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Sebastian Fricke
31b4b3bff2 include/linux/miscdevice.h - Fix typo/grammar
Improve the clarity and grammar of descriptive comment on top of the
minor number assignments.

Fix a typo within 2 comments for macros.
s/This helps in eleminating of boilerplate code.
 /This helps to eliminate boilerplate code./

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke.linux@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200803054346.4285-1-sebastian.fricke.linux@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-08-28 12:37:42 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann
8067c0b0c6 rtc/ia64: remove legacy efirtc driver
There are two EFI RTC drivers, the original drivers/char/efirtc.c
driver and the more modern drivers/rtc/rtc-efi.c.

Both implement the same interface, but the new one does so
in a more portable way.

Move everything over to that one and remove the old one.

Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200226224322.187960-1-alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-03-19 07:41:02 +01:00
Zhenzhong Duan
2668dba6df misc: move FLASH_MINOR into miscdevice.h and fix conflicts
FLASH_MINOR is used in both drivers/char/nwflash.c and
drivers/sbus/char/flash.c with conflict minor numbers.

Move all the definitions of FLASH_MINOR into miscdevice.h.
Rename FLASH_MINOR for drivers/char/nwflash.c to NWFLASH_MINOR
and FLASH_MINOR for drivers/sbus/char/flash.c to SBUS_FLASH_MINOR.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200120221323.GJ15860@mit.edu/t/
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200311071654.335-3-zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-03-18 12:27:04 +01:00
Zhenzhong Duan
6ce6ae7c17 misc: cleanup minor number definitions in c file into miscdevice.h
HWRNG_MINOR and RNG_MISCDEV_MINOR are duplicate definitions, use
unified HWRNG_MINOR instead and moved into miscdevice.h

ANSLCD_MINOR and LCD_MINOR are duplicate definitions, use unified
LCD_MINOR instead and moved into miscdevice.h

MISCDEV_MINOR is renamed to PXA3XX_GCU_MINOR and moved into
miscdevice.h

Other definitions are just moved without any change.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200120221323.GJ15860@mit.edu/t/
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Build-tested-by: Willy TARREAU <wtarreau@haproxy.com>
Build-tested-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200311071654.335-2-zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-03-18 12:27:03 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
7ada90eb9c drm msm + fixes for 5.5-rc1
msm-next:
 - OCMEM support for a3xx and a4xx GPUs.
 - a510 support + display support
 
 core:
 - mst payload deletion fix
 
 i915:
 - uapi alignment fix
 - fix for power usage regression due to security fixes
 - change default preemption timeout to 640ms from 100ms
 - EHL voltage level display fixes
 - TGL DGL PHY fix
 - gvt - MI_ATOMIC cmd parser fix, CFL non-priv warning
 - CI spotted deadlock fix
 - EHL port D programming fix
 
 amdgpu:
 - VRAM lost fixes on BACO for CI/VI
 - navi14 DC fixes
 - misc SR-IOV, gfx10 fixes
 - XGMI fixes for arcturus
 - SRIOV fixes
 
 amdkfd:
 - KFD on ppc64le enabled
 - page table optimisations
 
 radeon:
 - fix for r1xx/2xx register checker.
 
 tegra:
 - displayport regression fixes
 - DMA API regression fixes
 
 mgag200:
 - fix devices that can't scanout except at 0 addr
 
 omap:
 - fix dma_addr refcounting
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Merge tag 'drm-next-2019-12-06' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm

Pull more drm updates from Dave Airlie:
 "Rob pointed out I missed his pull request for msm-next, it's been in
  next for a while outside of my tree so shouldn't cause any unexpected
  issues, it has some OCMEM support in drivers/soc that is acked by
  other maintainers as it's outside my tree.

  Otherwise it's a usual fixes pull, i915, amdgpu, the main ones, with
  some tegra, omap, mgag200 and one core fix.

  Summary:

  msm-next:
   - OCMEM support for a3xx and a4xx GPUs.
   - a510 support + display support

  core:
   - mst payload deletion fix

  i915:
   - uapi alignment fix
   - fix for power usage regression due to security fixes
   - change default preemption timeout to 640ms from 100ms
   - EHL voltage level display fixes
   - TGL DGL PHY fix
   - gvt - MI_ATOMIC cmd parser fix, CFL non-priv warning
   - CI spotted deadlock fix
   - EHL port D programming fix

  amdgpu:
   - VRAM lost fixes on BACO for CI/VI
   - navi14 DC fixes
   - misc SR-IOV, gfx10 fixes
   - XGMI fixes for arcturus
   - SRIOV fixes

  amdkfd:
   - KFD on ppc64le enabled
   - page table optimisations

  radeon:
   - fix for r1xx/2xx register checker.

  tegra:
   - displayport regression fixes
   - DMA API regression fixes

  mgag200:
   - fix devices that can't scanout except at 0 addr

  omap:
   - fix dma_addr refcounting"

* tag 'drm-next-2019-12-06' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm: (100 commits)
  drm/dp_mst: Correct the bug in drm_dp_update_payload_part1()
  drm/omap: fix dma_addr refcounting
  drm/tegra: Run hub cleanup on ->remove()
  drm/tegra: sor: Make the +5V HDMI supply optional
  drm/tegra: Silence expected errors on IOMMU attach
  drm/tegra: vic: Export module device table
  drm/tegra: sor: Implement system suspend/resume
  drm/tegra: Use proper IOVA address for cursor image
  drm/tegra: gem: Remove premature import restrictions
  drm/tegra: gem: Properly pin imported buffers
  drm/tegra: hub: Remove bogus connection mutex check
  ia64: agp: Replace empty define with do while
  agp: Add bridge parameter documentation
  agp: remove unused variable num_segments
  agp: move AGPGART_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h
  agp: remove unused variable size in agp_generic_create_gatt_table
  drm/dp_mst: Fix build on systems with STACKTRACE_SUPPORT=n
  drm/radeon: fix r1xx/r2xx register checker for POT textures
  drm/amdgpu: fix GFX10 missing CSIB set(v3)
  drm/amdgpu: should stop GFX ring in hw_fini
  ...
2019-12-06 10:28:09 -08:00
Corentin Labbe
0f109f0e9a agp: move AGPGART_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h
This patch move the define for AGPGART_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h.
It is better that all minor number definitions are in the same place.

Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1574324085-4338-3-git-send-email-clabbe@baylibre.com
2019-12-04 13:32:45 +10:00
Marcel Holtmann
8670b2b8b0 rfkill: allocate static minor
udev has a feature of creating /dev/<node> device-nodes if it finds
a devnode:<node> modalias. This allows for auto-loading of modules that
provide the node. This requires to use a statically allocated minor
number for misc character devices.

However, rfkill uses dynamic minor numbers and prevents auto-loading
of the module. So allocate the next static misc minor number and use
it for rfkill.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191024174042.19851-1-marcel@holtmann.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-11-05 18:25:54 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
1deab8ce2c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc
Pull sparc updates from David Miller:

 1) Add missing cmpxchg64() for 32-bit sparc.

 2) Timer conversions from Allen Pais and Kees Cook.

 3) vDSO support, from Nagarathnam Muthusamy.

 4) Fix sparc64 huge page table walks based upon bug report by Al Viro,
    from Nitin Gupta.

 5) Optimized fls() for T4 and above, from Vijay Kumar.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
  sparc64: Fix page table walk for PUD hugepages
  sparc64: Convert timers to user timer_setup()
  sparc64: convert mdesc_handle.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
  sparc/led: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
  sparc64: Use sparc optimized fls and __fls for T4 and above
  sparc64: SPARC optimized __fls function
  sparc64: SPARC optimized fls function
  sparc64: Define SPARC default __fls function
  sparc64: Define SPARC default fls function
  vDSO for sparc
  sparc32: Add cmpxchg64().
  sbus: char: Move D7S_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h
  sparc: time: Remove unneeded linux/miscdevice.h include
  sparc64: mmu_context: Add missing include files
2017-11-17 20:21:44 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
b24413180f License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Corentin Labbe
da61e7308d sbus: char: Move D7S_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h
This patch move the define for D7S_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h.
It's better that all minor number are in the same place.

Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-09-27 21:39:22 -07:00
Stefan Hajnoczi
f4660cc994 vhost/vsock: use static minor number
Vhost-vsock is a software device so there is no probe call that causes
the driver to register its misc char device node.  This creates a
chicken and egg problem: userspace applications must open
/dev/vhost-vsock to use the driver but the file doesn't exist until the
kernel module has been loaded.

Use the devname modalias mechanism so that /dev/vhost-vsock is created
at boot.  The vhost_vsock kernel module is automatically loaded when the
first application opens /dev/host-vsock.

Note that the "reserved for local use" range in
Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt is incorrect.  The userio driver
already occupies part of that range.  I've updated the documentation
accordingly.

Cc: device@lanana.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-05-18 16:59:06 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
5bcbe22ca4 Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
 "API:
   - Try to catch hash output overrun in testmgr
   - Introduce walksize attribute for batched walking
   - Make crypto_xor() and crypto_inc() alignment agnostic

  Algorithms:
   - Add time-invariant AES algorithm
   - Add standalone CBCMAC algorithm

  Drivers:
   - Add NEON acclerated chacha20 on ARM/ARM64
   - Expose AES-CTR as synchronous skcipher on ARM64
   - Add scalar AES implementation on ARM64
   - Improve scalar AES implementation on ARM
   - Improve NEON AES implementation on ARM/ARM64
   - Merge CRC32 and PMULL instruction based drivers on ARM64
   - Add NEON acclerated CBCMAC/CMAC/XCBC AES on ARM64
   - Add IPsec AUTHENC implementation in atmel
   - Add Support for Octeon-tx CPT Engine
   - Add Broadcom SPU driver
   - Add MediaTek driver"

* 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (142 commits)
  crypto: xts - Add ECB dependency
  crypto: cavium - switch to pci_alloc_irq_vectors
  crypto: cavium - switch to pci_alloc_irq_vectors
  crypto: cavium - remove dead MSI-X related define
  crypto: brcm - Avoid double free in ahash_finup()
  crypto: cavium - fix Kconfig dependencies
  crypto: cavium - cpt_bind_vq_to_grp could return an error code
  crypto: doc - fix typo
  hwrng: omap - update Kconfig help description
  crypto: ccm - drop unnecessary minimum 32-bit alignment
  crypto: ccm - honour alignmask of subordinate MAC cipher
  crypto: caam - fix state buffer DMA (un)mapping
  crypto: caam - abstract ahash request double buffering
  crypto: caam - fix error path for ctx_dma mapping failure
  crypto: caam - fix DMA API leaks for multiple setkey() calls
  crypto: caam - don't dma_map key for hash algorithms
  crypto: caam - use dma_map_sg() return code
  crypto: caam - replace sg_count() with sg_nents_for_len()
  crypto: caam - check sg_count() return value
  crypto: caam - fix HW S/G in ablkcipher_giv_edesc_alloc()
  ..
2017-02-23 09:54:19 -08:00
Corentin Labbe
874bcd00f5 apm-emulation: move APM_MINOR_DEV to include/linux/miscdevice.h
This patch move the define for APM_MINOR_DEV to include/linux/miscdevice.h
It is better that all minor number definitions are in the same place.

Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-01-10 21:46:41 +01:00
Corentin LABBE
fd50d71f94 hwrng: core - Move hwrng miscdev minor number to include/linux/miscdevice.h
This patch move the define for hwrng's miscdev minor number to
include/linux/miscdevice.h.
It's better that all minor number are in the same place.
Rename it to HWRNG_MINOR (from RNG_MISCDEV_MINOR) in he process since
no other miscdev define have MISCDEV in their name.

Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2016-12-27 17:50:51 +08:00
Linus Torvalds
52f40e9d65 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Pull networking fixes and cleanups from David Miller:

 1) Revert bogus nla_ok() change, from Alexey Dobriyan.

 2) Various bpf validator fixes from Daniel Borkmann.

 3) Add some necessary SET_NETDEV_DEV() calls to hsis_femac and hip04
    drivers, from Dongpo Li.

 4) Several ethtool ksettings conversions from Philippe Reynes.

 5) Fix bugs in inet port management wrt. soreuseport, from Tom Herbert.

 6) XDP support for virtio_net, from John Fastabend.

 7) Fix NAT handling within a vrf, from David Ahern.

 8) Endianness fixes in dpaa_eth driver, from Claudiu Manoil

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (63 commits)
  net: mv643xx_eth: fix build failure
  isdn: Constify some function parameters
  mlxsw: spectrum: Mark split ports as such
  cgroup: Fix CGROUP_BPF config
  qed: fix old-style function definition
  net: ipv6: check route protocol when deleting routes
  r6040: move spinlock in r6040_close as SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected
  irda: w83977af_ir: cleanup an indent issue
  net: sfc: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
  net: davicom: dm9000: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
  net: cirrus: ep93xx: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
  net: chelsio: cxgb3: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
  net: chelsio: cxgb2: use new api ethtool_{get|set}_link_ksettings
  bpf: fix mark_reg_unknown_value for spilled regs on map value marking
  bpf: fix overflow in prog accounting
  bpf: dynamically allocate digest scratch buffer
  gtp: Fix initialization of Flags octet in GTPv1 header
  gtp: gtp_check_src_ms_ipv4() always return success
  net/x25: use designated initializers
  isdn: use designated initializers
  ...
2016-12-17 20:17:04 -08:00
LABBE Corentin
24c946cc5d irnet: ppp: move IRNET_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h
This patch move the define for IRNET_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h
It is better that all minor number definitions are in the same place.

Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-12-17 11:17:24 -05:00
Paul Gortmaker
f71082f815 miscdevice: introduce builtin_misc_device
This is basically the same as module_misc_device but without the
presence of an exit/remove function.   Similar in nature to the
commit f309d44431 ("platform_device:
better support builtin boilerplate avoidance").

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-10-28 08:22:11 -04:00
PrasannaKumar Muralidharan
ca75d601b5 miscdevice: Add helper macro for misc device boilerplate
Many modules call misc_register and misc_deregister in its module init
and exit methods without any additional code. This ends up being
boilerplate. This patch adds helper macro module_misc_device(), that
replaces module_init()/ module_exit() with template functions.

This patch also converts drivers to use new macro.

Change since v1:
Add device.h include in miscdevice.h as module_driver macro was not
available from other include files in some architectures.

Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-08-31 14:12:35 +02:00
Stephen Chandler Paul
5523662edd Input: add userio module
Debugging input devices, specifically laptop touchpads, can be tricky
without having the physical device handy. Here we try to remedy that
with userio. This module allows an application to connect to a character
device provided by the kernel, and emulate any serio device. In
combination with userspace programs that can record PS/2 devices and
replay them through the /dev/userio device, this allows developers to
debug driver issues on the PS/2 level with devices simply by requesting
a recording from the user experiencing the issue without having to have
the physical hardware in front of them.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Chandler Paul <cpaul@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
2015-10-27 18:55:31 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
f368ed6088 char: make misc_deregister a void function
With well over 200+ users of this api, there are a mere 12 users that
actually checked the return value of this function.  And all of them
really didn't do anything with that information as the system or module
was shutting down no matter what.

So stop pretending like it matters, and just return void from
misc_deregister().  If something goes wrong in the call, you will get a
WARNING splat in the syslog so you know how to fix up your driver.
Other than that, there's nothing that can go wrong.

Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: Christine Caulfield <ccaulfie@redhat.com>
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-08-05 10:35:49 -07:00
Takashi Iwai
bd73599530 misc: Add attribute groups
Add groups field to struct miscdevice for passing the attribute groups
at device creation.  In this way, the driver can avoid the manual call
of device_create_file() after the device registration, which is
basically a racy operation, in addition to the reduction of manual
device_remove_file() calls.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-03-25 11:44:52 +01:00
Robert P. J. Day
f82dd4b093 miscdevice.h: Simple syntax fix to make pointers consistent.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-05-27 17:43:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
cd6362befe Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Here is my initial pull request for the networking subsystem during
  this merge window:

   1) Support for ESN in AH (RFC 4302) from Fan Du.

