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Nigel Cunningham 7dfb71030f [PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h
Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so
that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require
recompiling just about everything.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver]
Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:27 -08:00
David Howells 4c1ac1b491 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c
	drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c
	drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
	drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c
	drivers/usb/core/hub.h
	drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
	net/core/netpoll.c

Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-05 14:37:56 +00:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 94fbcded4e Driver core: change misc class_devices to be real devices
This also ment that some of the misc drivers had to also be fixed
up as they were assuming the device was a class_device.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:51:59 -08:00
David Howells 65f27f3844 WorkStruct: Pass the work_struct pointer instead of context data
Pass the work_struct pointer to the work function rather than context data.
The work function can use container_of() to work out the data.

For the cases where the container of the work_struct may go away the moment the
pending bit is cleared, it is made possible to defer the release of the
structure by deferring the clearing of the pending bit.

To make this work, an extra flag is introduced into the management side of the
work_struct.  This governs auto-release of the structure upon execution.

Ordinarily, the work queue executor would release the work_struct for further
scheduling or deallocation by clearing the pending bit prior to jumping to the
work function.  This means that, unless the driver makes some guarantee itself
that the work_struct won't go away, the work function may not access anything
else in the work_struct or its container lest they be deallocated..  This is a
problem if the auxiliary data is taken away (as done by the last patch).

However, if the pending bit is *not* cleared before jumping to the work
function, then the work function *may* access the work_struct and its container
with no problems.  But then the work function must itself release the
work_struct by calling work_release().

In most cases, automatic release is fine, so this is the default.  Special
initiators exist for the non-auto-release case (ending in _NAR).


Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:55:48 +00:00
Linus Torvalds 43f82216f0 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: fm801-gp - handle errors from pci_enable_device()
  Input: gameport core - handle errors returned by device_bind_driver()
  Input: serio core - handle errors returned by device_bind_driver()
  Lockdep: fix compile error in drivers/input/serio/serio.c
  Input: serio - add lockdep annotations
  Lockdep: add lockdep_set_class_and_subclass() and lockdep_set_subclass()
  Input: atkbd - supress "too many keys" error message
  Input: i8042 - supress ACK/NAKs when blinking during panic
  Input: add missing exports to fix modular build
2006-10-17 08:56:43 -07:00
Al Viro 6ce6b3aeea [PATCH] hp drivers/input stuff: C99 initializers, NULL noise removal, __user annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-15 11:00:58 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov 0a66045bcf Input: serio core - handle errors returned by device_bind_driver()
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-10-12 01:06:23 -04:00
Jiri Kosina 88aa0103e4 Input: serio - add lockdep annotations
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-10-11 01:45:31 -04:00
Dmitry Torokhov 817e6ba362 Input: i8042 - supress ACK/NAKs when blinking during panic
This allows using SysRq and not fill logs with complaints from atkbd.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-10-11 01:44:28 -04:00
Geert Uytterhoeven da96d0b58a [PATCH] m68k/HP300: Enable HIL configuration options
Enable HIL configuration options on HP300

Signed-off-by: Kars de Jong <jongk@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-09 14:54:45 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox be577a5220 Build fixes for struct pt_regs removal
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
2006-10-06 20:47:23 -06:00
David Howells 7d12e780e0 IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
Matt LaPlante 095096038d Fix several typos in drivers/
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:31:37 +02:00
Linus Torvalds a12f66fccf Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (35 commits)
  Input: wistron - add support for Acer TravelMate 2424NWXCi
  Input: wistron - fix setting up special buttons
  Input: add KEY_BLUETOOTH and KEY_WLAN definitions
  Input: add new BUS_VIRTUAL bus type
  Input: add driver for stowaway serial keyboards
  Input: make input_register_handler() return error codes
  Input: remove cruft that was needed for transition to sysfs
  Input: fix input module refcounting
  Input: constify input core
  Input: libps2 - rearrange exports
  Input: atkbd - support Microsoft Natural Elite Pro keyboards
  Input: i8042 - disable MUX mode on Toshiba Equium A110
  Input: i8042 - get rid of polling timer
  Input: send key up events at disconnect
  Input: constify psmouse driver
  Input: i8042 - add Amoi to the MUX blacklist
  Input: logips2pp - add sugnature 56 (Cordless MouseMan Wheel), cleanup
  Input: add driver for Touchwin serial touchscreens
  Input: add driver for Touchright serial touchscreens
  Input: add driver for Penmount serial touchscreens
  ...
2006-10-02 08:20:33 -07:00
Olaf Hering 30cbc22217 [PATCH] update legacy io handling for pmac
ppc can boot one single binary on prep, chrp and pmac boards.  ppc64 can
boot one single binary on pseries and G5 boards.  pmac has no legacy io,
probing for PC style legacy hardware (or accessing the legacy io area
regulary) may lead to a hard crash:

