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* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-01-221-1/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 ...
| * doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typoLaszlo Papp2013-12-191-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | Merge tag 'staging-3.14-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds2014-01-201-0/+2
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 ...
| * \ Merge tag 'iio-for-3.14a' of ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman2013-11-251-0/+2
| |\ \ | | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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.
| | * iio: core: Implement devm_iio_device_{register,unregister}Sachin Kamat2013-11-241-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | Documentation: fix spelling in design-patternsLinus Walleij2013-12-191-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | Documentation: start documenting driver design patternsLinus Walleij2013-12-101-0/+116
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | Merge tag 'spi-v3.13' of ↵Linus Torvalds2013-11-121-0/+3
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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() ...
| * | spi: core: Add devm_spi_register_master()Mark Brown2013-09-171-0/+3
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* / regulator: core: Provide managed regulator registrationMark Brown2013-09-171-0/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | 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>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dmaLinus Torvalds2013-09-101-0/+3
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 ...
| * acpi-dma, doc: append managed function to the listAndy Shevchenko2013-08-251-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | iio: trigger: implement devm_iio_trigger_alloc/devm_iio_triger_freeJacek Anaszewski2013-08-171-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | Documentation: devres: add IIO device alloc/free functions to listOleksandr Kravchenko2013-08-031-0/+4
|/ | | | | | | | 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>
* lib: devres: Introduce devm_ioremap_resource()Thierry Reding2013-01-221-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Documentation: devres: add PHY get/put functions to list of supported callsMarko Katic2013-01-171-0/+4
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Marko Katic <dromede.gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* pwm: add devm_pwm_get() and devm_pwm_put()Alexandre Courbot2012-09-101-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* Merge tag 'pinctrl-for-v3.5' of ↵Linus Torvalds2012-05-211-0/+4
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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 ...
| * pinctrl: implement devm_pinctrl_get()/put()Stephen Warren2012-04-181-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | ARM: 7376/1: clkdev: Implement managed clk_get()Mark Brown2012-04-191-0/+4
|/ | | | | | | | 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>
* Merge remote-tracking branches 'regulator/topic/devm' and ↵Mark Brown2012-03-181-0/+5
|\ | | | | | | 'regulator/topic/stub' into regulator-next
| * regulator: add devm_regulator_* to the list of managed interfacesAxel Lin2012-01-311-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
| * regulator: Add devm_regulator_get()Stephen Boyd2012-01-201-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | Documentation: devres: add allocation functions to list of supported callsWolfram Sang2012-01-241-0/+4
|/ | | | | | | | | 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>
* lib: devres: add convenience function to remap a resourceWolfram Sang2011-11-151-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* docs/driver-model: Update device class docsBart Van Assche2011-08-241-4/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* docs/driver-model: Document device.groupsBart Van Assche2011-08-241-33/+32
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* DOCUMENTATION: Replace create_device() with device_create().Robert P. J. Day2011-06-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | Fix a rather obvious typo. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* DOCUMENTATION: Update overview.txt in Doc/driver-model.Robert P. J. Day2011-06-071-18/+34
| | | | | | | | 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>
* driver core: remove the driver-model structures from the documentationWanlong Gao2011-05-064-141/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* driver core: prune docs about device_interfaceBrandon Philips2010-11-101-129/+0
| | | | | | | | 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>
* Fix spelling of 'platform' in comments and docStefan Weil2010-02-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* Driver core: driver_attribute parameters can often be const*Phil Carmody2009-12-231-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* driver model: fix show/store prototypes in doc.vibi sreenivasan2009-07-121-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* Driver Core: Warn driver authors about adding device attributesGrant Likely2009-06-151-0/+32
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixesMatt LaPlante2009-06-121-1/+1
| | | | | | | Fix various typos in documentation txts. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
* Driver Core: early platform driverMagnus Damm2009-04-161-0/+59
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* PATCH [1/2] Documentation/driver-model/device.txt: fix struct device_attributeMike Murphy2009-02-221-3/+5
| | | | | | | | 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>
* Driver core: Update some prototypes in platform.txtStephen Rothwell2008-02-021-3/+3
| | | | | | | | 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>
* typo fixesMatt LaPlante2007-10-201-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Documentation fix devres.txt: lib/iomap.c -> lib/devres.cBrandon Philips2007-07-181-1/+1
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* update Documentation/driver-model/platform.txtDavid Brownell2007-06-081-0/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* misc doc and kconfig typosMatt LaPlante2007-05-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | 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>
* Fix occurrences of "the the "Michael Opdenacker2007-05-091-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* DOC: Fix wrong identifier name in Documentation/driver-model/devres.txtRolf Eike Beer2007-05-021-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | 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>
* trivial documentation patch for platform.txtErik Hovland2007-02-171-2/+2
| | | | | | | | Found a couple of typos in the Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt file. This patch fixes both of them. Signed-off-by: Erik Hovland <erik@hovland.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* devres: device resource managementTejun Heo2007-02-091-0/+268
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement device resource management, in short, devres. A device driver can allocate arbirary size of devres data which is associated with a release function. On driver detach, release function is invoked on the devres data, then, devres data is freed. devreses are typed by associated release functions. Some devreses are better represented by single instance of the type while others need multiple instances sharing the same release function. Both usages are supported. devreses can be grouped using devres group such that a device driver can easily release acquired resources halfway through initialization or selectively release resources (e.g. resources for port 1 out of 4 ports). This patch adds devres core including documentation and the following managed interfaces. * alloc/free : devm_kzalloc(), devm_kzfree() * IO region : devm_request_region(), devm_release_region() * IRQ : devm_request_irq(), devm_free_irq() * DMA : dmam_alloc_coherent(), dmam_free_coherent(), dmam_declare_coherent_memory(), dmam_pool_create(), dmam_pool_destroy() * PCI : pcim_enable_device(), pcim_pin_device(), pci_is_managed() * iomap : devm_ioport_map(), devm_ioport_unmap(), devm_ioremap(), devm_ioremap_nocache(), devm_iounmap(), pcim_iomap_table(), pcim_iomap(), pcim_iounmap() Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-12-011-86/+118
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (36 commits) Driver core: show drivers in /sys/module/ Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt update/rewrite Driver core: platform_driver_probe(), can save codespace driver core: Use klist_remove() in device_move() driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent. Driver core: make drivers/base/core.c:setup_parent() static driver core: Introduce device_find_child(). sysfs: sysfs_write_file() writes zero terminated data cpu topology: consider sysfs_create_group return value Driver core: Call platform_notify_remove later ACPI: Change ACPI to use dev_archdata instead of firmware_data Driver core: add dev_archdata to struct device Driver core: convert sound core to use struct device Driver core: change mem class_devices to be real devices Driver core: convert fb code to use struct device Driver core: convert firmware code to use struct device Driver core: convert mmc code to use struct device Driver core: convert ppdev code to use struct device Driver core: convert PPP code to use struct device Driver core: convert cpuid code to use struct device ...
| * Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt update/rewriteDavid Brownell2006-12-011-86/+118
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is almost a rewrite of the driver-model/platform.txt documentation; the previous text was obsolete (for several years), evidently it never got updated to match the change from being a PC "legacy_bus" to the more widely used core bus for most embedded systems. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Fix typos in /Documentation : MiscMatt LaPlante2006-11-301-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some misc words. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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