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David Howells
c4028958b6 WorkStruct: make allyesconfig
Fix up for make allyesconfig.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-22 14:57:56 +00:00
Akinobu Mita
09669585b5 [PATCH] n2: fix confusing error code
modprobe n2 with no parameters or no such devices
will get confusing error message.

# modprobe n2
...  Kernel does not have module support

This patch replaces return code from -ENOSYS to -EINVAL.

Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>

 drivers/net/wan/n2.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-31 20:22:05 -05:00
Randy Dunlap
d458fd82c9 [NET] sealevel: uses arp_broken_ops
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:03:13 +0200 Toralf Förster wrote:

> WARNING: "arp_broken_ops" [drivers/net/wan/sealevel.ko] undefined!
> make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1
> make: *** [modules] Error 2
>
> Here's the config:
...
> # CONFIG_INET is not set
> CONFIG_SEALEVEL_4021=m

Sealevel uses arp_broken_ops so it needs to depend on INET.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-30 15:24:33 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
6f0f6d87a2 [PATCH] WAN/pc300: handle, propagate minor errors
- move definition of 'tmc' and 'br' locals closer to usage

- handle clock_rate_calc() error

- propagate errors back to upper level open routine

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-21 14:08:24 -04:00
Jeff Garzik
c31f28e778 drivers/net: eliminate irq handler impossible checks, needless casts
- Eliminate check for irq handler 'dev_id==NULL' where the
  condition never occurs.

- Eliminate needless casts to/from void*

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-10-06 14:56:04 -04:00
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
Eric Sesterhenn
8c6ba51bda [PATCH] Uninitialized variable in drivers/net/wan/syncppp.c
For len equal to 4, we never call sppp_lcp_conf_parse_options(),
therefore rmagic does not get initialized.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:23 -07:00
Al Viro
a144ea4b7a [IPV4]: annotate struct in_ifaddr
ifa_local, ifa_address, ifa_mask, ifa_broadcast and ifa_anycast are
net-endian.  Annotated them and variables that are inferred to be
net-endian.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-28 18:00:55 -07:00
Andrew Morton
fab2062ee4 [PATCH] git-netdev-all: pc300_tty build fix
In file included from drivers/net/wan/pc300_tty.c:59:
drivers/net/wan/pc300.h:335: error: field 'pppdev' has incomplete type

Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-27 16:18:24 -04:00
Krzysztof Halasa
8aca23103c [PATCH] Make PC300 WAN driver compile again
This patch removes accesses to the HDLC-internal data structures
from pc300 driver, thus enabling it to compile but breaking part
of its functionality.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-26 17:40:24 -04:00
Krzysztof Halasa
eb2a2fd91f [PATCH] Modularize generic HDLC
This patch enables building of individual WAN protocol support
routines (parts of generic HDLC) as separate modules.
All protocol-private definitions are moved from hdlc.h file
to protocol drivers. User-space interface and interface
between generic HDLC and underlying low-level HDLC drivers
are unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-09-26 17:40:24 -04:00
Jeff Garzik
1fb0a6c8c6 Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' into upstream 2006-08-19 17:51:34 -04:00
Krzysztof Halasa
a76b044af1 [PATCH] WAN: fix C101 card carrier handling
Hi,

One of my recent changes broke C101 carrier handling, this patch
fixes it. Also fixes an old TX underrun checking bug.

2.6.18 material. Please apply.
Thanks.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-08-19 17:51:25 -04:00
Jeff Garzik
299176206b drivers/net: Remove deprecated use of pci_module_init()
From: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-08-19 17:48:59 -04:00
Dave Jones
bcd6837387 [PATCH] remove unnecessary config.h includes from drivers/net/
config.h is automatically included by kbuild these days.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-08-14 14:00:43 -04:00
Krzysztof Halasa
41b1d17444 [WAN]: Cosmetic changes to N2 and C101 drivers
WAN: Cosmetic changes to N2 and C101 drivers

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-21 14:41:36 -07:00
Krzysztof Halasa
4bc83b4d40 [WAN]: Added missing netif_dormant_off() to generic HDLC
WAN: Fixed a problem with PPP/raw HDLC/X.25 protocols not doing
netif_dormant_off() at startup.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-21 14:41:01 -07:00
Krzysztof Halasa
c2ce920468 [WAN]: converting generic HDLC to use netif_dormant*()
This patch converts generic HDLC (and WAN drivers using it) from
hdlc_set_carrier() to netif_dormant*() interface.
WAN hardware drivers should now use netif_carrier_on|off() like
other network drivers.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-12 13:59:06 -07:00
Paul Fulghum
22db99bd32 [PATCH] remove dead entry in net wan Kconfig
Remove dead entry from net wan Kconfig and net wan Makefile..  This entry is
left over from 2.4 where synclink used syncppp driver directly.  synclink
drivers now use generic HDLC

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-07-05 14:08:08 -04:00
Thomas Gleixner
1fb9df5d30 [PATCH] irq-flags: drivers/net: 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>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-02 13:58:51 -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
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
Linus Torvalds
1903ac54f8 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6:
  [PATCH] i386: export memory more than 4G through /proc/iomem
  [PATCH] 64bit Resource: finally enable 64bit resource sizes
  [PATCH] 64bit Resource: convert a few remaining drivers to use resource_size_t where needed
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: change pnp core to use resource_size_t
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: change pci core and arch code to use resource_size_t
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: change resource core to use resource_size_t
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: introduce resource_size_t for the start and end of struct resource
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in misc drivers
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in arch and core code
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in pcmcia drivers
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in video drivers
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in ide drivers
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in mtd drivers
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in pci core and hotplug drivers
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in networks drivers
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in sound drivers
  [PATCH] 64bit resource: C99 changes for struct resource declarations

Fixed up trivial conflict in drivers/ide/pci/cmd64x.c (the printk that
was changed by the 64-bit resources had been deleted in the meantime ;)
2006-06-29 10:49:17 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
7c7459d1f9 [PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in networks 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 09:23:58 -07:00
Krzysztof Halasa
467c432a4d [PATCH] WAN: update info page for a bunch of my drivers
Updates generic HDLC info page address, I should have done it
long time ago.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-26 22:03:24 -04:00
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
Greg Kroah-Hartman
8ab5e4c15b [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel tree
Removes the devfs_remove() function and all callers of it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:07 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
7c69ef7974 [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel tree
Removes the devfs_mk_cdev() function and all callers of it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:07 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
95dc112a57 [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_dir() function from the kernel tree
Removes the devfs_mk_dir() function and all callers of it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:06 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
96ebb92840 [PATCH] wan/sdla section fixes
netdev->set_config can be called at any time, so these references
to __initdata would be a real problem.
However, problem has not been observed AFAIK.

Fix section mismatch warnings:
WARNING: drivers/net/wan/sdla.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between 'sdla_set_config' (at offset 0x1b8e) and 'sdla_stats'
WARNING: drivers/net/wan/sdla.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: from .text between 'sdla_set_config' (at offset 0x1e76) and 'sdla_stats'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:15 -07:00
Krzysztof Halasa
4446065a2c [PATCH] WAN: ioremap() failure checks in drivers
Eric Sesterhenn found that pci200syn initialization lacks return
statement in ioremap() error path (coverity bug id #195). It looks
like more WAN drivers have problems with ioremap().

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-22 23:32:03 -04:00
Krzysztof Halasa
4a31e348e3 [PATCH] WAN: register_hdlc_device() doesn't need dev_alloc_name()
David Boggs noticed that register_hdlc_device() no longer needs
to call dev_alloc_name() as it's called by register_netdev().
register_hdlc_device() is currently equivalent to register_netdev().

hdlc_setup() is now EXPORTed as per David's request.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-06-22 23:32:03 -04:00
Jeff Garzik
2acab771b7 Merge branch 'master' 2006-04-14 20:48:55 -04:00
Adrian Bunk
8db60bcf30 [WAN]: Remove broken and unmaintained Sangoma drivers.
The in-kernel Sangoma drivers are both not compiling and marked as BROKEN
since at least kernel 2.6.0.

Sangoma offers out-of-tree drivers, and David Mandelstam told me Sangoma
does no longer maintain the in-kernel drivers and prefers to provide them
as a separate installation package.

This patch therefore removes these drivers.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-11 17:28:33 -07:00
Krzysztof Halasa
58a7ce6442 [PATCH] Goramo PCI200SYN WAN driver subsystem ID patch
Goramo finally got PCI subsystem ID for their PCI200SYN card. The
attached patch adds support for it - cards with old EEPROM data
will emit a warning with URL for update tool.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-04-01 14:32:52 -05:00
Matthias Gehre
910638ae7e [PATCH] Replace 0xff.. with correct DMA_xBIT_MASK
Replace all occurences of 0xff..  in calls to function pci_set_dma_mask()
and pci_set_consistant_dma_mask() with the corresponding DMA_xBIT_MASK from
linux/dma-mapping.h.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Gehre <M.Gehre@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:07 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
14cc3e2b63 [PATCH] sem2mutex: misc static one-file mutexes
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:56:55 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg
471a24c058 [WAN]: fix section mismatch warning in sbni
In latest -mm sbni gives following warning: WARNING:
drivers/net/wan/sbni.o - Section mismatch: reference to \ .init.data:
from .text between 'init_module' (at offset 0x14ef) and \
'cleanup_module'

The warning is caused by init_module() calling a function declared
__init.  Declare init_module() __init too to fix warning.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-03-20 22:34:52 -08:00
Jon Mason
47c51431fc [PATCH] trivial: fix spelling errors in Kconfigs
This patch corrects a few spelling and grammar errors found in
drivers/net

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-02-17 08:16:59 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
2746b8623a Merge branch 'net.b0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/bird 2006-02-09 14:15:02 -05:00
Al Viro
164006da31 [PATCH] bogus asm/delay.h includes
asm/delay.h is non-portable; linux/delay.h should be used in generic code.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-07 20:56:41 -05:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3e710bfa6d [PATCH] dscc4: fix dscc4_init_dummy_skb check
It returns a pointer.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-02-07 02:03:29 -05:00
Al Viro
82729971e0 [PATCH] missing include of asm/irq.h in drivers/net
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-28 21:42:25 -05:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3235798804 Fix "stuct", "strut", "struc" typos
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-15 02:12:54 +01:00
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
Jan Blunck
6a878184c2 [PATCH] Eliminate __attribute__ ((packed)) warnings for gcc-4.1
Since version 4.1 the gcc is warning about ignored attributes. This patch is
using the equivalent attribute on the struct instead of on each of the
structure or union members.

GCC Manual:
  "Specifying Attributes of Types

   packed
    This attribute, attached to struct or union type definition, specifies
    that
    each member of the structure or union is placed to minimize the memory
    required. When attached to an enum definition, it indicates that the
    smallest integral type should be used.

    Specifying this attribute for struct and union types is equivalent to
    specifying the packed attribute on each of the structure or union
    members."

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
25c862cc9e Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2006-01-04 16:36:52 -08:00
Brian Gerst
352dd1df32 gitignore: misc files
Ignore all files generated from *_shipped files, plus a few others.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-01-01 22:21:50 +01:00
Jeff Garzik
97bae8dc96 Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' 2005-11-18 13:36:39 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
f1b8c63ef4 Merge branch 'halasa-hdlc' of git://git.tuxdriver.com/git/netdev-jwl 2005-11-18 13:24:33 -05:00