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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging into next
Pull staging driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big staging driver pull request for 3.16-rc1.
Lots of stuff here, tons of cleanup patches, a few new drivers, and
some removed as well, but I think we are still adding a few thousand
more lines than we remove, due to the new drivers being bigger than
the ones deleted.
One notible bit of work did stand out, Jes Sorensen has gone on a
tear, fixing up a wireless driver to be "more sane" than it originally
was from the vendor, with over 500 patches merged here. Good stuff,
and a number of users laptops are better off for it.
All of this has been in linux-next for a while"
* tag 'staging-3.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (1703 commits)
staging: skein: fix sparse warning for static declarations
staging/mt29f_spinand: coding style fixes
staging: silicom: fix sparse warning for static variable
staging: lustre: Fix coding style
staging: android: binder.c: Use more appropriate functions for euid retrieval
staging: lustre: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings
Revert "staging: dgap: remove unneeded kfree() in dgap_tty_register_ports()"
Staging: rtl8192u: r8192U_wx.c Fixed a misplaced brace
staging: ion: shrink highmem pages on kswapd
staging: ion: use compound pages on high order pages for system heap
staging: ion: remove struct ion_page_pool_item
staging: ion: simplify ion_page_pool_total()
staging: ion: tidy up a bit
staging: rtl8723au: Remove redundant casting in usb_ops_linux.c
staging: rtl8723au: Remove redundant casting in rtl8723a_hal_init.c
staging: rtl8723au: Remove redundant casting in rtw_xmit.c
staging: rtl8723au: Remove redundant casting in rtw_wlan_util.c
staging: rtl8723au: Remove redundant casting in rtw_sta_mgt.c
staging: rtl8723au: Remove redundant casting in rtw_recv.c
staging: rtl8723au: Remove redundant casting in rtw_mlme.c
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devm_get_free_pages() and devm_free_pages() are the managed counterparts
for __get_free_pages() and free_pages().
Signed-off-by: Eli Billauer <eli.billauer@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Introduce gpiod_get_optional() and gpiod_get_index_optional() helpers
that make it easier for drivers to handle optional GPIOs.
Currently in order to handle optional GPIOs, a driver needs to special
case error handling for -ENOENT, such as this:
gpio = gpiod_get(dev, "foo");
if (IS_ERR(gpio)) {
if (PTR_ERR(gpio) != -ENOENT)
return PTR_ERR(gpio);
gpio = NULL;
}
if (gpio) {
/* set up GPIO */
}
With these new helpers the above is reduced to:
gpio = gpiod_get_optional(dev, "foo");
if (IS_ERR(gpio))
return PTR_ERR(gpio);
if (gpio) {
/* set up GPIO */
}
While at it, device-managed variants of these functions are also
provided.
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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Add the GPIO-related device-managed functions to the list of functions
in Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt.
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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Introduce devm_kmemdup, which uses resource managed kmalloc.
There are several request from maintainers to add this instead
of using kmemdup.
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual rocket science stuff from trivial.git"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
neighbour.h: fix comment
sched: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by wait.h
slab: struct kmem_cache is protected by slab_mutex
doc: Fix typo in USB Gadget Documentation
of/Kconfig: Spelling s/one/once/
mkregtable: Fix sscanf handling
lp5523, lp8501: comment improvements
thermal: rcar: comment spelling
treewide: fix comments and printk msgs
IXP4xx: remove '1 &&' from a condition check in ixp4xx_restart()
Documentation: update /proc/uptime field description
Documentation: Fix size parameter for snprintf
arm: fix comment header and macro name
asm-generic: uaccess: Spelling s/a ny/any/
mtd: onenand: fix comment header
doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typo
drivers: fix typo in DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Kconfig help text
doc: Fix typo (acces_process_vm -> access_process_vm)
treewide: Fix typos in printk
drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/Kconfig: reformat the help text
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging
Pull staging driver tree changes from Greg KH:
"Here's the big drivers/staging/ update for 3.14-rc1
Lots and lots of cleanups, IIO driver updates are also mixed in here
due to the subsystem still crossing staging and drivers/iio/, and the
dwc2 driver is moved out of staging. There's a new driver (rts5208),
which ends up making us adding more lines than removing, but overall
there was lots of work toward moving code out of here, which was good
All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues"
* tag 'staging-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (1084 commits)
lustre: delete linux/lustre_debug.h
staging: lustre: remove some unused debug macros
usb: dwc2: move device tree bindings doc to correct place
staging: vt6656: sparse fixes: iwctl_giwgenie use memcpy.
staging: vt6656: sparse fixes: iwctl_siwgenie use memcpy.
staging: vt6656: sparse fixes ethtool_ioctl Use struct ifreq *
staging: vt6656: sparse fixes: dpc.c missing dpc.h
staging: lustre: libcfs_debug: small whitespace cleanups
staging: lustre: libcfs_debug.h: remove extra blank lines
staging: lustre: libcfs_debug.h: Align backslashes in macros
staging: lustre: libcfs_debug.h: align define values
staging: tidspbridge: adjust error return code (bugfix)
Staging: rts5139: rts51x_card: fixed style issues
staging: wlags49_h2: Fix "do not use C99 //" in wl_cs.h, wl_enc.h wl_main.h and wl_wext.h
Staging: rtl8188eu: Fixed "foo * bar" related coding style issues
Staging: rtl8188eu: Fixed required spaces after ',' and around '=' and '=='
staging: vt6655: Fix memory leak in wpa_ioctl()
imx-drm: parallel-display: honor 'native-mode' property when selecting video mode from DT
staging: drm/imx: don't drop crtc offsets when doing pageflip
staging: drm/imx: handle framebuffer offsets correctly
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This fixes two spelling mistakes in the design pattern doc.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The sentence is not proper English, so the use of "general" is now replaced with
"in general". "generally" was also considered, but "in general" is probably the
correct in this case.
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Papp <lpapp@kde.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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After realizing that we tend to tell developers the same thing over
and over, let's attempt to document some commin design patterns
used in the device drivers. The idea is that this can be extended
so I just start out with two well-known design patterns.
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio into staging-next
Jonathan writes:
First set of new features, drivers and cleanups for IIO in the 3.14 cycle.
This mostly consists of patches that didn't quite make the last cycle. Lots
of interesting things under review currently.
Core:
- Add devm_iio_device_register/unregister. I took some convincing on whether
there would be many devices that really were simple enough to need no
explicit actions on removal. Turns out there are some.
- Move some stray docs to above the relevant implemenation.
- Drop a redundant repeated check on the fact the trigger has actually changed
when there is a userspace attempt change it.
Drivers:
New drivers
- Freescale MPL3115A2 Pressure / temperature sensor
New functionality
- hid_sensors: add sensitivity support.
DT bindings
- tsl2563
- hmc5843
Cleanups
- Drop unused scan_type from viperboard adc driver.
- devm_iio_device_register used in viperboard, ad5421, ad5755, adis16130,
adxrs450, vcnl4000, adis16220, ad7816, lpc32xx, adt7316, adis16060, isl29018
and ad2s1200. Note that this was proposed in a number of other drivers
and this revealed a number of missorderings in remove functions. Also for
now I have blocked this on any device that any hardware suspend suport on
the basis that we probably want to power down devices if they have no driver
support loaded.
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Add device managed devm_iio_device_{register,unregister}()
to automatically unregister IIO drivers thus leading to
simplified IIO driver code.
Signed-off-by: Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>
Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Tested-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Reviewed-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi
Pull spi updates from Mark Brown:
"As well as the usual driver updates and cleanups there's a few
improvements to the core here:
- The start of some improvements to factor out more of the SPI
message loop into the core. Right now this is just simplifying the
code a bit but hopefully next time around we'll also have managed
to roll out some noticable performance improvements which drivers
can take advantage of.
- Support for loading modules for ACPI enumerated SPI devices.
- Managed registration for SPI controllers.
- Helper for another common I/O pattern"
* tag 'spi-v3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi: (116 commits)
spi/hspi: add device tree support
spi: atmel: fix return value check in atmel_spi_probe()
spi: spi-imx: only enable the clocks when we start to transfer a message
spi/s3c64xx: Fix doubled clock disable on suspend
spi/s3c64xx: Do not ignore return value of spi_master_resume/suspend
spi: spi-mxs: Use u32 instead of uint32_t
spi: spi-mxs: Don't set clock for each xfer
spi: spi-mxs: Clean up setup_transfer function
spi: spi-mxs: Remove check of spi mode bits
spi: spi-mxs: Fix race in setup method
spi: spi-mxs: Remove bogus setting of ssp clk rate field
spi: spi-mxs: Remove full duplex check, spi core already does it
spi: spi-mxs: Fix chip select control bits in DMA mode
spi: spi-mxs: Fix extra CS pulses and read mode in multi-transfer messages
spi: spi-mxs: Change flag arguments in txrx functions to bit flags
spi: spi-mxs: Always clear INGORE_CRC, to keep CS asserted
spi: spi-mxs: Remove mxs_spi_enable and mxs_spi_disable
spi: spi-mxs: Always set LOCK_CS
spi/s3c64xx: Add missing pm_runtime_put on setup fail
spi/s3c64xx: Add missing pm_runtime_set_active() call in probe()
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Help simplify the cleanup code for SPI master drivers by providing a
managed master registration function, ensuring that the master is
automatically unregistered whenever the device is unbound.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
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Many regulator drivers have a remove function that consists solely of
calling regulator_unregister() so provide a devm_regulator_register()
in order to allow this repeated code to be removed and help eliminate
error handling code.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>
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Pull slave-dmaengine updates from Vinod Koul:
"This pull brings:
- Andy's DW driver updates
- Guennadi's sh driver updates
- Pl08x driver fixes from Tomasz & Alban
- Improvements to mmp_pdma by Daniel
- TI EDMA fixes by Joel
- New drivers:
- Hisilicon k3dma driver
- Renesas rcar dma driver
- New API for publishing slave driver capablities
- Various fixes across the subsystem by Andy, Jingoo, Sachin etc..."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma: (94 commits)
dma: edma: Remove limits on number of slots
dma: edma: Leave linked to Null slot instead of DUMMY slot
dma: edma: Find missed events and issue them
ARM: edma: Add function to manually trigger an EDMA channel
dma: edma: Write out and handle MAX_NR_SG at a given time
dma: edma: Setup parameters to DMA MAX_NR_SG at a time
dmaengine: pl330: use dma_set_max_seg_size to set the sg limit
dmaengine: dma_slave_caps: remove sg entries
dma: replace devm_request_and_ioremap by devm_ioremap_resource
dma: ste_dma40: Fix potential null pointer dereference
dma: ste_dma40: Remove duplicate const
dma: imx-dma: Remove redundant NULL check
dma: dmagengine: fix function names in comments
dma: add driver for R-Car HPB-DMAC
dma: k3dma: use devm_ioremap_resource() instead of devm_request_and_ioremap()
dma: imx-sdma: Staticize sdma_driver_data structures
pch_dma: Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE
dmaengine: PL08x: Add cyclic transfer support
dmaengine: PL08x: Fix reading the byte count in cctl
dmaengine: PL08x: Add support for different maximum transfer size
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ACPI DMA provides managed function to register the slave DMA controller in the
internal container. This patch anounces that function in the corresponding
documentation file.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
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Add a resource managed devm_iio_trigger_alloc()/devm_iio_triger_free()
to automatically clean up triggers allocated by IIO drivers, thus
leading to simplified IIO drivers code.
Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyunmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
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Add devm_iio_device_alloc() and devm_iio_device_free() functions
to list of supported calls.
Signed-off-by: Oleksandr Kravchenko <o.v.kravchenko@globallogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
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The devm_request_and_ioremap() function is very useful and helps avoid a
whole lot of boilerplate. However, one issue that keeps popping up is
its lack of a specific error code to determine which of the steps that
it performs failed. Furthermore, while the function gives an example and
suggests what error code to return on failure, a wide variety of error
codes are used throughout the tree.
In an attempt to fix these problems, this patch adds a new function that
drivers can transition to. The devm_ioremap_resource() returns a pointer
to the remapped I/O memory on success or an ERR_PTR() encoded error code
on failure. Callers can check for failure using IS_ERR() and determine
its cause by extracting the error code using PTR_ERR().
devm_request_and_ioremap() is implemented as a wrapper around the new
API and return NULL on failure as before. This ensures that backwards
compatibility is maintained until all users have been converted to the
new API, at which point the old devm_request_and_ioremap() function
should be removed.
A semantic patch is included which can be used to convert from the old
devm_request_and_ioremap() API to the new devm_ioremap_resource() API.
Some non-trivial cases may require manual intervention, though.
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Marko Katic <dromede.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Add resource managed variants of pwm_get() and pwm_put() for
convenience. Code is largely inspired by the equivalent devm functions
of the regulator framework.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl
Pull pin control subsystem changes from Linus Walleij:
- Generic Device Tree bindings and hooks for drivers so we can move
over modern drivers to using this.
- Device Tree bindings for Tegra SoCs.
- Funneling some devicetree helper code for the drivers/of subsystem.
- New pin control drivers for:
* Freescale MXS
* Freescale i.MX51
* Freescale i.MX53
All of these use Device Tree bindings.
- Dummy pinctrl handles for stepwise migration to pinctrl, akin to
dummy regulators.
- Minor non-urgent fixes and improvments.
Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt and
drivers/pinctrl/core.c,
* tag 'pinctrl-for-v3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl: (46 commits)
pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: add imx51 pinctrl driver
pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: add imx53 pinctrl driver
pinctrl: pinctrl-pxa3xx: remove empty pinmux disable function
pinctrl: pinctrl-mxs: remove empty pinmux disable function
pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: remove empty pinmux disable function
pinctrl: make pinmux disable function optional
pinctrl: a minor error checking improvement for pinconf
pinctrl: mxs: skip gpio nodes for group creation
pinctrl: mxs: create group for pin config node
pinctrl: (cosmetic) fix two entries in DocBook comments
pinctrl: add more info to error msgs in pin_request
pinctrl: add pinctrl-mxs support
pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: add imx6q pinctrl driver
pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: add imx pinctrl core driver
dt: add of_get_child_count helper function
pinctrl: support gpio request deferred probing
pinctrl: add pinctrl_provide_dummies interface for platforms to use
pinctrl: enhance reporting of errors when loading from DT
pinctrl: add kerneldoc for pinctrl_ops device tree functions
pinctrl: propagate map validation errors
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Allow clk API users to simplify their cleanup paths by providing a
managed version of clk_get() and clk_put().
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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These functions allow the driver core to automatically clean up any
allocations made by drivers, thus leading to simplified drivers.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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'regulator/topic/stub' into regulator-next
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Add devm_regulator_put() and devm_regulator_bulk_get() to the list of managed
interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
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Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Add a resource managed regulator_get() to simplify regulator
usage in drivers. This allows driver authors to "get and forget"
about their regulators by automatically calling regulator_put()
when the driver is detached.
[Fixed up a couple of coding style issues -- broonie]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
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Almost every platform_driver does the three steps get_resource,
request_mem_region, ioremap. This does not only lead to a lot of code
duplication, but also a huge number of similar error strings and
inconsistent error codes on failure. So, introduce a helper function
which simplifies remapping a resource and make it hard to do something
wrong and add documentation for it.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The driver model documentation was added to the kernel tree before
struct class was added to <linux/device.h>. Hence this patch that
updates the paragraph about struct class in
Documentation/driver-model/binding.txt.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Several drivers use device_create_file() where device.groups should be
used instead. This patch documents that and also removes the comments
about device classes since these should not be used in new code in the
way documented until now in Documentation/driver-model/device.txt.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Fix a rather obvious typo.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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A few grammatical fixes, clarifications and corrections in just the
overview file for the driver model documentation.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Remove the struct bus_type, class, device, device_driver from the
driver-model docs. With another patch add them to device.h, since
they are out of date. That will keep things up to date and provide
a better way to document this stuff.
Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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drivers/base/intf.c was removed before the beginning of (git) time but
its Documentation stuck around. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Replace platfrom -> platform.
This is a frequent spelling bug.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Many struct driver_attribute descriptors are purely read-only
structures, and there's no need to change them. Therefore make
the promise not to, which will let those descriptors be put in
a ro section.
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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FIX prototypes for show & store method in struct driver_attribute
Signed-off-by: vibi sreenivasan <vibi_sreenivasan@cms.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Add a blurb to the driver-model documentation about how (not) to add
extra attributes to a struct device at driver probe time.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Fix various typos in documentation txts.
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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V3 of the early platform driver implementation.
Platform drivers are great for embedded platforms because we can separate
driver configuration from the actual driver. So base addresses,
interrupts and other configuration can be kept with the processor or board
code, and the platform driver can be reused by many different platforms.
For early devices we have nothing today. For instance, to configure early
timers and early serial ports we cannot use platform devices. This
because the setup order during boot. Timers are needed before the
platform driver core code is available. The same goes for early printk
support. Early in this case means before initcalls.
These early drivers today have their configuration either hard coded or
they receive it using some special configuration method. This is working
quite well, but if we want to support both regular kernel modules and
early devices then we need to have two ways of configuring the same
driver. A single way would be better.
The early platform driver patch is basically a set of functions that allow
drivers to register themselves and architecture code to locate them and
probe. Registration happens through early_param(). The time for the
probe is decided by the architecture code.
See Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt for more details.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Fix the presented definition of struct device_attribute to match the
actual definition in include/linux/device.h
Signed-off-by: Mike Murphy <mamurph[at]cs.clemson.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Just make these match the actual code.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Most of these fixes were already submitted for old kernel versions, and were
approved, but for some reason they never made it into the releases.
Because this is a consolidation of a couple old missed patches, it touches both
Kconfigs and documentation texts.
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Make note of the legacy "probe-the-hardware" drivers, and some APIs that
are mostly unused except by such drivers. We probably can't escape having
legacy drivers for a while (e.g. old ISA drivers), but we can at least
discourage this style code for new drivers, and unless it's unavoidable.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Fix various typos in kernel docs and Kconfigs, 2.6.21-rc4.
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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Above and below we talk about my_midlayer_create_something, I assume that is
also meant here.
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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