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Christoph Lameter
1743660b91 [PATCH] Zone reclaim: proc override
proc support for zone reclaim

This patch creates a proc entry /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode that may be
used to override the automatic determination of the zone reclaim made on
bootup.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
9eeff2395e [PATCH] Zone reclaim: Reclaim logic
Some bits for zone reclaim exists in 2.6.15 but they are not usable.  This
patch fixes them up, removes unused code and makes zone reclaim usable.

Zone reclaim allows the reclaiming of pages from a zone if the number of
free pages falls below the watermarks even if other zones still have enough
pages available.  Zone reclaim is of particular importance for NUMA
machines.  It can be more beneficial to reclaim a page than taking the
performance penalties that come with allocating a page on a remote zone.

Zone reclaim is enabled if the maximum distance to another node is higher
than RECLAIM_DISTANCE, which may be defined by an arch.  By default
RECLAIM_DISTANCE is 20.  20 is the distance to another node in the same
component (enclosure or motherboard) on IA64.  The meaning of the NUMA
distance information seems to vary by arch.

If zone reclaim is not successful then no further reclaim attempts will
occur for a certain time period (ZONE_RECLAIM_INTERVAL).

This patch was discussed before. See

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113519961504207&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113408418232531&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113389027420032&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113380938612205&w=2

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
Nick Piggin
053837fce7 [PATCH] mm: migration page refcounting fix
Migration code currently does not take a reference to target page
properly, so between unlocking the pte and trying to take a new
reference to the page with isolate_lru_page, anything could happen to
it.

Fix this by holding the pte lock until we get a chance to elevate the
refcount.

Other small cleanups while we're here.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-18 19:20:17 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2149bcabc5 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2006-01-18 15:19:40 -08:00
David S. Miller
27a7b0415f Merge git://tipc.cslab.ericsson.net/pub/git/tipc 2006-01-18 14:23:54 -08:00
Alon Bar-Lev
d9004eb466 [SERIAL] Add 8250 support for Decision Computer International Co. PCCOM2
There is a new device which is look like:

	Serial controller: Decision Computer International Co. PCCOM2 (rev 02) (prog-if 02 [16550])
	0700: 6666:0004 (rev 02) (prog-if 02)
	Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 177
	Memory at fe000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
	I/O ports at e880 [size=128]
	I/O ports at e400 [size=256]

It has two 16550A, and is not listed in kernel, although the
manufacturer clams that it is supported...

I've created the following patch, it only add the new PCI id and the
card to the repository, it seems to work.

Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-18 11:47:33 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
728c7763e7 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev 2006-01-17 19:47:31 -08:00
Alan Cox
8d238e0124 [PATCH] libata: Fix heuristic typos add LBA48PIO flag and support code, add IRQ flag for next diff
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-17 19:37:45 -05:00
Per Liden
33a9c4da5a [TIPC] Move ethernet protocol id to linux/if_ether.h
Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
2006-01-18 00:45:15 +01:00
Per Liden
16cb4b333c [TIPC] Updated link priority macros
Added macros for min/default/max link priority in tipc_config.h.
Also renamed TIPC_NUM_LINK_PRI to TIPC_MEDIA_LINK_PRI since that
is a more accurate description of what it is used for.

Signed-off-by: Per Liden <per.liden@ericsson.com>
2006-01-18 00:45:15 +01:00
Alan Cox
1bc4ccfff8 [PATCH] libata: add a function to decide if we need iordy
This ought to be simple but for PIO2 we have to poke around the drive
data to get it 100% correct.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-17 08:25:39 -05:00
David S. Miller
8243126c5e [NET]: Make second arg to skb_reserved() signed.
Some subsystems, such as PPP, can send negative values
here.  It just happened to work correctly on 32-bit with
an unsigned value, but on 64-bit this explodes.

Figured out by Paul Mackerras based upon several PPP crash
reports.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-17 02:54:21 -08:00
Yasuyuki Kozakai
e0069caede [NETFILTER] ip6tables: remove unused definitions
These definitions ware used for only internal use in kernel <= 2.6.13,
which had not introduced the unified parser of IPv6 extension header yet.

Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-17 02:39:19 -08:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
9343e79a7b [IPV6]: Preserve procfs IPV6 address output format
Procfs always output IPV6 addresses without the colon
characters, and we cannot change that.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-17 02:10:53 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d669af9d5a Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb 2006-01-16 23:20:01 -08:00
Matt Tolentino
c09b42404d [PATCH] x86_64: add __meminit for memory hotplug
Add __meminit to the __init lineup to ensure functions default
to __init when memory hotplug is not enabled.  Replace __devinit
with __meminit on functions that were changed when the memory
hotplug code was introduced.

Signed-off-by: Matt Tolentino <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:18:35 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
f87fd4c2a0 [PATCH] add /sys/fs
This patch adds an empty /sys/fs, which filesystems can use.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:15:29 -08:00
kogiidena
9d44190eae [PATCH] sh: kexec() support
This adds kexec() support for SH.

Signed-off-by: kogiidena <kogiidena@eggplant.ddo.jp>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: <fastboot@lists.osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:15:27 -08:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
f87d09be8c Merge branch 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb 2006-01-16 08:39:30 -02:00
Linus Torvalds
3f02d072d4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial 2006-01-15 16:43:29 -08:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
d04ae27bae Merge branch 'work' 2006-01-15 21:01:27 -02:00
Tyler Trafford
436eddd035 V4L/DVB (3365): i2c ids for upd64031a saa717x upd64083 wm8739
- Add i2c ids for drivers: upd64031a saa717x upd64083 wm8739

Signed-off-by: Tyler Trafford <tatrafford@comcast.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-01-15 09:02:44 -02:00
Linus Torvalds
650eec5e04 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2006-01-14 19:44:39 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
a9df3d0f31 [PATCH] When CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE, allow gcc4 to control inlining
If optimizing for size (CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE), allow gcc4 compilers
to decide what to inline and what not - instead of the kernel forcing gcc
to inline all the time.  This requires several places that require to be
inlined to be marked as such, previous patches in this series do that.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:16 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
652050aec9 [PATCH] mark several functions __always_inline
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>

Mark a number of functions as 'must inline'.  The functions affected by this
patch need to be inlined because they use knowledge that their arguments are
constant so that most of the function optimizes away.  At this point this
patch does not change behavior, it's for documentation only (and for future
patches in the inline series)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:15 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
40fc55cb69 [PATCH] Make __always_inline actually force always inlining
This patch is the first in a series that tries to optimize the kernel in terms
of size (and thus cache behavior, both cpu and pagecache).

This first patch changes __always_inline to be a forced inline instead of the
"regular" inline it was on everything except alpha.  This forced inline
matches the intention of the define better as a matter of documentation.
There is no change in behavior by this patch, since "inline" currently is
mapped to a forced inline anyway.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:15 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
216d526c89 [PATCH] fbdev: Sanitize ->fb_mmap prototype
No need for a file argument.  If we'd really need it it's in vma->vm_file
already.  gbefb and sgivwfb used to set vma->vm_file to the file argument, but
the kernel alrady did that.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:15 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
67a6680d64 [PATCH] fbdev: Sanitize ->fb_ioctl prototype
The ioctl and file arguments to ->fb_mmap are totally unused and there's not
reason a driver should need them.

Also update the ->fb_compat_ioctl prototype to be the same as ->fb_mmap.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:14 -08:00
Pekka Enberg
d063389ecf [PATCH] smbfs: remove kmalloc wrapper
Remove the remaining kmalloc() wrapper bits from fs/smbfs/.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:13 -08:00
Pekka Enberg
44db77f33c [PATCH] ncpfs: remove kmalloc wrapper
Remove remaining kmalloc wrapper bits from fs/ncpfs/.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:12 -08:00
Paul Jackson
505970b96e [PATCH] cpuset oom lock fix
The problem, reported in:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5859

and by various other email messages and lkml posts is that the cpuset hook
in the oom (out of memory) code can try to take a cpuset semaphore while
holding the tasklist_lock (a spinlock).

One must not sleep while holding a spinlock.

The fix seems easy enough - move the cpuset semaphore region outside the
tasklist_lock region.

This required a few lines of mechanism to implement.  The oom code where
the locking needs to be changed does not have access to the cpuset locks,
which are internal to kernel/cpuset.c only.  So I provided a couple more
cpuset interface routines, available to the rest of the kernel, which
simple take and drop the lock needed here (cpusets callback_sem).

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:10 -08:00
Martin Schwidefsky
1f1c12afe5 [PATCH] s390: cputime misaccounting
finish_arch_switch needs to update the user cpu time as well, not just the
system cpu time.  Otherwise the partial user cpu time of a process that is
stored in the lowcore will be (mis-)accounted to the next process.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:09 -08:00
Robin Holt
7339ff8302 [PATCH] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policies
Anything that writes into a tmpfs filesystem is liable to disproportionately
decrease the available memory on a particular node.  Since there's no telling
what sort of application (e.g.  dd/cp/cat) might be dropping large files
there, this lets the admin choose the appropriate default behavior for their
site's situation.

Introduce a tmpfs mount option which allows specifying a memory policy and
a second option to specify the nodelist for that policy.  With the default
policy, tmpfs will behave as it does today.  This patch adds support for
preferred, bind, and interleave policies.

The default policy will cause pages to be added to tmpfs files on the node
which is doing the writing.  Some jobs expect a single process to create
and manage the tmpfs files.  This results in a node which has a
significantly reduced number of free pages.

With this patch, the administrator can specify the policy and nodes for
that policy where they would prefer allocations.

This patch was originally written by Brent Casavant and Hugh Dickins.  I
added support for the bind and preferred policies and the mpol_nodelist
mount option.

Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:07 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
852cf918dc [PATCH] Fix for CONFIG_NUMA without CONFIG_SWAP
Some people apparently run CONFIG_NUMA without CONFIG_SWAP.  The migration
code currently depends on swap.  This patch provides a set of inline
fallback functions so that the kernel properly compiles.  However, calls to
migration functions will fail.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:07 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
b0a9499c3d [PATCH] sched: add new SCHED_BATCH policy
Add a new SCHED_BATCH (3) scheduling policy: such tasks are presumed
CPU-intensive, and will acquire a constant +5 priority level penalty.  Such
policy is nice for workloads that are non-interactive, but which do not
want to give up their nice levels.  The policy is also useful for workloads
that want a deterministic scheduling policy without interactivity causing
extra preemptions (between that workload's tasks).

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:25:20 -08:00
Patrick Gefre
2d0cfb5279 [PATCH] Altix: ioc3 serial support
Add driver support for a 2 port PCI IOC3-based serial card on Altix boxes:

This is a re-submission.  On the original submission I was asked to
organize the code so that the MIPS ioc3 ethernet and serial parts could be
used with this driver.  Stanislaw Skowronek was kind enough to provide the
shim layer for this - thanks Stanislaw.  This patch includes the shim layer
and the Altix PCI ioc3 serial driver.  The MIPS merged ioc3 ethernet and
serial support is forthcoming.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:25:20 -08:00
Neil Horman
7170be5f58 [PATCH] convert /proc/devices to use seq_file interface
A Christoph suggested that the /proc/devices file be converted to use the
seq_file interface.  This patch does that.

I've obxerved one or two installation that had sufficiently large sans that
they overran the 4k limit on /proc/devices.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:25:19 -08:00
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
Linus Torvalds
12dbf3fc4d Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2006-01-14 12:16:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
61b7efddc5 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spi-2.6 2006-01-14 10:43:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
3e2b32b693 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6 2006-01-14 10:42:40 -08:00
Moore, Eric
6d5b0c315e [SCSI] fusion - adding support for FC949ES
Add software recognition for the new LSI Logic Fibre Channel controller.

