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2016-12-13Merge tag 'char-misc-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-miscLinus Torvalds1-2/+1
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH: "Here's the big char/misc driver patches for 4.10-rc1. Lots of tiny changes over lots of "minor" driver subsystems, the largest being some new FPGA drivers. Other than that, a few other new drivers, but no new driver subsystems added for this kernel cycle, a nice change. All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (107 commits) uio-hv-generic: store physical addresses instead of virtual Tools: hv: kvp: configurable external scripts path uio-hv-generic: new userspace i/o driver for VMBus vmbus: add support for dynamic device id's hv: change clockevents unbind tactics hv: acquire vmbus_connection.channel_mutex in vmbus_free_channels() hyperv: Fix spelling of HV_UNKOWN mei: bus: enable non-blocking RX mei: fix the back to back interrupt handling mei: synchronize irq before initiating a reset. VME: Remove shutdown entry from vme_driver auxdisplay: ht16k33: select framebuffer helper modules MAINTAINERS: add git url for fpga fpga: Clarify how write_init works streaming modes fpga zynq: Fix incorrect ISR state on bootup fpga zynq: Remove priv->dev fpga zynq: Add missing \n to messages fpga: Add COMPILE_TEST to all drivers uio: pruss: add clk_disable() char/pcmcia: add some error checking in scr24x_read() ...
2016-11-16posix-timers: Make them configurableNicolas Pitre1-0/+1
Some embedded systems have no use for them. This removes about 25KB from the kernel binary size when configured out. Corresponding syscalls are routed to a stub logging the attempt to use those syscalls which should be enough of a clue if they were disabled without proper consideration. They are: timer_create, timer_gettime: timer_getoverrun, timer_settime, timer_delete, clock_adjtime, setitimer, getitimer, alarm. The clock_settime, clock_gettime, clock_getres and clock_nanosleep syscalls are replaced by simple wrappers compatible with CLOCK_REALTIME, CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_BOOTTIME only which should cover the vast majority of use cases with very little code. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> Cc: Edward Cree <ecree@solarflare.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1478841010-28605-7-git-send-email-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2016-11-10tile-srom: allow the driver to be built as a moduleChris Metcalf1-1/+1
The code was already configured that way, but the Kconfig file didn't support requesting it. A buglet caused a null pointer deref when unloading the module, but this commit also corrects that issue. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-10-28Move CONFIG_DEVKMEM default to nDave Young1-1/+0
Kconfig comment suggests setting it as "n" if in doubt thus move the default value to 'n'. Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-08-05Merge tag 'rtc-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linuxLinus Torvalds1-27/+1
Pull RTC updates from Alexandre Belloni: "RTC for 4.8 Cleanups: - huge cleanup of rtc-generic and char/genrtc this allowed to cleanup rtc-cmos, rtc-sh, rtc-m68k, rtc-powerpc and rtc-parisc - move mn10300 to rtc-cmos Subsystem: - fix wakealarms after hibernate - multiples fixes for rctest - simplify implementations of .read_alarm New drivers: - Maxim MAX6916 Drivers: - ds1307: fix weekday - m41t80: add wakeup support - pcf85063: add support for PCF85063A variant - rv8803: extend i2c fix and other fixes - s35390a: fix alarm reading, this fixes instant reboot after shutdown for QNAP TS-41x - s3c: clock fixes" * tag 'rtc-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux: (65 commits) rtc: rv8803: Clear V1F when setting the time rtc: rv8803: Stop the clock while setting the time rtc: rv8803: Always apply the I²C workaround rtc: rv8803: Fix read day of week rtc: rv8803: Remove the check for valid time rtc: rv8803: Kconfig: Indicate rx8900 support rtc: asm9260: remove .owner field for driver rtc: at91sam9: Fix missing spin_lock_init() rtc: m41t80: add suspend handlers for alarm IRQ rtc: m41t80: make it a real error message rtc: pcf85063: Add support for the PCF85063A device rtc: pcf85063: fix year range rtc: hym8563: in .read_alarm set .tm_sec to 0 to signal minute accuracy rtc: explicitly set tm_sec = 0 for drivers with minute accurancy rtc: s3c: Add s3c_rtc_{enable/disable}_clk in s3c_rtc_setfreq() rtc: s3c: Remove unnecessary call to disable already disabled clock rtc: abx80x: use devm_add_action_or_reset() rtc: m41t80: use devm_add_action_or_reset() rtc: fix a typo and reduce three empty lines to one rtc: s35390a: improve two comments in .set_alarm ...
