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2014-06-12Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds
Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) Seccomp BPF filters can now be JIT'd, from Alexei Starovoitov. 2) Multiqueue support in xen-netback and xen-netfront, from Andrew J Benniston. 3) Allow tweaking of aggregation settings in cdc_ncm driver, from Bjørn Mork. 4) BPF now has a "random" opcode, from Chema Gonzalez. 5) Add more BPF documentation and improve test framework, from Daniel Borkmann. 6) Support TCP fastopen over ipv6, from Daniel Lee. 7) Add software TSO helper functions and use them to support software TSO in mvneta and mv643xx_eth drivers. From Ezequiel Garcia. 8) Support software TSO in fec driver too, from Nimrod Andy. 9) Add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT driver, from Florian Fainelli. 10) Handle broadcasts more gracefully over macvlan when there are large numbers of interfaces configured, from Herbert Xu. 11) Allow more control over fwmark used for non-socket based responses, from Lorenzo Colitti. 12) Do TCP congestion window limiting based upon measurements, from Neal Cardwell. 13) Support busy polling in SCTP, from Neal Horman. 14) Allow RSS key to be configured via ethtool, from Venkata Duvvuru. 15) Bridge promisc mode handling improvements from Vlad Yasevich. 16) Don't use inetpeer entries to implement ID generation any more, it performs poorly, from Eric Dumazet. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1522 commits) rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 < v3.9.0 tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery net: fec: Add software TSO support net: fec: Add Scatter/gather support net: fec: Increase buffer descriptor entry number net: fec: Factorize feature setting net: fec: Enable IP header hardware checksum net: fec: Factorize the .xmit transmit function bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support bridge: fix smatch warning / potential null pointer dereference via-rhine: fix full-duplex with autoneg disable bnx2x: Enlarge the dorq threshold for VFs bnx2x: Check for UNDI in uncommon branch bnx2x: Fix 1G-baseT link bnx2x: Fix link for KR with swapped polarity lane sctp: Fix sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem net/core: Add VF link state control policy net/fsl: xgmac_mdio is dependent on OF_MDIO net/fsl: Make xgmac_mdio read error message useful net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving ...
2014-06-03Merge tag 'staging-3.16-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging into next Pull staging driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big staging driver pull request for 3.16-rc1. Lots of stuff here, tons of cleanup patches, a few new drivers, and some removed as well, but I think we are still adding a few thousand more lines than we remove, due to the new drivers being bigger than the ones deleted. One notible bit of work did stand out, Jes Sorensen has gone on a tear, fixing up a wireless driver to be "more sane" than it originally was from the vendor, with over 500 patches merged here. Good stuff, and a number of users laptops are better off for it. All of this has been in linux-next for a while" * tag 'staging-3.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (1703 commits) staging: skein: fix sparse warning for static declarations staging/mt29f_spinand: coding style fixes staging: silicom: fix sparse warning for static variable staging: lustre: Fix coding style staging: android: binder.c: Use more appropriate functions for euid retrieval staging: lustre: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings Revert "staging: dgap: remove unneeded kfree() in dgap_tty_register_ports()" Staging: rtl8192u: r8192U_wx.c Fixed a misplaced brace staging: ion: shrink highmem pages on kswapd staging: ion: use compound pages on high order pages for system heap staging: ion: remove struct ion_page_pool_item staging: ion: simplify ion_page_pool_total() staging: ion: tidy up a bit staging: rtl8723au: Remove redundant casting in usb_ops_linux.c staging: rtl8723au: Remove redundant casting in rtl8723a_hal_init.c staging: rtl8723au: Remove redundant casting in rtw_xmit.c staging: rtl8723au: Remove redundant casting in rtw_wlan_util.c staging: rtl8723au: Remove redundant casting in rtw_sta_mgt.c staging: rtl8723au: Remove redundant casting in rtw_recv.c staging: rtl8723au: Remove redundant casting in rtw_mlme.c ...
2014-05-24devres: Add devm_get_free_pages APIEli Billauer
devm_get_free_pages() and devm_free_pages() are the managed counterparts for __get_free_pages() and free_pages(). Signed-off-by: Eli Billauer <eli.billauer@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-09gpio: Add helpers for optional GPIOsThierry Reding
Introduce gpiod_get_optional() and gpiod_get_index_optional() helpers that make it easier for drivers to handle optional GPIOs. Currently in order to handle optional GPIOs, a driver needs to special case error handling for -ENOENT, such as this: gpio = gpiod_get(dev, "foo"); if (IS_ERR(gpio)) { if (PTR_ERR(gpio) != -ENOENT) return PTR_ERR(gpio); gpio = NULL; } if (gpio) { /* set up GPIO */ } With these new helpers the above is reduced to: gpio = gpiod_get_optional(dev, "foo"); if (IS_ERR(gpio)) return PTR_ERR(gpio); if (gpio) { /* set up GPIO */ } While at it, device-managed variants of these functions are also provided. Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2014-05-02gpio: Add missing device-managed documentationThierry Reding
Add the GPIO-related device-managed functions to the list of functions in Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt. Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2014-05-02mdio_bus: implement devm_mdiobus_alloc/devm_mdiobus_freeGrygorii Strashko
Add a resource managed devm_mdiobus_alloc[_size]()/devm_mdiobus_free() to automatically clean up MDIO bus alocations made by MDIO drivers, thus leading to simplified MDIO drivers code. Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> Acked-and-tested-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@ti.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-29devres: introduce API "devm_kmemdupSrinivas Pandruvada
Introduce devm_kmemdup, which uses resource managed kmalloc. There are several request from maintainers to add this instead of using kmemdup. Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
2014-01-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "Usual rocket science stuff from trivial.git" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) neighbour.h: fix comment sched: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by wait.h slab: struct kmem_cache is protected by slab_mutex doc: Fix typo in USB Gadget Documentation of/Kconfig: Spelling s/one/once/ mkregtable: Fix sscanf handling lp5523, lp8501: comment improvements thermal: rcar: comment spelling treewide: fix comments and printk msgs IXP4xx: remove '1 &&' from a condition check in ixp4xx_restart() Documentation: update /proc/uptime field description Documentation: Fix size parameter for snprintf arm: fix comment header and macro name asm-generic: uaccess: Spelling s/a ny/any/ mtd: onenand: fix comment header doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typo drivers: fix typo in DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Kconfig help text doc: Fix typo (acces_process_vm -> access_process_vm) treewide: Fix typos in printk drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/Kconfig: reformat the help text ...
2014-01-20Merge tag 'staging-3.14-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging Pull staging driver tree changes from Greg KH: "Here's the big drivers/staging/ update for 3.14-rc1 Lots and lots of cleanups, IIO driver updates are also mixed in here due to the subsystem still crossing staging and drivers/iio/, and the dwc2 driver is moved out of staging. There's a new driver (rts5208), which ends up making us adding more lines than removing, but overall there was lots of work toward moving code out of here, which was good All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues" * tag 'staging-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (1084 commits) lustre: delete linux/lustre_debug.h staging: lustre: remove some unused debug macros usb: dwc2: move device tree bindings doc to correct place staging: vt6656: sparse fixes: iwctl_giwgenie use memcpy. staging: vt6656: sparse fixes: iwctl_siwgenie use memcpy. staging: vt6656: sparse fixes ethtool_ioctl Use struct ifreq * staging: vt6656: sparse fixes: dpc.c missing dpc.h staging: lustre: libcfs_debug: small whitespace cleanups staging: lustre: libcfs_debug.h: remove extra blank lines staging: lustre: libcfs_debug.h: Align backslashes in macros staging: lustre: libcfs_debug.h: align define values staging: tidspbridge: adjust error return code (bugfix) Staging: rts5139: rts51x_card: fixed style issues staging: wlags49_h2: Fix "do not use C99 //" in wl_cs.h, wl_enc.h wl_main.h and wl_wext.h Staging: rtl8188eu: Fixed "foo * bar" related coding style issues Staging: rtl8188eu: Fixed required spaces after ',' and around '=' and '==' staging: vt6655: Fix memory leak in wpa_ioctl() imx-drm: parallel-display: honor 'native-mode' property when selecting video mode from DT staging: drm/imx: don't drop crtc offsets when doing pageflip staging: drm/imx: handle framebuffer offsets correctly ...
2013-12-19Documentation: fix spelling in design-patternsLinus Walleij
This fixes two spelling mistakes in the design pattern doc. Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-19doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typoLaszlo Papp
The sentence is not proper English, so the use of "general" is now replaced with "in general". "generally" was also considered, but "in general" is probably the correct in this case. Signed-off-by: Laszlo Papp <lpapp@kde.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-12-10Documentation: start documenting driver design patternsLinus Walleij
After realizing that we tend to tell developers the same thing over and over, let's attempt to document some commin design patterns used in the device drivers. The idea is that this can be extended so I just start out with two well-known design patterns. Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-11-25Merge tag 'iio-for-3.14a' of ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio into staging-next Jonathan writes: First set of new features, drivers and cleanups for IIO in the 3.14 cycle. This mostly consists of patches that didn't quite make the last cycle. Lots of interesting things under review currently. Core: - Add devm_iio_device_register/unregister. I took some convincing on whether there would be many devices that really were simple enough to need no explicit actions on removal. Turns out there are some. - Move some stray docs to above the relevant implemenation. - Drop a redundant repeated check on the fact the trigger has actually changed when there is a userspace attempt change it. Drivers: New drivers - Freescale MPL3115A2 Pressure / temperature sensor New functionality - hid_sensors: add sensitivity support. DT bindings - tsl2563 - hmc5843 Cleanups - Drop unused scan_type from viperboard adc driver. - devm_iio_device_register used in viperboard, ad5421, ad5755, adis16130, adxrs450, vcnl4000, adis16220, ad7816, lpc32xx, adt7316, adis16060, isl29018 and ad2s1200. Note that this was proposed in a number of other drivers and this revealed a number of missorderings in remove functions. Also for now I have blocked this on any device that any hardware suspend suport on the basis that we probably want to power down devices if they have no driver support loaded.
2013-11-24iio: core: Implement devm_iio_device_{register,unregister}Sachin Kamat
Add device managed devm_iio_device_{register,unregister}() to automatically unregister IIO drivers thus leading to simplified IIO driver code. Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org> Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> Tested-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> Reviewed-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
2013-11-12Merge tag 'spi-v3.13' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi Pull spi updates from Mark Brown: "As well as the usual driver updates and cleanups there's a few improvements to the core here: - The start of some improvements to factor out more of the SPI message loop into the core. Right now this is just simplifying the code a bit but hopefully next time around we'll also have managed to roll out some noticable performance improvements which drivers can take advantage of. - Support for loading modules for ACPI enumerated SPI devices. - Managed registration for SPI controllers. - Helper for another common I/O pattern" * tag 'spi-v3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi: (116 commits) spi/hspi: add device tree support spi: atmel: fix return value check in atmel_spi_probe() spi: spi-imx: only enable the clocks when we start to transfer a message spi/s3c64xx: Fix doubled clock disable on suspend spi/s3c64xx: Do not ignore return value of spi_master_resume/suspend spi: spi-mxs: Use u32 instead of uint32_t spi: spi-mxs: Don't set clock for each xfer spi: spi-mxs: Clean up setup_transfer function spi: spi-mxs: Remove check of spi mode bits spi: spi-mxs: Fix race in setup method spi: spi-mxs: Remove bogus setting of ssp clk rate field spi: spi-mxs: Remove full duplex check, spi core already does it spi: spi-mxs: Fix chip select control bits in DMA mode spi: spi-mxs: Fix extra CS pulses and read mode in multi-transfer messages spi: spi-mxs: Change flag arguments in txrx functions to bit flags spi: spi-mxs: Always clear INGORE_CRC, to keep CS asserted spi: spi-mxs: Remove mxs_spi_enable and mxs_spi_disable spi: spi-mxs: Always set LOCK_CS spi/s3c64xx: Add missing pm_runtime_put on setup fail spi/s3c64xx: Add missing pm_runtime_set_active() call in probe() ...
2013-09-17spi: core: Add devm_spi_register_master()Mark Brown
Help simplify the cleanup code for SPI master drivers by providing a managed master registration function, ensuring that the master is automatically unregistered whenever the device is unbound. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
2013-09-17regulator: core: Provide managed regulator registrationMark Brown
Many regulator drivers have a remove function that consists solely of calling regulator_unregister() so provide a devm_regulator_register() in order to allow this repeated code to be removed and help eliminate error handling code. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
2013-09-10Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dmaLinus Torvalds
Pull slave-dmaengine updates from Vinod Koul: "This pull brings: - Andy's DW driver updates - Guennadi's sh driver updates - Pl08x driver fixes from Tomasz & Alban - Improvements to mmp_pdma by Daniel - TI EDMA fixes by Joel - New drivers: - Hisilicon k3dma driver - Renesas rcar dma driver - New API for publishing slave driver capablities - Various fixes across the subsystem by Andy, Jingoo, Sachin etc..." * 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma: (94 commits) dma: edma: Remove limits on number of slots dma: edma: Leave linked to Null slot instead of DUMMY slot dma: edma: Find missed events and issue them ARM: edma: Add function to manually trigger an EDMA channel dma: edma: Write out and handle MAX_NR_SG at a given time dma: edma: Setup parameters to DMA MAX_NR_SG at a time dmaengine: pl330: use dma_set_max_seg_size to set the sg limit dmaengine: dma_slave_caps: remove sg entries dma: replace devm_request_and_ioremap by devm_ioremap_resource dma: ste_dma40: Fix potential null pointer dereference dma: ste_dma40: Remove duplicate const dma: imx-dma: Remove redundant NULL check dma: dmagengine: fix function names in comments dma: add driver for R-Car HPB-DMAC dma: k3dma: use devm_ioremap_resource() instead of devm_request_and_ioremap() dma: imx-sdma: Staticize sdma_driver_data structures pch_dma: Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE dmaengine: PL08x: Add cyclic transfer support dmaengine: PL08x: Fix reading the byte count in cctl dmaengine: PL08x: Add support for different maximum transfer size ...
2013-08-25acpi-dma, doc: append managed function to the listAndy Shevchenko
ACPI DMA provides managed function to register the slave DMA controller in the internal container. This patch anounces that function in the corresponding documentation file. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
2013-08-17iio: trigger: implement devm_iio_trigger_alloc/devm_iio_triger_freeJacek Anaszewski
Add a resource managed devm_iio_trigger_alloc()/devm_iio_triger_free() to automatically clean up triggers allocated by IIO drivers, thus leading to simplified IIO drivers code. Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Kyunmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
2013-08-03Documentation: devres: add IIO device alloc/free functions to listOleksandr Kravchenko
Add devm_iio_device_alloc() and devm_iio_device_free() functions to list of supported calls. Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Kravchenko <o.v.kravchenko@globallogic.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
2013-01-22lib: devres: Introduce devm_ioremap_resource()Thierry Reding
The devm_request_and_ioremap() function is very useful and helps avoid a whole lot of boilerplate. However, one issue that keeps popping up is its lack of a specific error code to determine which of the steps that it performs failed. Furthermore, while the function gives an example and suggests what error code to return on failure, a wide variety of error codes are used throughout the tree. In an attempt to fix these problems, this patch adds a new function that drivers can transition to. The devm_ioremap_resource() returns a pointer to the remapped I/O memory on success or an ERR_PTR() encoded error code on failure. Callers can check for failure using IS_ERR() and determine its cause by extracting the error code using PTR_ERR(). devm_request_and_ioremap() is implemented as a wrapper around the new API and return NULL on failure as before. This ensures that backwards compatibility is maintained until all users have been converted to the new API, at which point the old devm_request_and_ioremap() function should be removed. A semantic patch is included which can be used to convert from the old devm_request_and_ioremap() API to the new devm_ioremap_resource() API. Some non-trivial cases may require manual intervention, though. Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-17Documentation: devres: add PHY get/put functions to list of supported callsMarko Katic
Signed-off-by: Marko Katic <dromede.gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-09-10pwm: add devm_pwm_get() and devm_pwm_put()Alexandre Courbot
Add resource managed variants of pwm_get() and pwm_put() for convenience. Code is largely inspired by the equivalent devm functions of the regulator framework. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
2012-05-21Merge tag 'pinctrl-for-v3.5' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl Pull pin control subsystem changes from Linus Walleij: - Generic Device Tree bindings and hooks for drivers so we can move over modern drivers to using this. - Device Tree bindings for Tegra SoCs. - Funneling some devicetree helper code for the drivers/of subsystem. - New pin control drivers for: * Freescale MXS * Freescale i.MX51 * Freescale i.MX53 All of these use Device Tree bindings. - Dummy pinctrl handles for stepwise migration to pinctrl, akin to dummy regulators. - Minor non-urgent fixes and improvments. Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt and drivers/pinctrl/core.c, * tag 'pinctrl-for-v3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl: (46 commits) pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: add imx51 pinctrl driver pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: add imx53 pinctrl driver pinctrl: pinctrl-pxa3xx: remove empty pinmux disable function pinctrl: pinctrl-mxs: remove empty pinmux disable function pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: remove empty pinmux disable function pinctrl: make pinmux disable function optional pinctrl: a minor error checking improvement for pinconf pinctrl: mxs: skip gpio nodes for group creation pinctrl: mxs: create group for pin config node pinctrl: (cosmetic) fix two entries in DocBook comments pinctrl: add more info to error msgs in pin_request pinctrl: add pinctrl-mxs support pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: add imx6q pinctrl driver pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: add imx pinctrl core driver dt: add of_get_child_count helper function pinctrl: support gpio request deferred probing pinctrl: add pinctrl_provide_dummies interface for platforms to use pinctrl: enhance reporting of errors when loading from DT pinctrl: add kerneldoc for pinctrl_ops device tree functions pinctrl: propagate map validation errors ...
2012-04-19ARM: 7376/1: clkdev: Implement managed clk_get()Mark Brown
Allow clk API users to simplify their cleanup paths by providing a managed version of clk_get() and clk_put(). Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-04-18pinctrl: implement devm_pinctrl_get()/put()Stephen Warren
These functions allow the driver core to automatically clean up any allocations made by drivers, thus leading to simplified drivers. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2012-03-18Merge remote-tracking branches 'regulator/topic/devm' and ↵Mark Brown
'regulator/topic/stub' into regulator-next
2012-01-31regulator: add devm_regulator_* to the list of managed interfacesAxel Lin
Add devm_regulator_put() and devm_regulator_bulk_get() to the list of managed interfaces. Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2012-01-24Documentation: devres: add allocation functions to list of supported callsWolfram Sang
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2012-01-20regulator: Add devm_regulator_get()Stephen Boyd
Add a resource managed regulator_get() to simplify regulator usage in drivers. This allows driver authors to "get and forget" about their regulators by automatically calling regulator_put() when the driver is detached. [Fixed up a couple of coding style issues -- broonie] Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2011-11-15lib: devres: add convenience function to remap a resourceWolfram Sang
Almost every platform_driver does the three steps get_resource, request_mem_region, ioremap. This does not only lead to a lot of code duplication, but also a huge number of similar error strings and inconsistent error codes on failure. So, introduce a helper function which simplifies remapping a resource and make it hard to do something wrong and add documentation for it. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-08-24docs/driver-model: Update device class docsBart Van Assche
The driver model documentation was added to the kernel tree before struct class was added to <linux/device.h>. Hence this patch that updates the paragraph about struct class in Documentation/driver-model/binding.txt. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-08-24docs/driver-model: Document device.groupsBart Van Assche
Several drivers use device_create_file() where device.groups should be used instead. This patch documents that and also removes the comments about device classes since these should not be used in new code in the way documented until now in Documentation/driver-model/device.txt. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-07DOCUMENTATION: Replace create_device() with device_create().Robert P. J. Day
Fix a rather obvious typo. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-07DOCUMENTATION: Update overview.txt in Doc/driver-model.Robert P. J. Day
A few grammatical fixes, clarifications and corrections in just the overview file for the driver model documentation. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-06driver core: remove the driver-model structures from the documentationWanlong Gao
Remove the struct bus_type, class, device, device_driver from the driver-model docs. With another patch add them to device.h, since they are out of date. That will keep things up to date and provide a better way to document this stuff. Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com> Acked-by: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-10driver core: prune docs about device_interfaceBrandon Philips
drivers/base/intf.c was removed before the beginning of (git) time but its Documentation stuck around. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-02-05Fix spelling of 'platform' in comments and docStefan Weil
Replace platfrom -> platform. This is a frequent spelling bug. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-12-23Driver core: driver_attribute parameters can often be const*Phil Carmody
Many struct driver_attribute descriptors are purely read-only structures, and there's no need to change them. Therefore make the promise not to, which will let those descriptors be put in a ro section. Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-07-12driver model: fix show/store prototypes in doc.vibi sreenivasan
FIX prototypes for show & store method in struct driver_attribute Signed-off-by: vibi sreenivasan <vibi_sreenivasan@cms.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15Driver Core: Warn driver authors about adding device attributesGrant Likely
Add a blurb to the driver-model documentation about how (not) to add extra attributes to a struct device at driver probe time. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-12trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixesMatt LaPlante
Fix various typos in documentation txts. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-04-16Driver Core: early platform driverMagnus Damm
V3 of the early platform driver implementation. Platform drivers are great for embedded platforms because we can separate driver configuration from the actual driver. So base addresses, interrupts and other configuration can be kept with the processor or board code, and the platform driver can be reused by many different platforms. For early devices we have nothing today. For instance, to configure early timers and early serial ports we cannot use platform devices. This because the setup order during boot. Timers are needed before the platform driver core code is available. The same goes for early printk support. Early in this case means before initcalls. These early drivers today have their configuration either hard coded or they receive it using some special configuration method. This is working quite well, but if we want to support both regular kernel modules and early devices then we need to have two ways of configuring the same driver. A single way would be better. The early platform driver patch is basically a set of functions that allow drivers to register themselves and architecture code to locate them and probe. Registration happens through early_param(). The time for the probe is decided by the architecture code. See Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt for more details. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-02-22PATCH [1/2] Documentation/driver-model/device.txt: fix struct device_attributeMike Murphy
Fix the presented definition of struct device_attribute to match the actual definition in include/linux/device.h Signed-off-by: Mike Murphy <mamurph[at]cs.clemson.edu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-02Driver core: Update some prototypes in platform.txtStephen Rothwell
Just make these match the actual code. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-20typo fixesMatt LaPlante
Most of these fixes were already submitted for old kernel versions, and were approved, but for some reason they never made it into the releases. Because this is a consolidation of a couple old missed patches, it touches both Kconfigs and documentation texts. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-07-18Documentation fix devres.txt: lib/iomap.c -> lib/devres.cBrandon Philips
Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-06-08update Documentation/driver-model/platform.txtDavid Brownell
Make note of the legacy "probe-the-hardware" drivers, and some APIs that are mostly unused except by such drivers. We probably can't escape having legacy drivers for a while (e.g. old ISA drivers), but we can at least discourage this style code for new drivers, and unless it's unavoidable. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-05-09misc doc and kconfig typosMatt LaPlante
Fix various typos in kernel docs and Kconfigs, 2.6.21-rc4. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>