Ulrich Kunitz [Tue, 29 Aug 2006 22:50:29 +0000 (23:50 +0100)]
[PATCH] zd1211rw: Fix of signal strength and quality measurement
Caused by a documentation issue I mixed up fields of the zd_status
structure. This patch fixes it and improves also the average
computation, which is now using only measurements of packets sent
by the access point.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
usbtouchscreen: fix ITM data reading
USB: New device ID for ftdi_sio usb serial driver
USB: Support for USB20SVGA-WH & USB20SVGA-DG
USB: hid-core.c: fix duplicate USB_DEVICE_ID_GTCO_404
Steve Grubb [Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:06:20 +0000 (14:06 -0400)]
[PATCH] fix ppid bug in 2.6.18 kernel
Hello,
During some troubleshooting, I found that ppid was accidentally omitted from
the legacy rule section. This resulted in EINVAL for any rule with ppid sent
with AUDIT_ADD.
Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 3778/1: S3C24XX: remove changelogs from include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410 [simtec]
[ARM] 3783/1: S3C2412: fix IRQ_EINT0 to IRQ_EINT3 handling
[ARM] 3779/1: S3C24XX: remove changelogs from include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410 [left]
[ARM] 3777/1: S3C24XX: remove changelogs from include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410 [regs-*.h]
[ARM] 3776/1: S3C24XX: remove changelogs from include/asm-arm/arch-s3c2410
[ARM] 3775/1: S3C24XX: do not add same sysdev_driver to two classes
[ARM] 3774/1: S3C24XX: SMDK2413 has two machine IDs
[ARM] 3773/1: Add the HWCAP_VFP bit for the ARM926 CPUs
[ARM] 3772/1: Fix compilation error in mach-ixp4xx/nslu2*
[ARM] 3767/1: S3C24XX: remove changelog comments from arch/arm/mach-s3c2410
[ARM] 3766/1: Fix typo in ARM _raw_read_trylock
Alan Cox [Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:45:07 +0000 (14:45 +0100)]
[PATCH] Fix 2.6.18-rc6 IDE breakage, add missing ident needed for current VIA boards
There are two changes here. The first reverses the broken PCI_DEVICE
conversion back to the old format. The second adds a missing PCI ID so
you can actually boot 2.6.18 on 2 month old VIA motherboards (right now
only 2.6.18-mm works).
CC'd to Jeff to check the PCI ident but its a) in several distro kernels
and b) in 2.6.18-mm [twice ??]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andy Gospodarek [Fri, 8 Sep 2006 12:41:48 +0000 (08:41 -0400)]
[PATCH] cleanup unnecessary forcedeth printk
This removes unnecessary messages that show up every time I put my
ethernet card in promiscuous mode. I'm already getting notification
from the networking layer, I don't need notification from the driver as
well.
There are probably other drivers that do this as well -- I'll look
around and see what I can find.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
[PATCH] Defer tulip_select_media() to process context
Move tulip_select_media() processing to a workqueue, instead of
delaying in interrupt context, edited by Kyle McMartin to use kevent
thread, instead of creating its own workqueue.
Andres Salomon [Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:51:05 +0000 (08:51 -0400)]
[libata] sata_mv: errata check buglet fix
Fix a buglet; the errata check below this code is assuming the value in
the sstatus variable is what was pulled out of the SCR_STATUS register.
However, the status checks in the timeout loop clobber everything
but the first 4 bits of sstatus, so the errata checks are invalid.
This patch changes it to not clobber SStatus.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Ben Dooks [Sat, 9 Sep 2006 18:44:50 +0000 (19:44 +0100)]
[ARM] 3775/1: S3C24XX: do not add same sysdev_driver to two classes
Patch from Ben Dooks
The s3c244x-irq.c code makes the mistake of adding
the same drive to two different sys-classes. This
causes the class lists to become corrupted and the
suspend code to OOPS.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Jack Steiner [Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:35:57 +0000 (11:35 -0500)]
[IA64] SN fix for cpu hotplug/kexec
The sn_cpu_init() is required for cpu initialization on SN platforms.
Change __init to __cpuinit so that the function is not freed with init code/data.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Jack Steiner [Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:34:47 +0000 (11:34 -0500)]
[IA64] Save register stack contents on cpu start
The SN PROM uses the register stack in the slave loop. The contents
must be preserved for the OS to return to the slave loop via offlining
a cpu or for kexec. A 'flushrs" is needed to force the stack to be written
to memory prior to changing bspstore.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Andreas Schwab [Mon, 4 Sep 2006 19:56:09 +0000 (21:56 +0200)]
[IA64] Unwire set/get_robust_list
The syscalls set/get_robust_list must not be wired up until
futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic is implemented. Otherwise the kernel will
hang in handle_futex_death.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
[PATCH] NFS: large non-page-aligned direct I/O clobbers memory
The logic in nfs_direct_read_schedule and nfs_direct_write_schedule can
allow data->npages to be one larger than rpages. This causes a page
pointer to be written beyond the end of the pagevec in nfs_read_data (or
nfs_write_data).
Fix this by making nfs_(read|write)_alloc() calculate the size of the
pagevec array, and initialise data->npages.
Also get rid of the redundant argument to nfs_commit_alloc().
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Fri, 8 Sep 2006 16:48:38 +0000 (09:48 -0700)]
[PATCH] invalidate_complete_page() race fix
If a CPU faults this page into pagetables after invalidate_mapping_pages()
checked page_mapped(), invalidate_complete_page() will still proceed to remove
the page from pagecache. This leaves the page-faulting process with a
detached page. If it was MAP_SHARED then file data loss will ensue.
Fix that up by checking the page's refcount after taking tree_lock.
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Looking at the code, it looks like it's not handle HOLE correctly. It ends
up returning -EIO. Here is the patch to fix it.
If we really want to be paranoid, we can allow return values 0 (HOLE), 1
(we asked for one block) and return -EIO for more than 1 block. But I
really don't see a reason for doing it - all we need is the block# here.
(doesn't matter how many blocks are mapped).
ext3_get_blocks_handle() returns number of blocks it mapped. It returns 0
in case of HOLE. ext3_getblk() should handle HOLE properly (currently its
dumping warning stack and returning -EIO).
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
David Wang [Fri, 8 Sep 2006 16:47:51 +0000 (09:47 -0700)]
[PATCH] sis5513: add SiS south bridge ID 0x966 and 0x968
New SiS south bridge device ID is 0x966.
Next coming product will be 0x968. (Will be released in Q4, this year)
We don't make any updates to the IDE controller.
Signed-off-by: David Wang <touch@sis.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Thomas Gleixner [Fri, 8 Sep 2006 16:47:15 +0000 (09:47 -0700)]
[PATCH] Use the correct restart option for futex_lock_pi
The current implementation of futex_lock_pi returns -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK
in case that the lock operation has been interrupted by a signal. This
results in a return of -EINTR to userspace in case there is an handler for
the signal. This is wrong, because userspace expects that the lock
function does not return in any case of signal delivery.
This was not caught by my insufficient test case, but triggered a nasty
userspace problem in an high load application scenario. Unfortunately also
glibc does not check for this invalid return value.
Using -ERSTARTNOINTR makes sure, that the interrupted syscall is restarted.
The restart block related code can be safely removed, as the possible
timeout argument is an absolute time value.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This prevents cross-region mappings on IA64 and SPARC which could lead
to system crash. They were correctly trapped for normal mmap() calls,
but not for the kernel internal calls generated by executable loading.
This code just moves the architecture-specific cross-region checks into
an arch-specific "arch_mmap_check()" macro, and defines that for the
architectures that needed it (ia64, sparc and sparc64).
Architectures that don't have any special requirements can just ignore
the new cross-region check, since the mmap() code will just notice on
its own when the macro isn't defined.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org> Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
[ Cleaned up to not affect architectures that don't need it ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch is support USB20SVGA-WH & USB20SVGA-DG of the sisusb device.
As for this device, Device ID is different according to the color of the
product. A blue device is supported. However, a green, white device is
not supported.
http://www.lubic.jp/uv_method.html ( Japanese only ) .
Green, white USB20SVGA comes to work by applying the patch .
And, it be able to use three USB20SVGA( Blue , Green , White ).
On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 01:58:18AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>...
> Changes since 2.6.18-rc4-mm3:
>...
> +gregkh-usb-hid-core.c-adds-all-gtco-calcomp-digitizers-and-interwrite-school-products-to-blacklist.patch
>...
> USB tree updates.
>...
The GNU C compiler spotted the following bug:
<-- snip -->
...
CC drivers/usb/input/hid-core.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.18-rc5-mm1/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c:1446:1: warning: "USB_DEVICE_ID_GTCO_404" redefined
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.18-rc5-mm1/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c:1445:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
...
<-- snip -->
This patch fixes this cut'n'paste error.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Pierre Ossman [Thu, 7 Sep 2006 15:01:30 +0000 (16:01 +0100)]
[MMC] Always use a sector size of 512 bytes
Both MMC and SD specifications specify (although a bit unclearly in
the MMC case) that a sector size of 512 bytes must always be
supported by the card.
