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This patch adds a new text API, codenamed '1u', which captures more URB
fields than old '1t' interface did. Also the '1u' text API is compatible
with the future "bus zero" extension.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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this patch removes usage of BKL from usblcd, which got it from the old
skeleton driver.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Iet's kill BKL where we can. This is relative to the last patch to the
skeleton driver.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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compilation of the skeleton driver is currently broken. It doesn't compile.
So while I am it:
- fix typo
- add comments to answer common questions
- actually allow autosuspend in the driver struct
- increase paralellism by restricting code under locks
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch changes last use of hardcoded number of irq to
use platfrom_get_irq.
Signed-off-by: Milan Svoboda <msvoboda@ra.rockwell.com>
Acked-by: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Make the pxa2xx_udc driver fetch its IRQ from platform resources
rather than using compile-time constants, so that it works properly
on IXP4xx systems not just PXA21x/25x/26x.
Other updates:
- Do that using platform_get_irq()
- Switch to platform_driver_probe()
- Handle device_add() errors
- Remove "function" sysfs attribute and its potential errors
- Whitespace cleanups
Signed-off-by: Milan Svoboda <msvoboda@ra.rockwell.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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I write a patch adding support "SHARP EMONE(S01SH)" device for ipaq.c.
EMONE is a PDA with built-in HSDPA function.
From: Norihiko Tomiyama <norihiko.tomiyama@ctc-g.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (46 commits)
dev_dbg: check dev_dbg() arguments
drivers/base/attribute_container.c: use mutex instead of binary semaphore
mod_sysfs_setup() doesn't return errno when kobject_add_dir() failure occurs
s2ram: add arch irq disable/enable hooks
define platform wakeup hook, use in pci_enable_wake()
security: prevent permission checking of file removal via sysfs_remove_group()
device_schedule_callback() needs a module reference
s390: cio: Delay uevents for subchannels
sysfs: bin.c printk fix
Driver core: use mutex instead of semaphore in DMA pool handler
driver core: bus_add_driver should return an error if no bus
debugfs: Add debugfs_create_u64()
the overdue removal of the mount/umount uevents
kobject: Comment and warning fixes to kobject.c
Driver core: warn when userspace writes to the uevent file in a non-supported way
Driver core: make uevent-environment available in uevent-file
kobject core: remove rwsem from struct subsystem
qeth: Remove usage of subsys.rwsem
PHY: remove rwsem use from phy core
IEEE1394: remove rwsem use from ieee1394 core
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Duplicate what Zach Brown did for pr_debug in commit
8b2a1fd1b394c60eaa2587716102dd5e9b4e5990
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix a couple of things which broke]
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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use mutex instead of binary semaphore in
drivers/base/attribute_container.c
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This defines a platform hook to enable/disable a device as a wakeup event
source. It's initially for use with ACPI, but more generally it could be used
whenever enable_irq_wake()/disable_irq_wake() don't suffice.
The hook is called -- if available -- inside pci_enable_wake(); and the
semantics of that call are enhanced so that support for PCI PME# is no longer
needed. It can now work for devices with "legacy PCI PM", when platform
support allows it. (That support would use some board-specific signal for for
the same purpose as PME#.)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Make it compile with CONFIG_PM=n]
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch (as896b) fixes an oversight in the design of
device_schedule_callback(). It is necessary to acquire a reference to the
module owning the callback routine, to prevent the module from being
unloaded before the callback can run.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Satyam Sharma <satyam.sharma@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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We often have the situation that we register a subchannel and start device
recognition, only to find out that the device is not usable after all, which
triggers an unregister of the subchannel. This often happens on hundreds of
subchannels on a LPAR, leading to a storm of events which aren't of any use.
Therefore, use uevent_suppress to delay the KOBJ_ADD uevent for a subchannel
until we know that its ccw_device is to be registered.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Eric Rannaud <eric.rannaud@gmail.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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the DMA pool handler uses a semaphore as mutex. use the mutex API
instead of the (binary) semaphore
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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As pointed out by Dave Jones.
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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non-supported way
In the future we will allow the uevent type to be written to the uevent
file to trigger the different types of uevents. But for now, as we only
support the ADD event, warn if userspace tries to write anything else to
this file.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This allows sysfs to show the environment variables that are available
if the uevent happens. This lets userspace not have to cache all of
this information as the kernel already knows it.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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the current driver tree contains the removal of subsys.rwsem.
Unfortunately, this breaks qeth. However, it should be no problem to
fix the walking of the devices for /proc/qeth:
No need to take subsys.rwsem during walking the devices,
driver_find_devices() should already suffice.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The subsystem rwsem is not used by the driver core at all, so the use of
it in the phy code doesn't make any sense. They might possibly
want to use a local lock, but I am unsure about that.
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The subsystem rwsem is not used by the driver core at all, so the use of
it in the ieee1394 code doesn't make any sense. They might possibly
want to use a local lock, but as most of these operations are already
protected by a local lock, it really doesn't look like it would be
needed.
Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: linux1394-devel <linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The subsystem rwsem is not used by the driver core at all, so the use of
it in the ide-proc code of it doesn't make any sense. Perhaps a local
lock might be needed, but I do not really think so.
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Cc: linux ide <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The subsystem rwsem is not used by the driver core at all, so there is
no point in trying to access it.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The subsystem rwsem is not used by the driver core at all, so there is
no point in trying to access it.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The rwsem is not used to protect anything, so the use of it by the PNP
subsystem isn't really useful, and it's doubtful if it really did anything or
not. So I've removed it.
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The driver core stopped using the rwsem a long time ago, yet the USB
core still grabbed the lock, thinking it protected something. This
patch removes that useless use.
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: linux-usb-devel <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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SCSI was using the incorrect lock to protect walking the list of all
devices in the class. This patch fixes this.
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This lock is never used by the rest of the driver core, so the fact that
we are grabbing it here means it isn't correct...
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Driver core: add suspend() and resume() to struct device_type
In cases when there are devices of different types in the same class
we can't use class's implementation of suspend and resume methods and
we need to add them to struct device_type instead.
Also fix error handling in resume code (we should not try to call
class's resume method iof bus's resume method for the device failed.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Make use of add_uevent_var() instead of (often incorrectly) open coding it.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Eric Rannaud <eric.rannaud@gmail.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Use uevent_suppress instead of returning an error code in
firmware_uevent(). Get rid of the now unneeded FW_STATUS_READY
and FW_STATUS_READY_NOHOTPLUG.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Suppress uevents for devices if uevent_suppress is set via
dev_uevent_filter(). This makes the driver core suppress all device
uevents, not just the add event in device_add().
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The completion in the driver release path is due to ancient history in
the _very_ early 2.5 days when we were not tracking the module reference
count of attributes. It is not needed at all and can be removed.
Note, we now have an empty release function for the driver structure.
This is due to the fact that drivers are statically allocated in the
system at this point in time, something which I want to change in the
future. But remember, drivers are really code, which is reference
counted by the module, unlike devices, which are data and _must_ be
reference counted properly in order to work correctly.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Don't fail bus_attach_device() if the device cannot be bound.
If dev->driver has been specified, reset it to NULL if device_bind_driver()
failed and add the device as an unbound device. As a result,
bus_attach_device() now cannot fail, and we can remove some checking from
device_add().
Also remove an unneeded check in bus_rescan_devices_helper().
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Make multithreaded probing work per subsystem instead of per driver.
It doesn't make much sense to probe the same device for multiple drivers in
parallel (after all, only one driver can bind to the device). Instead, create
a probing thread for each device that probes the drivers one after another.
Also make the decision to use multi-threaded probe per bus instead of per
device and adapt the pci code.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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If "name" of a device_type is specified, the uevent will
contain the device_type name in the DEVTYPE variable.
This helps userspace to distingiush between different types
of devices, belonging to the same subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Driver core: use attribute groups in struct device_type
Attribute groups are more flexible than attribute lists
(an attribute list can be represented by anonymous group)
so switch struct device_type to use them.
Also rework attribute creation for devices so that they all
cleaned up properly in case of errors.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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We get two per-bus sysfs files:
ls-l /sys/subsystem/usb
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2007-02-16 16:42 devices
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 2007-02-16 14:55 drivers
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2007-02-16 16:42 drivers_autoprobe
--w------- 1 root root 4096 2007-02-16 16:42 drivers_probe
The flag "drivers_autoprobe" controls the behavior of the bus to bind
devices by default, or just initialize the device and leave it alone.
The command "drivers_probe" accepts a bus_id and the bus tries to bind a
driver to this device.
