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2012-09-10pwm: add devm_pwm_get() and devm_pwm_put()Alexandre Courbot
Add resource managed variants of pwm_get() and pwm_put() for convenience. Code is largely inspired by the equivalent devm functions of the regulator framework. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
2012-05-21Merge tag 'pinctrl-for-v3.5' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl Pull pin control subsystem changes from Linus Walleij: - Generic Device Tree bindings and hooks for drivers so we can move over modern drivers to using this. - Device Tree bindings for Tegra SoCs. - Funneling some devicetree helper code for the drivers/of subsystem. - New pin control drivers for: * Freescale MXS * Freescale i.MX51 * Freescale i.MX53 All of these use Device Tree bindings. - Dummy pinctrl handles for stepwise migration to pinctrl, akin to dummy regulators. - Minor non-urgent fixes and improvments. Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt and drivers/pinctrl/core.c, * tag 'pinctrl-for-v3.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl: (46 commits) pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: add imx51 pinctrl driver pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: add imx53 pinctrl driver pinctrl: pinctrl-pxa3xx: remove empty pinmux disable function pinctrl: pinctrl-mxs: remove empty pinmux disable function pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: remove empty pinmux disable function pinctrl: make pinmux disable function optional pinctrl: a minor error checking improvement for pinconf pinctrl: mxs: skip gpio nodes for group creation pinctrl: mxs: create group for pin config node pinctrl: (cosmetic) fix two entries in DocBook comments pinctrl: add more info to error msgs in pin_request pinctrl: add pinctrl-mxs support pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: add imx6q pinctrl driver pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: add imx pinctrl core driver dt: add of_get_child_count helper function pinctrl: support gpio request deferred probing pinctrl: add pinctrl_provide_dummies interface for platforms to use pinctrl: enhance reporting of errors when loading from DT pinctrl: add kerneldoc for pinctrl_ops device tree functions pinctrl: propagate map validation errors ...
2012-04-19ARM: 7376/1: clkdev: Implement managed clk_get()Mark Brown
Allow clk API users to simplify their cleanup paths by providing a managed version of clk_get() and clk_put(). Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2012-04-18pinctrl: implement devm_pinctrl_get()/put()Stephen Warren
These functions allow the driver core to automatically clean up any allocations made by drivers, thus leading to simplified drivers. Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2012-03-18Merge remote-tracking branches 'regulator/topic/devm' and ↵Mark Brown
'regulator/topic/stub' into regulator-next
2012-01-31regulator: add devm_regulator_* to the list of managed interfacesAxel Lin
Add devm_regulator_put() and devm_regulator_bulk_get() to the list of managed interfaces. Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2012-01-24Documentation: devres: add allocation functions to list of supported callsWolfram Sang
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2012-01-20regulator: Add devm_regulator_get()Stephen Boyd
Add a resource managed regulator_get() to simplify regulator usage in drivers. This allows driver authors to "get and forget" about their regulators by automatically calling regulator_put() when the driver is detached. [Fixed up a couple of coding style issues -- broonie] Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2011-11-15lib: devres: add convenience function to remap a resourceWolfram Sang
Almost every platform_driver does the three steps get_resource, request_mem_region, ioremap. This does not only lead to a lot of code duplication, but also a huge number of similar error strings and inconsistent error codes on failure. So, introduce a helper function which simplifies remapping a resource and make it hard to do something wrong and add documentation for it. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-08-24docs/driver-model: Update device class docsBart Van Assche
The driver model documentation was added to the kernel tree before struct class was added to <linux/device.h>. Hence this patch that updates the paragraph about struct class in Documentation/driver-model/binding.txt. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-08-24docs/driver-model: Document device.groupsBart Van Assche
Several drivers use device_create_file() where device.groups should be used instead. This patch documents that and also removes the comments about device classes since these should not be used in new code in the way documented until now in Documentation/driver-model/device.txt. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-07DOCUMENTATION: Replace create_device() with device_create().Robert P. J. Day
Fix a rather obvious typo. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-07DOCUMENTATION: Update overview.txt in Doc/driver-model.Robert P. J. Day
A few grammatical fixes, clarifications and corrections in just the overview file for the driver model documentation. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-05-06driver core: remove the driver-model structures from the documentationWanlong Gao
Remove the struct bus_type, class, device, device_driver from the driver-model docs. With another patch add them to device.h, since they are out of date. That will keep things up to date and provide a better way to document this stuff. Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com> Acked-by: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-10driver core: prune docs about device_interfaceBrandon Philips
drivers/base/intf.c was removed before the beginning of (git) time but its Documentation stuck around. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-02-05Fix spelling of 'platform' in comments and docStefan Weil
Replace platfrom -> platform. This is a frequent spelling bug. Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-12-23Driver core: driver_attribute parameters can often be const*Phil Carmody
Many struct driver_attribute descriptors are purely read-only structures, and there's no need to change them. Therefore make the promise not to, which will let those descriptors be put in a ro section. Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-07-12driver model: fix show/store prototypes in doc.vibi sreenivasan
FIX prototypes for show & store method in struct driver_attribute Signed-off-by: vibi sreenivasan <vibi_sreenivasan@cms.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15Driver Core: Warn driver authors about adding device attributesGrant Likely
Add a blurb to the driver-model documentation about how (not) to add extra attributes to a struct device at driver probe time. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-12trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixesMatt LaPlante
Fix various typos in documentation txts. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-04-16Driver Core: early platform driverMagnus Damm
V3 of the early platform driver implementation. Platform drivers are great for embedded platforms because we can separate driver configuration from the actual driver. So base addresses, interrupts and other configuration can be kept with the processor or board code, and the platform driver can be reused by many different platforms. For early devices we have nothing today. For instance, to configure early timers and early serial ports we cannot use platform devices. This because the setup order during boot. Timers are needed before the platform driver core code is available. The same goes for early printk support. Early in this case means before initcalls. These early drivers today have their configuration either hard coded or they receive it using some special configuration method. This is working quite well, but if we want to support both regular kernel modules and early devices then we need to have two ways of configuring the same driver. A single way would be better. The early platform driver patch is basically a set of functions that allow drivers to register themselves and architecture code to locate them and probe. Registration happens through early_param(). The time for the probe is decided by the architecture code. See Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt for more details. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-02-22PATCH [1/2] Documentation/driver-model/device.txt: fix struct device_attributeMike Murphy
Fix the presented definition of struct device_attribute to match the actual definition in include/linux/device.h Signed-off-by: Mike Murphy <mamurph[at]cs.clemson.edu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-02Driver core: Update some prototypes in platform.txtStephen Rothwell
Just make these match the actual code. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-20typo fixesMatt LaPlante
Most of these fixes were already submitted for old kernel versions, and were approved, but for some reason they never made it into the releases. Because this is a consolidation of a couple old missed patches, it touches both Kconfigs and documentation texts. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-07-18Documentation fix devres.txt: lib/iomap.c -> lib/devres.cBrandon Philips
Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-06-08update Documentation/driver-model/platform.txtDavid Brownell
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>
2007-05-09misc doc and kconfig typosMatt LaPlante
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>
2007-05-09Fix occurrences of "the the "Michael Opdenacker
Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-02DOC: Fix wrong identifier name in Documentation/driver-model/devres.txtRolf Eike Beer
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>
2007-02-17trivial documentation patch for platform.txtErik Hovland
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>
2007-02-09devres: device resource managementTejun Heo
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>
2006-12-01Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 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 ...
2006-12-01Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt update/rewriteDavid Brownell
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>
2006-11-30Fix typos in /Documentation : MiscMatt LaPlante
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>
2006-10-03Documentation: remove duplicated wordsPaolo Ornati
Remove many duplicated words under Documentation/ and do other small cleanups. Examples: "and and" --> "and" "in in" --> "in" "the the" --> "the" "the the" --> "to the" ... Signed-off-by: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03Fix typos in Documentation/: 'Q'-'R'Matt LaPlante
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'Q'-'R'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03Fix typos in Documentation/: 'H'-'M'Matt LaPlante
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'H'-'M'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-26typo fixesolecom@mail.ru
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-02-03[PATCH] Clean up Documentation/driver-model/overview.txtLinas Vepstas
Edits to the driver-model documentation for grammar, clarity and content. These docs haven't been updated in years, and some of the technical content and discussion has become stale; this patch updates these. In addition, some of the language is awkward. Fix this. (I'm trying to cleanup the other files in this directory also, patches for these will come a bit later). Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> Acked-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-28[PATCH] Fix documentation of driver suspend/resume callbacksTakashi Iwai
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28[PATCH] DRIVER MODEL: Get rid of the obsolete tri-level suspend/resume callbacksRussell King
In PM v1, all devices were called at SUSPEND_DISABLE level. Then all devices were called at SUSPEND_SAVE_STATE level, and finally SUSPEND_POWER_DOWN level. However, with PM v2, to maintain compatibility for platform devices, I arranged for the PM v2 suspend/resume callbacks to call the old PM v1 suspend/resume callbacks three times with each level in order so that existing drivers continued to work. Since this is obsolete infrastructure which is no longer necessary, we can remove it. Here's an (untested) patch to do exactly that. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28[PATCH] changes device to driver in porting.txtErik Hovland
The document porting.txt in Documentation/driver-model says: When a device is successfully bound to a device I think it should say: When a device is successfully bound to a driver Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20[PATCH] Driver Core: driver model doc updateDavid Brownell
This updates some driver data documentation: - removes references to some fields that haven't been there for a long time now, e.g. pre-kobject or even older; - giving more information about the probe() method; - adding an example of how platform_data is used Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-16[PATCH] pm_message_t: more fixes in common and i386Pavel Machek
I thought I'm done with fixing u32 vs. pm_message_t ... unfortunately that turned out not to be the case as Russel King pointed out. Here are fixes for Documentation and common code (mainly system devices). Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
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!
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