linux-stable.git/drivers/Kconfig, branch linux-2.6.24.y

Virtio interface

2007-10-23T05:49:54+00:00

This attempts to implement a "virtual I/O" layer which should allow
common drivers to be efficiently used across most virtual I/O
mechanisms.  It will no-doubt need further enhancement.

The virtio drivers add buffers to virtio queues; as the buffers are consumed
the driver "interrupt" callbacks are invoked.

There is also a generic implementation of config space which drivers can query
to get setup information from the host.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Dor Laor 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann

Consolidate host virtualization support under Virtualization menu

2007-10-23T05:49:47+00:00

Move lguest under the virtualization menu.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Avi Kivity

mv watchdog tree under drivers

2007-10-18T10:39:03+00:00

move watchdog tree from drivers/char/watchdog to drivers/watchdog.

Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck

DCA: Add Direct Cache Access driver

2007-10-16T16:43:09+00:00

Direct Cache Access (DCA) is a method for warming the CPU cache before data
is used, with the intent of lessening the impact of cache misses.  This
patch adds a manager and interface for matching up client requests for DCA
services with devices that offer DCA services.

In order to use DCA, a module must do bus writes with the appropriate tag
bits set to trigger a cache read for a specific CPU.  However, different
CPUs and chipsets can require different sets of tag bits, and the methods
for determining the correct bits may be simple hardcoding or may be a
hardware specific magic incantation.  This interface is a way for DCA
clients to find the correct tag bits for the targeted CPU without needing
to know the specifics.

    [Dave Miller] use DEFINE_SPINLOCK()

Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson 
Acked-by: David S. Miller 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[SSB]: add Sonics Silicon Backplane bus support

2007-10-10T23:51:36+00:00

SSB is an SoC bus used in a number of embedded devices.  The most
well-known of these devices is probably the Linksys WRT54G, but there
are others as well.  The bus is also used internally on the BCM43xx
and BCM44xx devices from Broadcom.

This patch also includes support for SSB ID tables in modules, so
that SSB drivers can be loaded automatically.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Begin to consolidate of_device.c

2007-07-20T03:39:59+00:00

This moves all the common parts for the Sparc, Sparc64 and PowerPC
of_device.c files into drivers/of/device.c.

Apart from the simple move, Sparc gains of_match_node() and a call to
of_node_put in of_release_dev().  PowerPC gains better recovery if
device_create_file() fails in of_device_register().

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras 
Acked-by: David S. Miller

lguest: the Makefile and Kconfig

2007-07-19T17:04:52+00:00

This is the Kconfig and Makefile to allow lguest to actually be
compiled.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

UIO: Add the User IO core code

2007-07-18T22:57:15+00:00

This interface allows the ability to write the majority of a driver in
userspace with only a very small shell of a driver in the kernel itself.
It uses a char device and sysfs to interact with a userspace process to
process interrupts and control memory accesses.

See the docbook documentation for more details on how to use this
interface.

From: Hans J. Koch 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Benedikt Spranger 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/battery-2.6

2007-07-10T21:47:59+00:00

* git://git.infradead.org/~dwmw2/battery-2.6:
  [BATTERY] ds2760 W1 slave
  [BATTERY] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver
  [BATTERY] Apple PMU driver
  [BATTERY] 1-Wire ds2760 chip battery driver
  [BATTERY] APM emulation driver for class batteries
  [BATTERY] pda_power platform driver
  [BATTERY] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)

[BATTERY] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)

2007-07-10T10:25:44+00:00

This class is result of "external power" and "battery" classes merge,
as suggested by David Woodhouse. He also implemented uevent support.

Here how userspace seeing it now:

    	# ls /sys/class/power\ supply/
    	ac  main-battery  usb

    	# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/ac/type
    	AC

    	# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/usb/type
    	USB

    	# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/main-battery/type
    	Battery

    	# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/ac/online
    	1

    	# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/usb/online
    	0

    	# cat /sys/class/power\ supply/main-battery/status
    	Charging

    	# cat /sys/class/leds/h5400\:red-left/trigger
    	none h5400-radio timer hwtimer ac-online usb-online
    	main-battery-charging-or-full [main-battery-charging]
    	main-battery-full

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton