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

ipmi: change device node ordering to reflect probe order

2008-04-19T01:53:23+00:00

upstream commit: abd24df828f1a72971db29d1b74fefae104ea9e2

In 2.6.14 a patch was merged which switching the order of the ipmi device
naming from in-order-of-discovery over to reverse-order-of-discovery.

So on systems with multiple BMC interfaces, the ipmi device names are being
created in reverse order relative to how they are discovered on the system
(e.g.  on an IBM x3950 multinode server with N nodes, the device name for the
BMC in the first node is /dev/ipmiN-1 and the device name for the BMC in the
last node is /dev/ipmi0, etc.).

The problem is caused by the list handling routines chosen in dmi_scan.c.
Using list_add() causes the multiple ipmi devices to be added to the device
list using a stack-paradigm and so the ipmi driver subsequently pulls them off
during initialization in LIFO order.  This patch changes the
dmi_save_ipmi_device() list handling paradigm to a queue, thereby allowing the
ipmi driver to build the ipmi device names in the order in which they are
found on the system.

Signed-off-by: Carol Hebert 
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

ACPI: update ACPI blacklist

2008-02-08T19:46:25+00:00

These minor changes sync the latest ACPI blacklist into 2.6.24.
The main benefit of this patch is to make any future
changes easier to apply.  The immediate benefit is one less
dmesg line on Acer systems.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

DMI: create dmi_get_slot()

2008-01-24T02:23:13+00:00

This simply allows other sub-systems (such as ACPI)
to access and print out slots in static dmi_ident[].

Signed-off-by: Len Brown

DMI: move dmi_available declaration to linux/dmi.h

2008-01-24T02:22:21+00:00

Signed-off-by: Len Brown

dmi-id: fix for __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much failure

2008-01-09T00:10:36+00:00

gcc 3.2 has a hard time coping with the code in dmi_id_init():

drivers/built-in.o(.init.text+0x789e): In function `dmi_id_init':
: undefined reference to `__you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

Moving half of the code to a separate function seems to help.  This is a
no-op for gcc 4.1 which will successfully inline the code anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare 
Cc: Dave Airlie 
Tested-by: Kamalesh Babulal 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

define global BIT macro

2007-10-19T18:53:42+00:00

define global BIT macro

move all local BIT defines to the new globally define macro.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Kumar Gala 
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov 
Cc: Jeff Garzik 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" 
Cc: Russell King 
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: "John W. Linville" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

get rid of input BIT* duplicate defines

2007-10-19T18:53:42+00:00

get rid of input BIT* duplicate defines

use newly global defined macros for input layer. Also remove includes of
input.h from non-input sources only for BIT macro definiton. Define the
macro temporarily in local manner, all those local definitons will be
removed further in this patchset (to not break bisecting).
BIT macro will be globally defined (1<
Cc: 
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: 
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann 
Cc: 
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Cc: 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Driver core: rename ktype_edd and ktype_efivar

2007-10-12T21:51:12+00:00

This makes it a bit more sane when trying to figure out how to clean up
the ktype mess.

Based on a larger patch from Kay Sievers

Cc: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dmi-id: Possible cleanup

2007-10-12T21:51:04+00:00

The DEFINE_DMI_ATTR macro has a single user left so we can expand it
for slightly shorter/simpler code.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare 
Acked-by: Lennart Poettering 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dmi-id: Use dynamic sysfs attributes

2007-10-12T21:51:04+00:00

We can use sysfs attributes with an extra parameter for dmi id
attributes. This makes it possible to use the same callback function
for all attributes, reducing the binary size significantly (-18% on
x86_64.)

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare 
Acked-by: Lennart Poettering 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman