linux-toradex.git/include/linux/moduleparam.h, branch v2.6.26-rc5

moduleparam: fix alpha, ia64 and ppc64 compile failures

2008-02-14T00:21:19+00:00

On alpha, ia64 and ppc64 only relocations to local data can go into
read-only sections. The vast majority of module parameters use the global
generic param_set_*/param_get_* functions, so the 'const' attribute for
struct kernel_param is not only useless, but it also causes compile
failures due to 'section type conflict' in those rare cases where
param_set/get are local functions.

This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8964

Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Anton Blanchard 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Adrian Bunk 
Cc: Kamalesh Babulal 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

remove __attribute_used__

2008-01-28T22:21:18+00:00

Remove the deprecated __attribute_used__.

[Introduce __section in a few places to silence checkpatch /sam]

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

constify string/array kparam tracking structures

2007-10-17T15:42:56+00:00

.. in an effort to make read-only whatever can be made, so that
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA can catch as many issues as possible.

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

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial

2007-02-19T21:29:02+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits)
  Documentation/kernel-docs.txt update.
  arch/cris: typo in KERN_INFO
  Storage class should be before const qualifier
  kernel/printk.c: comment fix
  update I/O sched Kconfig help texts - CFQ is now default, not AS.
  Remove duplicate listing of Cris arch from README
  kbuild: more doc. cleanups
  doc: make doc. for maxcpus= more visible
  drivers/net/eexpress.c: remove duplicate comment
  add a help text for BLK_DEV_GENERIC
  correct a dead URL in the IP_MULTICAST help text
  fix the BAYCOM_SER_HDX help text
  fix SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC help text
  trivial documentation patch for platform.txt
  Fix typos concerning hierarchy
  Fix comment typo "spin_lock_irqrestore".
  Fix misspellings of "agressive".
  drivers/scsi/a100u2w.c: trivial typo patch
  Correct trivial typo in log2.h.
  Remove useless FIND_FIRST_BIT() macro from cardbus.c.
  ...

Replace remaining references to "driverfs" with "sysfs".

2007-02-17T18:13:42+00:00

Globally, s/driverfs/sysfs/g.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

sysfs: fix build errors: uevent with CONFIG_SYSFS=n

2007-02-16T23:19:18+00:00

Fix source files to build with CONFIG_SYSFS=n.
module_subsys is not available.

SYSFS=n, MODULES=y:	T:y
SYSFS=n, MODULES=n:	T:y

SYSFS=y, MODULES=y:	T:y
SYSFS=y, MODULES=n:	T:y

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

[PATCH] Compile-time check re world-writeable module params

2006-12-07T16:39:34+00:00

One of the mistakes a module_param() user can make is to supply default
value of module parameter as the last argument.  module_param() accepts
permissions instead.  If default value is, say, 3 (-------wx), parameter
becomes world-writeable.

So far, the only remedy was to apply grep(1) and read drivers submitted
to -mm. BTDT.

With this patch applied, compiler will finally do some job.

*) bounds checking on permissions
*) world-writeable bit checking on permissions
*) compile breakage if checks trigger

First version of this check (only "& 2" part) directly caught 4 out of 7
places during my last grep.

    Subject: Neverending module_param() bugs
    [X] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:101:module_param(capacity_mode, int, CAPACITY_UNIT);
    [X] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:102:module_param(update_mode, int, UPDATE_MODE);
    [ ] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:103:module_param(update_info_mode, int, UPDATE_INFO_MODE);
    [ ] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:104:module_param(update_time, int, UPDATE_TIME);
    [ ] drivers/acpi/sbs.c:105:module_param(update_time2, int, UPDATE_TIME2);
    [X] drivers/char/watchdog/sbc8360.c:203:module_param(timeout, int, 27);
    [X] drivers/media/video/tuner-simple.c:13:module_param(offset, int, 0666);

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

[PATCH] kernel/params.c: make param_array() static

2006-03-25T16:22:52+00:00

param_array() in kernel/params.c can now become static.

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

kbuild: un-stringnify KBUILD_MODNAME

2006-01-06T20:17:50+00:00

Now when kbuild passes KBUILD_MODNAME with "" do not __stringify it when
used. Remove __stringnify for all users.
This also fixes the output of:

$ ls -l /sys/module/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 2006-01-05 14:24 pcmcia
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 2006-01-05 14:24 pcmcia_core
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2006-01-05 14:24 "processor"
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2006-01-05 14:24 "psmouse"

The quoting of the module names will be gone again.
Thanks to GregKH + Kay Sievers for reproting this.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-16T22:20:36+00:00

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!