Ayaz Abdulla [Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:32:01 +0000 (17:32 -0500)]
[PATCH] forcedeth: add recoverable error support
This patch adds support to recover from a previously fatal MAC error. In
the past the MAC would be hung on an internal fatal error. On new
chipsets, the MAC has the ability to enter a non-fatal state and allow
the driver to re-init it.
Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Ayaz Abdulla [Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:31:51 +0000 (17:31 -0500)]
[PATCH] forcedeth: add mgmt unit support
This patch adds support for the mgmt unit in certain chipsets. The MAC
and the mgmt unit share the PHY and therefore proper intialization
procedures are needed for them to maintain coexistense.
Signed-Off-By: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
The PDQ DMA engine requires a different byte-swapping mode for big-endian
hosts; also the MAC address which is read from a register through PIO has
to be byte-swapped. These changes have been verified with DEFPA-DC (PCI)
boards and a Broadcom BCM91250A (MIPS CPU based) host.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Add a new dynamic itr algorithm, with 2 modes, and make it the default
operation mode. This greatly reduces latency and increases small packet
performance, at the "cost" of some CPU utilization. Bulk traffic
throughput is unaffected.
The driver can limit the amount of interrupts per second that the
adapter will generate for incoming packets. It does this by writing a
value to the adapter that is based on the maximum amount of interrupts
that the adapter will generate per second.
Setting InterruptThrottleRate to a value greater or equal to 100 will
program the adapter to send out a maximum of that many interrupts per
second, even if more packets have come in. This reduces interrupt
load on the system and can lower CPU utilization under heavy load,
but will increase latency as packets are not processed as quickly.
The default behaviour of the driver previously assumed a static
InterruptThrottleRate value of 8000, providing a good fallback value
for all traffic types,but lacking in small packet performance and
latency. The hardware can handle many more small packets per second
however, and for this reason an adaptive interrupt moderation algorithm
was implemented.
Since 7.3.x, the driver has two adaptive modes (setting 1 or 3) in
which it dynamically adjusts the InterruptThrottleRate value based on
the traffic that it receives. After determining the type of incoming
traffic in the last timeframe, it will adjust the InterruptThrottleRate
to an appropriate value for that traffic.
The algorithm classifies the incoming traffic every interval into
classes. Once the class is determined, the InterruptThrottleRate
value is adjusted to suit that traffic type the best. There are
three classes defined: "Bulk traffic", for large amounts of packets
of normal size; "Low latency", for small amounts of traffic and/or
a significant percentage of small packets; and "Lowest latency",
for almost completely small packets or minimal traffic.
In dynamic conservative mode, the InterruptThrottleRate value is
set to 4000 for traffic that falls in class "Bulk traffic". If
traffic falls in the "Low latency" or "Lowest latency" class, the
InterruptThrottleRate is increased stepwise to 20000. This default
mode is suitable for most applications.
For situations where low latency is vital such as cluster or
grid computing, the algorithm can reduce latency even more when
InterruptThrottleRate is set to mode 1. In this mode, which operates
the same as mode 3, the InterruptThrottleRate will be increased
stepwise to 70000 for traffic in class "Lowest latency".
Setting InterruptThrottleRate to 0 turns off any interrupt moderation
and may improve small packet latency, but is generally not suitable
for bulk throughput traffic.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Cc: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Jeff Kirsher [Wed, 1 Nov 2006 16:48:02 +0000 (08:48 -0800)]
e1000: rename ICH8 flash macros
ICH8 will soon be followed by newer chipsets bearing the same acronym,
thus we remove the '8' and make it independent of the version number in
the platform name.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Add a netif_wake/start_queue counter to the ethtool statistics to indicated
to the user that their transmit ring could be too small for their workload.
This memsetting was added in a paranoid rage debugging TX hangs, but
are no longer of importance. We can beef up the performance quite a
bit removing them. Make sure to fill in next_to_watch to allow this.
Stefano Brivio [Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:18:11 +0000 (23:18 -0500)]
[PATCH] bcm43xx: add PCI-E code
The current bcm43xx driver does not contain code to handle PCI-E interfaces
such as the BCM4311 and BCM4312. This patch, originally written by Stefano
Brivio adds the necessary code to enable these interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Alexey Dobriyan [Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:45:47 +0000 (14:45 -0700)]
[PATCH] prism54: use BUILD_BUG_ON
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Holden Karau [Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:45:33 +0000 (14:45 -0700)]
[PATCH] atmel: output signal strength information
Output signal strength information as part of iwlist scan - before it did
not output any signal strength related information.
Signed-off-by: Holden Karau <holden@pigscanfly.ca> Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Dmitry Torokhov [Sun, 8 Oct 2006 04:38:14 +0000 (00:38 -0400)]
[PATCH] prism54: fix potential race in reset scheduling
NET: prism54 - fix potential race in reset scheduling
There appears to be a race in reset scheduling logic - thread
responsible for reseting the interface should clear "reset
pending" flag before restarting the queue, otherwise timeout
handler might not schedule another reset even if it is needed.
This race is mostly theoretical as far as I can see but a race
nonetheless.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Larry Finger [Tue, 3 Oct 2006 23:49:32 +0000 (18:49 -0500)]
[PATCH] ieee80211: Drop and count duplicate data frames to remove 'replay detected' log messages
In the SoftMAC version of the IEEE 802.11 stack, not all duplicate messages are
detected. For the most part, there is no difficulty; however for TKIP and CCMP
encryption, the duplicates result in a "replay detected" log message where the
received and previous values of the TSC are identical. This change adds a new
variable to the ieee80211_device structure that holds the 'seq_ctl' value for
the previous frame. When a new frame repeats the value, the frame is dropped and
the appropriate counter is incremented.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Daniel Drake [Wed, 27 Sep 2006 02:50:31 +0000 (03:50 +0100)]
[PATCH] ieee80211: Move IV/ICV stripping into ieee80211_rx
This patch adds a host_strip_iv_icv flag to ieee80211 which indicates that
ieee80211_rx should strip the IV/ICV/other security features from the payload.
This saves on some memmove() calls in the driver and seems like something that
belongs in the stack as it can be used by bcm43xx, ipw2200, and zd1211rw
I will submit the ipw2200 patch separately as it needs testing.
This patch also adds some sensible variable reuse (idx vs keyidx) in
ieee80211_rx
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Larry Finger [Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:33:20 +0000 (15:33 -0500)]
[PATCH] bcm43xx: output proper link quality with scans
The bcm43xx-softmac driver fails to set two quantities needed for
iwlist to compute wireless quality when scanning. As a result, userland
programs using the quality to determine the best connection fail.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Al Viro [Mon, 9 Oct 2006 23:19:36 +0000 (00:19 +0100)]
[PATCH] beginning of 8390 fixes - generic and arm/etherh
etherh and a handful of other odd drivers use different macros when building
8390.c. Since we generate a single 8390.o and then link with it, in any
config with both oddball and normal 8390-based driver we will end up with
breakage in at least one of them. Solution: take most of 8390.c into
lib8390.c and have 8390.c, etherh.c and the rest of oddballs #include it.
Helper macros are taken from 8390.h to whoever includes lib8390.c. That
way odd drivers get separate instances of compiled 8390 stuff and stop
stepping on each other's toes. 8390.h gets cleaned up - we don't have
the cascade of ifdefs in there and are left with the stuff that can be
used by any 8390-based driver. Current problems are exactly because of
that cascade - we attempt to choose the set of helpers by looking at config
and that, of course, doesn't work well when we have several sets needed
by various drivers in our config.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Eric Sesterhenn [Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:33:28 +0000 (14:33 -0700)]
[PATCH] Remove unnecessary check in drivers/net/depca.c
This was spotted by coverity (cid #793). All callers dereference dev
before calling this functions, and we dereference it earlier in the
function, when initializing lp.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Francois Romieu [Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:33:27 +0000 (14:33 -0700)]
[PATCH] forcedeth: power management support
Tobias Diedrich <ranma@tdiedrich.de> sayeth:
Vanilla forcedeth doesn't seem to support suspend and an ifdown/up-cycle is
needed to get it working again after suspend. Francois Romieu's "Awfully
experimental" patch is working just fine for me (with message signalled
interrupts disabled) and has survived quite a few suspend/resume cycles.
So I'd very much like to see (at least partial, with msi disabled)
suspend support for forcedeth in mainline.
This patch fixes a couple of problems discovered with interrupt handling
in the phylib core, namely:
1. The driver uses timer and workqueue calls, but does not include
<linux/timer.h> nor <linux/workqueue.h>.
2. The driver uses schedule_work() for handling interrupts, but does not
make sure any pending work scheduled thus has been completed before
driver's structures get freed from memory. This is especially
important as interrupts may keep arriving if the line is shared with
another PHY.
The solution is to ignore phy_interrupt() calls if the reported device
has already been halted and calling flush_scheduled_work() from
phy_stop_interrupts() (but guarded with current_is_keventd() in case
the function has been called through keventd from the MAC device's
close call to avoid a deadlock on the netlink lock).
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
patch-mips-2.6.18-20060920-phy-irq-16 Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
[PATCH] 2.6.18: sb1250-mac: Missing inclusions from <linux/phy.h>
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>
This patch adds support for interrupt-driven operation of the Broadcom
Gigabit Ethernet PHYs. I have included device IDs for the parts used on
Broadcom SiByte evaluation boards; more can be added as a need arises.
They are apparently generally software-compatible with one another.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
patch-mips-2.6.18-20060920-broadcom-phy-15 Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 2 Dec 2006 04:55:21 +0000 (20:55 -0800)]
Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of 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:
[PATCH] Fix an offset error when reading the CS89x0 ADD_PORT register
[PATCH] spidernet: poor network performance
[PATCH] Spidernet: remove ETH_ZLEN check in earlier patch
[PATCH] bonding: fix an oops when slave device does not provide get_stats
[PATCH] drivers/net: SAA9730: Fix build error
Revert "[PATCH] zd1211rw: Removed unneeded packed attributes"
[PATCH] zd1211rw: Fix of a locking bug
[PATCH] softmac: remove netif_tx_disable when scanning
[PATCH] ieee80211: Fix kernel panic when QoS is enabled
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 2 Dec 2006 00:44:02 +0000 (16:44 -0800)]
Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus
* '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.
...
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 2 Dec 2006 00:43:42 +0000 (16:43 -0800)]
Merge branch 'for-2.6.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6
* 'for-2.6.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6:
SELinux: validate kernel object classes and permissions
SELinux: ensure keys constant in hashtab_search
SELinux: export object class and permission definitions
SELinux: remove current object class and permission validation mechanism
* 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
...
* 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
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
[CIFS] Fix timezone handling on stat to os/2
[CIFS] Incorrect hardlink count when original file is cached (oplocked)
Kay Sievers [Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:15:25 +0000 (12:15 +0100)]
Driver core: show drivers in /sys/module/
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>
This is almost a rewrite of the driver-model/platform.txt documentation;
the previous text was obsolete (for several years), evidently it never
got updated to match the change from being a PC "legacy_bus" to the more
widely used core bus for most embedded systems.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
David Brownell [Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:28:47 +0000 (23:28 -0800)]
Driver core: platform_driver_probe(), can save codespace
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>
Cornelia Huck [Mon, 20 Nov 2006 16:07:51 +0000 (17:07 +0100)]
driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.
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.
Thomas Maier [Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:17:47 +0000 (19:17 +0200)]
sysfs: sysfs_write_file() writes zero terminated data
since most of the files in sysfs are text files,
it would be nice, if the "store" function called
during sysfs_write_file() gets a zero terminated
string / data.
The current implementation seems not to ensure this.
(But only if it is the first time the zeroed buffer
page is allocated.)
So the buffer can be scanned by sscanf() easily,
for example.
This patch simply sets a \0 char behind the
data in buffer->page.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Heiko Carstens [Thu, 9 Nov 2006 03:46:09 +0000 (19:46 -0800)]
cpu topology: consider sysfs_create_group return value
Take return value of sysfs_create_group() into account. That function got
called in case of CPU_ONLINE notification. Since callbacks are not allowed
to fail on CPU_ONLINE notification do the sysfs group creation on
CPU_UP_PREPARE notification.
Also remember if creation succeeded in a bitmask. So it's possible to know
whether it's legal to call sysfs_remove_group or not.
In addition some other minor stuff:
- since CPU_UP_PREPARE might fail add CPU_UP_CANCELED handling as well.
- use hotcpu_notifier instead of register_hotcpu_notifier.
- #ifdef code that isn't needed in the !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU case.
Move the call to platform_notify_remove() to after the call to
bus_remove_device(), where it belongs. It's bogus to notify the platform
of removal while drivers are still attached to the device and possibly
still operating since the platform might use this callback to tear down
some resources used by the driver (ACPI bits, iommu table, ...)
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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>
Driver core: convert sound core to use struct device
Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.
It also makes the struct sound_card to show up as a "real" device
where all the different sound class devices are placed as childs
and different card attribute files can hang off of. /sys/class/sound is
still a flat directory, but the symlink targets of all devices belonging
to the same card, point the the /sys/devices tree below the new card
device object.
Thanks to Kay for the updates to this patch.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com> Acked-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.
Driver core: convert firmware code to use struct device
Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.
Driver core: convert mmc code to use struct device
Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.
Driver core: convert ppdev code to use struct device
Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.
Driver core: convert PPP code to use struct device
Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.
Driver core: convert cpuid code to use struct device
Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.
Driver core: convert msr code to use struct device
Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.
Driver core: convert raw device code to use struct device
Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.
Driver core: convert tty core to use struct device
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.
Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.
Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.
Kay Sievers [Thu, 14 Sep 2006 09:23:28 +0000 (11:23 +0200)]
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
Provide a way to support older versions of udev that are shipped in
older distros. If this option is disabled, it will also turn off the
compatible symlinks in sysfs that older programs might rely on.
When in doubt, or if running a distro older than 2006, say Yes here.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Kay Sievers [Sat, 7 Oct 2006 19:55:55 +0000 (21:55 +0200)]
Driver core: fix "driver" symlink timing
Create the "driver" link before the child device may be created by
the probing logic. This makes it possible for userspace (udev), to
determine the driver property of the parent device, at the time the
child device is created.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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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