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* [PATCH] fix missing includesTim Schmielau2005-10-302-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after this disentangling (patch to follow later). However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this. In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real patch. This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other. So if any hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it. My scripts will pick it up again in the next round. Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] RCU torture-testing kernel modulePaul E. McKenney2005-10-301-0/+122
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is a rewrite of the one submitted on October 1st, using modules (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112819093522998&w=2). This rewrite adds a tristate CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST, which enables an intense torture test of the RCU infratructure. This is needed due to the continued changes to the RCU infrastructure to accommodate dynamic ticks, CPU hotplug, realtime, and so on. Most of the code is in a separate file that is compiled only if the CONFIG variable is set. Documentation on how to run the test and interpret the output is also included. This code has been tested on i386 and ppc64, and an earlier version of the code has received extensive testing on a number of architectures as part of the PREEMPT_RT patchset. Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Keys: Add LSM hooks for key management [try #3]David Howells2005-10-301-9/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The attached patch adds LSM hooks for key management facilities. The notable changes are: (1) The key struct now supports a security pointer for the use of security modules. This will permit key labelling and restrictions on which programs may access a key. (2) Security modules get a chance to note (or abort) the allocation of a key. (3) The key permission checking can now be enhanced by the security modules; the permissions check consults LSM if all other checks bear out. (4) The key permissions checking functions now return an error code rather than a boolean value. (5) An extra permission has been added to govern the modification of attributes (UID, GID, permissions). Note that there isn't an LSM hook specifically for each keyctl() operation, but rather the permissions hook allows control of individual operations based on the permission request bits. Key management access control through LSM is enabled by automatically if both CONFIG_KEYS and CONFIG_SECURITY are enabled. This should be applied on top of the patch ensubjected: [PATCH] Keys: Possessor permissions should be additive Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Typo fix: explictly -> explicitlyJean Delvare2005-10-301-1/+1
| | | | | | | | (akpm: I don't do typo patches, but one of these is in a printk string) Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove some more check_region stuffJeff Garzik2005-10-301-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Removed some more references to check_region(). I checked these changes into the 'checkreg' branch of rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git The only valid references remaining are in: drivers/scsi/advansys.c drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c sound/oss/pss.c Remove last vestiges of ide_check_region() drivers/char/specialix: trim trailing whitespace drivers/char/specialix: eliminate use of check_region() Remove outdated and unused references to check_region() [sound oss] remove check_region() usage from cs4232, wavfront [netdrvr eepro] trim trailing whitespace [netdrvr eepro] remove check_region() usage Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: flush_tlb_range outside ptlockHugh Dickins2005-10-291-9/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There was one small but very significant change in the previous patch: mprotect's flush_tlb_range fell outside the page_table_lock: as it is in 2.4, but that doesn't prove it safe in 2.6. On some architectures flush_tlb_range comes to the same as flush_tlb_mm, which has always been called from outside page_table_lock in dup_mmap, and is so proved safe. Others required a deeper audit: I could find no reliance on page_table_lock in any; but in ia64 and parisc found some code which looks a bit as if it might want preemption disabled. That won't do any actual harm, so pending a decision from the maintainers, disable preemption there. Remove comments on page_table_lock from flush_tlb_mm, flush_tlb_range and flush_tlb_page entries in cachetlb.txt: they were rather misleading (what generic code does is different from what usually happens), the rules are now changing, and it's not yet clear where we'll end up (will the generic tlb_flush_mmu happen always under lock? never under lock? or sometimes under and sometimes not?). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] mm: m68k kill stram swapHugh Dickins2005-10-292-25/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Please, please now delete the Atari CONFIG_STRAM_SWAP code. It may be excellent and ingenious code, but its reference to swap_vfsmnt betrays that it hasn't been built since 2.5.1 (four years old come December), it's delving deep into matters which are the preserve of core mm code, its only purpose is to give the more conscientious mm guys an anxiety attack from time to time; yet we keep on breaking it more and more. If you want to use RAM for swap, then if the MTD driver does not already provide just what you need, I'm sure David could be persuaded to add the extra. But you'd also like to be able to allocate extents of that swap for other use: we can give you a core interface for that if you need. But unbuilt for four years suggests to me that there's no need at all. I cannot swear the patch below won't break your build, but believe so. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Cleaned up AMD Au1200 IDE driver:Pete Popov2005-10-291-0/+168
| | | | | | | | | | | | | - converted to platform bus - removed pci dependencies - removed virt_to_phys/phys_to_virt calls System now can root off of a disk. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> diff --git a/Documentation/mips/AU1xxx_IDE.README b/Documentation/mips/AU1xxx_IDE.README new file mode 100644
* Merge branch 'master' of /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo2005-10-293-6/+17
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| * [PATCH] USB: Always do usb-handoffAlan Stern2005-10-281-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This revised patch (as586b) makes usb-handoff permanently true and no longer a kernel boot parameter. It also removes the piix3_usb quirk code; that was nothing more than an early version of the USB handoff code (written at a time when Intel's PIIX3 was about the only motherboard with USB support). And it adds identifiers for the three PCI USB controller classes to pci_ids.h. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] usb doc: fix kernel-doc warningRandy Dunlap2005-10-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | usb/core/buffer.c doesn't export any symbols, so it should use !I instead of !E to eliminate this warning message: Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2614-rc4//drivers/usb/core/buffer.c): no structured comments found Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] USB: Buffer overflow patch for Yealink driverHenk2005-10-281-3/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Just a small patch that fixes a small parameter validation bug. drivers/usb/input/map_to_7segment.h: This patch fixes the broken parameter validation in the char to seg7 conversion. This could cause out-of-bounds memory references. MAINTAINERS: Yealink maintainer info now in sorted order. Documentation/input/yealink.txt: Added a Q&A section that answers some common questions. Signed-off-by: Henk <Henk.Vergonet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 006491df1a13f85ad245d1039dfdf20e49c394fd
* | [TCP]: fix tcp_tso_win_divisor documentationAkinobu Mita2005-10-291-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | The default value for tcp_tso_win_divisor is 3. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
* [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix PCI hotplugRandy Dunlap2005-10-281-1/+3
| | | | | | | PCI hotplug.c: does not contain kernel-doc, so don't process it for now. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] hwmon: smsc47m1 documentation updateJean Delvare2005-10-281-0/+7
| | | | | | | | The SMSC LPC47M997 Super-I/O chip seems to be compatible with the LPC47M192, so it is supported by the smsc47m1 driver. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] hwmon: lm90 documentation updateJean Delvare2005-10-281-4/+4
| | | | | | | | Update the I2C addresses for the ADM1032 and ADT7461 chips. Also update the links to the Analog Devices web site. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] hwmon: Add PEC support to the lm90 driverJean Delvare2005-10-282-2/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add PEC support to the lm90 driver. Only the ADM1032 chip supports it, and in a rather tricky way, which is why this patch comes with documentation reinforcements. At least, this demonstrates that the new PEC support logic in i2c-core can properly deal with chips with partial PEC support. As enabling PEC causes a significant performance drop, it can be disabled through a sysfs file (unsurprisingly named "pec"). Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i2c: i2c-i810 documentation updateJean Delvare2005-10-281-0/+1
| | | | | | | | Update the documented list of devices supported by the i2c-i810 driver. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i2c: Documentation updateJean Delvare2005-10-282-12/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | Update the i2c documentation: kzalloc should be used instead of kmalloc. I also fixed a couple other things nearby in writing-clients, as several past changes had never been reported there. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i2c: New Xicor X1205 RTC driverAlessandro Zummo2005-10-281-0/+38
| | | | | | | | New driver for the Xicor X1205 RTC chip. Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] hwmon: New device ID for the smsc47b397 driverMark M. Hoffman2005-10-281-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a new ID to the SMSC LPC47B397-NC hardware monitoring driver - for a chip that is claimed to be 100% compatible otherwise. Signed-off-by: Bryan Young (Utilitek Systems, Inc.) Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] hwmon: Drop legacy ISA address support from it87Jean Delvare2005-10-281-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Drop legacy ISA address support from the it87 driver. All supported chips are Super-I/O chips, so the device ISA address can be safely read from Super-I/O space rather than blindly assumed. Two nearby inaccurate documentation statements have been fixed as well: * The IT8705F doesn't have an SMBus interface. * The SiS950 doesn't have a distinct prefix. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i2c: Documentation fixesJean Delvare2005-10-281-7/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | i2c documentation fixes. >From Hideki Iwamoto: * i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data is not deleted in 2.6.10. It still exists. * The name which can be set to i2c_driver is up to 31 characters. >From Jean Delvare: * Reword the paragraph about i2c_driver.name, to reflect the "new" naming policy. * Delete the out-of-date note about now gone inc_use and dec_use fields. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] i2c-viapro: Update supported devices listJean Delvare2005-10-281-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | Make it clearer which chips are supported by the i2c-viapro driver, and which support I2C block transactions. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro | 12 ++++++------ drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro.c | 22 +++++++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
* [PATCH] i2c-viapro: Implement I2C Block transactionsJean Delvare2005-10-281-1/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement the I2C block transactions on VIA chips which support them: VT82C686B, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8235 and VT8237R. This speeds up EEPROM accesses by a factor 10 or so. I would like to thank Antonino A. Daplas, Hinko Kocevar, Salah Coronya and Andreas Henriksson for their help in testing this new feature. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro | 7 +++++- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
* [PATCH] i2c-viapro: Coding style fixesJean Delvare2005-10-281-7/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Before I go on cleaning up and improving the i2c-viapro driver, let's fix all the coding style issues: mostly trailing white space, and spaces used where tabs should be. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro | 12 ++--- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++------------------ 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
* [PATCH] i2c: Fix I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING documentationHideki Iwamoto2005-10-281-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | Fix the description of I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING. From: Hideki Iwamoto <h-iwamoto@kit.hi-ho.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Documentation/i2c/functionality | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