Systems who want to control the driver binding with udev, switch off the
bus initiated probing:
echo 0 > /sys/subsystem/usb/drivers_autoprobe
echo 0 > /sys/subsystem/pcmcia/drivers_autoprobe
...
and initiate the probing with udev rules like:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{subsystem/drivers_probe}="$kernel"
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pcmcia", ATTR{subsystem/drivers_probe}="$kernel"
...
Custom driver binding can happen in earlier rules by something like:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", \
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1234", ATTRS{idProduct}=="5678" \
ATTR{subsystem/drivers/<custom-driver>/bind}="$kernel"
This is intended to solve the modprobe.conf mess with "install-rules", custom
bind/unbind-scripts and all the weird things people invented over the years.
It should also provide the functionality "libusual" was supposed to do.
With udev, one can just write a udev rule to drive all USB-disks at the
third port of USB-hub by the "ub" driver, and everything else by
usb-storage. One can also instruct udev to bind different wireless
drivers to identical cards - just selected by the pcmcia slot-number, and
whatever ...
To use the mentioned rules, it needs udev version 106, to be able to
write ATTR{}="$kernel" to sysfs files.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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As the new-style class devices (as opposed to old-style struct
class_device) are becoming more widely used, I noticed that the
dev_printk-based functions are not working properly with these.
New-style class devices have no driver nor bus, almost by definition,
and as a result dev_driver_string(), which is used as the first
parameter of dev_printk, resolves to an empty string. This causes
entries like the following to show in my logs:
i2c-2: adapter [SMBus stub driver] registered
Notice the unaesthetical leading whitespace. In order to fix this
problem, I suggest that we extend dev_driver_string to deal with
new-style class devices:
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- uses a kset in "struct class" to keep track of all directories
belonging to this class
- merges with the /sys/devices/virtual logic.
- removes the namespace-dir if the last member of that class
leaves the directory.
There may be locking or refcounting fixes left, I stopped when it seemed
to work with network and sound modules. :)
From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- At the moment we jump here device was't added to
dev->class->devices list yet.
Signed-off-by: Monakhov Dmitriy <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6:
UBI: remove unused variable
UBI: add me to MAINTAINERS
JFFS2: add UBI support
UBI: Unsorted Block Images
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Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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UBI (Latin: "where?") manages multiple logical volumes on a single
flash device, specifically supporting NAND flash devices. UBI provides
a flexible partitioning concept which still allows for wear-levelling
across the whole flash device.
In a sense, UBI may be compared to the Logical Volume Manager
(LVM). Whereas LVM maps logical sector numbers to physical HDD sector
numbers, UBI maps logical eraseblocks to physical eraseblocks.
More information may be found at
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubi.html
Partitioning/Re-partitioning
An UBI volume occupies a certain number of erase blocks. This is
limited by a configured maximum volume size, which could also be
viewed as the partition size. Each individual UBI volume's size can
be changed independently of the other UBI volumes, provided that the
sum of all volume sizes doesn't exceed a certain limit.
UBI supports dynamic volumes and static volumes. Static volumes are
read-only and their contents are protected by CRC check sums.
Bad eraseblocks handling
UBI transparently handles bad eraseblocks. When a physical
eraseblock becomes bad, it is substituted by a good physical
eraseblock, and the user does not even notice this.
Scrubbing
On a NAND flash bit flips can occur on any write operation,
sometimes also on read. If bit flips persist on the device, at first
they can still be corrected by ECC, but once they accumulate,
correction will become impossible. Thus it is best to actively scrub
the affected eraseblock, by first copying it to a free eraseblock
and then erasing the original. The UBI layer performs this type of
scrubbing under the covers, transparently to the UBI volume users.
Erase Counts
UBI maintains an erase count header per eraseblock. This frees
higher-level layers (like file systems) from doing this and allows
for centralized erase count management instead. The erase counts are
used by the wear-levelling algorithm in the UBI layer. The algorithm
itself is exchangeable.
Booting from NAND
For booting directly from NAND flash the hardware must at least be
capable of fetching and executing a small portion of the NAND
flash. Some NAND flash controllers have this kind of support. They
usually limit the window to a few kilobytes in erase block 0. This
"initial program loader" (IPL) must then contain sufficient logic to
load and execute the next boot phase.
Due to bad eraseblocks, which may be randomly scattered over the
flash device, it is problematic to store the "secondary program
loader" (SPL) statically. Also, due to bit-flips it may become
corrupted over time. UBI allows to solve this problem gracefully by
storing the SPL in a small static UBI volume.
UBI volumes vs. static partitions
UBI volumes are still very similar to static MTD partitions:
* both consist of eraseblocks (logical eraseblocks in case of UBI
volumes, and physical eraseblocks in case of static partitions;
* both support three basic operations - read, write, erase.
But UBI volumes have the following advantages over traditional
static MTD partitions:
* there are no eraseblock wear-leveling constraints in case of UBI
volumes, so the user should not care about this;
* there are no bit-flips and bad eraseblocks in case of UBI volumes.
So, UBI volumes may be considered as flash devices with relaxed
restrictions.
Where can it be found?
Documentation, kernel code and applications can be found in the MTD
gits.
What are the applications for?
The applications help to create binary flash images for two purposes: pfi
files (partial flash images) for in-system update of UBI volumes, and plain
binary images, with or without OOB data in case of NAND, for a manufacturing
step. Furthermore some tools are/and will be created that allow flash content
analysis after a system has crashed..
Who did UBI?
The original ideas, where UBI is based on, were developed by Andreas
Arnez, Frank Haverkamp and Thomas Gleixner. Josh W. Boyer and some others
were involved too. The implementation of the kernel layer was done by Artem
B. Bityutskiy. The user-space applications and tools were written by Oliver
Lohmann with contributions from Frank Haverkamp, Andreas Arnez, and Artem.
Joern Engel contributed a patch which modifies JFFS2 so that it can be run on
a UBI volume. Thomas Gleixner did modifications to the NAND layer. Alexander
Schmidt made some testing work as well as core functionality improvements.
Signed-off-by: Artem B. Bityutskiy <dedekind@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frank Haverkamp <haver@vnet.ibm.com>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'e1000-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6:
e1000: FIX: Stop raw interrupts disabled nag from RT
e1000: FIX: firmware handover bits
e1000: FIX: be ready for incoming irq at pci_request_irq
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Current e1000_xmit_frame spews raw interrupt disabled nag messages when
used with RT kernel patches. This patch uses spin_trylock_irqsave,
which allows RT patches to properly manage the irq semantics.
Signed-off-by: Mark Huth <mhuth@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Upon code inspection it was spotted that the firmware handover bit get/set
mismatched, which may have resulted in management issues on PCI-E
adapters. Setting them correctly may fix some management issues such
as arp routing etc.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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DEBUG_SHIRQ code exposed that e1000 was not ready for incoming interrupts
after having called pci_request_irq. This obviously requires us to finish
our software setup which assigns the irq handler before we request the
irq.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: (49 commits)
IB: Set class_dev->dev in core for nice device symlink
IB/ehca: Implement modify_port
IB/umad: Clarify documentation of transaction ID
IPoIB/cm: spin_lock_irqsave() -> spin_lock_irq() replacements
IB/mad: Change SMI to use enums rather than magic return codes
IB/umad: Implement GRH handling for sent/received MADs
IB/ipoib: Use ib_init_ah_from_path to initialize ah_attr
IB/sa: Set src_path_bits correctly in ib_init_ah_from_path()
IB/ucm: Simplify ib_ucm_event()
RDMA/ucma: Simplify ucma_get_event()
IB/mthca: Simplify CQ cleaning in mthca_free_qp()
IB/mthca: Fix mthca_write_mtt() on HCAs with hidden memory
IB/mthca: Update HCA firmware revisions
IB/ipath: Fix WC format drift between user and kernel space
IB/ipath: Check that a UD work request's address handle is valid
IB/ipath: Remove duplicate stuff from ipath_verbs.h
IB/ipath: Check reserved memory keys
IB/ipath: Fix unit selection when all CPU affinity bits set
IB/ipath: Don't allow QPs 0 and 1 to be opened multiple times
IB/ipath: Disable IB link earlier in shutdown sequence
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All RDMA drivers except ehca set class_dev->dev to their dma_device
value (ehca leaves this unset). dma_device is the only value that
makes any sense, so move this assignment to core/sysfs.c. This reduce
the duplicated code in the rest of the drivers and gives ehca a nice
/sys/class/infiniband/ehcaX/device symlink.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Fenkes <fenkes@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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Add "Modify Port" verb support to eHCA driver. The IB communication
manager needs this to set the IsCM port capability bit when
initializing.
Signed-off-by: Joachim Fenkes <fenkes@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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