2016-06-29powerpc/powernv: Add driver for operator panel on FSP machinesSuraj Jitindar Singh1-0/+14
Implement new character device driver to allow access from user space to the operator panel display present on IBM Power Systems machines with FSPs. This will allow status information to be presented on the display which is visible to a user. The driver implements a character buffer which a user can read/write by accessing the device (/dev/op_panel). This buffer is then displayed on the operator panel display. Any attempt to write past the last character position will have no effect and attempts to write more characters than the size of the display will be truncated. The device may only be accessed by a single process at a time. Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-06-26mn10300: use RTC_DRV_CMOS instead of CONFIG_RTCArnd Bergmann1-1/+1
nn10300 has a dependency on mc146818_get_time/mc146818_set_time, which we want to move from the mc146818rtc.h header into the rtc subsystem, which in turn is not usable on mn10300. This changes mn10300 to use the modern rtc-cmos driver instead of the old RTC driver, and that in turn lets us completely remove the read_persistent_clock/update_persistent_clock callbacks. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-06-04char/genrtc: remove the rest of the driverArnd Bergmann1-26/+0
No architecture uses the genrtc driver any more, so let's kill it off for good. This now also includes asm-generic/rtc.h, which is otherwise completely unused. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-06-04char/genrtc: remove powerpc supportArnd Bergmann1-2/+2
PowerPC is the last architecture using the GEN_RTC driver on some machines, but we can migrate them all to using the RTC_DRV_GENERIC driver instead now. This moves over the CONFIG_GEN_RTC option from drivers/char into arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig and makes it just select the replacement driver instead, for the only reason of not breaking existing defconfig and .config files that users may have. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-06-04char/genrtc: remove m68k supportArnd Bergmann1-1/+1
The asm/rtc.h header is only used for the old gen_rtc driver that has been replaced by rtc-generic. According to Geert Uytterhoeven, nobody has used the old driver on m68k for a long time, so we can now just remove the header file and disallow the driver in Kconfig. All files that used to include asm/rtc.h are now changed so they include the headers that were used implicitly through asm/rtc.h. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-06-04char/genrtc: remove parisc supportArnd Bergmann1-1/+1
This architecture selects RTC_CLASS unconditionally, so the GEN_RTC has not worked here for a long time. Now we can remove both the asm/rtc.h header and the Kconfig dependency for CONFIG_GEN_RTC. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-06-04char/genrtc: remove mn10300 supportArnd Bergmann1-1/+1
The genrtc driver serves no purpose on mn10300 because it drives the same hardware as the original rtc.c driver, and the newer rtc-generic.c or rtc-cmos.c drivers on architectures that use the asm-generic/rtc.h header. I assume it was initially only added for completeness when the mn10300 port was done, but the older rtc.c driver was always used instead. We can also stop include asm-generic/rtc.h now, because we just call mc146818_set_time() directly. It would be nice to change the architecture to use the rtc-cmos driver next, and remove support for the old rtc driver as well. [linux@roeck-us.net: Add missing include file to proc-init.c] Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-06-04char/genrtc: remove alpha supportArnd Bergmann1-1/+1
The genrtc driver serves no purpose on Alpha because it drives the same hardware as the original rtc.c driver, and the newer rtc-generic.c or rtc-cmos.c drivers on architectures that use the asm-generic/rtc.h header. The defconfig uses CONFIG_RTC=y, so this driver is not used by default. At one point it was used to abstract a quirk for the "Marvel" platform, but it does not do this any more after the code was moved into yet another driver in arch/alpha/kernel/rtc.c. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-06-04char/genrtc: x86: remove remnants of asm/rtc.hArnd Bergmann1-1/+1
Commit 3195ef59cb42 ("x86: Do full rtc synchronization with ntp") had the side-effect of unconditionally enabling the RTC_LIB symbol on x86, which in turn disables the selection of the CONFIG_RTC and CONFIG_GEN_RTC drivers that contain a two older implementations of the CONFIG_RTC_DRV_CMOS driver. This removes x86 from the list for genrtc, and changes all references to the asm/rtc.h header to instead point to the interfaces from linux/mc146818rtc.h. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-05-01char: Drop bogus dependency of DEVPORT on !M68KGeert Uytterhoeven1-1/+0
According to full-history-linux commit d3794f4fa7c3edc3 ("[PATCH] M68k update (part 25)"), port operations are allowed on m68k if CONFIG_ISA is defined. However, commit 153dcc54df826d2f ("[PATCH] mem driver: fix conditional on isa i/o support") accidentally changed an "||" into an "&&", disabling it completely on m68k. This logic was retained when introducing the DEVPORT symbol in commit 4f911d64e04a44c4 ("Make /dev/port conditional on config symbol"). Drop the bogus dependency on !M68K to fix this. Fixes: 153dcc54df826d2f ("[PATCH] mem driver: fix conditional on isa i/o support") Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Tested-by: Al Stone <ahs3@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-05-01char/rtc: replace blacklist with whitelistArnd Bergmann1-2/+1
Every new architecture has to add itself to the growing list of those that do not support the legacy PC RTC driver. This replaces the long list of architectures that don't support it with a shorter list of those that do. The list is taken from those architectures that have a non-empty asm/mc146818rtc.h header file and were not explicitly blacklisted or select RTC_LIB. Alpha and Loongson64 can already choose between this driver and an rtc-class based one. mn10300 is actually the only architecture now that still requires this driver, and that should be fairly easy to change to use rtc-cmos if we want to kill off rtc.ko for good. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-03-05char: genrtc: replace blacklist with whitelistArnd Bergmann1-1/+2
Every new architecture has to add itself to the growing list of those that do not support the old "generic" RTC driver. This replaces the long list of architectures that don't support it with a shorter list of those that do. The list is taken from those architectures that have a non-empty asm/rtc.h header file and were not explicitly blacklisted. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-24drivers/char: Remove msm_smd_pkt driverStephen Boyd1-8/+0
This code is no longer used now that mach-msm has been removed. Delete it. Cc: David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org> Cc: Bryan Huntsman <bryanh@codeaurora.org> Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-01-12drivers: char: mem: Make /dev/mem an optional deviceRob Ward1-0/+9
Adds Kconfig option CONFIG_DEVMEM that allows the /dev/mem device to be disabled. Option defaults to /dev/mem enabled. Signed-off-by: Rob Ward <robert.ward114@googlemail.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-09-23xillybus: Move out of stagingEli Billauer1-0/+2
This driver has been functional and stable throughout the year it has spent in the staging area. It has been patched for minor bugs, coding style issues and improvements during this period. This is the second submission of this move-out, after making several style improvements, as suggested by Dan Carpenter. Signed-off-by: Eli Billauer <eli.billauer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-04-16ttyprintk: Allow built as a moduleTakashi Iwai1-1/+1
The driver is well written to be used as a module, just the exit call is missing. Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-04-06sonypi: Simplify dependenciesJean Delvare1-1/+1
X86 && !64BIT is better expressed as X86_32. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
2014-02-07raw: set range for MAX_RAW_DEVSPaul Bolle1-0/+1
The Kconfig symbol MAX_RAW_DEVS is meant to be between 1 and 65536. But those boundaries are not enforced by its Kconfig entry. Note that MAX_RAW_DEVS is used to set MAX_RAW_MINORS in drivers/char/raw.c. If one would accidentally set MAX_RAW_DEVS to an invalid value, that invalid value will actually end up being used in raw_init(). So add an appropriate range to this Kconfig entry. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-11-13drivers/char/hpet.c: allow user controlled mmap for user processesPrarit Bhargava1-2/+8
The CONFIG_HPET_MMAP Kconfig option exposes the memory map of the HPET registers to userspace. The Kconfig help points out that in some cases this can be a security risk as some systems may erroneously configure the map such that additional data is exposed to userspace. This is a problem for distributions -- some users want the MMAP functionality but it comes with a significant security risk. In an effort to mitigate this risk, and due to the low number of users of the MMAP functionality, I've introduced a kernel parameter, hpet_mmap_enable, that is required in order to actually have the HPET MMAP exposed. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-06-03stallion: final cleanupPaul Bolle1-12/+0