* [PATCH] hwmon: Do not forcibly enable via686a by defaultJean Delvare2005-10-281-2/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Do not enable the VIA VT82C686A/B integrated sensors by default, as disabled sensors usually means that this feature is not used so the values won't make any sense. This has been confusing many users in the past: http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=1786 http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=1811 http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=2052 It is still possible to forcibly enable the sensors by using the force_addr module parameter. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Documentation/hwmon/via686a | 17 +++++++++++++++-- drivers/hwmon/via686a.c | 18 +++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
* Merge ../bleed-2.6Greg KH2005-10-283-63/+1127
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| | * | | | | [PATCH] libata: add ATA exceptions chapter to docTejun Heo2005-10-031-0/+716
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hello, Jeff. This patch adds ATA errors & exceptions chapter to Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl. As suggested, the chapter is placed before low level driver specific chapters. Contents are unchanged from the last posting. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
| | * | | | | Merge branch 'master'Jeff Garzik2005-10-033-20/+134
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| | * | | | | | libata: move EH docs to separate DocBook chapterJeff Garzik2005-09-281-15/+15
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| | * | | | | | [PATCH] libata EH document updateTejun Heo2005-09-281-0/+356
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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| | * | | | | | | [PATCH] bonding: fix typos in bonding documentationJohn W. Linville2005-10-181-2/+3
| | | |_|_|_|_|/ | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix some simple typos in the bonding.txt file. The typos are in areas relating to loading the bonding driver multiple times. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
| * | | | | | | [PATCH] 05/05 update biodoc to match new generic dispatch apiTejun Heo2005-10-281-61/+52
| | |/ / / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Updates biodoc to reflect changes in elevator API Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] Fix documentation of driver suspend/resume callbacksTakashi Iwai2005-10-281-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] DRIVER MODEL: Get rid of the obsolete tri-level suspend/resume callbacksRussell King2005-10-281-58/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In PM v1, all devices were called at SUSPEND_DISABLE level. Then all devices were called at SUSPEND_SAVE_STATE level, and finally SUSPEND_POWER_DOWN level. However, with PM v2, to maintain compatibility for platform devices, I arranged for the PM v2 suspend/resume callbacks to call the old PM v1 suspend/resume callbacks three times with each level in order so that existing drivers continued to work. Since this is obsolete infrastructure which is no longer necessary, we can remove it. Here's an (untested) patch to do exactly that. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] Driver Core: Big kfree NULL check cleanup - DocumentationJesper Juhl2005-10-281-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is the Documentation/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch. Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in example code in Documentation/. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] update required version of udevGreg Kroah-Hartman2005-10-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 071 release is needed to handle the input changes. Older versions will work properly with module-based systems, but not for users that build input stuff into the kernel. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | | | | [PATCH] changes device to driver in porting.txtErik Hovland2005-10-281-1/+1
|/ / / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The document porting.txt in Documentation/driver-model says: When a device is successfully bound to a device I think it should say: When a device is successfully bound to a driver Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | | | [PATCH] kernel-parameters cleanupRandy Dunlap2005-10-231-236/+260
|/ / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix typos & trailing whitespace. Add blank lines in a few places. Remove "AM53C974=" option: driver does not exist. Restrict to < 80 columns in most places (but don't split formatted command-line arguments). Add a few option arguments for completeness. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [CONNECTOR]: Update documentation to match reality.Evgeniy Polyakov2005-10-131-0/+44
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Updated documentation to reflect 2.6.14 netlink changes about socket options, multicasting and group number. Please concider for 2.6.14. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | | [PATCH] dell_rbu: changes in packet update mechanismAbhay Salunke2005-10-111-10/+28
| |_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the current dell_rbu code ver 2.0 the packet update mechanism makes the user app dump every individual packet in to the driver. This adds in efficiency as every packet update makes the /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading and data files to disappear and reappear again. Thus the user app needs to wait for the files to reappear to dump another packet. This slows down the packet update tremendously in case of large number of packets. I am submitting a new patch for dell_rbu which will change the way we do packet updates; In the new method the user app will create a new single file which has already packetized the rbu image and all the packets are now staged in this file. This driver also creates a new entry in /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size ; the user needs to echo the packet size here before downloading the packet file. The user should do the following: create one single file which has all the packets stacked together. echo the packet size in to /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size. echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading cat the packetfile > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading The driver takes the file which came through /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data and takes chunks of paket_size data from it and place in contiguous memory. This makes packet update process very efficient and fast. As all the packet update happens in one single operation. The user can still read back the downloaded file from /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/data. Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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