Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Make note of the legacy "probe-the-hardware" drivers, and some APIs that
are mostly unused except by such drivers.  We probably can't escape having
legacy drivers for a while (e.g.  old ISA drivers), but we can at least
discourage this style code for new drivers, and unless it's unavoidable.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Fix various typos in kernel docs and Kconfigs, 2.6.21-rc4.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Above and below we talk about my_midlayer_create_something, I assume that is
also meant here.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Found a couple of typos in the Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
file. This patch fixes both of them.

Signed-off-by: Erik Hovland <erik@hovland.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Implement device resource management, in short, devres.  A device
driver can allocate arbirary size of devres data which is associated
with a release function.  On driver detach, release function is
invoked on the devres data, then, devres data is freed.

devreses are typed by associated release functions.  Some devreses are
better represented by single instance of the type while others need
multiple instances sharing the same release function.  Both usages are
supported.

devreses can be grouped using devres group such that a device driver
can easily release acquired resources halfway through initialization
or selectively release resources (e.g. resources for port 1 out of 4
ports).

This patch adds devres core including documentation and the following
managed interfaces.

* alloc/free	: devm_kzalloc(), devm_kzfree()
* IO region	: devm_request_region(), devm_release_region()
* IRQ		: devm_request_irq(), devm_free_irq()
* DMA		: dmam_alloc_coherent(), dmam_free_coherent(),
		  dmam_declare_coherent_memory(), dmam_pool_create(),
		  dmam_pool_destroy()
* PCI		: pcim_enable_device(), pcim_pin_device(), pci_is_managed()
* iomap		: devm_ioport_map(), devm_ioport_unmap(), devm_ioremap(),
		  devm_ioremap_nocache(), devm_iounmap(), pcim_iomap_table(),
		  pcim_iomap(), pcim_iounmap()

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (36 commits)
  Driver core: show drivers in /sys/module/
  Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt update/rewrite
  Driver core: platform_driver_probe(), can save codespace
  driver core: Use klist_remove() in device_move()
  driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.
  Driver core: make drivers/base/core.c:setup_parent() static
  driver core: Introduce device_find_child().
  sysfs: sysfs_write_file() writes zero terminated data
  cpu topology: consider sysfs_create_group return value
  Driver core: Call platform_notify_remove later
  ACPI: Change ACPI to use dev_archdata instead of firmware_data
  Driver core: add dev_archdata to struct device
  Driver core: convert sound core to use struct device
  Driver core: change mem class_devices to be real devices
  Driver core: convert fb code to use struct device
  Driver core: convert firmware code to use struct device
  Driver core: convert mmc code to use struct device
  Driver core: convert ppdev code to use struct device
  Driver core: convert PPP code to use struct device
  Driver core: convert cpuid code to use struct device
  ...

This is almost a rewrite of the driver-model/platform.txt documentation;
the previous text was obsolete (for several years), evidently it never
got updated to match the change from being a PC "legacy_bus" to the more
widely used core bus for most embedded systems.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
misc words.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>