linux-stable/Documentation/driver-api
Linus Torvalds 500a434fc5 Driver core changes for 5.19-rc1
Here is the set of driver core changes for 5.19-rc1.
 
 Note, I'm not really happy with this pull request as-is, see below for
 details, but overall this is all good for everything but a small set of
 systems, which we have a fix for already.
 
 Lots of tiny driver core changes and cleanups happened this cycle,
 but the two major things were:
 
 	- firmware_loader reorganization and additions including the
 	  ability to have XZ compressed firmware images and the ability
 	  for userspace to initiate the firmware load when it needs to,
 	  instead of being always initiated by the kernel. FPGA devices
 	  specifically want this ability to have their firmware changed
 	  over the lifetime of the system boot, and this allows them to
 	  work without having to come up with yet-another-custom-uapi
 	  interface for loading firmware for them.
 	- physical location support added to sysfs so that devices that
 	  know this information, can tell userspace where they are
 	  located in a common way.  Some ACPI devices already support
 	  this today, and more bus types should support this in the
 	  future.
 
 Smaller changes included:
 	- driver_override api cleanups and fixes
 	- error path cleanups and fixes
 	- get_abi script fixes
 	- deferred probe timeout changes.
 
 It's that last change that I'm the most worried about.  It has been
 reported to cause boot problems for a number of systems, and I have a
 tested patch series that resolves this issue.  But I didn't get it
 merged into my tree before 5.18-final came out, so it has not gotten any
 linux-next testing.
 
 I'll send the fixup patches (there are 2) as a follow-on series to this
 pull request if you want to take them directly, _OR_ I can just revert
 the probe timeout changes and they can wait for the next -rc1 merge
 cycle.  Given that the fixes are tested, and pretty simple, I'm leaning
 toward that choice.  Sorry this all came at the end of the merge window,
 I should have resolved this all 2 weeks ago, that's my fault as it was
 in the middle of some travel for me.
 
 All have been tested in linux-next for weeks, with no reported issues
 other than the above-mentioned boot time outs.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the set of driver core changes for 5.19-rc1.

  Lots of tiny driver core changes and cleanups happened this cycle, but
  the two major things are:

   - firmware_loader reorganization and additions including the ability
     to have XZ compressed firmware images and the ability for userspace
     to initiate the firmware load when it needs to, instead of being
     always initiated by the kernel. FPGA devices specifically want this
     ability to have their firmware changed over the lifetime of the
     system boot, and this allows them to work without having to come up
     with yet-another-custom-uapi interface for loading firmware for
     them.

   - physical location support added to sysfs so that devices that know
     this information, can tell userspace where they are located in a
     common way. Some ACPI devices already support this today, and more
     bus types should support this in the future.

  Smaller changes include:

   - driver_override api cleanups and fixes

   - error path cleanups and fixes

   - get_abi script fixes

   - deferred probe timeout changes.

  It's that last change that I'm the most worried about. It has been
  reported to cause boot problems for a number of systems, and I have a
  tested patch series that resolves this issue. But I didn't get it
  merged into my tree before 5.18-final came out, so it has not gotten
  any linux-next testing.

  I'll send the fixup patches (there are 2) as a follow-on series to this
  pull request.

  All have been tested in linux-next for weeks, with no reported issues
  other than the above-mentioned boot time-outs"

