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2007-10-10[SSB]: add Sonics Silicon Backplane bus supportMichael Buesch
SSB is an SoC bus used in a number of embedded devices. The most well-known of these devices is probably the Linksys WRT54G, but there are others as well. The bus is also used internally on the BCM43xx and BCM44xx devices from Broadcom. This patch also includes support for SSB ID tables in modules, so that SSB drivers can be loaded automatically. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-29[WATCHDOG] Fix pcwd_init_module crashWim Van Sebroeck
Fix for the problem detected by Ingo Molnar: enabling CONFIG_PCWATCHDOG=y crashes bzImage bootup. The reason for this can be found in drivers/makefile We first do: obj-y += char/ and later we do: obj-y += base/ block/ misc/ mfd/ net/ media/ So if we put a platform or isa or usb bus driver in char/watchdog (which is called from the Makefile in drivers/char/Makefile) then we didn't have the different device drivers initialized yet (they are in drivers/base and drivers/usb and ...) This fix makes sure that we compile the watchdog drivers after drivers/base, drivers/misc, drivers/pci and drivers/usb. We also do the compile after hwmon because in the future the watchdog temperature support will use the hwmon system. Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2007-07-20Start split out of common open firmware codeStephen Rothwell
This creates drivers/of/base.c (depending on CONFIG_OF) and puts the first trivially common bits from the prom.c files into it. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-19lguest: the Makefile and KconfigRusty Russell
This is the Kconfig and Makefile to allow lguest to actually be compiled. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-18UIO: Add the User IO core codeHans J. Koch
This interface allows the ability to write the majority of a driver in userspace with only a very small shell of a driver in the kernel itself. It uses a char device and sysfs to interact with a userspace process to process interrupts and control memory accesses. See the docbook documentation for more details on how to use this interface. From: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Benedikt Spranger <b.spranger@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18xen: Add grant table supportJeremy Fitzhardinge
Add Xen 'grant table' driver which allows granting of access to selected local memory pages by other virtual machines and, symmetrically, the mapping of remote memory pages which other virtual machines have granted access to. This driver is a prerequisite for many of the Xen virtual device drivers, which grant the 'device driver domain' restricted and temporary access to only those memory pages that are currently involved in I/O operations. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
2007-07-10[BATTERY] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)Anton Vorontsov
This class is result of "external power" and "battery" classes merge, as suggested by David Woodhouse. He also implemented uevent support. Here how userspace seeing it now: # ls /sys/class/power\ supply/ ac main-battery usb # cat /sys/class/power\ supply/ac/type AC # cat /sys/class/power\ supply/usb/type USB # cat /sys/class/power\ supply/main-battery/type Battery # cat /sys/class/power\ supply/ac/online 1 # cat /sys/class/power\ supply/usb/online 0 # cat /sys/class/power\ supply/main-battery/status Charging # cat /sys/class/leds/h5400\:red-left/trigger none h5400-radio timer hwtimer ac-online usb-online main-battery-charging-or-full [main-battery-charging] main-battery-full Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-10Merge branch 'juju' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6 * 'juju' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: (138 commits) firewire: Convert OHCI driver to use standard goto unwinding for error handling. firewire: Always use parens with sizeof. firewire: Drop single buffer request support. firewire: Add a comment to describe why we split the sg list. firewire: Return SCSI_MLQUEUE_HOST_BUSY for out of memory cases in queuecommand. firewire: Handle the last few DMA mapping error cases. firewire: Allocate scsi_host up front and allocate the sbp2_device as hostdata. firewire: Provide module aliase for backwards compatibility. firewire: Add to fw-core-y instead of assigning fw-core-objs in Makefile. firewire: Break out shared IEEE1394 constant to separate header file. firewire: Use linux/*.h instead of asm/*.h header files. firewire: Uppercase most macro names. firewire: Coding style cleanup: no spaces after function names. firewire: Convert card_rwsem to a regular mutex. firewire: Clean up comment style. firewire: Use lib/ implementation of CRC ITU-T. CRC ITU-T V.41 firewire: Rename fw-device-cdev.c to fw-cdev.c and move header to include/linux. firewire: Future proof the iso ioctls by adding a handle for the iso context. firewire: Add read/write and size annotations to IOC numbers. ... Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-01i2c: Add i2c_board_info and i2c_new_device()David Brownell
