This is a rewrite of the ramdisk block device driver.
The old one is really difficult because it effectively implements a block
device which serves data out of its own buffer cache. It relies on the dirty
bit being set, to pin its backing store in cache, however there are non
trivial paths which can clear the dirty bit (eg. try_to_free_buffers()),
which had recently lead to data corruption. And in general it is completely
wrong for a block device driver to do this.
The new one is more like a regular block device driver. It has no idea about
vm/vfs stuff. It's backing store is similar to the buffer cache (a simple
radix-tree of pages), but it doesn't know anything about page cache (the pages
in the radix tree are not pagecache pages).
There is one slight downside -- direct block device access and filesystem
metadata access goes through an extra copy and gets stored in RAM twice.
However, this downside is only slight, because the real buffercache of the
device is now reclaimable (because we're not playing crazy games with it), so
under memory intensive situations, footprint should effectively be the same --
maybe even a slight advantage to the new driver because it can also reclaim
buffer heads.
The fact that it now goes through all the regular vm/fs paths makes it
much more useful for testing, too.
text data bss dec hex filename
2837 849 384 4070 fe6 drivers/block/rd.o
3528 371 12 3911 f47 drivers/block/brd.o
Text is larger, but data and bss are smaller, making total size smaller.
A few other nice things about it:
- Similar structure and layout to the new loop device handlinag.
- Dynamic ramdisk creation.
- Runtime flexible buffer head size (because it is no longer part of the
ramdisk code).
- Boot / load time flexible ramdisk size, which could easily be extended
to a per-ramdisk runtime changeable size (eg. with an ioctl).
- Can use highmem for the backing store.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[byron.bbradley@gmail.com: make rd_size non-static]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add architecture support for the MN10300/AM33 CPUs produced by MEI to the
kernel.
This patch also adds board support for the ASB2303 with the ASB2308 daughter
board, and the ASB2305. The only processor supported is the MN103E010, which
is an AM33v2 core plus on-chip devices.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuke cvs control strings]
Signed-off-by: Masakazu Urade <urade.masakazu@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The device is manufactured by IPWireless. In some countries (for
example Czech Republic, T-Mobile ISP) this card is shipped for service
called UMTS 4G.
It's a piece of PCMCIA "4G" UMTS PPP networking hardware that presents
itself as a serial character device (i.e. looks like usual modem to
userspace, accepts AT commands, etc).
Rewieved-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ben Martel <benm@symmetric.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Blackheath <stephen@symmetric.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now that I have got the necessary piece of hardware (thanks, Thiemo!), I may
well offer myself as the maintainer for the dz serial driver. I hope nobody
objects.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I have been prime author and maintainer of block2mtd from day one, but
neither MAINTAINERS nor the module source makes this fact clear. And while
I'm at it, update my email addresses tree-wide, as the old address
currently bounces and change my name to "joern" as unicode will likely
continue to cause trouble until the end of this century.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@lazybastard.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This gave me bounces and moans when chasing CS5536 so document it.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is based on the 2004 out-of-tree work of Jamey Hicks, to add
support via WMI for controlling the jog dial and wireless on these
tablets.
v1:
Original release
v2:
As per Joshua Wise's comments, change bluetooth to jogdial (an error from
the original driver).
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
CC: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
CC: Jamey Hicks <jamey.hicks@nokia.com>
CC: Joshua Wise <joshua@joshuawise.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
This is a driver for newer Acer (and Wistron) laptops. It adds wireless
radio and bluetooth control, and on some laptops, exposes the mail LED and
LCD backlight.
v1:
* Initial release
v2:
* Replace left over ACPI references with WMI
* Add GUID based autoloading (depends on future work to WMI)
* Add DMI based autoloading (backup solution until WMI sysfs/ class
work is available)
* Checkpatch fixes
v3:
* Add new EC quirks for Aspire 3100 & 5100, and Extensa 5220
v4:
* Simplified internal handling of WMID and AMW0 devices
* Add autodetection for bluetooth and maximum brightness on AMW0 V2 and
WMID laptops.
v5:
* Add EC quirk for Medion MD 98000
* Add autodetection for AMW0, and mail LED on AMW0 and AMW0 V2.
