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<title>headers: smp_lock.h redux</title>
<updated>2009-07-12T19:22:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2009-07-11T18:08:37+00:00</published>
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* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!)
* Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it
* Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h
  It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPT

  This will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config
  (which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW)

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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* Remove smp_lock.h from files which don't need it (including some headers!)
* Add smp_lock.h to files which do need it
* Make smp_lock.h include conditional in hardirq.h
  It's needed only for one kernel_locked() usage which is under CONFIG_PREEMPT

  This will make hardirq.h inclusion cheaper for every PREEMPT=n config
  (which includes allmodconfig/allyesconfig, BTW)

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>fs: Remove i_cindex from struct inode</title>
<updated>2009-06-12T01:36:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
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<published>2009-05-21T20:01:00+00:00</published>
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The only user of the i_cindex element in the inode structure is used
is by the firewire drivers.  As part of an attempt to slim down the
inode structure to save memory --- since a typical Linux system will
have hundreds of thousands if not millions of inodes cached, a
reduction in the size inode has high leverage.

The firewire driver does not need i_cindex in any fast path, so it's
simple enough to calculate when it is needed, instead of wasting space
in the inode structure.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: krh@redhat.com
Cc: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The only user of the i_cindex element in the inode structure is used
is by the firewire drivers.  As part of an attempt to slim down the
inode structure to save memory --- since a typical Linux system will
have hundreds of thousands if not millions of inodes cached, a
reduction in the size inode has high leverage.

The firewire driver does not need i_cindex in any fast path, so it's
simple enough to calculate when it is needed, instead of wasting space
in the inode structure.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: krh@redhat.com
Cc: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>fs: fix name overwrite in __register_chrdev_region()</title>
<updated>2009-01-06T23:59:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Cyrill Gorcunov</name>
<email>gorcunov@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2009-01-06T22:41:08+00:00</published>
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It's possible to register a chrdev with a name size exactly the same as
was allocated in structure.  It seems it was not intended behaviour.

At least chrdev_show does not like it.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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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It's possible to register a chrdev with a name size exactly the same as
was allocated in structure.  It seems it was not intended behaviour.

At least chrdev_show does not like it.

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov &lt;gorcunov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&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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<title>[PATCH] tidy up chrdev_open</title>
<updated>2008-10-23T09:12:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
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<published>2008-08-11T13:34:22+00:00</published>
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Use a single goto label for chrdev_put + return error cases.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Use a single goto label for chrdev_put + return error cases.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>remove CONFIG_KMOD from fs</title>
<updated>2008-10-16T15:38:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes@sipsolutions.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-09T08:28:40+00:00</published>
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Just always compile the code when the kernel is modular.
Convert load_nls to use try_then_request_module to tidy
up the code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Just always compile the code when the kernel is modular.
Convert load_nls to use try_then_request_module to tidy
up the code.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Remove the lock_kernel() call from chrdev_open()</title>
<updated>2008-06-20T20:05:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Corbet</name>
<email>corbet@lwn.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-18T21:40:00+00:00</published>
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All in-kernel char device open() functions now either have their own
lock_kernel() calls or clearly do not need one.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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All in-kernel char device open() functions now either have their own
lock_kernel() calls or clearly do not need one.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Add a comment in chrdev_open()</title>
<updated>2008-06-20T20:05:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Corbet</name>
<email>corbet@lwn.net</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-18T21:39:11+00:00</published>
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I stared at this code for a while and almost deleted it before
understanding crept into my slow brain.  Hopefully this makes life easier
for the next person to happen on it.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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I stared at this code for a while and almost deleted it before
understanding crept into my slow brain.  Hopefully this makes life easier
for the next person to happen on it.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: remove unused fops from struct char_device_struct</title>
<updated>2008-04-29T15:06:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Olsa</name>
<email>olsajiri@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-29T07:59:05+00:00</published>
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struct char_device_struct::fops is no longer used: remove it.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;olsajiri@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.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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struct char_device_struct::fops is no longer used: remove it.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;olsajiri@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.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>fs/char_dev.c: chrdev_open marked static and removed from fs.h</title>
<updated>2008-02-08T17:22:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denis Cheng</name>
<email>crquan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-08T12:22:00+00:00</published>
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There is an outdated comment in serial_core.c also fixed.

Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng &lt;crquan@gmail.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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There is an outdated comment in serial_core.c also fixed.

Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng &lt;crquan@gmail.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>Kobject: rename kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init()</title>
<updated>2008-01-25T04:40:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2007-12-18T06:05:35+00:00</published>
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Now that the old kobject_init() function is gone, rename
kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init() to clean up the namespace.

Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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Now that the old kobject_init() function is gone, rename
kobject_init_ng() to kobject_init() to clean up the namespace.

Cc: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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