that's been bugging users of those chips for several years. A (partial) datasheet for this chip eventually turned up, letting us see how to make it use a VIA-specific register to switch over to the the normal 10us value instead, as suggested by the EHCI specification Solution noted by Lev A. Melnikovsky. It's not clear whether this register exists on other VIA chips; we know that it's ineffective on the vt8235. So this patch only applies to chips that seem to be incarnations of the (discrete) vt6212. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Tested-by: Lev A. Melnikovsky <melnikovsky@mail.ru> Tested-by: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24USB: sierra: add another device idKevin Lloyd
Add support for the MC8775 device to the sierra driver. Signed-off-by: Kevin Lloyd <klloyd@sierrawireless.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24USB: sierra: dma fixesOliver Neukum
while I was adding autosuspend to that driver I noticed a few issues. You were having DMAed buffers as a part of a structure. This will fail on platforms that are not DMA-coherent (arm, sparc, ppc, ...) Please test this patch to fix it. Signed-off-by: Kevin Lloyd <klloyd@sierrawireless.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24USB: add support for Motorola ROKR Z6 cellphone in mass storage modeConstantin Baranov
Motorola ROKR Z6 cellphone has bugs in its USB, so it is impossible to use it as mass storage. Patch describes new "unusual" USB device for it with FIX_INQUIRY and FIX_CAPACITY flags and new BULK_IGNORE_TAG flag. Last flag relaxes check for equality of bcs->Tag and us->tag in usb_stor_Bulk_transport routine. Signed-off-by: Constantin Baranov <const@tltsu.ru> Signed-off-by: Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24USB: isd200: fix memory leak in isd200_get_inquiry_dataBoaz Harrosh
If the inquiry fails then the info structure on us->extra was not freed. Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24USB: pl2303: another product IDMax Arnold
Device like this http://aldiga.com/english/A-100-USB-EDGE10.htm contains Prolific 2303 chip. Actually their site a bit outdated - I have AlDiga AL-11U GSM/GPRS/EDGE modem and it works with pl2303 module after adding corresponding product ID. By default modem uses baud rate 460800. GSM chipset - SIMCom SIM600, quad band 850/900/1800/1900 MHz Device info: T: Bus=04 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 5 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=067b ProdID=0611 Rev= 0.00 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr=500mA I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=pl2303 E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 10 Ivl=1ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=83(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl=0ms From: Max Arnold <lwarxx@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24USB: new quirk flag to avoid Set-InterfaceAlan Stern
This patch (as1057) fixes a problem with the X-Rite/Gretag-Macbeth Eye-One Pro display colorimeter; the device crashes when it receives a Set-Interface request. A new quirk (USB_QUIRK_NO_SET_INTF) is introduced and a quirks entry is created for this device. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24USB: fix gadgetfs class request delegationRoy Hashimoto
gadgetfs (drivers/usb/gadget/inode.c) was not delegating all non-device requests to userspace. This patch makes the handling of all request cases consistent. Signed-off-by: Roy Hashimoto <hashimot@alumni.caltech.edu> Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-24Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: [POWERPC] mpc5200: Fix incorrect compatible string for the mdio node [POWERPC] Update some defconfigs
2008-03-24Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev * 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: [libata] ahci: SB600 workaround is suspect... play it safe for now sata_promise: fix hardreset hotplug events, take 2 libata: improve HPA error handling libata: assume no device is attached if both IDENTIFYs are aborted pata_it821x: use raw nbytes in check_atapi_dma libata: implement ata_qc_raw_nbytes()
2008-03-24[libata] ahci: SB600 workaround is suspect... play it safe for nowJeff Garzik
At least one report claims that a878539ef994787c447a98c2e3ba0fe3dad984ec failed to solve lockups, whereas the old limit-to-32-bit trick worked. Restore the 32-bit limit, but also leave the 255-sector limit in place, because we know that's needed as well. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-03-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-linusLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild-linus: kbuild: soften modpost checks when doing cross builds
2008-03-25Merge branch 'linux-2.6' into mergePaul Mackerras
2008-03-24sata_promise: fix hardreset hotplug events, take 2Mikael Pettersson
A Promise SATA controller will signal hotplug events when a hard reset (COMRESET) is done on a port. These events aren't masked by the driver, and the unexpected interrupts will cause a sequence of failed reset attempts util libata's EH finally gives up. This has not been a common problem so far, but the pending libata hardreset-by-default changes makes it a critical issue. The solution is to disable hotplug events before a reset, and to reenable them afterwards. (Promise's driver does this too.) This patch adds SATA-specific versions of ->freeze() and ->thaw() that also disable and enable hotplug events. PATA ports continue to use the old versions of ->freeze() and ->thaw(). Accesses to the hotplug register must be serialised via host->lock. We rely on ap->lock == &ap->host->lock and that libata takes this lock before ->freeze() and ->thaw(). Document this requirement. The interrupt handler is adjusted so its hotplug register accesses are inside the region protected by host->lock. Tested on various chips (SATA300TX4, SATA300TX2plus, SATAII150TX4, FastTrack TX4000) with various combinations of SATA and PATA disks, with and without the pending hardreset-by-default changes. Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-03-24Make printk() console semaphore accesses sensibleLinus Torvalds
The printk() logic on when/how to get the console semaphore was unreadable, this splits the code up into a few helper functions and makes it easier to follow what is going on. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24bsd_acct: using task_struct->tgid is not right in pid-namespacesPavel Emelyanov
In case we're accounting from a sub-namespace, the tgids reported will not refer to the right namespace. Save the pid_namespace we're accounting in on the acct_glbs and use it in do_acct_process. Two less :) places using the task_struct.tgid member. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24bsd_acct: plain current->real_parent access is not always safePavel Emelyanov
This is minor, but dereferencing even current real_parent is not safe on debug kernels, since the memory, this points to, can be unmapped - RCU protection is required. Besides, the tgid field is deprecated and is to be replaced with task_tgid_xxx call (the 2nd patch), so RCU will be required anyway. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24revert "kswapd should only wait on IO if there is IO"Andrew Morton
Revert commit f1a9ee758de7de1e040de849fdef46e6802ea117: Author: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Date: Thu Feb 7 00:14:08 2008 -0800 kswapd should only wait on IO if there is IO The current kswapd (and try_to_free_pages) code has an oddity where the code will wait on IO, even if there is no IO in flight. This problem is notable especially when the system scans through many unfreeable pages, causing unnecessary stalls in the VM. Additionally, tasks without __GFP_FS or __GFP_IO in the direct reclaim path will sleep if a significant number of pages are encountered that should be written out. This gives kswapd a chance to write out those pages, while the direct reclaim task sleeps. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Because of large latencies and interactivity problems reported by Carlos, here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/22/211 Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: "Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24hw_random doc updatesDavid Brownell
Update documentation for the hw_random support to be current: - Documentation/hw_random.txt has been updated to reflect the current code: it's a framework now, a "core" with a small sysfs interface, that hardware-specific drivers plug in to. Text specific to Intel hardware is now at the end. - Kconfig now references the Documentation/hw_random.txt file and better explains what this really does. Both chunks of documentation now higlight the fact that the kernel entropy pool is maintained by "rngd", and this driver has nothing directly to do with that important task. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-24smackfs: remove redundant lock, fix open(,O_RDWR)Ahmed S. Darwish
Older smackfs was parsing MAC rules by characters, thus a need of locking write sessions on open() was needed. This lock is no longer useful now since each rule is handled by a single write() call. This is also a bugfix since seq_open() was not called if an open() O_RDWR flag was given, leading to a seq_read() without an initialized seq_file, thus an Oops. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Reported-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>