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2006-05-25[IRDA]: *_DONGLE should depend on IRTTY_SIRSamuel Ortiz1-10/+10
If a SIR dongle is built in the kernel while IRTTY_SIR is built as a module, kernel compilation will fail. Thus, the SIR dongle config should depend on the IRTTY_SIR. Closes kernel bug# 6512 (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6512) Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-09[IRDA]: Switching to a workqueue for the SIR workChristoph Hellwig4-524/+314
Since sir_kthread.c pretty much duplicates the workqueue functionality, we'd better switch. The SIR fsm has been merged into sir_dev.c and thus sir_kthread.c is deleted. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-09[IRDA]: smsc-ircc: Minimal hotplug support.David Brownell1-1/+13
Minimal PNP hotplug support for the smsc-ircc2 driver. A modular driver will be modprobed via hotplug, but still bypasses driver model probing. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-06[IRDA] irda-usb: use NULL instead of 0Randy Dunlap1-1/+1
Use NULL instead of 0 for a null pointer value (sparse warning): drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c:1781:30: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Also, correct timeout argument to use milliseconds instead of jiffies. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-14[IRDA]: smsc-ircc2, smcinit support for ALi ISA bridgesLinus Walleij1-52/+264
From: Linus Walleij <triad@df.lth.se> This patch enables support for ALi ISA bridges when we run the smcinit code. It is needed to properly configure some Toshiba laptops. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-14[IRDA]: irda-usb, unregister netdev when patch upload failsSamuel Ortiz1-2/+4
In the STIR421x case, when the firmware upload fails, we need to unregister_netdev. Otherwise we hit a BUG on free_netdev(), if sysfs is enabled. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09[IRDA]: Support for Sigmatel STIR421x chipSamuel Ortiz2-34/+372
This patch enables support for the Sigmatel's STIR421x IrDA chip. Once patched with Sigmatel's firmware, this chip "almost" follows the USB-IrDA spec. Thus this patch is against irda-usb.[ch]. The code has been tested by Nick Fedchik on an STIR4210 chipset based dongle. Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09[IRDA]: smcinit merged into smsc-ircc driverLinus Walleij1-0/+311
This patch integrates the smcinit code into the smsc-ircc driver. Some laptops have their smsc-ircc chip not properly configured by the BIOS and needs some preconfiguration. Currently, this can be done from userspace with smcinit, a utility that comes with the irda-utils package. It messes with ioports and PCI settings, from userspace. Now with this patch, if we happen to be on one of the known to be faulty laptops, we preconfigure the chip from the driver. Patch from Linus Walleij <triad@df.lth.se> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-02BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/net/Eric Sesterhenn1-2/+1
this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is cleaner, contains unlikely() and can better optimized away. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-28[PATCH] Typo fixesAlexey Dobriyan1-1/+1
Fix a lot of typos. Eyeballed by jmc@ in OpenBSD. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27[PATCH] pnp: IRDA: adjust pnp_register_driver signatureBjorn Helgaas1-1/+1
Remove the assumption that pnp_register_driver() returns the number of devices claimed. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25[PATCH] Remove MODULE_PARMRusty Russell1-2/+2
MODULE_PARM was actually breaking: recent gcc version optimize them out as unused. It's time to replace the last users, which are generally in the most unloved drivers anyway. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-21Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds10-94/+665
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (235 commits) [NETFILTER]: Add H.323 conntrack/NAT helper [TG3]: Don't mark tg3_test_registers() as returning const. [IPV6]: Cleanups for net/ipv6/addrconf.c (kzalloc, early exit) v2 [IPV6]: Nearly complete kzalloc cleanup for net/ipv6 [IPV6]: Cleanup of net/ipv6/reassambly.c [BRIDGE]: Remove duplicate const from is_link_local() argument type. [DECNET]: net/decnet/dn_route.c: fix inconsequent NULL checking [TG3]: make drivers/net/tg3.c:tg3_request_irq() static [BRIDGE]: use LLC to send STP [LLC]: llc_mac_hdr_init const arguments [BRIDGE]: allow show/store of group multicast address [BRIDGE]: use llc for receiving STP packets [BRIDGE]: stp timer to jiffies cleanup [BRIDGE]: forwarding remove unneeded preempt and bh diasables [BRIDGE]: netfilter inline cleanup [BRIDGE]: netfilter VLAN macro cleanup [BRIDGE]: netfilter dont use __constant_htons [BRIDGE]: netfilter whitespace [BRIDGE]: optimize frame pass up [BRIDGE]: use kzalloc ...
2006-03-20[IRDA]: remove MODULE_PARM()Andrew Morton1-6/+6
MODULE_PARM() is deprecated and is about to go away altogether. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[IRDA] sem2mutex: drivers/net/irdaArjan van de Ven2-18/+20
Semaphore to mutex conversion. The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated automatically via a script as well. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[IRDA]: TOIM3232 dongle supportDavid Basden3-0/+384
Here goes a patch for supporting TOIM3232 based serial IrDA dongles. The code is based on the tekram dongle code. It's been tested with a TOIM3232 based IRWave 320S dongle. It may work for TOIM4232 dongles, although it's not been tested. Signed-off-by: David Basden <davidb-irda@rcpt.to> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[IRDA]: pci_register_driver conversionChristophe Lucas2-2/+2
This patch converts 2 IrDA drivers pci_module_init() calls to pci_register_driver(). Signed-off-by: Christophe Lucas <clucas@ifrance.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[IRDA]: sti/cli removal from EP7211 IrDA driverDavid chosrova1-4/+7
This patch replaces the deprecated sti/cli routines with the corresponding spin_lock ones. Signed-off-by: David chosrova <david.chosrova@libertysurf.fr> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[IRDA]: nsc-ircc: support for yet another Thinkpad IrDA chipsetJean Tourrilhes1-4/+6
This patch simply adds support for a variation of the nsc-ircc PC8739x chipset, found in some IBM Thinkpad laptops. Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[IRDA]: nsc-ircc: PM updateDmitry Torokhov2-35/+98
This patch brings the nsc-ircc code to a more up to date power management scheme, following the current device model. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[IRDA]: nsc-ircc: ISAPnP supportJean Tourrilhes1-34/+151
This enables PnP support for the nsc-ircc chipset. Since we can't fetch the chipset cfg_base from the PnP layer, we just use the PnP information as one more hint when probing the chip. Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20[PATCH] USB: Fix irda-usb use after useEugene Teo1-2/+3
Don't read from free'd memory after calling netif_rx(). docopy is used as a boolean (0 and 1) so unsigned int is sufficient. Coverity bug #928 Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-02-27Merge branch 'from-linus'John W. Linville2-18/+79
2006-02-19[IRDA]: irda-usb bug fixesJean Tourrilhes2-18/+79
This patch fixes 2 bugs in the USB-IrDA code. The first one is a buffer overrun in the RX path. We are now using IRDA_SKB_MAX_MTU when initializing the Rx URB. The second one is a potential stack recursion when unplugging the USB dongle. It seems that first we get the Rx URB with a generic error code, and after a while the Rx URB comes again with a "disconnect" error code. Since we are resubmitting the Rx URB immediately after receiving the first error one, we might enter an endless loop. When getting an error Rx URB, the patch defers the Rx URB resubmitting so that it gives us a chance to catch the disconnect one, in case the dongle has juts been unplugged. Tested against 2.6.16-rc2. Patch from Jean Tourrilhes Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-17[PATCH] trivial: fix spelling errors in KconfigsJon Mason1-2/+2
This patch corrects a few spelling and grammar errors found in drivers/net Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-01-10[IRDA] DONGLE_OLD: remove dependency on non-existing symbolAdrian Bunk1-2/+1
Jean-Luc Leger <reiga@dspnet.fr.eu.org> reported this alternative dependency on a non-existing symbol. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-10[IRDA]: kill drivers/net/irda/sir_core.cAdrian Bunk6-62/+21
EXPORT_SYMBOL's do nowadays belong to the files where the actual functions are. Moving the module_init/module_exit to the file with the actual functions has the advantage of saving a few bytes due to the removal of two functions. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-10[PATCH] TTY layer buffering revampAlan Cox1-17/+1
The API and code have been through various bits of initial review by serial driver people but they definitely need to live somewhere for a while so the unconverted drivers can get knocked into shape, existing drivers that have been updated can be better tuned and bugs whacked out. This replaces the tty flip buffers with kmalloc objects in rings. In the normal situation for an IRQ driven serial port at typical speeds the behaviour is pretty much the same, two buffers end up allocated and the kernel cycles between them as before. When there are delays or at high speed we now behave far better as the buffer pool can grow a bit rather than lose characters. This also means that we can operate at higher speeds reliably. For drivers that receive characters in blocks (DMA based, USB and especially virtualisation) the layer allows a lot of driver specific code that works around the tty layer with private secondary queues to be removed. The IBM folks need this sort of layer, the smart serial port people do, the virtualisers do (because a virtualised tty typically operates at infinite speed rather than emulating 9600 baud). Finally many drivers had invalid and unsafe attempts to avoid buffer overflows by directly invoking tty methods extracted out of the innards of work queue structs. These are no longer needed and all go away. That fixes various random hangs with serial ports on overflow. The other change in here is to optimise the receive_room path that is used by some callers. It turns out that only one ldisc uses receive room except asa constant and it updates it far far less than the value is read. We thus make it a variable not a function call. I expect the code to contain bugs due to the size alone but I'll be watching and squashing them and feeding out new patches as it goes. Because the buffers now dynamically expand you should only run out of buffering when the kernel runs out of memory for real. That means a lot of the horrible hacks high performance drivers used to do just aren't needed any more. Description: tty_insert_flip_char is an old API and continues to work as before, as does tty_flip_buffer_push() [this is why many drivers dont need modification]. It does now also return the number of chars inserted There are also tty_buffer_request_room(tty, len) which asks for a buffer block of the length requested and returns the space found. This improves efficiency with hardware that knows how much to transfer. and tty_insert_flip_string_flags(tty, str, flags, len) to insert a string of characters and flags For a smart interface the usual code is len = tty_request_buffer_room(tty, amount_hardware_says); tty_insert_flip_string(tty, buffer_from_card, len); More description! At the moment tty buffers are attached directly to the tty. This is causing a lot of the problems related to tty layer locking, also problems at high speed and also with bursty data (such as occurs in virtualised environments) I'm working on ripping out the flip buffers and replacing them with a pool of dynamically allocated buffers. This allows both for old style "byte I/O" devices and also helps virtualisation and smart devices where large blocks of data suddenely materialise and need storing. So far so good. Lots of drivers reference tty->flip.*. Several of them also call directly and unsafely into function pointers it provides. This will all break. Most drivers can use tty_insert_flip_char which can be kept as an API but others need more. At the moment I've added the following interfaces, if people think more will be needed now is a good time to say int tty_buffer_request_room(tty, size) Try and ensure at least size bytes are available, returns actual room (may be zero). At the moment it just uses the flipbuf space but that will change. Repeated calls without characters being added are not cumulative. (ie if you call it with 1, 1, 1, and then 4 you'll have four characters of space. The other functions will also try and grow buffers in future but this will be a more efficient way when you know block sizes. int tty_insert_flip_char(tty, ch, flag) As before insert a character if there is room. Now returns 1 for success, 0 for failure. int tty_insert_flip_string(tty, str, len) Insert a block of non error characters. Returns the number inserted. int tty_prepare_flip_string(tty, strptr, len) Adjust the buffer to allow len characters to be added. Returns a buffer pointer in strptr and the length available. This allows for hardware that needs to use functions like insl or mencpy_fromio. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] drivers/net/irda/irport.c: cleanupsAdrian Bunk1-14/+1
This patch contains the following cleanups: - make a needlessly global function static - remove the unneeded global function irport_probe Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] Eliminate __attribute__ ((packed)) warnings for gcc-4.1Jan Blunck1-2/+2
Since version 4.1 the gcc is warning about ignored attributes. This patch is using the equivalent attribute on the struct instead of on each of the structure or union members. GCC Manual: "Specifying Attributes of Types packed This attribute, attached to struct or union type definition, specifies that each member of the structure or union is placed to minimize the memory required. When attached to an enum definition, it indicates that the smallest integral type should be used. Specifying this attribute for struct and union types is equivalent to specifying the packed attribute on each of the structure or union members." Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-04[PATCH] USB: remove .owner field from struct usb_driverGreg Kroah-Hartman2-2/+0
It is no longer needed, so let's remove it, saving a bit of memory. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-13[PATCH] move pm_register/etc. to CONFIG_PM_LEGACY, pm_legacy.hJeff Garzik2-0/+2
Since few people need the support anymore, this moves the legacy pm_xxx functions to CONFIG_PM_LEGACY, and include/linux/pm_legacy.h. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09[DRIVER MODEL] Convert platform drivers to use struct platform_driverRussell King2-27/+28
This allows us to eliminate the casts in the drivers, and eventually remove the use of the device_driver function pointer methods for platform device drivers. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-08[IRDA] donauboe: locking fixAndrew Morton1-5/+9
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Two missing unlocks, as noted by Ted Unangst <tedu@coverity.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-31Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-drvmodelLinus Torvalds3-1/+3
Manual #include fixups for clashes - there may be some unnecessary
2005-10-30Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds1-10/+4
2005-10-30[PATCH] smsc-ircc2: PM cleanup - do not close device when suspendingDmitry Torokhov1-44/+85
smsc-ircc2 - avoid closing network device when suspending; just release interrupt and disable DMA ourselves. Also make sure to reset chip when resuming. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30[ARM] 3066/1: Fix PXA irda driver suspend/resume functionsRichard Purdie1-10/+4
Patch from Richard Purdie Update the PXA irda driver to match the recent platform device suspend/resume level changes. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-10-29Create platform_device.h to contain all the platform device details.Russell King3-1/+3
Convert everyone who uses platform_bus_type to include linux/platform_device.h. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28Merge branch 'master'Jeff Garzik5-10/+892
2005-10-28drivers/net: Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree()Jesper Juhl5-14/+7
2005-10-28Merge ../bleed-2.6Greg KH4-4/+885
2005-10-28[PATCH] DRIVER MODEL: Get rid of the obsolete tri-level suspend/resume callbacksRussell King2-10/+10
In PM v1, all devices were called at SUSPEND_DISABLE level. Then all devices were called at SUSPEND_SAVE_STATE level, and finally SUSPEND_POWER_DOWN level. However, with PM v2, to maintain compatibility for platform devices, I arranged for the PM v2 suspend/resume callbacks to call the old PM v1 suspend/resume callbacks three times with each level in order so that existing drivers continued to work. Since this is obsolete infrastructure which is no longer necessary, we can remove it. Here's an (untested) patch to do exactly that. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds3-0/+882
Minor manual fixups for gfp_t clashes.
2005-10-28[ARM] 2897/2: PXA2xx IRDA supportNicolas Pitre3-0/+882
Patch from Nicolas Pitre This is the PXA2xx common IRDA driver, plus platform support for Lubbock and Mainstone. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Acked-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-10-03Merge branch 'upstream-fixes'Jeff Garzik1-2/+2
2005-09-29[PATCH] proc_mkdir() should be used to create procfs directoriesAl Viro1-2/+2
A bunch of create_proc_dir_entry() calls creating directories had crept in since the last sweep; converted to proc_mkdir(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-14[PATCH] drivers/net: fix-up schedule_timeout() usageNishanth Aravamudan1-4/+3
Use schedule_timeout_interruptible() instead of set_current_state()/schedule_timeout() to reduce kernel size. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-08Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6 Linus Torvalds1-11/+2
2005-09-08[PATCH] USB: URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag removed from the kernelAlan Stern1-11/+2
29 July 2005, Cambridge, MA: This afternoon Alan Stern submitted a patch to remove the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag from the Linux kernel. Mr. Stern explained, "This flag is a relic from an earlier, less-well-designed system. For over a year it hasn't been used for anything other than printing warning messages." An anonymous spokesman for the Linux kernel development community commented, "This is exactly the sort of thing we see happening all the time. As the kernel evolves, support for old techniques and old code can be jettisoned and replaced by newer, better approaches. Proprietary operating systems do not have the freedom or flexibility to change so quickly." Mr. Stern, a staff member at Harvard University's Rowland Institute who works on Linux only as a hobby, noted that the patch (labelled as548) did not update two files, keyspan.c and option.c, in the USB drivers' "serial" subdirectory. "Those files need more extensive changes," he remarked. "They examine the status field of several URBs at times when they're not supposed to. That will need to be fixed before the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag is removed." Greg Kroah-Hartman, the kernel maintainer responsible for overseeing all of Linux's USB drivers, did not respond to our inquiries or return our calls. His only comment was "Applied, thanks." Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>