* Improve error handling
* Fix AMW0 V2 bluetooth and wireless, by using both WMID and AMW0 methods
to ensure that the correct value is always set.
v6:
* Fix 'use before initialisation' bug with quirks.
v7
* Fix bug on AMW0 where acer-wmi would exit if a mail LED was not
detected.
* Add Acer Aspire 9110 mail LED support
* Fix section mismatch warnings
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
CC: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
The following is an implementation of the Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI) ACPI interface mapper (PNP0C14).
What it does:
Parses the _WDG method and exports functions to process WMI method calls,
data block query/ set commands (both based on GUID) and does basic event
handling.
How: WMI presents an in kernel interface here (essentially, a minimal
wrapper around ACPI)
(const char *guid assume the 36 character ASCII representation of
a GUID - e.g. 67C3371D-95A3-4C37-BB61-DD47B491DAAB)
wmi_evaluate_method(const char *guid, u8 instance, u32 method_id,
const struct acpi_buffer *in, struct acpi_buffer *out)
wmi_query_block(const char *guid, u8 instance,
struct acpi_buffer *out)
wmi_set_block(const char *guid, u38 instance,
const struct acpi_buffer *in)
wmi_install_notify_handler(acpi_notify_handler handler);
wmi_remove_notify_handler(void);
wmi_get_event_data(u32 event, struct acpi_buffer *out)
wmi_has_guid(const char guid*)
wmi_has_guid() is a helper function to find if a GUID exists or not on the
system (a quick and easy way for WMI dependant drivers to see if the
the method/ block they want exists, since GUIDs are supposed to be unique).
Event handling - allow a WMI based driver to register a notifier handler
for each GUID with WMI. When a notification is sent to a GUID in WMI, the
handler registered with WMI is then called (it is left to the caller to
ask for the WMI event data associated with the GUID, if needed).
What it won't do:
Unicode - The MS article[1] calls for converting between ASCII and Unicode (or
vice versa) if a GUID is marked as "string". This is left up to the calling
driver.
Handle a MOF[1] - the WMI mapper just exports methods, data and events to
userspace. MOF handling is down to userspace.
Userspace interface - this will be added later.
[1] http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/pnppwr/wmi/wmi-acpi.mspx
===
ChangeLog
==
v1 (2007-10-02):
* Initial release
v2 (2007-10-05):
* Cleaned up code - split up super "wmi_evaluate_block" -> each external
symbol now handles its own ACPI calls, rather than handing off to
a "super" method (and in turn, is a lot simpler to read)
* Added a find_guid() symbol - return true if a given GUID exists on
the system
* wmi_* functions now return type acpi_status (since they are just
fancy wrappers around acpi_evaluate_object())
* Removed extra debug code
v3 (2007-10-27)
* More code clean up - now passes checkpatch.pl
* Change data block calls - ref MS spec, method ID is not required for
them, so drop it from the function parameters.
* Const'ify guid in the function call parameters.
* Fix _WDG buffer handling - copy the data to our own private structure.
* Change WMI from tristate to bool - otherwise the external functions are
not exported in linux/acpi.h if you try to build WMI as a module.
* Fix more flag comparisons.
* Add a maintainers entry - since I wrote this, I should take the blame
for it.
v4 (2007-10-30)
* Add missing brace from after fixing checkpatch errors.
* Rewrote event handling - allow external drivers to register with WMI to
handle WMI events
* Clean up flags and sanitise flag handling
v5 (2007-11-03)
* Add sysfs interface for userspace. Export events over netlink again.
* Remove module left overs, fully convert to built-in driver.
* Tweak in-kernel API to use u8 for instance, since this is what the GUID
blocks use (so instance cannot be greater than u8).
* Export wmi_get_event_data() for in kernel WMI drivers.
v6 (2007-11-07)
* Split out userspace into a different patch
v7 (2007-11-20)
* Fix driver to handle multiple PNP0C14 devices - store all GUIDs using
the kernel's built in list functions, and just keep adding to the list
every time we handle a PNP0C14 devices - GUIDs will always be unique,
and WMI callers do not know or care about different devices.
* Change WMI event handler registration to use its' own event handling
struct; we should not pass an acpi_handle down to any WMI based drivers
- they should be able to function with only the calls provided in WMI.
* Update my e-mail address
v8 (2007-11-28)
* Convert back to a module.
* Update Kconfig to default to building as a module.
* Remove an erroneous printk.
* Simply comments for string flag (since we now leave the handling to the
caller).
v9 (2007-12-07)
* Add back missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for autoloading
* Checkpatch fixes
v10 (2007-12-12)
* Workaround broken GUIDs declared expensive without a WCxx method.
* Minor cleanups
v11 (2007-12-17)
* More fixing for broken GUIDs declared expensive without a WCxx method.
* Add basic EmbeddedControl region handling.
v12 (2007-12-18)
* Changed EC region handling code, as per Alexey's comments.
v13 (2007-12-27)
* Changed event handling so that we can have one event handler registered
per GUID, as per Matthew Garrett's suggestion.
v14 (2008-01-12)
* Remove ACPI debug statements
v15 (2008-02-01)
* Replace two remaining 'x == NULL' type tests with '!x'
v16 (2008-02-05)
* Change MAINTAINERS entry, as I am not, and never have been, paid to work
on WMI
* Remove 'default' line from Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
CC: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
CC: Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] make pfm_get_task work with virtual pids
[IA64] honor notify_die() returning NOTIFY_STOP
[IA64] remove dead code: __cpu_{down,die} from !HOTPLUG_CPU
[IA64] Appoint kvm/ia64 Maintainers
[IA64] ia64_set_psr should use srlz.i
[IA64] Export three symbols for module use
[IA64] mca style cleanup
[IA64] sn_hwperf semaphore to mutex
[IA64] generalize attribute of fsyscall_gtod_data
[IA64] efi.c Add /* never reached */ annotation
[IA64] efi.c Spelling/punctuation fixes
[IA64] Make efi.c mostly fit in 80 columns
[IA64] aliasing-test: fix gcc warnings on non-ia64
[IA64] Slim-down __clear_bit_unlock
[IA64] Fix the order of atomic operations in restore_previous_kprobes on ia64
[IA64] constify function pointer tables
[IA64] fix userspace compile error in gcc_intrin.h
Add a standard NIC and RDMA/iWARP driver for NetEffect 1/10Gb ethernet adapters.
Signed-off-by: Glenn Streiff <gstreiff@neteffect.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Anthony and Xiantao are working on KVM for ia64.
Signed-off-by Anthony Xu <anthony.xu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 18:08 -0500, Corey Thomas wrote:
> This email, coreythomas@charter.net is good. ISP change.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Remove Chad Tindel; he hasn't been involved for a number
of years.
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- Peter's email address is bouncing
- the project webpage no longer exists
- neither Peter nor Mike had a single patch included in the kernel
since 2.6.12-rc2 (when the git history begins)
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6:
apm_power: check I.intval for zero value, we use it as the divisor
MAINTAINERS: remove kernel-discuss@handhelds.org list
pda_power: implement polling
pda_power: various cleanups
apm_power: support using VOLTAGE_* properties for apm calculations
pda_power: add suspend/resume support
power_supply: add few more values and props
pda_power: only register available psu
power: fix incorrect unregistration in power_supply_create_attrs error path
power: remove POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_CAPACITY_LEVEL
[BATTERY] power_supply_leds: use kasprintf
[BATTERY] Every file should include the headers containing the prototypes for its global functions.
nfs@lists.sourceforge.net is being decommissioned.