* tag 'driver-core-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (55 commits)
  driver core: fix deadlock in __device_attach
  kernfs: Separate kernfs_pr_cont_buf and rename_lock.
  topology: Remove unused cpu_cluster_mask()
  driver core: Extend deferred probe timeout on driver registration
  MAINTAINERS: add Russ Weight as a firmware loader maintainer
  driver: base: fix UAF when driver_attach failed
  test_firmware: fix end of loop test in upload_read_show()
  driver core: location: Add "back" as a possible output for panel
  driver core: location: Free struct acpi_pld_info *pld
  driver core: Add "*" wildcard support to driver_async_probe cmdline param
  driver core: location: Check for allocations failure
  arch_topology: Trace the update thermal pressure
  kernfs: Rename kernfs_put_open_node to kernfs_unlink_open_file.
  export: fix string handling of namespace in EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS
  rpmsg: use local 'dev' variable
  rpmsg: Fix calling device_lock() on non-initialized device
  firmware_loader: describe 'module' parameter of firmware_upload_register()
  firmware_loader: Move definitions from sysfs_upload.h to sysfs.h
  firmware_loader: Fix configs for sysfs split
  selftests: firmware: Add firmware upload selftests
  ...
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80211 docs: net: 80211: reduce docs build time 2020-10-08 10:41:49 +02:00
acpi Documentation: ACPI: fix error script name 2021-06-17 13:21:48 -06:00
backlight
cxl cxl/mem: Add the cxl_mem driver 2022-02-08 22:57:32 -08:00
dmaengine dmaengine: Document dmaengine_prep_dma_memset 2022-04-20 17:28:12 +05:30
driver-model Documentation: devres: fix typo in interface list 2022-04-28 12:29:52 -06:00
early-userspace Documentation: Fix intiramfs script name 2021-07-18 23:48:14 +09:00
firmware firmware_loader: Add sysfs nodes to monitor fw_upload 2022-04-26 12:35:55 +02:00
fpga fpga: region: Use standard dev_release for class driver 2021-11-28 14:02:41 -08:00
gpio Documentation: gpio: Advertise irqd_to_hwirq() helper in the examples 2022-05-16 20:16:54 +03:00
i3c docs: driver-api: i3c: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones 2020-07-13 09:32:36 -06:00
iio docs: iio: mark "repeat" sysfs attribute as optional 2021-03-11 20:47:08 +00:00
md
media media: Documentation: mc: Add media_device_{init,cleanup} 2022-05-17 09:18:02 +02:00
mei docs updates for v5.10-rc1 2020-10-16 15:02:21 -07:00
memory-devices Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: Documentation/driver-api 2020-06-26 11:09:04 -06:00
mmc docs: mmc: update maintainer name and URL 2021-10-28 11:54:54 +02:00
mtd Documentation / MTD: Rename the intel-spi driver 2022-02-14 12:53:10 +00:00
nfc nfc: constify nfc_llc_ops 2021-07-25 09:21:21 +01:00
nvdimm nvdimm/blk: Fix title level 2022-03-23 17:52:33 -07:00
pci PCI/MSI: Move code into a separate directory 2021-12-09 11:52:22 +01:00
phy
pldmfw Add pldmfw library for PLDM firmware update 2020-07-28 17:07:06 -07:00
pm docs: devices.rst: better reference documentation docs 2021-06-17 13:24:36 -06:00
rapidio Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: Documentation/driver-api 2020-06-26 11:09:04 -06:00
serial Documentation: tty: move moxa-smartio.rst to tty 2022-04-14 18:24:24 +02:00
soundwire docs: soundwire: fix some identation at stream.rst 2020-09-10 10:49:29 -06:00
surface_aggregator platform-drivers-x86 for v5.14-1 2021-06-30 11:15:39 -07:00
thermal docs: driver-api/thermal/intel_dptf: Use copyright symbol 2022-04-05 09:46:06 -06:00
tty Documentation: tty: n_gsm, use power of ReST 2022-04-14 18:24:24 +02:00