   2) Add full kernel doc for ethtool command structures, from Ben
      Hutchings.

   3) Add BCM7xxx PHY driver, from Florian Fainelli.

   4) Export computed TCP rate information in netlink socket dumps, from
      Eric Dumazet.

   5) Allow IPSEC SA to be dumped partially using a filter, from Nicolas
      Dichtel.

   6) Convert many drivers to pci_enable_msix_range(), from Alexander
      Gordeev.

   7) Record SKB timestamps more efficiently, from Eric Dumazet.

   8) Switch to microsecond resolution for TCP round trip times, also
      from Eric Dumazet.

   9) Clean up and fix 6lowpan fragmentation handling by making use of
      the existing inet_frag api for it's implementation.

  10) Add TX grant mapping to xen-netback driver, from Zoltan Kiss.

  11) Auto size SKB lengths when composing netlink messages based upon
      past message sizes used, from Eric Dumazet.

  12) qdisc dumps can take a long time, add a cond_resched(), From Eric
      Dumazet.

  13) Sanitize netpoll core and drivers wrt.  SKB handling semantics.
      Get rid of never-used-in-tree netpoll RX handling.  From Eric W
      Biederman.

  14) Support inter-address-family and namespace changing in VTI tunnel
      driver(s).  From Steffen Klassert.

  15) Add Altera TSE driver, from Vince Bridgers.

  16) Optimizing csum_replace2() so that it doesn't adjust the checksum
      by checksumming the entire header, from Eric Dumazet.

  17) Expand BPF internal implementation for faster interpreting, more
      direct translations into JIT'd code, and much cleaner uses of BPF
      filtering in non-socket ocntexts.  From Daniel Borkmann and Alexei
      Starovoitov"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1976 commits)
  netpoll: Use skb_irq_freeable to make zap_completion_queue safe.
  net: Add a test to see if a skb is freeable in irq context
  qlcnic: Fix build failure due to undefined reference to `vxlan_get_rx_port'
  net: ptp: move PTP classifier in its own file
  net: sxgbe: make "core_ops" static
  net: sxgbe: fix logical vs bitwise operation
  net: sxgbe: sxgbe_mdio_register() frees the bus
  Call efx_set_channels() before efx->type->dimension_resources()
  xen-netback: disable rogue vif in kthread context
  net/mlx4: Set proper build dependancy with vxlan
  be2net: fix build dependency on VxLAN
  mac802154: make csma/cca parameters per-wpan
  mac802154: allow only one WPAN to be up at any given time
  net: filter: minor: fix kdoc in __sk_run_filter
  netlink: don't compare the nul-termination in nla_strcmp
  can: c_can: Avoid led toggling for every packet.
  can: c_can: Simplify TX interrupt cleanup
  can: c_can: Store dlc private
  can: c_can: Reduce register access
  can: c_can: Make the code readable
  ...
2014-04-02 20:53:45 -07:00
Lucas De Marchi
3503958cb0 misc: add comment on unused minors
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-02-18 10:56:28 -08:00
Lucas De Marchi
b075dd40c9 Bluetooth: allocate static minor for vhci
Commit bfacbb9 (Bluetooth: Use devname:vhci module alias for virtual HCI
driver) added the module alias to hci_vhci module so it's possible to
create the /dev/vhci node. However creating an alias without
specifying the minor doesn't allow us to create the node ahead,
triggerring module auto-load when it's first accessed.

Starting with depmod from kmod 16 we started to warn if there's a
devname alias without specifying the major and minor.

Let's do the same done for uhid, kvm, fuse and others, specifying a
fixed minor. In systems with systemd as the init the following will
happen: on early boot systemd will call "kmod static-nodes" to read
/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.devname and then create the nodes. When
first accessed these "dead" nodes will trigger the module loading.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2014-02-18 09:49:04 -08:00
Alex Williamson
8dcf94bcff misc: Reserve minor for VFIO
VFIO currently allocates it's own dynamic chardev range, reserving the
first minor for the control part of the interface (/dev/vfio/vfio) and
the remainder for VFIO groups (/dev/vfio/$GROUP).  This works, but it
doesn't support auto loading.  For instance when libvirt checks for
VFIO support it looks for /dev/vfio/vfio, which currently doesn't
exist unless the vfio module is loaded.  By converting the control
device to a misc driver and reserving a static minor, we can enable
auto loading.

Reserving the minor is a prerequist to that conversion.  Minor 196
is unused by anything currently in the kernel.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-19 10:17:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a7fa20a594 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:
 "This adds a ->writepage() implementation to fuse, improving mmaped
  writeout and paving the way for buffered writeback.

  And there's a patch to add a fix minor number for /dev/cuse, similarly
  to /dev/fuse"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  fuse: writepages: protect secondary requests from fuse file release
  fuse: writepages: update bdi writeout when deleting secondary request
  fuse: writepages: crop secondary requests
  fuse: writepages: roll back changes if request not found
  cuse: add fix minor number to /dev/cuse
  fuse: writepage: skip already in flight
  fuse: writepages: handle same page rewrites
  fuse: writepages: fix aggregation
  fuse: fix race in fuse_writepages()
  fuse: Implement writepages callback
  fuse: don't BUG on no write file
  fuse: lock page in mkwrite
  fuse: Prepare to handle multiple pages in writeback
  fuse: Getting file for writeback helper
2013-11-13 15:27:00 +09:00
Tom Gundersen
cb2ffb26e6 cuse: add fix minor number to /dev/cuse
This allows udev (or more recently systemd-tmpfiles) to create /dev/cuse on
boot, in the same way as /dev/fuse is currently created, and the corresponding
module to be loaded on first access.

The corresponding functionalty was introduced for fuse in commit 578454f.

Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2013-10-01 16:44:54 +02:00
David Herrmann
19872d20c8 HID: uhid: allocate static minor
udev has this nice feature of creating "dead" /dev/<node> device-nodes if
it finds a devnode:<node> modalias. Once the node is accessed, the kernel
automatically loads the module that provides the node. However, this
requires udev to know the major:minor code to use for the node. This
feature was introduced by:

  commit 578454ff7e
  Author: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
  Date:   Thu May 20 18:07:20 2010 +0200

      driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading

However, uhid uses dynamic minor numbers so this doesn't actually work. We
need to load uhid to know which minor it's going to use.

Hence, allocate a static minor (just like uinput does) and we're good
to go.

Reported-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-09-26 11:03:29 +02:00
Sreekanth Reddy
78ad724ade [SCSI] miscdevice: Adding support for MPT3SAS_MINOR(222)
Signed-off-by: Sreekanth Reddy <Sreekanth.Reddy@lsi.com>
Reviewed-by: Nagalakshmi Nandigama <Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
2012-12-01 10:07:54 +00:00
Liu, Jinsong
cef12ee52b xen/mce: Add mcelog support for Xen platform
When MCA error occurs, it would be handled by Xen hypervisor first,
and then the error information would be sent to initial domain for logging.

This patch gets error information from Xen hypervisor and convert
Xen format error into Linux format mcelog. This logic is basically
self-contained, not touching other kernel components.

By using tools like mcelog tool users could read specific error information,
like what they did under native Linux.

To test follow directions outlined in Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt

Acked-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Ke, Liping <liping.ke@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiang, Yunhong <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Liu, Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2012-07-19 15:51:36 -04:00
stephen hemminger
7c7c7f01cc vhost-net: add module alias (v2.1)
By adding some module aliases, programs (or users) won't have to explicitly
call modprobe. Vhost-net will always be available if built into the kernel.
It does require assigning a permanent minor number for depmod to work.

Also:
  - use C99 style initialization.
  - add missing entry in documentation for loop-control

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Acked-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-01-13 10:12:23 -08:00
Al Viro
a85cfdaec9 switch miscdevice to umode_t
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:55:15 -05:00
Paul Gortmaker
1986c93f09 miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
By removing the implicit presence of module.h from this file, we
will see things like:

In file included from fs/dlm/user.c:9:
include/linux/miscdevice.h:50: error: field ‘list’ has incomplete type
include/linux/miscdevice.h:54: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘mode_t’

Call out lists.h and types.h for inclusion to fix each of the
above respectively.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:32:29 -04:00
Paul Gortmaker
ddac6021fc miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
This file has a define MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV which in turn will
use the MODULE_ALIAS define, but only if the former is explicitly
used by modular device driver code (and such code should be
already including module.h).

Delete the include, since module.h is such a giant thing that we
don't want it implicitly sneaking into compiles where it isn't
specifically required.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 19:32:26 -04:00
Kay Sievers
770fe30a46 loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation
Loop devices today have a fixed pre-allocated number of usually 8.
The number can only be changed at module init time. To find a free
device to use, /dev/loop%i needs to be scanned, and all devices need
to be opened until a free one is possibly found.

This adds a new /dev/loop-control device node, that allows to
dynamically find or allocate a free device, and to add and remove loop
devices from the running system:
 LOOP_CTL_ADD adds a specific device. Arg is the number
 of the device. It returns the device i or a negative
 error code.

 LOOP_CTL_REMOVE removes a specific device, Arg is the
 number the device. It returns the device i or a negative
 error code.

 LOOP_CTL_GET_FREE finds the next unbound device or allocates
 a new one. No arg is given. It returns the device i or a
 negative error code.

The loop kernel module gets automatically loaded when
/dev/loop-control is accessed the first time. The alias
specified in the module, instructs udev to create this
'dead' device node, even when the module is not loaded.

Example:
 cfd = open("/dev/loop-control", O_RDWR);

 # add a new specific loop device
 err = ioctl(cfd, LOOP_CTL_ADD, devnr);

 # remove a specific loop device
 err = ioctl(cfd, LOOP_CTL_REMOVE, devnr);

 # find or allocate a free loop device to use
 devnr = ioctl(cfd, LOOP_CTL_GET_FREE);

 sprintf(loopname, "/dev/loop%i", devnr);
 ffd = open("backing-file", O_RDWR);
 lfd = open(loopname, O_RDWR);
 err = ioctl(lfd, LOOP_SET_FD, ffd);

Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-07-31 22:08:04 +02:00
Kay Sievers
8905aaafb4 Input: uinput - add devname alias to allow module on-demand load
Recent modprobe and udev versions allow to create device nodes
for modules which are not loaded. Only the first access will cause
the in-kernel module loader to pull-in the module. Systems which
never access the device node will not needlessly load the module,
and no longer need init scripts or other facilities to unconditionally
load it.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-08-21 00:37:40 -07:00
Peter Rajnoha
7e507eb643 dm: allow autoloading of dm mod
Add devname:mapper/control and MAPPER_CTRL_MINOR module alias
to support dm-mod module autoloading.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
2010-08-12 04:14:05 +01:00
Alan Cox
79907d89c3 misc: Fix allocation 'borrowed' by vhost_net
10, 233 is allocated officially to /dev/kmview which is shipping in
Ubuntu and Debian distributions.  vhost_net seem to have borrowed it
without making a proper request and this causes regressions in the other
distributions.

vhost_net can use a dynamic minor so use that instead.  Also update the
file with a comment to try and avoid future misunderstandings.

cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <device@lanana.org>
[ We should have caught this before 2.6.34 got released.  - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-06-09 08:50:31 -07:00
Kay Sievers
578454ff7e driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading
This adds:
  alias: devname:<name>
to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading
of the kernel module when the device node is accessed.

Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too
much in love with their modularization that we need to cover the common
cases with this new facility. It will allow us to remove a bunch of pretty
useless init scripts and modprobes from init scripts.

The static device node aliases will be carried in the module itself. The
program depmod will extract this information to a file in the module directory:
  $ cat /lib/modules/2.6.34-00650-g537b60d-dirty/modules.devname
  # Device nodes to trigger on-demand module loading.
  microcode cpu/microcode c10:184
  fuse fuse c10:229
  ppp_generic ppp c108:0
  tun net/tun c10:200
  dm_mod mapper/control c10:235

Udev will pick up the depmod created file on startup and create all the
static device nodes which the kernel modules specify, so that these modules
get automatically loaded when the device node is accessed:
  $ /sbin/udevd --debug
  ...
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/cpu/microcode' c10:184
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/fuse' c10:229
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/ppp' c108:0
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/net/tun' c10:200
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/mapper/control' c10:235
  udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/net/tun' 0666
  udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/fuse' 0666

A few device nodes are switched to statically allocated numbers, to allow
the static nodes to work. This might also useful for systems which still run
a plain static /dev, which is completely unsafe to use with any dynamic minor
numbers.

Note:
The devname aliases must be limited to the *common* and *single*instance*
device nodes, like the misc devices, and never be used for conceptually limited
systems like the loop devices, which should rather get fixed properly and get a
control node for losetup to talk to, instead of creating a random number of
device nodes in advance, regardless if they are ever used.

This facility is to hide the mess distros are creating with too modualized
kernels, and just to hide that these modules are not compiled-in, and not to
paper-over broken concepts. Thanks! :)

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-25 15:08:26 -07:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
3a4d5c94e9 vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server
What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce
the number of system calls involved in virtio networking.
Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification.

There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope
- uses eventfd for signalling
- structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for
  migration, bug work-arounds in userspace)
- write logging is supported (good for migration)
- support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm)

common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and
can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear.  I used
Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied
me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself.

What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system
call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls.
Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm.

How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by
userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap
device.  Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac
etc.

Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes.
Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to
4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU
utilization.

Features that I plan to look at in the future:
- mergeable buffers
- zero copy
- scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to use

Note on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near
private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU):
what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a
workqueue item.  The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of
execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of
execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by
flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply
some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to
INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage.

(Includes fixes by Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>)

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-15 01:43:29 -08:00
Kay Sievers
e454cea20b Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissions
This allows subsytems to provide devtmpfs with non-default permissions
for the device node. Instead of the default mode of 0600, null, zero,
random, urandom, full, tty, ptmx now have a mode of 0666, which allows
non-privileged processes to access standard device nodes in case no
other userspace process applies the expected permissions.

This also fixes a wrong assignment in pktcdvd and a checkpatch.pl complain.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19 12:50:38 -07:00
Kay Sievers
d405640539 Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices.
This adds support for misc devices to report their requested nodename to
userspace.  It also updates a number of misc drivers to provide the
needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15 21:30:25 -07:00
Eric Moore
dec3f95959 [SCSI] mpt2sas: add MPT2SAS_MINOR(221) to miscdevice.h
Signed-off-by: Eric Moore <eric.moore@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-03-13 15:57:40 -05:00
Tejun Heo
193da60927 fuse: move FUSE_MINOR to miscdevice.h
Move FUSE_MINOR to miscdevice.h.  While at it, de-uglify the file.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:54 +01:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
b844eba292 PM: Remove destroy_suspended_device()
After 2.6.24 there was a plan to make the PM core acquire all device
semaphores during a suspend/hibernation to protect itself from
concurrent operations involving device objects.  That proved to be
too heavy-handed and we found a better way to achieve the goal, but
before it happened, we had introduced the functions
device_pm_schedule_removal() and destroy_suspended_device() to allow
drivers to "safely" destroy a suspended device and we had adapted some
drivers to use them.  Now that these functions are no longer necessary,
it seems reasonable to remove them and modify their users to use the
normal device unregistration instead.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-19 19:10:28 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
533354d4ac Misc: Add possibility to remove misc devices during suspend/resume
Make it possible to unregister a misc device object in a safe way during a
suspend/resume cycle.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-05 09:44:23 -08:00
Avi Kivity
bbe4432e66 KVM: Use own minor number
Use the minor number (232) allocated to kvm by lanana.

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
2007-05-03 10:52:22 +03:00
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
Greg Kroah-Hartman
96192ff1a9 [PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
Also fixes all drivers that set this field.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26 12:25:08 -07:00