linux.git/drivers/zorro, branch v2.6.23

zorro: Make sysfs config attribute read-only

2007-08-23T02:52:45+00:00

zorro: Make the sysfs `config' attribute read-only, as you cannot write to it
(there's no .write function neither).

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sysfs: add parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in .read/.write methods for sysfs binary attributes

2007-07-11T23:09:09+00:00

Well, first of all, I don't want to change so many files either.

What I do:
Adding a new parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in the
.read/.write methods for the sysfs binary attributes.

In fact, only the four lines change in fs/sysfs/bin.c and
include/linux/sysfs.h do the real work.
But I have to update all the files that use binary attributes
to make them compatible with the new .read and .write methods.
I'm not sure if I missed any. :(

Why I do this:
For a sysfs attribute, we can get a pointer pointing to the
struct attribute in the .show/.store method,
while we can't do this for the binary attributes.
I don't know why this is different, but this does make it not
so handy to use the binary attributes as the regular ones.
So I think this patch is reasonable. :)

Who benefits from it:
The patch that exposes ACPI tables in sysfs
requires such an improvement.
All the table binary attributes share the same .read method.
Parameter "struct bin_attribute *" is used to get
the table signature and instance number which are used to
distinguish different ACPI table binary attributes.

Without this parameter, we need to offer different .read methods
for different ACPI table binary attributes.
This is impossible as there are various ACPI tables on different
platforms, and we don't know what they are until they are loaded.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner

2007-07-11T23:09:06+00:00

sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game.  After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners.  Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.

This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner.  Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.

For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293

(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Cornelia Huck 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Amiga Zorro bus: kill resource_size_t warnings

2007-05-05T00:59:08+00:00

Kill resource_size_t warnings by casting resource_size_t to unsigned long when
formatting Zorro bus resources, as they are always 32-bit.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] mark struct file_operations const 6

2007-02-12T17:48:45+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] struct path: convert zorro

2006-12-08T16:28:50+00:00

Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove obsolete #include

2006-06-30T17:25:36+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[PATCH] amiga: fix driver_register() return handling, remove zorro_module_init()

2006-03-25T16:22:53+00:00

Remove the assumption that driver_register() returns the number of devices
bound to the driver.  In fact, it returns zero for success or a negative
error value.

zorro_module_init() used the device count to automatically unregister and
unload drivers that found no devices.  That might have worked at one time,
but has been broken for some time because zorro_register_driver() returned
either a negative error or a positive count (never zero).  So it could only
unregister on failure, when it's not needed anyway.

This functionality could be resurrected in individual drivers by counting
devices in their .probe() methods.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Add zorro_bus_type probe and remove methods

2006-01-13T19:26:10+00:00

Signed-off-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] m68k: zorro __user annotations

2006-01-12T17:09:04+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds