linux-toradex.git/include/linux/miscdevice.h, branch v4.8-rc1

Input: add userio module

2015-10-28T01:55:31+00:00

Debugging input devices, specifically laptop touchpads, can be tricky
without having the physical device handy. Here we try to remedy that
with userio. This module allows an application to connect to a character
device provided by the kernel, and emulate any serio device. In
combination with userspace programs that can record PS/2 devices and
replay them through the /dev/userio device, this allows developers to
debug driver issues on the PS/2 level with devices simply by requesting
a recording from the user experiencing the issue without having to have
the physical hardware in front of them.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Chandler Paul 
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann 
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov

char: make misc_deregister a void function

2015-08-05T17:35:49+00:00

With well over 200+ users of this api, there are a mere 12 users that
actually checked the return value of this function.  And all of them
really didn't do anything with that information as the system or module
was shutting down no matter what.

So stop pretending like it matters, and just return void from
misc_deregister().  If something goes wrong in the call, you will get a
WARNING splat in the syslog so you know how to fix up your driver.
Other than that, there's nothing that can go wrong.

Cc: Alasdair Kergon 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: Oleg Drokin 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" 
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck 
Cc: Christine Caulfield 
Cc: David Teigland 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Acked-by: Joel Becker 
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni 
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo 
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

misc: Add attribute groups

2015-03-25T10:44:52+00:00

Add groups field to struct miscdevice for passing the attribute groups
at device creation.  In this way, the driver can avoid the manual call
of device_create_file() after the device registration, which is
basically a racy operation, in addition to the reduction of manual
device_remove_file() calls.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

miscdevice.h: Simple syntax fix to make pointers consistent.

2014-05-28T00:43:11+00:00

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2014-04-03T03:53:45+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Here is my initial pull request for the networking subsystem during
  this merge window:

   1) Support for ESN in AH (RFC 4302) from Fan Du.

   2) Add full kernel doc for ethtool command structures, from Ben
      Hutchings.

   3) Add BCM7xxx PHY driver, from Florian Fainelli.

   4) Export computed TCP rate information in netlink socket dumps, from
      Eric Dumazet.

   5) Allow IPSEC SA to be dumped partially using a filter, from Nicolas
      Dichtel.

   6) Convert many drivers to pci_enable_msix_range(), from Alexander
      Gordeev.

   7) Record SKB timestamps more efficiently, from Eric Dumazet.

   8) Switch to microsecond resolution for TCP round trip times, also
      from Eric Dumazet.

   9) Clean up and fix 6lowpan fragmentation handling by making use of
      the existing inet_frag api for it's implementation.

  10) Add TX grant mapping to xen-netback driver, from Zoltan Kiss.

  11) Auto size SKB lengths when composing netlink messages based upon
      past message sizes used, from Eric Dumazet.

  12) qdisc dumps can take a long time, add a cond_resched(), From Eric
      Dumazet.

  13) Sanitize netpoll core and drivers wrt.  SKB handling semantics.
      Get rid of never-used-in-tree netpoll RX handling.  From Eric W
      Biederman.

  14) Support inter-address-family and namespace changing in VTI tunnel
      driver(s).  From Steffen Klassert.

  15) Add Altera TSE driver, from Vince Bridgers.

  16) Optimizing csum_replace2() so that it doesn't adjust the checksum
      by checksumming the entire header, from Eric Dumazet.

  17) Expand BPF internal implementation for faster interpreting, more
      direct translations into JIT'd code, and much cleaner uses of BPF
      filtering in non-socket ocntexts.  From Daniel Borkmann and Alexei
      Starovoitov"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1976 commits)
  netpoll: Use skb_irq_freeable to make zap_completion_queue safe.
  net: Add a test to see if a skb is freeable in irq context
  qlcnic: Fix build failure due to undefined reference to `vxlan_get_rx_port'
  net: ptp: move PTP classifier in its own file
  net: sxgbe: make "core_ops" static
  net: sxgbe: fix logical vs bitwise operation
  net: sxgbe: sxgbe_mdio_register() frees the bus
  Call efx_set_channels() before efx->type->dimension_resources()
  xen-netback: disable rogue vif in kthread context
  net/mlx4: Set proper build dependancy with vxlan
  be2net: fix build dependency on VxLAN
  mac802154: make csma/cca parameters per-wpan
  mac802154: allow only one WPAN to be up at any given time
  net: filter: minor: fix kdoc in __sk_run_filter
  netlink: don't compare the nul-termination in nla_strcmp
  can: c_can: Avoid led toggling for every packet.
  can: c_can: Simplify TX interrupt cleanup
  can: c_can: Store dlc private
  can: c_can: Reduce register access
  can: c_can: Make the code readable
  ...

misc: add comment on unused minors

2014-02-18T18:56:28+00:00

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Bluetooth: allocate static minor for vhci

2014-02-18T17:49:04+00:00

Commit bfacbb9 (Bluetooth: Use devname:vhci module alias for virtual HCI
driver) added the module alias to hci_vhci module so it's possible to
create the /dev/vhci node. However creating an alias without
specifying the minor doesn't allow us to create the node ahead,
triggerring module auto-load when it's first accessed.

Starting with depmod from kmod 16 we started to warn if there's a
devname alias without specifying the major and minor.

Let's do the same done for uhid, kvm, fuse and others, specifying a
fixed minor. In systems with systemd as the init the following will
happen: on early boot systemd will call "kmod static-nodes" to read
/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.devname and then create the nodes. When
first accessed these "dead" nodes will trigger the module loading.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann

misc: Reserve minor for VFIO

2013-12-19T17:17:11+00:00

VFIO currently allocates it's own dynamic chardev range, reserving the
first minor for the control part of the interface (/dev/vfio/vfio) and
the remainder for VFIO groups (/dev/vfio/$GROUP).  This works, but it
doesn't support auto loading.  For instance when libvirt checks for
VFIO support it looks for /dev/vfio/vfio, which currently doesn't
exist unless the vfio module is loaded.  By converting the control
device to a misc driver and reserving a static minor, we can enable
auto loading.

Reserving the minor is a prerequist to that conversion.  Minor 196
is unused by anything currently in the kernel.

Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini 
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse

2013-11-13T06:27:00+00:00

Pull fuse updates from Miklos Szeredi:
 "This adds a ->writepage() implementation to fuse, improving mmaped
  writeout and paving the way for buffered writeback.

  And there's a patch to add a fix minor number for /dev/cuse, similarly
  to /dev/fuse"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  fuse: writepages: protect secondary requests from fuse file release
  fuse: writepages: update bdi writeout when deleting secondary request
  fuse: writepages: crop secondary requests
  fuse: writepages: roll back changes if request not found
  cuse: add fix minor number to /dev/cuse
  fuse: writepage: skip already in flight
  fuse: writepages: handle same page rewrites
  fuse: writepages: fix aggregation
  fuse: fix race in fuse_writepages()
  fuse: Implement writepages callback
  fuse: don't BUG on no write file
  fuse: lock page in mkwrite
  fuse: Prepare to handle multiple pages in writeback
  fuse: Getting file for writeback helper

cuse: add fix minor number to /dev/cuse

2013-10-01T14:44:54+00:00

This allows udev (or more recently systemd-tmpfiles) to create /dev/cuse on
boot, in the same way as /dev/fuse is currently created, and the corresponding
module to be loaded on first access.

The corresponding functionalty was introduced for fuse in commit 578454f.

Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen 
Cc: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi