Change mei_write_message's return type from bool to int
to enable propagation of the error code up to caller functions.
The function now returns -EIO when low level write fails and 0
on success.
A similar change is done in intermediate caller functions:
mei_send_flow_control, mei_connect, and mei_disconnect

This makes code more alike to typical Linux kernel error
handling.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

The below patch fixes some typos in drivers/staging/mei/* that I have found while
doing a little bit of reading.

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Replace bitfield struct hbm_cmd with simple u8 as we
always access the value as whole. This allows us to remove
few ugly type casts
For possible further uses and documentation purposes we add
corresponding bitmask defines

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1. convert all read buffers to unsigned char and drop useless castings
2. simplify mei_read_slots implementation

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1. Update Copyright to 2012
2. Also fix mei.h copyright format
   checkpaatch complained:
   WARNING: please, no spaces at the start of a line

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1. Remove redundant blanks
2. Straighten code lines that don't go over 80 characters

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Sizeof a pointer-typed expression returns the size of the pointer, not that
of the pointed data.

The semantic patch that fixes this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression *e;
type T;
identifier f;
@@

f(...,(T)e,...,
-sizeof(e)
+sizeof(*e)
,...)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Oren Weil <oren.jer.weil@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

remove write only/unsed variables
mei_dev.write_hang and mei_io_lis.tdevice_extension

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Oren Weil <oren.jer.weil@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Implementation of the communication between host and ME.
connect/disconnect to/from a client, send MEI message,
read MEI message, flow control handling.

Each MEI message has mei_msg_hdr followed by a payload.
Driver is oblivious the payload.

ME Address/ID 	- This is the logical address of the ME
		feature/client of that message.
Host Address/ID	- This is the logical address of the Host
		  client of that message
Length 		- This is the Length of message payload in bytes
Reserved 	-  reserved for future use.
Message Complete - This bit is used to indicative that
		this is the last message of multi message
		MEI transfer of a client message that is larger
		then the MEI circular buffer.
Payload		- Message payload (data) up to 512bytes

The HW data registers are consist two circular buffers,
one for data from ME and other data from Host application.
Each buffer has two pointers, read_ptr (H_CBRP)
and write_ptr (H_CBWP).
The buffers size is defined by depth value that exists
in the status registers (H_CBD and ME_CBD_HRA).
Every read from ME circular buffer cause read_ptr++
Every write to the Host  circular buffer write_ptr++

Flow control MEI message that ME and MEI Driver use to notify
each other that a ME feature/client or Host client buffer is ready
to receive data.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Itzhak Tzeel-Krupp <itzhak.tzeel-krupp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Oren Weil <oren.jer.weil@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>