linux.git/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c, branch v2.6.20

[PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.h

2006-12-07T16:39:27+00:00

Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so
that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require
recompiling just about everything.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver]
Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham 
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Cc: Pavel Machek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] airo: check if need to freeze

2006-10-17T00:09:49+00:00

The airo driver used to break out of while loop if there were any signals
pending.  Since it no longer checks for signals, it at least needs to check
if it needs to be frozen.

Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp 
Cc: Jean Tourrilhes 
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Cc: Jeff Garzik 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

[PATCH] wireless: More WE-21 potential overflows...

2006-10-17T00:09:48+00:00

After the Orinoco issue, I did an audit of other drivers for the same
issue.  Three drivers were NULL terminating the ESSID, which could cause an
overflow in WE-21 when the ESSID has maximum size.

Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

[PATCH] airo.c: check returned values

2006-10-17T00:09:48+00:00

create_proc_entry() can fail and return NULL in setup_proc_entry(), the
result must be checked before dereferencing. (Coverity ID 1443)

init_wifidev() & setup_proc_entry() can also fail in _init_airo_card().

This adds the checks & cleanup code and removes some whitespace.

Signed-off-by: Florin Malita 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers

2006-10-05T14:10:12+00:00

Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells 
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)

drivers/net/wireless/{airo,ipw2100}: fix error handling bugs

2006-10-01T11:31:09+00:00

airo:
* fix oops, if !CONFIG_PROC_FS (create_proc_entry always returns NULL)

* handle pci_register_driver() failure.  if it fails, we really do
  want to exit, rather than (as a comment indicates) return success
  because-we-are-a-library.

* #if 0 have_isa_dev variable, which is assigned a value but never used

ipw2100:
* handle sysfs_create_group() failure

* handle driver_create_file() failure

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

[PATCH] WE-21 for airo

2006-09-25T20:52:14+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville

Merge branch 'master' into upstream

2006-09-23T00:10:23+00:00

Conflicts:

	net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c
	net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c

[CRYPTO] users: Use block ciphers where applicable

2006-09-21T01:46:15+00:00

This patch converts all remaining users to use the new block cipher type
where applicable.  It also changes all simple cipher operations to use
the new encrypt_one/decrypt_one interface.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

[PATCH] kthread: airo.c

2006-08-29T21:06:28+00:00

The airo driver is currently caching a pid for later use, but with the
implementation of containers, pids themselves do not uniquely identify a
task.  The driver is also using kernel_thread() which is deprecated in
drivers.

This patch essentially replaces the kernel_thread() with kthread_create().
It also stores the task_struct of the airo_thread rather than its pid.
Since this introduces a second task_struct in struct airo_info, the patch
renames airo_info.task to airo_info.list_bss_task.

As an extension of these changes, the patch further:

	 - replaces kill_proc() with kthread_stop()
	 - replaces signal_pending() with kthread_should_stop()
	 - removes thread completion synchronisation which is handled by
	   kthread_stop().

[akpm@osdl.org: fix races]
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu 
Cc: Javier Achirica 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville