lwn.git/arch/powerpc/kernel, branch v2.6.21-rc3

[PATCH] msi: sanely support hardware level msi disabling

2007-03-05T15:57:50+00:00

In some cases when we are not using msi we need a way to ensure that the hardware does not have an msi capability enabled. Currently the code has been calling disable_msi_mode to try and achieve that. However disable_msi_mode has several other side effects and is only available when msi support is compiled in so it isn't really appropriate. Instead this patch implements pci_msi_off which disables all msi and msix capabilities unconditionally with no additional side effects. pci_disable_device was redundantly clearing the bus master enable flag and clearing the msi enable bit. A device that is not allowed to perform bus mastering operations cannot generate intx or msi interrupt messages as those are essentially a special case of dma, and require bus mastering. So the call in pci_disable_device to disable msi capabilities was redundant. quirk_pcie_pxh also called disable_msi_mode and is updated to use pci_msi_off. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

backlight: Separate backlight properties from backlight ops pointers

2007-02-20T09:26:53+00:00

Per device data such as brightness belongs to the indivdual device and should therefore be separate from the the backlight operation function pointers. This patch splits the two types of data and allows simplifcation of some code. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

backlight: Fix external uses of backlight internal semaphore

2007-02-20T08:38:45+00:00

backlight_device->sem has a very specific use as documented in the header file. The external users of this are using it for a different reason, to serialise access to the update_status() method. backlight users were supposed to implement their own internal serialisation of update_status() if needed but everyone is doing things differently and incorrectly. Therefore add a global mutex to take care of serialisation for everyone, once and for all. Locking for get_brightness remains optional since most users don't need it. Also update the lcd class in a similar way. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial

2007-02-19T21:29:02+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits) Documentation/kernel-docs.txt update. arch/cris: typo in KERN_INFO Storage class should be before const qualifier kernel/printk.c: comment fix update I/O sched Kconfig help texts - CFQ is now default, not AS. Remove duplicate listing of Cris arch from README kbuild: more doc. cleanups doc: make doc. for maxcpus= more visible drivers/net/eexpress.c: remove duplicate comment add a help text for BLK_DEV_GENERIC correct a dead URL in the IP_MULTICAST help text fix the BAYCOM_SER_HDX help text fix SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC help text trivial documentation patch for platform.txt Fix typos concerning hierarchy Fix comment typo "spin_lock_irqrestore". Fix misspellings of "agressive". drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c: trivial typo patch Correct trivial typo in log2.h. Remove useless FIND_FIRST_BIT() macro from cardbus.c. ...

Storage class should be before const qualifier

2007-02-17T19:11:19+00:00

The C99 specification states in section 6.11.5: The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the beginning of the declaration specifiers in a declaration is an obsolescent feature. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[POWERPC] add of_get_mac_address and update fsl_soc.c to use it

2007-02-16T23:21:25+00:00

Add function of_get_mac_address(), which obtains the best MAC address to use from the device tree by checking various properties in order. The order is: 'mac-address', then 'local-mac-address', then 'address'. It skips properties that contain invalid MAC addresses, which were probably not initialized by U-Boot. Update gfar_of_init() and fs_enet_of_init() in fsl_soc.c to call of_get_mac_address(). Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[POWERPC] Export of_find_property

2007-02-16T03:00:20+00:00

Without this, building drivers/serial/of_serial.c as a module fails. WARNING: ".of_find_property" [drivers/serial/of_serial.ko] undefined! Signed-off-by: Dave Jones Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras

[PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl

2007-02-14T16:09:59+00:00

The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name. Which is pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented. I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register duplicate sysctl entries. So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future enhancments harder. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Ralf Baechle Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Russell King Cc: David Howells Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Corey Minyard Cc: Neil Brown Cc: "John W. Linville" Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: David Chinner Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Patrick McHardy Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert ctl_tables in arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c

2007-02-14T16:09:57+00:00

This was partially done already and there was no ABI breakage what a relief. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[POWERPC] Use udbg_early_init() on ppc32

2007-02-14T00:55:16+00:00

udbg_early_init() is a function used on 64 bit systems, which initializes whichever early udbg backend is configured. This function is not called on 32-bit, however if btext early debug is enabled it does have an explicit, inline, #ifdef-ed assignment performing analagous initialization. This patch makes things more uniform by folding the btext initialization as an option into udbg_early_init() and calling that from the 32-bit setup path. Signed-off-by: David Gibson Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras