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After looking harder, Steve noticed that the netpoll
beast leaked a little every time it shutdown for a nap.
Not a big leak, but a nuisance kind of thing.
He took out his refcount duct tape and patched the
leak. It was overkill since there was already other
locking in that area, but it looked clean and wouldn't
attract fleas.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
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This patch does not change code; it performs some trivial clean/tidy-ups:
* removal of a `debug_prefix' string in favour of the
already existing dccp_role(sk)
* add documentation of structures and constants
* separated out the cases for invalid packets (step 1
of the packet validation)
* removing duplicate statements
* combining declaration & initialisation
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
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This patch replaces cryptic feature negotiation messages of type
Oct 31 15:42:20 kernel: dccp_feat_change: feat change type=32 feat=1
Oct 31 15:42:21 kernel: dccp_feat_change: feat change type=34 feat=1
Oct 31 15:42:21 kernel: dccp_feat_change: feat change type=32 feat=5
into ones of type:
Nov 2 13:54:45 kernel: dccp_feat_change: ChangeL(CCID (1), 3)
Nov 2 13:54:45 kernel: dccp_feat_change: ChangeR(CCID (1), 3)
Nov 2 13:54:45 kernel: dccp_feat_change: ChangeL(Ack Ratio (5), 2)
Also,
* completed the feature number list wrt RFC 4340 sec. 6.4
* annotating which ones have been implemented so far
* implemented rudimentary sanity checking in feat.c (FIXMEs)
* some minor fixes
Commiter note: uninlined dccp_feat_name and dccp_feat_typename, for
consistency with dccp_{state,packet}_name, that, BTW,
should be compiled only if CONFIG_IP_DCCP_DEBUG is
selected, leaving this to another cset tho. Also
shortened dccp_feat_negotiation_debug to dccp_feat_debug.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
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Throughout the TCP/DCCP (and tunnelling) code, it often happens that the
return code of a transmit function needs to be tested against NET_XMIT_CN
which is a value that does not indicate a strict error condition.
This patch uses a macro for these recurring situations which is consistent
with the already existing macro net_xmit_errno, saving on duplicated code.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
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This patch contains the scheduled removal of the frame diverter.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This adds 3 sysctls which govern the retransmission behaviour of DCCP control
packets (3way handshake, feature negotiation).
It removes 4 FIXMEs from the code.
The close resemblance of sysctl variables to their TCP analogues is emphasised
not only by their name, but also by giving them the same initial values.
This is useful since there is not much practical experience with DCCP yet.
Furthermore, with regard to the previous patch, it is now possible to limit
the number of keepalive-Responses by setting net.dccp.default.request_retries
(also a bit like in TCP).
Lastly, added documentation of all existing DCCP sysctls.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
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Account for the netlink message header size directly in nlmsg_new()
instead of relying on the caller calculate it correctly.
Replaces error handling of message construction functions when
constructing notifications with bug traps since a failure implies
a bug in calculating the size of the skb.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch does the following:
a) introduces variable-length checksums as specified in [RFC 4340, sec. 9.2]
b) provides necessary socket options and documentation as to how to use them
c) basic support and infrastructure for the Minimum Checksum Coverage feature
[RFC 4340, sec. 9.2.1]: acceptability tests, user notification and user
interface
In addition, it
(1) fixes two bugs in the DCCPv4 checksum computation:
* pseudo-header used checksum_len instead of skb->len
* incorrect checksum coverage calculation based on dccph_x
(2) removes dccp_v4_verify_checksum() since it reduplicates code of the
checksum computation; code calling this function is updated accordingly.
(3) now uses skb_checksum(), which is safer than checksum_partial() if the
sk_buff has is a non-linear buffer (has pages attached to it).
(4) fixes an outstanding TODO item:
* If P.CsCov is too large for the packet size, drop packet and return.
The code has been tested with applications, the latest version of tcpdump now
comes with support for partial DCCP checksums.
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
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This is a code simplification:
it combines three often recurring operations into one inline function,
* allocate `len' bytes header space in skb
* fill these `len' bytes with zeroes
* cast the start of this header space as dccp_hdr
Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
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Allow normal users to only choose among a restricted set of congestion
control choices. The default is reno and what ever has been configured
as default. But the policy can be changed by administrator at any time.
For example, to allow any choice:
cp /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_available_congestion_control \
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_allowed_congestion_control
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Create /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_available_congestion_control
that reflects currently available TCP choices.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Introduces a new flag FIB_RULE_INVERT causing rules to apply
if the specified selector doesn't match.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Move mark selector currently implemented per protocol into
the protocol independant part.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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nfmark is being used in various subsystems and has become
the defacto mark field for all kinds of packets. Therefore
it makes sense to rename it to `mark' and remove the
dependency on CONFIG_NETFILTER.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fix the selection of an SA for an outgoing packet to be at the same
context as the originating socket/flow. This eliminates the SELinux
policy's ability to use/sendto SAs with contexts other than the socket's.
With this patch applied, the SELinux policy will require one or more of the
following for a socket to be able to communicate with/without SAs:
1. To enable a socket to communicate without using labeled-IPSec SAs:
allow socket_t unlabeled_t:association { sendto recvfrom }
2. To enable a socket to communicate with labeled-IPSec SAs:
allow socket_t self:association { sendto };
allow socket_t peer_sa_t:association { recvfrom };
Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Fix SO_PEERSEC for tcp sockets to return the security context of
the peer (as represented by the SA from the peer) as opposed to the
SA used by the local/source socket.
Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Since the upstreaming of the mlsxfrm modification a few months back,
testing has resulted in the identification of the following issues/bugs that
are resolved in this patch set.
1. Fix the security context used in the IKE negotiation to be the context
of the socket as opposed to the context of the SPD rule.
2. Fix SO_PEERSEC for tcp sockets to return the security context of
the peer as opposed to the source.
3. Fix the selection of an SA for an outgoing packet to be at the same
context as the originating socket/flow.
The following would be the result of applying this patchset:
- SO_PEERSEC will now correctly return the peer's context.
- IKE deamons will receive the context of the source socket/flow
as opposed to the SPD rule's context so that the negotiated SA
will be at the same context as the source socket/flow.
- The SELinux policy will require one or more of the
following for a socket to be able to communicate with/without SAs:
1. To enable a socket to communicate without using labeled-IPSec SAs:
allow socket_t unlabeled_t:association { sendto recvfrom }
2. To enable a socket to communicate with labeled-IPSec SAs:
allow socket_t self:association { sendto };
allow socket_t peer_sa_t:association { recvfrom };
This Patch: Pass correct security context to IKE for use in negotiation
Fix the security context passed to IKE for use in negotiation to be the
context of the socket as opposed to the context of the SPD rule so that
the SA carries the label of the originating socket/flow.
Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Weirdness: the third argument of socket() is net-endian
here. Oh, well - it's documented in packet(7).
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (118 commits)
[netdrvr] skge: build fix
[PATCH] NetXen: driver cleanup, removed unnecessary __iomem type casts
[PATCH] PHY: Add support for configuring the PHY connection interface
[PATCH] chelesio: transmit locking (plus bug fix).
[PATCH] chelsio: statistics improvement
[PATCH] chelsio: add MSI support
[PATCH] chelsio: use standard CRC routines
[PATCH] chelsio: cleanup pm3393 code
[PATCH] chelsio: add 1G swcixw aupport
[PATCH] chelsio: add support for other 10G boards
[PATCH] chelsio: remove unused mutex
[PATCH] chelsio: use kzalloc
[PATCH] chelsio: whitespace fixes
[PATCH] amd8111e use standard CRC lib
[PATCH] sky2: msi enhancements.
[PATCH] sky2: kfree_skb_any needed
[PATCH] sky2: fixes for Yukon EC_U chip revisions
[PATCH] sky2: add Dlink 560SX id
[PATCH] sky2: receive error handling fix
[PATCH] skge: don't clear MC state on link down
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc:
mmc: correct request error handling
mmc: Flush block queue when removing card
mmc: sdhci high speed support
mmc: Support for high speed SD cards
mmc: Fix mmc_delay() function
mmc: Add support for mmc v4 wide-bus modes
[PATCH] mmc: Add support for mmc v4 high speed mode
trivial change for mmc/Kconfig: MMC_PXA does not mean only PXA255
Make general code cleanups
Add MMC_CAP_{MULTIWRITE,BYTEBLOCK} flags
Platform device error handling cleanup
Move register definitions away from the header file
Change OMAP_MMC_{READ,WRITE} macros to use the host pointer
Replace base with virt_base and phys_base
mmc: constify mmc_host_ops vectors
mmc: remove kernel_thread()
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Most PHYs connect to an ethernet controller over a GMII or MII
interface. However, a growing number are connected over
different interfaces, such as RGMII or SGMII.
The ethernet driver will tell the PHY what type of connection it
is by setting it manually, or passing it in through phy_connect
(or phy_attach).
Changes include:
* Updates to documentation
* Updates to PHY Lib consumers
* Changes to PHY Lib to add interface support
* Some minor changes to whitespace in phy.h
* gianfar driver now detects interface and passes appropriate
value to PHY Lib
Signed-off-by: Andrew Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Add pci device ids for the NVIDIA MCP67 chip.
Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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This patch adds two new defines for the SIOCSIWMLME to cover all
kinds MLMEs (well, except REASSOC) through a ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@web.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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The <linux/phy.h> uses some types and macros defined in
<linux/ethtool.h>, <linux/mii.h>, <linux/timer.h> and <linux/workqueue.h>,
but fails to include these headers.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
patch-mips-2.6.18-20060920-include-phy-16
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: (31 commits)
[MIPS] Remove duplicate ISA DMA code for 0 DMA channel case.
[MIPS] Remove unused definition of cpu_to_lelongp()
[MIPS] Remove userspace proofing from <asm/bitops.h>.
[MIPS] Remove old junk left from old atomic_lock.
[MIPS] Use conditional traps for BUG_ON on MIPS II and better.
[MIPS] mips HPT cleanup: make clocksource_mips public
[MIPS] do_IRQ cleanup
[MIPS] Avoid dupliate D-cache flush on R400C / R4400 SC and MC variants.
[MIPS] Remove redundant r4k_blast_icache() calls
[MIPS] Work around bogus gcc warnings.
[MIPS] Fix double inclusions
[MIPS] use generic_handle_irq, handle_level_irq, handle_percpu_irq
[MIPS] IRQ cleanups
[MIPS] mips hpt cleanup: get rid of mips_hpt_init
[MIPS] PB1200: Remove duplicate definitions
[MIPS] Fix alignment hole in struct cache_desc; shrink struct.
[MIPS] Oprofile: kernel support for the R10000.
[MIPS] Remove unused R10000 performance counter definitions.
[MIPS] Add support for kexec
[MIPS] Don't print presence of WAIT instruction on bootup.
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (103 commits)
usbcore: remove unused argument in autosuspend
USB: keep count of unsuspended children
USB hub: simplify remote-wakeup handling
USB: struct usb_device: change flag to bitflag
OHCI: make autostop conditional on CONFIG_PM
USB: Add autosuspend support to the hub driver
EHCI: Fix root-hub and port suspend/resume problems
USB: create a new thread for every USB device found during the probe sequence
USB: add driver for the USB debug devices
USB: added dynamic major number for USB endpoints
USB: pegasus error path not resetting task's state
USB: endianness fix for asix.c
USB: build the appledisplay driver
USB serial: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc
USB: hid-core: canonical defines for Apple USB device IDs
USB: idmouse cleanup
USB: make drivers/usb/core/driver.c:usb_device_match() static
USB: lh7a40x_udc remove double declaration
USB: pxa2xx_udc recognizes ixp425 rev b0 chip
usbtouchscreen: add support for DMC TSC-10/25 devices
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (28 commits)
PCI: make arch/i386/pci/common.c:pci_bf_sort static
PCI: ibmphp_pci.c: fix NULL dereference
pciehp: remove unnecessary pci_disable_msi
pciehp: remove unnecessary free_irq
PCI: rpaphp: change device tree examination
PCI: Change memory allocation for acpiphp slots
i2c-i801: SMBus patch for Intel ICH9
PCI: irq: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel ICH9
PCI: pci_{enable,disable}_device() nestable ports
PCI: switch pci_{enable,disable}_device() to be nestable
PCI: arch/i386/kernel/pci-dma.c: ioremap balanced with iounmap
pci/i386: style cleanups
PCI: Block on access to temporarily unavailable pci device
pci: fix __pci_register_driver error handling
pci: clear osc support flags if no _OSC method
acpiphp: fix missing acpiphp_glue_exit()
acpiphp: fix use of list_for_each macro
Altix: Initial ACPI support - ROM shadowing.
Altix: SN ACPI hotplug support.
Altix: Add initial ACPI IO support
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (36 commits)
Driver core: show drivers in /sys/module/
Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt update/rewrite
Driver core: platform_driver_probe(), can save codespace
driver core: Use klist_remove() in device_move()
driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.