usb Docs: usb: update writesize, copy_from_user, usb_fill_bulk_urb, usb_submit_urb 2021-11-17 14:54:58 +01:00
xilinx firmware: xilinx: Remove zynqmp_pm_get_eemi_ops() in IS_REACHABLE(CONFIG_ZYNQMP_FIRMWARE) 2021-03-01 12:52:07 +01:00
auxiliary_bus.rst Documentation/auxiliary_bus: Move the text into the code 2021-12-03 16:41:50 +01:00
basics.rst docs: basics.rst: avoid duplicated C function declaration 2020-10-15 07:49:45 +02:00
clk.rst
component.rst
connector.rst net/connector: Add const qualifier to cb_id 2020-12-16 11:06:49 -08:00
console.rst
dcdbas.rst
devfreq.rst
device-io.rst dma-buf-map: Rename to iosys-map 2022-02-07 16:35:35 -08:00
device_link.rst docs: device_link.rst: remove duplicated kernel-doc include 2020-10-15 07:49:42 +02:00
dma-buf.rst dma-buf: add dma_fence_unwrap v2 2022-03-25 14:18:28 +01:00
edac.rst
eisa.rst
firewire.rst Documentation: fix firewire.rst ABI file path error 2022-01-20 17:01:32 -07:00
frame-buffer.rst
generic-counter.rst counter: Update documentation for new counter registration functions 2021-12-30 17:44:06 +01:00
hsi.rst
i2c.rst
index.rst Documentation: fix tty link 2022-04-20 16:45:05 +02:00
infiniband.rst RDMA/core: Remove FMR pool API 2020-06-02 20:32:53 -03:00
infrastructure.rst docs: infrastructure.rst: exclude device_link_state from device.h 2020-10-15 07:49:46 +02:00
input.rst Input: remove input_polled_dev implementation 2020-12-02 12:35:14 -08:00
interconnect.rst
io-mapping.rst io-mapping: Provide iomap_local variant 2020-11-24 14:42:09 +01:00
io_ordering.rst
ioctl.rst docs: driver-api: avoid using ReST :doc:foo markup 2021-06-17 13:24:37 -06:00
ipmb.rst
ipmi.rst ipmi: Add docs for the IPMI IPMB driver 2021-10-05 06:54:17 -05:00
isa.rst
isapnp.rst
libata.rst libata: Improve ATA queued command allocation 2022-04-11 09:27:44 +09:00
mailbox.rst docs: move mailbox.txt to driver-api and rename it 2020-06-26 11:33:38 -06:00
men-chameleon-bus.rst Documentation: document dma device use for mcb 2021-01-11 13:26:13 -07:00
message-based.rst
misc_devices.rst
miscellaneous.rst
mtdnand.rst docs: mtd: Avoid htmldocs warnings 2020-12-10 22:37:32 +01:00
ntb.rst Documentation/driver-api: ntb: drop doubled word 2020-07-13 11:18:17 -06:00
nvmem.rst doc: nvmem: Update example 2022-02-21 18:00:30 +01:00
parport-lowlevel.rst
pin-control.rst docs/pinctrl: fix the reference to the u300 platform 2021-05-28 02:59:40 +02:00
pps.rst
ptp.rst docs: ptp.rst: add support for Renesas (IDT) ClockMatrix 2020-07-17 10:25:21 -07:00
pwm.rst pwm: Document that the pinstate of a disabled PWM isn't reliable 2022-05-20 16:36:07 +02:00
regulator.rst docs: get rid of :c:type explicit declarations for structs 2020-10-15 07:49:40 +02:00
reset.rst docs: add a reset controller chapter to the driver API docs 2020-12-08 10:48:04 -07:00
rfkill.rst
s390-drivers.rst
scsi.rst
slimbus.rst
sm501.rst
spi.rst
switchtec.rst
sync_file.rst
target.rst docs: scsi: target.rst: remove iSCSI transport class kernel-doc markup 2020-10-15 07:49:42 +02:00
uio-howto.rst Documentation/driver-api: uio-howto: drop doubled word 2020-07-10 14:58:01 +02:00
vfio-mediated-device.rst vfio/mdev: Pass in a struct vfio_device * to vfio_pin/unpin_pages() 2022-05-11 13:12:59 -06:00
vfio-pci-device-specific-driver-acceptance.rst vfio-pci: Provide reviewers and acceptance criteria for variant drivers 2022-03-17 09:57:11 -06:00
vfio.rst vfio: Introduce a vfio_uninit_group_dev() API call 2021-08-11 09:50:10 -06:00
vme.rst
w1.rst
xillybus.rst Documentation/driver-api: xillybus: drop doubled word 2020-07-10 14:58:01 +02:00
zorro.rst