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<title>i2c: Fix the i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() prototype</title>
<updated>2007-07-12T12:12:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jean Delvare</name>
<email>khali@linux-fr.org</email>
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<published>2007-07-12T12:12:29+00:00</published>
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Let the drivers specify how many bytes they want to read with
i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data(). So far, the block count was
hard-coded to I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX (32), which did not make much sense.
Many driver authors complained about this before, and I believe it's
about time to fix it. Right now, authors have to do technically stupid
things, such as individual byte reads or full-fledged I2C messaging,
to work around the problem. We do not want to encourage that.

I even found that some bus drivers (e.g. i2c-amd8111) already
implemented I2C block read the "right" way, that is, they didn't
follow the old, broken standard. The fact that it was never noticed
before just shows how little i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() was used,
which isn't that surprising given how broken its prototype was so far.

There are some obvious compatiblity considerations:
* This changes the i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() prototype. Users
  outside the kernel tree will notice at compilation time, and will
  have to update their code.
* User-space has access to i2c_smbus_xfer() directly using i2c-dev, so
  the changed expectations would affect tools such as i2cdump. In order
  to preserve binary compatibility, we give I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_DATA
  a new numeric value, and define I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_BROKEN with the
  old numeric value. When i2c-dev receives a transaction with the
  old value, it can convert it to the new format on the fly.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
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Let the drivers specify how many bytes they want to read with
i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data(). So far, the block count was
hard-coded to I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX (32), which did not make much sense.
Many driver authors complained about this before, and I believe it's
about time to fix it. Right now, authors have to do technically stupid
things, such as individual byte reads or full-fledged I2C messaging,
to work around the problem. We do not want to encourage that.

I even found that some bus drivers (e.g. i2c-amd8111) already
implemented I2C block read the "right" way, that is, they didn't
follow the old, broken standard. The fact that it was never noticed
before just shows how little i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() was used,
which isn't that surprising given how broken its prototype was so far.

There are some obvious compatiblity considerations:
* This changes the i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() prototype. Users
  outside the kernel tree will notice at compilation time, and will
  have to update their code.
* User-space has access to i2c_smbus_xfer() directly using i2c-dev, so
  the changed expectations would affect tools such as i2cdump. In order
  to preserve binary compatibility, we give I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_DATA
  a new numeric value, and define I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_BROKEN with the
  old numeric value. When i2c-dev receives a transaction with the
  old value, it can convert it to the new format on the fly.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used</title>
<updated>2007-05-08T18:15:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>randy.dunlap@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-08T07:28:08+00:00</published>
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Remove includes of &lt;linux/smp_lock.h&gt; where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Remove includes of &lt;linux/smp_lock.h&gt; where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 3</title>
<updated>2007-02-12T17:48:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arjan van de Ven</name>
<email>arjan@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-12T08:55:32+00:00</published>
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Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Many struct file_operations in the kernel can be "const".  Marking them const
moves these to the .rodata section, which avoids false sharing with potential
dirty data.  In addition it'll catch accidental writes at compile time to
these shared resources.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>i2c: Refactor a kfree in i2c-dev</title>
<updated>2006-12-10T20:21:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jean Delvare</name>
<email>khali@linux-fr.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-10T20:21:33+00:00</published>
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Refactor kfree(i2c_dev) into return_i2c_dev(). This saves some
code and makes more sense, as the memory is allocated in
get_free_i2c_dev().

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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Refactor kfree(i2c_dev) into return_i2c_dev(). This saves some
code and makes more sense, as the memory is allocated in
get_free_i2c_dev().

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>i2c: Fix return value check in i2c-dev</title>
<updated>2006-12-10T20:21:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Akinobu Mita</name>
<email>akinobu.mita@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-10T20:21:33+00:00</published>
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device_create() returns error code as pointer on failures.
This patch checks the return value of device_create() by using IS_ERR().

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
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device_create() returns error code as pointer on failures.
This patch checks the return value of device_create() by using IS_ERR().

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita &lt;akinobu.mita@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>i2c: Whitespace cleanups</title>
<updated>2006-12-10T20:21:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Brownell</name>
<email>david-b@pacbell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-10T20:21:31+00:00</published>
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Remove extraneous whitespace from various i2c headers and core files,
like space-before-tab and whitespace at end of line.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell &lt;dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
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Remove extraneous whitespace from various i2c headers and core files,
like space-before-tab and whitespace at end of line.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell &lt;dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>i2c: Use put_user instead of copy_to_user where possible</title>
<updated>2006-12-10T20:21:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jean Delvare</name>
<email>khali@linux-fr.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-10T20:21:30+00:00</published>
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This speeds up the I2C_FUNCS ioctl by 5 to 8% in my tests.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Laughed-at-by: Mark M. Hoffman &lt;mhoffman@lightlink.com&gt;
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This speeds up the I2C_FUNCS ioctl by 5 to 8% in my tests.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Laughed-at-by: Mark M. Hoffman &lt;mhoffman@lightlink.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] struct path: convert i2c-drivers</title>
<updated>2006-12-08T16:28:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Josef Sipek</name>
<email>jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-08T10:37:08+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek &lt;jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek &lt;jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>I2C: convert i2c-dev to use struct device instead of struct class_device</title>
<updated>2006-12-01T22:51:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2006-07-03T20:46:24+00:00</published>
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As class_device is going away eventually...

Cc: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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As class_device is going away eventually...

Cc: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>i2c-dev: attach/detach_adapter cleanups</title>
<updated>2006-09-26T22:38:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jean Delvare</name>
<email>khali@linux-fr.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-09-03T20:19:25+00:00</published>
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i2c-dev: attach/detach_adapter cleanups

* Only print that an adapter was attached when it succeeds.
* i2c_dev == NULL on detach simply means that the attach failed
  before, this isn't an error per se.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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i2c-dev: attach/detach_adapter cleanups

* Only print that an adapter was attached when it succeeds.
* i2c_dev == NULL on detach simply means that the attach failed
  before, this isn't an error per se.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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