Support for the Stallion multiport serial drivers was removed in v3.1. Clean up their last references in the tree: mainly an outdated Kconfig entry and unneeded documentation. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-18tty: Added a CONFIG_TTY option to allow removal of TTYJoe Millenbach1-3/+4
The option allows you to remove TTY and compile without errors. This saves space on systems that won't support TTY interfaces anyway. bloat-o-meter output is below. The bulk of this patch consists of Kconfig changes adding "depends on TTY" to various serial devices and similar drivers that require the TTY layer. Ideally, these dependencies would occur on a common intermediate symbol such as SERIO, but most drivers "select SERIO" rather than "depends on SERIO", and "select" does not respect dependencies. bloat-o-meter output comparing our previous minimal to new minimal by removing TTY. The list is filtered to not show removed entries with awk '$3 != "-"' as the list was very long. add/remove: 0/226 grow/shrink: 2/14 up/down: 6/-35356 (-35350) function old new delta chr_dev_init 166 170 +4 allow_signal 80 82 +2 static.__warned 143 142 -1 disallow_signal 63 62 -1 __set_special_pids 95 94 -1 unregister_console 126 121 -5 start_kernel 546 541 -5 register_console 593 588 -5 copy_from_user 45 40 -5 sys_setsid 128 120 -8 sys_vhangup 32 19 -13 do_exit 1543 1526 -17 bitmap_zero 60 40 -20 arch_local_irq_save 137 117 -20 release_task 674 652 -22 static.spin_unlock_irqrestore 308 260 -48 Signed-off-by: Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-09-18char/misc: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL dependenciesGreg Kroah-Hartman1-3/+3
As discussed at the kernel summit this year, CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL means nothing, so let's get rid of it. Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-05-16ramoops: Move to fs/pstore/ram.cAnton Vorontsov1-9/+0
Since ramoops was converted to pstore, it has nothing to do with character devices nowadays. Instead, today it is just a RAM backend for pstore. The patch just moves things around. There are a few changes were needed because of the move: 1. Kconfig and Makefiles fixups, of course. 2. In pstore/ram.c we have to play a bit with MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX, this is needed to keep user experience the same as with ramoops driver (i.e. so that ramoops.foo kernel command line arguments would still work). Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org> Acked-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-05-16ramoops: use pstore interfaceKees Cook1-0/+1
Instead of using /dev/mem directly and forcing userspace to know (or extract) where the platform has defined persistent memory, how many slots it has, the sizes, etc, use the common pstore infrastructure to handle Oops gathering and extraction. This presents a much easier to use filesystem-based view to the memory region. This also means that any other tools that are written to understand pstore will automatically be able to process ramoops too. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-03-08tty: delete briq_panel.c driverGreg Kroah-Hartman1-15/+0
This driver is broken, as reported by Jiri, and to quote Ben: Just remove the driver, I don't think anybody cares. so I'm doing just that here. Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2011-11-02um: switch to use of drivers/KconfigAl Viro1-3/+3
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
2011-06-10arch/tile: add hypervisor-based character driver for SPI flash ROMChris Metcalf1-0/+11
The first version of this patch proposed an arch/tile/drivers/ directory, but the consensus was that this was probably a poor choice for a place to group Tilera-specific drivers, and that in any case grouping by platform was discouraged, and grouping by function was preferred. This version of the patch addresses various issues raised in the community, primarily the absence of sysfs integration. The sysfs integration now handles passing information on sector size, page size, and total partition size to userspace as well. In addition, we now use a single "struct cdev" to manage all the partition minor devices, and dynamically discover the correct number of partitions from the hypervisor rather than using a module_param with a default value. This driver has no particular "peer" drivers it can be grouped with. It is sort of like an MTD driver for SPI ROM, but it doesn't group well with the other MTD devices since it relies on hypervisor virtualization to handle many of the irritating aspects of flash ROM management: sector awareness, background read for sub-sector writes, bit examination to determine whether a sector erase needs to be issued, etc. It is in fact more like an EEPROM driver, but the hypervisor virtualization does require a "flush" command if you wish to commit a sector write prior to writing to a different sector, and this is sufficiently different from generic I2C/SPI EEPROMs that as a result it doesn't group well with them either. The simple character device is already in use by a range of Tilera SPI ROM management tools, as well as by customers. In addition, using the simple character device actually simplifies the userspace tools, since they don't need to manage sector erase, background read, etc. This both simplifies the code (since we can uniformly manage plain files and the SPI ROM) as well as makes the user code portable to non-Linux platforms that don't offer the same MTD ioctls. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2011-05-06Allow setting of number of raw devices as a module parameterJan Kara1-1/+1
Allow setting of maximal number of raw devices as a module parameter. This requires changing of static array into a vmalloced one (the array is going to be too large for kmalloc). Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-03-23drivers/char: add MSM smd_pkt driverNiranjana Vishwanathapura1-0/+8
Add smd_pkt driver which provides device interface to smd packet ports. Signed-off-by: Niranjana Vishwanathapura <nvishwan@codeaurora.org> Cc: Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-02-22tty: move obsolete and broken generic_serial drivers to drivers/staging/generic_serial/Greg Kroah-Hartman1-44/+0
As planned by Arnd Bergmann, this moves the following drivers to the drivers/staging/generic_serial directory where they will be removed after 2.6.41 if no one steps up to claim them. generic_serial rio ser_a2232 sx vme_scc Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-22tty: move obsolete and broken tty drivers to drivers/staging/tty/Greg Kroah-Hartman1-79/+0
As planned by Arnd Bergmann, this moves the following drivers to the drivers/staging/tty/ directory where they will be removed after 2.6.41 if no one steps up to claim them. epca epca ip2 istallion riscom8 serial167 specialix stallion Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-22tty: move a number of tty drivers from drivers/char/ to drivers/tty/Greg Kroah-Hartman1-172/+0
As planned by Arnd Bergmann, this moves the following drivers from drivers/char/ to drivers/tty/ as that's where they really belong: amiserial nozomi synclink rocket cyclades moxa mxser isicom bfin_jtag_comm Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-22tty: move Kconfig entries into drivers/tty from drivers/charGreg Kroah-Hartman1-252/+2
The Kconfig options for the drivers/tty/ files still were hanging around in the "big" drivers/char/Kconfig file, so move them to the proper location under drivers/tty and drivers/tty/hvc/ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-17hvc: add Blackfin JTAG console supportMike Frysinger1-0/+9
This converts the existing bfin_jtag_comm TTY driver to the HVC layer so that the common HVC code can worry about all of the TTY/polling crap and leave the Blackfin code to worry about the Blackfin bits. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-01-20Merge branch 'akpm'Linus Torvalds1-5/+5
* akpm: kernel/smp.c: consolidate writes in smp_call_function_interrupt() kernel/smp.c: fix smp_call_function_many() SMP race memcg: correctly order reading PCG_USED and pc->mem_cgroup backlight: fix 88pm860x_bl macro collision drivers/leds/ledtrig-gpio.c: make output match input, tighten input checking MAINTAINERS: update Atmel AT91 entry mm: fix truncate_setsize() comment memcg: fix rmdir, force_empty with THP memcg: fix LRU accounting with THP memcg: fix USED bit handling at uncharge in THP memcg: modify accounting function for supporting THP better fs/direct-io.c: don't try to allocate more than BIO_MAX_PAGES in a bio mm: compaction: prevent division-by-zero during user-requested compaction mm/vmscan.c: remove duplicate include of compaction.h memblock: fix memblock_is_region_memory() thp: keep highpte mapped until it is no longer needed kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT
2011-01-20kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERTDavid Rientjes1-5/+5