This provides partial support for new-style I2C driver binding. It builds on "struct i2c_board_info" declarations that identify I2C devices on a given board. This is needed on systems with I2C devices that can't be fully probed and/or autoconfigured, such as many embedded Linux configurations where the way a given I2C device is wired may affect how it must be used. There are two models for declaring such devices: * LATE -- using a public function i2c_new_device(). This lets modules declare I2C devices found *AFTER* a given I2C adapter becomes available. For example, a PCI card could create adapters giving access to utility chips on that card, and this would be used to associate those chips with those adapters. * EARLY -- from arch_initcall() level code, using a non-exported function i2c_register_board_info(). This copies the declarations *BEFORE* such an i2c_adapter becomes available, arranging that i2c_new_device() will be called later when i2c-core registers the relevant i2c_adapter. For example, arch/.../.../board-*.c files would declare the I2C devices along with their platform data, and I2C devices would behave much like PNPACPI devices. (That is, both enumerate from board-specific tables.) To match the exported i2c_new_device(), the previously-private function i2c_unregister_device() is now exported. Pending later patches using these new APIs, this is effectively a NOP. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-04-18IB: Remove reference to obsolete CONFIG_IPATH_CORERoland Dreier
Since commit b1c1b6a3 ("IB/ipath: merge ipath_core and ib_ipath drivers"), CONFIG_IPATH_CORE no longer exists, so there's no reason to have a line for it in drivers/Makefile. Pointed out by Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2007-03-20firewire: rename CONFIG_FW to CONFIG_FIREWIREStefan Richter
to avoid confusion with CONFIG_FW_LOADER. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Acked-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com>
2007-03-09firewire: Add core firewire stack.Kristian Høgsberg
Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2007-02-11[PATCH] drivers: add LCD supportMiguel Ojeda Sandonis
Add support for auxiliary displays, the ks0108 LCD controller, the cfag12864b LCD and adds a framebuffer device: cfag12864bfb. - Add a "auxdisplay/" folder in "drivers/" for auxiliary display drivers. - Add support for the ks0108 LCD Controller as a device driver. (uses parport interface) - Add support for the cfag12864b LCD as a device driver. (uses ks0108 LCD Controller driver) - Add a framebuffer device called cfag12864bfb. (uses cfag12864b LCD driver) - Add the usual Documentation, includes, Makefiles, Kconfigs, MAINTAINERS, CREDITS... - Miguel Ojeda will maintain all the stuff above. [rdunlap@xenotime.net: workqueue fixups] [akpm@osdl.org: kconfig fix] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Acked-by: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-09[PATCH] enable mouse button 2+3 emulation for x86 macsSoeren Sonnenburg
As macbook/macbook pro's also have to live with a single mouse button the following patch just enables the Macintosh device drivers menu in Kconfig + adds the macintosh dir to the obj-* to make macbook* users happy (who use exactly that since months.... Signed-off-by: Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@nn7.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] kvm: userspace interfaceAvi Kivity
web site: http://kvm.sourceforge.net mailing list: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel) The following patchset adds a driver for Intel's hardware virtualization extensions to the x86 architecture. The driver adds a character device (/dev/kvm) that exposes the virtualization capabilities to userspace. Using this driver, a process can run a virtual machine (a "guest") in a fully virtualized PC containing its own virtual hard disks, network adapters, and display. Using this driver, one can start multiple virtual machines on a host. Each virtual machine is a process on the host; a virtual cpu is a thread in that process. kill(1), nice(1), top(1) work as expected. In effect, the driver adds a third execution mode to the existing two: we now have kernel mode, user mode, and guest mode. Guest mode has its own address space mapping guest physical memory (which is accessible to user mode by mmap()ing /dev/kvm). Guest mode has no access to any I/O devices; any such access is intercepted and directed to user mode for emulation. The driver supports i386 and x86_64 hosts and guests. All combinations are allowed except x86_64 guest on i386 host. For i386 guests and hosts, both pae and non-pae paging modes are supported. SMP hosts and UP guests are supported. At the moment only Intel hardware is supported, but AMD virtualization support is being worked on. Performance currently is non-stellar due to the naive implementation of the mmu virtualization, which throws away most of the shadow page table entries every context switch. We plan to address this in two ways: - cache shadow page tables across tlb flushes - wait until AMD and Intel release processors with nested page tables Currently a virtual desktop is responsive but consumes a lot of CPU. Under Windows I tried playing pinball and watching a few flash movies; with a recent CPU one can hardly feel the virtualization. Linux/X is slower, probably due to X being in a separate process. In addition to the driver, you need a slightly modified qemu to provide I/O device emulation and the BIOS. Caveats (akpm: might no longer be true): - The Windows install currently bluescreens due to a problem with the virtual APIC. We are working on a fix. A temporary workaround is to use an existing image or install through qemu - Windows 64-bit does not work. That's also true for qemu, so it's probably a problem with the device model. [bero@arklinux.org: build fix] [simon.kagstrom@bth.se: build fix, other fixes] [uril@qumranet.com: KVM: Expose interrupt bitmap] [akpm@osdl.org: i386 build fix] [mingo@elte.hu: i386 fixes] [rdreier@cisco.com: add log levels to all printks] [randy.dunlap@oracle.com: Fix sparse NULL and C99 struct init warnings] [anthony@codemonkey.ws: KVM: AMD SVM: 32-bit host support] Signed-off-by: Yaniv Kamay <yaniv@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@bth.se> Cc: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@arklinux.org> Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <uril@qumranet.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] Generic HID layer - buildJiri Kosina
This modifies Makefiles and Kconfigs to properly reflect the creation of generic HID layer. It also removes the dependency of BROKEN, which was introduced by the first patch in series (see the comment). Also updates credits. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-04[POWERPC] ps3: Missed renames of CONFIG_PS3 to CONFIG_PPC_PS3Geert Uytterhoeven
When renaming CONFIG_PS3 to CONFIG_PPC_PS3, a few occurrences have been missed. I also fixed up the alignment in arch/powerpc/platforms/Makefile. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2006-12-04[POWERPC] ps3: add ps3 platform system bus supportGeoff Levand
Adds a PS3 system bus driver. This system bus is a virtual bus used to present the PS3 system devices in the LDM. Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
2006-08-10Move libata to drivers/ata.Jeff Garzik
2006-06-26[PATCH] Time: i386 Clocksource Driversjohn stultz
Implement the time sources for i386 (acpi_pm, cyclone, hpet, pit, and tsc). With this patch, the conversion of the i386 arch to the generic timekeeping code should be complete. The patch should be fairly straight forward, only adding the new clocksources. [hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: acpi_pm cleanup] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-17[I/OAT]: DMA memcpy subsystemChris Leech
Provides an API for offloading memory copies to DMA devices Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-02Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband * 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: IB/ipath: kbuild infrastructure IB/ipath: infiniband verbs support IB/ipath: misc infiniband code, part 2 IB/ipath: misc infiniband code, part 1 IB/ipath: infiniband RC protocol support IB/ipath: infiniband UC and UD protocol support IB/ipath: infiniband header files IB/ipath: layering interfaces used by higher-level driver code IB/ipath: support for userspace apps using core driver IB/ipath: sysfs and ipathfs support for core driver IB/ipath: misc driver support code IB/ipath: chip initialisation code, and diag support IB/ipath: support for PCI Express devices IB/ipath: support for HyperTransport devices IB/ipath: core driver header files IB/ipath: core device driver
2006-04-02Manual merge with Linus.Dmitry Torokhov
Conflicts: arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c drivers/input/keyboard/hil_kbd.c drivers/input/mouse/hil_ptr.c
2006-03-31IB/ipath: kbuild infrastructureBryan O'Sullivan
Integrate the ipath core and OpenIB drivers into the kernel build infrastructure. Add entry to MAINTAINERS. Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2006-03-31[PATCH] LED: add LED classRichard Purdie
Add the foundations of a new LEDs subsystem. This patch adds a class which presents LED devices within sysfs and allows their brightness to be controlled. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27[PATCH] RTC Subsystem: library functionsAlessandro Zummo
RTC and date/time related functions. Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-19Input: initialize serio and gameport at subsystem levelDmitry Torokhov
Serio and gameport cores do not depend on other drivers and are used by code living outside of drivers/input/{gameport|serio}. Registering them at subsystem level guarantees that they are fully initialized before anyone tries to use them. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-01-26[PATCH] drivers/sn/ must be entered for CONFIG_SGI_IOC3Jes Sorensen
Actually I think this is more appropriate so we don't end up with 17 cases that add drivers/sn to the build lib. Include drivers/sn when CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN2 or CONFIG_IA64_GENERIC is enabled. Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-18[PATCH] EDAC: core EDAC support codeAlan Cox
This is a subset of the bluesmoke project core code, stripped of the NMI work which isn't ready to merge and some of the "interesting" proc functionality that needs reworking or just has no place in kernel. It requires no core kernel changes except the added scrub functions already posted. The goal is to merge further functionality only after the core code is accepted and proven in the base kernel, and only at the point the upstream extras are really ready to merge. From: doug thompson <norsk5@xmission.com> This converts EDAC to sysfs and is the final chunk neccessary before EDAC has a stable user space API and can be considered for submission into the base kernel. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: doug thompson <norsk5@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-13[PATCH] spi: simple SPI frameworkDavid Brownell
This is the core of a small SPI framework, implementing the model of a queue of messages which complete asynchronously (with thin synchronous wrappers on top). - It's still less than 2KB of ".text" (ARM). If there's got to be a mid-layer for something so simple, that's the right size budget. :) - The guts use board-specific SPI device tables to build the driver model tree. (Hardware probing is rarely an option.) - This version of Kconfig includes no drivers. At this writing there are two known master controller drivers (PXA/SSP, OMAP MicroWire) and three protocol drivers (CS8415a, ADS7846, DataFlash) with LKML mentions of other drivers in development. - No userspace API. There are several implementations to compare. Implement them like any other driver, and bind them with sysfs. The changes from last version posted to LKML (on 11-Nov-2005) are minor, and include: - One bugfix (removes a FIXME), with the visible effect of making device names be "spiB.C" where B is the bus number and C is the chipselect. - The "caller provides DMA mappings" mechanism now has kerneldoc, for DMA drivers that want to be fancy. - Hey, the framework init can be subsys_init. Even though board init logic fires earlier, at arch_init ... since the framework init is for driver support, and the board init support uses static init. - Various additional spec/doc clarifications based on discussions with other folk. It adds a brief "thank you" at the end, for folk who've helped nudge this framework into existence. As I've said before, I think that "protocol tweaking" is the main support that this driver framework will need to evolve. From: Mark Underwood <basicmark@yahoo.com> Update the SPI framework to remove a potential priority inversion case by reverting to kmalloc if the pre-allocated DMA-safe buffer isn't available. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-07[ARM] Move AMBA bus code to drivers/amba/Russell King
Make the AMBA bus code visible to other architectures. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-12-03Link USB drivers later in the kernelLinus Torvalds
We want to link the "regular" SCSI drivers before the USB storage driver, since historically we've always detected internal SCSI disks before the external USB storage modules. The link order matters for initcall ordering, and this got broken by mistake by commit 7586269c0b52970f60bb69fcb86e765fc1d72309 which moved the USB host controller PCI quirk handling around. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] RapidIO support: core baseMatt Porter
Adds a RapidIO subsystem to the kernel. RIO is a switched fabric interconnect used in higher-end embedded applications. The curious can look at the specs over at http://www.rapidio.org The core code implements enumeration/discovery, management of devices/resources, and interfaces for RIO drivers. There's a lot more to do to take advantages of all the hardware features. However, this should provide a good base for folks with RIO hardware to start contributing. Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] sh: Re-add sh to drivers/MakefilePaul Mundt
drivers/sh/ got dropped from drivers/Makefile, so add it back in.. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-28[PATCH] USB: move handoff codeDavid Brownell
This moves the PCI quirk handling for USB host controllers from the PCI directory to the USB directory. Follow-on patches will need to: (a) merge these copies with the originals in the HCD reset methods. they don't wholly agree, despite doing the very same thing; and (b) eventually change it so "usb-handoff" is the default, to help get more robust USB/BIOS/input/... interactions. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> drivers/Makefile | 2 drivers/pci/quirks.c | 253 --------------------------------------- drivers/usb/Makefile | 1 drivers/usb/host/Makefile | 5 drivers/usb/host/pci-quirks.c | 272 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 280 insertions(+), 253 deletions(-)
2005-09-11[NET]: Add netlink connector.Evgeniy Polyakov
Kernel connector - new userspace <-> kernel space easy to use communication module which implements easy to use bidirectional message bus using netlink as it's backend. Connector was created to eliminate complex skb handling both in send and receive message bus direction. Connector driver adds possibility to connect various agents using as one of it's backends netlink based network. One must register callback and identifier. When driver receives special netlink message with appropriate identifier, appropriate callback will be called. From the userspace point of view it's quite straightforward: socket(); bind(); send(); recv(); But if kernelspace want to use full power of such connections, driver writer must create special sockets, must know about struct sk_buff handling... Connector allows any kernelspace agents to use netlink based networking for inter-process communication in a significantly easier way: int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (void *)); void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask); struct cb_id { __u32 idx; __u32 val; }; idx and val are unique identifiers which must be registered in connector.h for in-kernel usage. void (*callback) (void *) - is a callback function which will be called when message with above idx.val will be received by connector core. Using connector completely hides low-level transport layer from it's users. Connector uses new netlink ability to have many groups in one socket. [ Incorporating many cleanups and fixes by myself and Andrew Morton -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-29Auto-update from upstreamLen Brown
2005-08-24[ACPI] delete CONFIG_ACPI_BOOTLen Brown
it has been a synonym for CONFIG_ACPI since 2.6.12 Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-08-18[MFD] Add multimedia communication port core supportRussell King
Add support for the core of the multimedia communication port framework. This is a port used to communicate with devices with two DMA paths and a control path. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-07-11[PATCH] I2C: Move hwmon drivers (1/3)Jean Delvare
Part 1: Configuration files and Makefiles. From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-21[PATCH] ioc4: CONFIG splitBrent Casavant
The SGI IOC4 I/O controller chip drivers are currently all configured by CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SGIIOC4. This is undesirable as not all IOC4 hardware features are needed by all systems. This patch adds two configuration variables, CONFIG_SGI_IOC4 for core IOC4 driver support (see patch 1/3 in this series for further explanation) and CONFIG_SERIAL_SGI_IOC4 to independently enable serial port support. Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com> Acked-by: Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com> Acked-by: Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
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!