Driver core: make drivers/base/core.c:setup_parent() static
driver core: Introduce device_find_child().
sysfs: sysfs_write_file() writes zero terminated data
cpu topology: consider sysfs_create_group return value
Driver core: Call platform_notify_remove later
ACPI: Change ACPI to use dev_archdata instead of firmware_data
Driver core: add dev_archdata to struct device
Driver core: convert sound core to use struct device
Driver core: change mem class_devices to be real devices
Driver core: convert fb code to use struct device
Driver core: convert firmware code to use struct device
Driver core: convert mmc code to use struct device
Driver core: convert ppdev code to use struct device
Driver core: convert PPP code to use struct device
Driver core: convert cpuid code to use struct device
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
Fix typos in drivers/isdn/hisax/isdnl2.c
Fix typos in doc and comments
BUG_ON conversion for fs/aio.c
BUG_ON conversion for drivers/mmc/omap.c
BUG_ON conversion for drivers/media/video/pwc/pwc-if.c
Fix misc .c/.h comment typos
Fix misc Kconfig typos
Fix typos in /Documentation : Misc
Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z'
Fix typos in /Documentation : 'T''
Fix jiffies.h comment
tabify MAINTAINERS
fix spelling error in include/linux/kernel.h
mqueue.h: don't include linux/types.h
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Show the drivers, which belong to the module:
$ ls -l /sys/module/usbcore/drivers/
hub -> ../../../bus/usb/drivers/hub
usb -> ../../../bus/usb/drivers/usb
usbfs -> ../../../bus/usb/drivers/usbfs
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This defines a new platform_driver_probe() method allowing the driver's
probe() method, and its support code+data, to safely live in __init
sections for typical system configurations.
Many system-on-chip processors could benefit from this API, to the tune
of recovering hundreds to thousands of bytes per driver. That's memory
which is currently wasted holding code which can never be called after
system startup, yet can not be removed. It can't be removed because of
the linkage requirement that pointers to init section code (like, ideally,
probe support) must not live in other sections (like driver method tables)
after those pointers would be invalid.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Provide a function device_move() to move a device to a new parent device. Add
auxilliary functions kobject_move() and sysfs_move_dir().
kobject_move() generates a new uevent of type KOBJ_MOVE, containing the
previous path (DEVPATH_OLD) in addition to the usual values. For this, a new
interface kobject_uevent_env() is created that allows to add further
environmental data to the uevent at the kobject layer.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Introduce device_find_child() to match device_for_each_child().
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Change ACPI to use dev_archdata instead of firmware_data
This patch changes ACPI to use the new dev_archdata on i386, x86_64
and ia64 (is there any other arch using ACPI ?) to store it's
acpi_handle.
It also removes the firmware_data field from struct device as this
was the only user.
Only build-tested on x86
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Add arch specific dev_archdata to struct device
Adds an arch specific struct dev_arch to struct device. This enables
architecture to add specific fields to every device in the system, like
DMA operation pointers, NUMA node ID, firmware specific data, etc...
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.
Also fixes up the isdn drivers that were putting something in the class
device's directory.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This also ment that some of the misc drivers had to also be fixed
up as they were assuming the device was a class_device.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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It doesn't need to be global or in device.h
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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I finally did as you suggested and added the notifier to the struct
bus_type itself. There are still problems to be expected is something
attaches to a bus type where the code can hook in different struct
device sub-classes (which is imho a big bogosity but I won't even try to
argue that case now) but it will solve nicely a number of issues I've
had so far.
That also means that clients interested in registering for such
notifications have to do it before devices are added and after bus types
are registered. Fortunately, most bus types that matter for the various
usage scenarios I have in mind are registerd at postcore_initcall time,
which means I have a really nice spot at arch_initcall time to add my
notifiers.
There are 4 notifications provided. Device being added (before hooked to
the bus) and removed (failure of previous case or after being unhooked
from the bus), along with driver being bound to a device and about to be
unbound.
The usage I have for these are:
- The 2 first ones are used to maintain a struct device_ext that is
hooked to struct device.firmware_data. This structure contains for now a
pointer to the Open Firmware node related to the device (if any), the
NUMA node ID (for quick access to it) and the DMA operations pointers &
iommu table instance for DMA to/from this device. For bus types I own
(like IBM VIO or EBUS), I just maintain that structure directly from the
bus code when creating the devices. But for bus types managed by generic
code like PCI or platform (actually, of_platform which is a variation of
platform linked to Open Firmware device-tree), I need this notifier.
- The other two ones have a completely different usage scenario. I have
cases where multiple devices and their drivers depend on each other. For
example, the IBM EMAC network driver needs to attach to a MAL DMA engine
which is a separate device, and a PHY interface which is also a separate
device. They are all of_platform_device's (well, about to be with my
upcoming patches) but there is no say in what precise order the core
will "probe" them and instanciate the various modules. The solution I
found for that is to have the drivers for emac to use multithread_probe,
and wait for a driver to be bound to the target MAL and PHY control
devices (the device-tree contains reference to the MAL and PHY interface
nodes, which I can then match to of_platform_devices). Right now, I've
been polling, but with that notifier, I can more cleanly wait (with a
timeout of course).
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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