The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than only small devices. This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc). Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they are making should enable it. Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13tty: move drivers/serial/ to drivers/tty/serial/Greg Kroah-Hartman1-1/+1
The serial drivers are really just tty drivers, so move them to drivers/tty/ to make things a bit neater overall. This is part of the tty/serial driver movement proceedure as proposed by Arnd Bergmann and approved by everyone involved a number of months ago. Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.nl> Cc: Michael H. Warfield <mhw@wittsend.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-01-13cs5535: deprecate older cs5535_gpio driverAndres Salomon1-9/+0
The newer drivers/gpio/cs5535-gpio.c replaces drivers/misc/cs5535_gpio.c. The new driver has been in the tree for a little while, and has received some testing; it's time to mark the old one as deprecated. I'm thinking removal around 2.6.40 would be good, provided we're not missing critical functionality in the newer driver. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org> Acked-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-30drivers: char: hvc: add arm JTAG DCC console supportDaniel Walker1-0/+9
This driver adds a basic console that uses the arm JTAG DCC to transfer data back and forth. It has support for ARMv6 and ARMv7. This console is created under the HVC driver, and should be named /dev/hvcX (or /dev/hvc0 for example). Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-22add ttyprintk driverSamo Pogacnik1-0/+15
Ttyprintk is a pseudo TTY driver, which allows users to make printk messages, via output to ttyprintk device. It is possible to store "console" messages inline with kernel messages for better analyses of the boot process, for example. Signed-off-by: Samo Pogacnik <samo_pogacnik@t-2.net> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-12pc8736x_gpio: depends on X86_32Randy Dunlap1-1/+1
Fix kconfig dependency warning for PC8736x_GPIO by restricting it to X86_32. warning: (SCx200_GPIO && SCx200 || PC8736x_GPIO && X86) selects NSC_GPIO which has unmet direct dependencies (X86_32) NSC_GPIO is X86_32 only. The other driver (SCx200_GPIO) that selects NSC_GPIO is X86_32 only (indirectly, since SCx200 depends on X86_32), so limit this driver also. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com> Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-04ramoops: add HAS_IOMEM dependencyHeiko Carstens1-0/+1
The driver fails to compile on s390: drivers/char/ramoops.c: In function 'ramoops_init': drivers/char/ramoops.c:122: error: implicit declaration of function 'ioremap' Since we won't make use of the driver anyway on s390 just let it depend on HAS_IOMEM. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27char drivers: RAM oops/panic loggerMarco Stornelli1-0/+7
Ramoops, like mtdoops, can log oops/panic information but in RAM. It can be used with persistent RAM for systems without flash support. In addition, for this systems, with this driver, it's no more needed add to the kernel the mtd subsystem with advantage in footprint. It can be used in a very easy way with persistent RAM for systems without flash support. For these systems, with this driver, it is no longer required to cinlude mtd subsystem with an advantage in footprint. In addition, you can save flash space and store this information only in RAM. Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net> Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Cc; Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net> Cc: Yuasa Yoichi <yuasa@linux-mips.org> Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-21tty: n_gsm: depends on NETRandy Dunlap1-0/+1
n_gsm uses skb functions, so it should depend on NET. n_gsm.c:(.text+0x123d49): undefined reference to `skb_dequeue' n_gsm.c:(.text+0x123d98): undefined reference to `kfree_skb' n_gsm.c:(.text+0x123e1e): undefined reference to `skb_pull' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21tty: n_gsm line disciplineAlan Cox1-1/+8
Add an implementation of GSM 0710 MUX. The implementation currently supports - Basic and advanced framing (as either end of the link) - UI or UIH data frames - Adaption layer 1-4 (1 and 2 via tty, 3 and 4 as skbuff lists) - Modem and control messages including the correct retry process - Flow control and exposes the MUX channels as a set of virtual tty devices including modem signals. This is an experimental driver. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>