linux-toradex.git/drivers/base/firmware_class.c, branch v2.6.27.12

firmware: use memory_read_from_buffer()

2008-07-25T17:53:44+00:00

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Markus Rechberger 
Cc: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image

2008-07-10T13:30:13+00:00

Some drivers have their own hacks to bypass the kernel's firmware loader
and build their firmware into the kernel; this renders those unnecessary.

Other drivers don't use the firmware loader at all, because they always
want the firmware to be available. This allows them to start using the
firmware loader.

A third set of drivers already use the firmware loader, but can't be
used without help from userspace, which sometimes requires an initrd.
This allows them to work in a static kernel.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

firmware: make fw->data const

2008-07-10T13:29:25+00:00

In preparation for supporting firmware files linked into the static
kernel, make fw->data const to ensure that users aren't modifying it (so
that we can pass a pointer to the original in-kernel copy, rather than
having to copy it).

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

firmware loader: printk when requesting firmware

2008-04-29T15:06:05+00:00

Before requesting firmware, printk a message saying what we're requesting. This
makes it easier to see what's going on, and provides an explanation for the
huge silent delay that one would otherwise get after accidentally building
ipw2200 as a non-module.

Cc: Greg KH 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

driver core: replace remaining FUNCTION occurrences

2008-04-20T02:10:29+00:00

__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: Revert "Fix Firmware class name collision"

2008-02-07T19:31:46+00:00

This reverts commit 109f0e93b6b728f03c1eb4af02bc25d71b646c59.

The original patch breaks BIOS updates on all Dell machines. The path to
the firmware file for the dell_rbu driver changes, which breaks all of
the userspace tools which rely on it.

Note that this patch re-introduces a problem with i2c name collision
that was previously fixed by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Michael E Brown 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix Firmware class name collision

2007-10-12T21:51:06+00:00

following patch fixes the i2c name collision with i2c-dev.

http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php/Bugtracker#i2c_core_problem

This issue has been experienced with em28xx and saa7133 based devices.
I discussed that problem with Jean Delvare a while ago and he proposed 
to add a prefix to the class name.

Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger 
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: change add_uevent_var to use a struct

2007-10-12T21:51:01+00:00

This changes the uevent buffer functions to use a struct instead of a
long list of parameters. It does no longer require the caller to do the
proper buffer termination and size accounting, which is currently wrong
in some places. It fixes a known bug where parts of the uevent
environment are overwritten because of wrong index calculations.

Many thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for finding bugs and improving the
error handling.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Cornelia Huck 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernel-doc fixes for PCI and drivers/base/

2007-07-30T21:25:12+00:00

Fix undocumented function parameters in PCI and drivers/base.

Warning(linux-2.6.23-rc1//drivers/pci/pci.c:1526): No description found for parameter 'rq'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-rc1//drivers/base/firmware_class.c:245): No description found for parameter 'bin_attr'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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