* add check for parport_pc, exit on pmac.  32bit chrp has no
  ->check_legacy_ioport, the probe is always called.  64bit chrp has
  check_legacy_ioport, check for a "parallel" node

* add check for isapnp, only PReP boards may have real ISA slots.  32bit
  PReP will have no ->check_legacy_ioport, the probe is always called.

* update code in i8042_platform_init.  Run ->check_legacy_ioport first,
  always call request_region.  No functional change.  Remove whitespace
  before i8042_reset init.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:23 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov 5206c0d5ec Input: libps2 - rearrange exports
The new way is to mark function as exported right after its definition.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-09-14 01:31:40 -04:00
Dmitry Torokhov 9807879bfd Input: atkbd - support Microsoft Natural Elite Pro keyboards
Microsoft Natural Elite Pro keyboard produces unisual response to
the GET ID command - single byte 0xaa (normally keyboards produce
2-byte response). Fail GET ID command so atkbd gets a change to
do alternate probe.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-09-14 01:31:27 -04:00
Dmitry Torokhov a91eaa16df Input: i8042 - disable MUX mode on Toshiba Equium A110
When keyboard controller is in active multiplexing mode ALPS touchpad
may get detected twice. Since the box does not have external PS/2
ports simply disabling MUX mode is safe solution.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-09-14 01:31:06 -04:00
Dmitry Torokhov de9ce703c6 Input: i8042 - get rid of polling timer
Remove polling timer that was used to detect keybord/mice hotplug and
register both IRQs right away instead of waiting for a driver to
attach to a port.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-09-10 21:57:21 -04:00
Cjacker Huang e2df452b8a Input: i8042 - add Amoi to the MUX blacklist
ALPS touchpad on Amoi laptops (Amoi is a vendor in China) is not
detected when keyboard controller is in MUX mode, add to blacklist.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-08-08 23:38:22 -04:00
Randy Dunlap 73b59a3b1c Input: serio/gameport - check whether driver core calls succeeded
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-07-19 01:14:55 -04:00
Dmitry Torokhov 95349fe814 Input: libps2 - warn instead of oopsing when passed bad arguments
This is more user-friendly and also fixes Coverity #id 249

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-07-06 23:54:48 -04:00
Arjan van de Ven 3aceafc1e2 [PATCH] lockdep: annotate serio
The PS/2 code has a natural device order and there is a one level recursion in
this device order in terms of the cmd_mutex; annotate this explicit recursion
as ok.

Has no effect on non-lockdep kernels.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:07 -07:00
Andrew Morton 6b8f3ef454 [PATCH] sparc i8042 build fix
drivers/input/serio/i8042-sparcio.h:91: error: '__mod_of_device_table' aliased to undefined symbol 'i8042_match'

Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
DESC
sparc: resource warning fix
EDESC
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

sound/sparc/amd7930.c: In function 'amd7930_attach_common':
sound/sparc/amd7930.c:1040: warning: format '%08lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 5 has type 'resource_size_t'

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03 15:27:00 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner dace145374 [PATCH] irq-flags: misc drivers: Use the new IRQF_ constants
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-02 13:58:50 -07:00
Jörn Engel 6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
David S. Miller f57caaefac [SERIO] i8042-sparcio.h: Convert to of_driver framework.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29 16:38:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 602cada851 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6: (22 commits)
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove it from the feature_removal.txt file
  [PATCH] devfs: Last little devfs cleanups throughout the kernel tree.
  [PATCH] devfs: Rename TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS to TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the tty_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the line_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the videodevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the gendisk devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_bdev() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_symlink() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_dir() function from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_*_tape() functions from the kernel tree
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the sound subsystem
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the ide subsystem.
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the serial subsystem
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code
  [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the partition code
  ...
2006-06-29 14:19:21 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman e29419fffc [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in misc drivers
This is needed if we wish to change the size of the resource structures.

Based on an original patch from Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>

Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-27 09:23:59 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman ff23eca3e8 [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree
Also fixes up all files that #include it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:08 -07:00
David S. Miller 690c8fd31f [SPARC64]: Use in-kernel PROM tree for EBUS and ISA.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-23 23:15:28 -07:00
David Woodhouse 1269277a5e [PATCH] powerpc: Use check_legacy_ioport() on ppc32 too.
Some people report that we die on some Macs when we are expecting to
catch machine checks after poking at some random I/O address. I'd seen
it happen on my dual G4 with serial ports until we fixed those to use
OF, but now other users are reporting it with i8042.

This expands the use of check_legacy_ioport() to avoid that situation
even on 32-bit kernels.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-28 21:04:55 +10:00
Dmitry Torokhov 95d465fd75 Manual merge with Linus.
Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
	drivers/input/keyboard/hil_kbd.c
	drivers/input/mouse/hil_ptr.c
2006-04-02 00:08:05 -05:00
Helge Deller 5076c15862 [PARISC] I/O-Space must be ioremap_nocache()'d
Addresses in F-space must be accessed uncached on most parisc machines.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-03-30 17:48:42 +00:00
Eric Sesterhenn fddaaae16b BUG_ON() Conversion in input/serio/hp_sdc_mlc.c
this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is
cleaner and can better optimized away

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-26 18:23:47 +02:00
Eric Sesterhenn b1eecf7e04 BUG_ON() Conversion in input/serio/hil_mlc.c
this changes if() BUG(); constructs to BUG_ON() which is
cleaner and can better optimized away

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-24 18:37:43 +01:00
Adrian Bunk 9d921116cc Input: serio - fix memory leak
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-03-14 00:13:29 -05:00
Bjorn Helgaas 2bfc3c6e95 Input: i8042 - fix logic around pnp_register_driver()
Do not assume that pnp_register_driver() returns the number of
devices claimed.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-03-14 00:12:24 -05:00
Eric Sesterhenn b39787a972 Input: use kzalloc() throughout the code
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-03-14 00:09:16 -05:00
Dmitry Torokhov 51c38f9bce Input: initialize serio and gameport at subsystem level
Serio and gameport cores do not depend on other drivers and are
used by code living outside of drivers/input/{gameport|serio}.
Registering them at subsystem level guarantees that they are
fully initialized before anyone tries to use them.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-02-19 00:22:51 -05:00
Arjan van de Ven c4e32e9faa Input: serio - 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: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-02-19 00:21:55 -05:00
Arthur Othieno 02860ab6cd Input: kill remnants of 98kbd{,-io} and 98spkr
98kbd{,-io} and 98spkr all went out with PC98 subarch.  Remove stale Makefile
entries that remained.

Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-02-15 00:49:48 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 3e2b32b693 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6 2006-01-14 10:42:40 -08:00
Linus Torvalds e7de369050 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2006-01-14 09:49:16 -08:00
Vojtech Pavlik 3dd01a8311 Input: i8042 - add Sony Vaio FSC-115b to MUX blacklist
Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-01-14 00:24:06 -05:00
Russell King 30226f8199 [PATCH] Add serio bus_type probe and remove methods
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 11:26:07 -08:00
Alan Cox 33f0f88f1c [PATCH] TTY layer buffering revamp
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 08:01:59 -08:00
Russell King e9368f8288 [ARM] Remove asm/irq.h includes from ARM drivers
Many ARM drivers do not need to include asm/irq.h - remove this
unnecessary include from some ARM drivers.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-09 13:56:42 +00:00
Linus Torvalds b9abaa3fb7 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2006-01-07 11:29:51 -08:00
Russell King f8ce25476d [ARM] Move asm/hardware/clock.h to linux/clk.h
This is needs to be visible to other architectures using the AMBA
bus and peripherals.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-07 16:15:52 +00:00