This allows arbitrary firmware files to be included in the static kernel
where the firmware loader can find them without requiring userspace to
be alive.
(Updated and CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR added with lots of help from
Johannes Berg).
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Some drivers have their own hacks to bypass the kernel's firmware loader
and build their firmware into the kernel; this renders those unnecessary.
Other drivers don't use the firmware loader at all, because they always
want the firmware to be available. This allows them to start using the
firmware loader.
A third set of drivers already use the firmware loader, but can't be
used without help from userspace, which sometimes requires an initrd.
This allows them to work in a static kernel.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
In preparation for supporting firmware files linked into the static
kernel, make fw->data const to ensure that users aren't modifying it (so
that we can pass a pointer to the original in-kernel copy, rather than
having to copy it).
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Fix a const pointer usage warning in the Digigram miXart soundcard driver. A
const pointer is being passed to copy_from_user() to load the firmware into.
This is okay in this case because the function has allocated the firmware
struct itself, but the const qualifier is part of the firmware struct - so the
patch casts the const away.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Fix a const pointer usage warning in the Digigram pcxhr compatible soundcard
driver. A const pointer is being passed to copy_from_user() to load the
firmware into. This is okay in this case because the function has allocated
the firmware struct itself, but the const qualifier is part of the firmware
struct - so the patch casts the const away.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Fix a const pointer to non-const pointer assignment error in the Conexant
cx23418 MPEG encoder driver.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Fix an assignment of a const pointer to a non-const pointer in moxa_load_fw().
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Fix a const pointer usage warning in the Digigram VX soundcard driver. A
const pointer is being passed to copy_from_user() to load the firmware into.
This is okay in this case because the function has allocated the firmware
struct itself, but the const qualifier will be part of the firmware
struct - so the patch casts the const away.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Standardise both in-kernel and loaded firmware to be stored as
little-endian instead of host-endian.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
The maestro3 driver is byte-swapping its firmware to be host-endian in
advance, when it doesn't seem to be necessary -- we could just use
le16_to_cpu() as we load it.
Doing that means that we need to switch the in-tree firmware to be
little-endian too.
Take the least intrusive way of doing this, which is to switch the
existing snd_m3_convert_from_le() function to convert _to_ little-endian
instead, and use it on the in-tree firmware instead of the loaded
firmware. It's a bit suboptimal but doesn't matter much right now
because we're about to remove the special cases for the in-tree version
anyway.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
...which means allocating our own copy when we want to modify it.
(stupid thinko fixed by mkrufky)
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
There is dma_mask in of_device upon of_platform_device_create()
but we don't actually set coherent_dma_mask. This may cause weird
behavior of USB subsystem using of_device USB host drivers.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The change to iwch_provider.c in commit f4e91eb4 ("IB: convert struct
class_device to struct device") undid the fix done in commit 7f049f2f
("RDMA/cxgb3: Hold rtnl_lock() around ethtool get_drvinfo call"). It
removed the calls to rtnl_lock() that serialized the iw_cxgb3 ethtool
ops calls into the cxgb3 driver. This locking is needed to avoid
messing up the internal state of the cxgb3 driver.
Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
On 2.6.26-rc9, the commit 05946bce83
("fsl_diu_fb: fix build with CONFIG_PM=y, plus fix some warnings")
breaks its previous fix f969c5672b
("fsl-diu-db: compile fix")
This patch reverts the broken part.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'hotfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
SUNRPC: Fix an rpcbind breakage for the case of IPv6 lookups
SUNRPC: Fix a double-free in rpcbind
NFS: Fix readdir cache invalidation
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] Fix 32bit kernels on R4k with 128 byte cache line size
[MIPS] Atlas, decstation: Fix section mismatches triggered by defconfigs
With the removal of struct file from the xattr code,
reiserfs_file_release() isn't used anymore, so the prealloc isn't
discarded. This causes hangs later down the line.
This patch adds it to reiserfs_delete_inode. In most cases it will be a
no-op due to it already having been called, but will avoid hangs with
xattrs.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now that rpcb_next_version has been split into an IPv4 version and an IPv6
version, we Oops when rpcb_call_async attempts to look up the IPv6-specific
RPC procedure in rpcb_next_version.
Fix the Oops simply by having rpcb_getport_async pass the correct RPC
procedure as an argument.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
It is wrong to be freeing up the rpcbind arguments if the call to
rpcb_call_async() fails, since they should already have been freed up by
rpcb_map_release().
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
invalidate_inode_pages2_range() takes page offset arguments, not byte
ranges.
Another thought is that individual pages might perhaps get evicted by VM
pressure, in which case we might perhaps want to re-read not only the
evicted page, but all subsequent pages too (in case the server returns
more/less data per page so that the alignment of the next entry
changes). We should therefore remove the condition that we only do this on
page->index==0.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
David Woodhouse