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* Fix spelling of 'platform' in comments and docStefan Weil2010-02-051-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | 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>
* Driver Core: early platform driverMagnus Damm2009-04-161-0/+59
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Driver core: Update some prototypes in platform.txtStephen Rothwell2008-02-021-3/+3
| | | | | | | | 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>
* update Documentation/driver-model/platform.txtDavid Brownell2007-06-081-0/+40
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* misc doc and kconfig typosMatt LaPlante2007-05-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | 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>
* Fix occurrences of "the the "Michael Opdenacker2007-05-091-1/+1
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* trivial documentation patch for platform.txtErik Hovland2007-02-171-2/+2
| | | | | | | | 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>
* Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt update/rewriteDavid Brownell2006-12-011-86/+118
| | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-161-0/+99
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!