Cards can report larger "native" size than this, and cards >= 2 GB
even must do so. Most other readers use 512 bytes even for these
cards. We should do the same to be compatible.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Pavel Pisa [Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:53:29 +0000 (15:53 +0100)]
[ARM] 3751/1: i.MX/MX1 SD/MMC use 512 bytes request for SCR read
Patch from Pavel Pisa
This is another approach to SDHC deficiency workaround.
It seems, that previous solution based on 16 bytes (FIFO length size)
read is still timing sensitive on genirq and fully preemptive kernels.
The new solution is backuped by M9328 UM statement, that only 512 byte
block are working properly and by 2.4.26 FreeScale's SDHC code.
Jay Monkman reports significant improvement on code based
on this driver after applying this change on MX21 as well.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
David Brownell [Sun, 3 Sep 2006 13:43:33 +0000 (06:43 -0700)]
[MMC] constify mmc_host_ops
Let drivers constify MMC host method operations tables,
moving them from ".data" to ".rodata".
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] 3772/1: Fix compilation error in mach-ixp4xx/nslu2*
Patch from Martin Michlmayr
Include linux/irq.h in the nslu2 code in order to avoid the following
compiler error:
CC arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/nslu2-power.o
arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/nslu2-power.c: In function 'nslu2_power_init':
arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/nslu2-power.c:53: warning: implicit declaration of function 'set_irq_type'
arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/nslu2-power.c:53: error: 'IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/nslu2-power.c:53: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/nslu2-power.c:53: error: for each function it appears in.)
arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/nslu2-power.c:54: error: 'IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[5]: *** [arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/nslu2-power.o] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
[PATCH] Move linux/device.h include in linux/atmdev.h to #ifdef __KERNEL__ section
linux/device.h header is not included in the David Woodhouse's
kernel-headers git tree which is used for userspace kernel headers. Which
results in compile errors when building iproute2. Attached patch moves
linux/device.h include under the #ifdef __KERNEL__ section.
Signed-off-by: Ismail Donmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Pavel Machek [Wed, 6 Sep 2006 07:03:43 +0000 (00:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] prevent swsusp with PAE
PAE + swsusp results in hard-to-debug crash about 50% of time during
resume. Cause is known, fix needs to be ported from x86-64 (but we can't
make it to 2.6.18, and I'd like this to be worked around in 2.6.18).
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Thomas Gleixner [Wed, 6 Sep 2006 07:03:42 +0000 (00:03 -0700)]
[PATCH] prevent timespec/timeval to ktime_t overflow
Frank v. Waveren pointed out that on 64bit machines the timespec to
ktime_t conversion might overflow. This is also true for timeval to
ktime_t conversions. This breaks a "sleep inf" on 64bit machines.
While a timespec/timeval with tx.sec = MAX_LONG is valid by specification
the internal representation of ktime_t is based on nanoseconds. The
conversion of seconds to nanoseconds overflows for seconds values >=
(MAX_LONG / NSEC_PER_SEC).
Check the seconds argument to the conversion and limit it to the maximum
time which can be represented by ktime_t.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Frank v Waveren <fvw@var.cx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The skge driver has much better performance if transmit done is handled in
NAPI softirq. Change from doing transmit locking in driver (LLTX) and
use device lock.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
The driver needs to access the IRQ status inside of lock to avoid
races with other places changing IRQ mask etc. This may be related
to some of the SMP bugs reported against skge in kernel bugzilla.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Brice Goglin [Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:32:59 +0000 (01:32 -0400)]
[PATCH] myri10ge: improve firmware selection
Improve the firmware selection by adding 2 cases where we should use the
optimized firmware:
* when the actual PCIe link width is lower than 8x.
* when the board is plugged to one of the new Intel PCIe chipsets that
are known to provide aligned PCIe completions.
The patch actually raises two concerns:
* We might want to add a generic PCI function to get the PCIe link width since
some other drivers (at least ipath) do the same. But we probably do not want
to add a new function for every PCIe capability. I will probably look at it
and discuss it on linux-pci in the future.
* As requested during the submission, the PCI ids of chipsets that are known to
provided aligned completion are defined in the myri10ge code. If we keep adding
new ones, it might become better to move them to pciids.h.
But, this sort of quirk to detect these chipsets are very specific to our NIC,
I don't think it is worth moving it to the PCI core until somebody else really
needs it.
Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <brice@myri.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Ayaz Abdulla [Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:35:41 +0000 (17:35 -0400)]
[PATCH] forcedeth: decouple vlan and rx checksum dependency
This patch decouples the dependency between the rx checksum feature and
vlan feature. This is done by ignoring the checksum information if the
user has disabled rx checksum when vlan is enabled.
Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
[PATCH] powerpc: Fix typo in powermac platform functions
New sparse caught that typo which could have caused erratic hardware
behaviour on some machines if the platform functions are used by the
firmware to change bits in some FCR registers.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial:
[SERIAL] 8250: constify some serial structs
[SERIAL] Make uart_match_port() work with all memory mapped UARTs
[PATCH] eligible_child: remove an obsolete ->tgid check
It is not possible to find a sub-thread in ->children/->ptrace_children
lists, ptrace_attach() does not allow to attach to sub-threads.
Even if it was possible to ptrace the task from the same thread group,
we can't allow to release ->group_leader while there are others (ptracer)
threads in the same group.
Resolve ARM1136 VIPT non-aliasing cache coherency issues observed when
using ptrace to set breakpoints and cleanup copy_{to,from}_user_page()
while we're here as requested by Russell King because "it's also far
too heavy on non-v6 CPUs".
NOTES:
1. Only access_process_vm() calls copy_{to,from}_user_page().
2. access_process_vm() calls get_user_pages() to pin down the "page".
3. get_user_pages() calls flush_dcache_page(page) which ensures cache
coherency between kernel and userspace mappings of "page". However
flush_dcache_page(page) may not invalidate I-Cache over this range
for all cases, specifically, I-Cache is not invalidated for the VIPT
non-aliasing case. So memory is consistent between kernel and user
space mappings of "page" but I-Cache may still be hot over this
range. IOW, we don't have to worry about flush_cache_page() before
memcpy().
4. Now, for the copy_to_user_page() case, after memcpy(), we must flush
the caches so memory is consistent with kernel cache entries and
invalidate the I-Cache if this mm region is executable. We don't
need to do anything after memcpy() for the copy_from_user_page()
case since kernel cache entries will be invalidated via the same
process above if we access "page" again. The flush_ptrace_access()
function (borrowed from SPARC64 implementation) is added to handle
cache flushing after memcpy() for the copy_to_user_page() case.
Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
uhci-hcd: fix list access bug
USB: Support for ELECOM LD-USB20 in pegasus
USB: Add VIA quirk fixup for VT8235 usb2
USB: rtl8150_disconnect() needs tasklet_kill()
USB Storage: unusual_devs.h for Sony Ericsson M600i
USB Storage: Remove the finecam3 unusual_devs entry
UHCI: don't stop at an Iso error
usb gadget: g_ether spinlock recursion fix
USB: add all wacom device to hid-core.c blacklist
hid-core.c: Adds all GTCO CalComp Digitizers and InterWrite School Products to blacklist
USB floppy drive SAMSUNG SFD-321U/EP detected 8 times
Since vma->vm_pgoff is in units of smallpages, VMAs for huge pages have the
lower HPAGE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT bits always cleared, which results in badd
offsets to the interleave functions. Take this difference from small pages
into account when calculating the offset. This does add a 0-bit shift into
the small-page path (via alloc_page_vma()), but I think that is negligible.
Also add a BUG_ON to prevent the offset from growing due to a negative
right-shift, which probably shouldn't be allowed anyways.
Tested on an 8-memory node ppc64 NUMA box and got the interleaving I
expected.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Problems fixed are:
- Call to default_hwif_mmiops() was not being done until _after_
first IO operation, resulting in the first IO operation being
done as a port IO op, instead of memio.
- request_region() calls needed to be request_mem_region()
- Incomplete error case handling.
- Non-usage of ioremap() and __iomem.
Signed-off-by: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The port to genirq & the new powerpc interrupt model in 2.6.18 introduced a
bug in the legacy PowerMac PIC code (used on older machines) because of a
typo potentially causing hangs due to interrupt storms. This fixes it,
along with a performance issue causing us to do spurrious retriggers after
masking an interrupt.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The via-pmu backlight code (introduced in 2.6.18) has various design issues
causing crashes on machines using it like the old Wallstreet powerbook
(Michael, the author, never managed to test on these and I just got my hand
on one of those old beasts).
This fixes them by no longer trying to hijack the backlight device of the
frontmost framebuffer (causing that framebuffer to crash) but having it's
own local bits instead. Might look weird but it's better that way on those
old machines, at least as a last-minute fix for 2.6.18. We might rework
the whole thing later. This patch also changes the way it gets notified of
sleep and wakeup in order to properly shut the backlight down on sleep and
bring it back on wakeup.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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