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
New driver for wireless RNDIS devices. So far only known chip that uses
wireless RNDIS is Broadcom 4320. Driver detects all RNDIS devices that
have RNDIS wireless physical medium. At least following devices are
detected:
Buffalo WLI-U2-KG125S
U.S. Robotics USR5421
Belkin F5D7051
Linksys WUSB54GSv2
Linksys WUSB54GSC
Asus WL169gE
Eminent EM4045
BT Voyager 1055
Linksys WUSB54GSv1
U.S. Robotics USR5420
BUFFALO WLI-USB-G54
Signed-off-by: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add myself as a point of contact for the ALSA SoC subsystem and add a
reference to the development GIT tree.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
add ath5k wireless driver
Portions of this driver are covered by one or both of the ISC and
3-clause BSD licenses. Specific license information is cited at the top
of each file.
Acked-by and Signed-off-by information is collected from individual
patches as collected in the wireless-2.6 tree prior to upstream
submission.
Acked-by: Matthew W. S. Bell <mentor@madwifi.org>
Acked-by: Michael Taylor <mike.taylor@apprion.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@softwarefreedom.org>
Signed-off-by: Bruno Randolf <bruno@thinktube.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Francesco Gringoli <francesco.gringoli@ing.unibs.it>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Karen Sandler <karen@softwarefreedom.org>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Norwood <norwood@softwarefreedom.org>
Signed-off-by: Nick Kossifidis <mickflemm@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Fontana <fontana@softwarefreedom.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Meis <meis@nets.rwth-aachen.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
This patch adds me as maintainer of the RDC R6040 Fast Ethernet driver.
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@telecomint.eu>
--
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Also fix Zhu Yi's name.
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
CC: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Add an entry in MAINTAINERS for rc80211-pid.
Cc: Mattias Nissler <mattias.nissler@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Schedule bcm43xx for for removal in the 2.6.26 development window.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds entries in the CREDITS and MAINTAINERS file for CAN.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver.hartkopp@volkswagen.de>
Signed-off-by: Urs Thuermann <urs.thuermann@volkswagen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (200 commits)
[SCSI] usbstorage: use last_sector_bug flag universally
[SCSI] libsas: abstract STP task status into a function
[SCSI] ultrastor: clean up inline asm warnings
[SCSI] aic7xxx: fix firmware build
[SCSI] aacraid: fib context lock for management ioctls
[SCSI] ch: remove forward declarations
[SCSI] ch: fix device minor number management bug
[SCSI] ch: handle class_device_create failure properly
[SCSI] NCR5380: fix section mismatch
[SCSI] sg: fix /proc/scsi/sg/devices when no SCSI devices
[SCSI] IB/iSER: add logical unit reset support
[SCSI] don't use __GFP_DMA for sense buffers if not required
[SCSI] use dynamically allocated sense buffer
[SCSI] scsi.h: add macro for enclosure bit of inquiry data
[SCSI] sd: add fix for devices with last sector access problems
[SCSI] fix pcmcia compile problem
[SCSI] aacraid: add Voodoo Lite class of cards.
[SCSI] aacraid: add new driver features flags
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.00-k7.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Issue correct MBC_INITIALIZE_FIRMWARE command.
...
we are planning a major rewrite of the zfcp driver,
meaning that a lot of patches will hit the mailing-list in the near future.
Since I can't support this additional work-load along with my other
responsibilities we are shifting the maintainership to
Christof Schmitt as the maintainer and
Martin Peschke as the co-maintainer.
Please support the two in providing us a new and more stable
zfcp environment.
Thanks
Swen
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Unfortunately Jeb decided to move away from our group. We wish Jeb
good luck with his new group!
Reordered people a bit so most active team members are on top.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
My Unix email account is being discontinued at end of Q1 '08.
Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
L: entries should be email addresses
Change L:http entries to W:http
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds an entry for the Userspace I/O framework to MAINTAINERS.
Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add Dan Williams as maintainer for libertas driver.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Nick Piggin