Signed-off-by: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsil.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-01-14 10:55:04 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
87530db5ec Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge 2006-01-13 21:24:55 -08:00
Andrew Morton
5d870c8e21 [PATCH] spi: remove fastcall crap
gcc4 generates warnings when a non-FASTCALL function pointer is assigned to a
FASTCALL one.  Perhaps it has taste.

Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:56 -08:00
Vitaly Wool
8275c642cc [PATCH] spi: use linked lists rather than an array
This makes the SPI core and its users access transfers in the SPI message
structure as linked list not as an array, as discussed on LKML.

From: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>

  Updates including doc, bugfixes to the list code, add
  spi_message_add_tail().  Plus, initialize things _before_ grabbing the
  locks in some cases (in case it grows more expensive).  This also merges
  some bitbang updates of mine that didn't yet make it into the mm tree.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vwool@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Pervushin <dpervushin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:56 -08:00
Mike Lavender
2f9f762879 [PATCH] spi: M25 series SPI flash
This was originally a driver for the ST M25P80 SPI flash.  It's been
updated slightly to handle other M25P series chips.

For many of these chips, the specific type could be probed, but for now
this just requires static setup with flash_platform_data that lists the
chip type (size, format) and any default partitioning to use.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Mike Lavender <mike@steroidmicros.com>
Cc: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:55 -08:00
David Brownell
9904f22a72 [PATCH] spi: add spi_bitbang driver
This adds a bitbanging spi master, hooking up to board/adapter-specific glue
code which knows how to set and read the signals (gpios etc).

This code kicks in after the glue code creates a platform_device with the
right platform_data.  That data includes I/O loops, which will usually
come from expanding an inline function (provided in the header).  One goal
is that the I/O loops should be easily optimized down to a few GPIO register
accesses, in common cases, for speed and minimized overhead.

This understands all the currently defined protocol tweaking options in the
SPI framework, and might eventually serve as as reference implementation.

  - different word sizes (1..32 bits)
  - differing clock rates
  - SPI modes differing by CPOL (affecting chip select and I/O loops)
  - SPI modes differing by CPHA (affecting I/O loops)
  - delays (usecs) after transfers
  - temporarily deselecting chips in mid-transfer

A lot of hardware could work with this framework, though common types of
controller can't reach peak performance without switching to a driver
structure that supports pipelining of transfers (e.g.  DMA queues) and maybe
controllers (e.g.  IRQ driven).

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:55 -08:00
David Brownell
2e5a7bd978 [PATCH] spi: ads7836 uses spi_driver
This updates the ads7864 driver to use the new "spi_driver" struct, and
includes some minor unrelated cleanup.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:55 -08:00
David Brownell
0c868461fc [PATCH] SPI core tweaks, bugfix
This includes various updates to the SPI core:

  - Fixes a driver model refcount bug in spi_unregister_master() paths.

  - The spi_master structures now have wrappers which help keep drivers
    from needing class-level get/put for device data or for refcounts.

  - Check for a few setup errors that would cause oopsing later.

  - Docs say more about memory management.  Highlights the use of DMA-safe
    i/o buffers, and zero-initializing spi_message and such metadata.

  - Provide a simple alloc/free for spi_message and its spi_transfer;
    this is only one of the possible memory management policies.

Nothing to break code that already works.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:55 -08:00
David Brownell
b885244eb2 [PATCH] spi: add spi_driver to SPI framework
This is a refresh of the "Simple SPI Framework" found in 2.6.15-rc3-mm1
which makes the following changes:

  * There's now a "struct spi_driver".  This increase the footprint
    of the core a bit, since it now includes code to do what the driver
    core was previously handling directly.  Documentation and comments
    were updated to match.

  * spi_alloc_master() now does class_device_initialize(), so it can
    at least be refcounted before spi_register_master().  To match,
    spi_register_master() switched over to class_device_add().

  * States explicitly that after transfer errors, spi_devices will be
    deselected.  We want fault recovery procedures to work the same
    for all controller drivers.

  * Minor tweaks:  controller_data no longer points to readonly data;
    prevent some potential cast-from-null bugs with container_of calls;
    clarifies some existing kerneldoc,

And a few small cleanups.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:54 -08:00