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27-Jul-2022 |
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> |
misc: Mark MICROCODE_MINOR unused This one is unused since 181b6f40e9ea ("x86/microcode: Rip out the OLD_INTERFACE") so comment it out. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220525161232.14924-1-bp@alien8.de Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220727114948.30123-1-bp@alien8.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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02-Aug-2020 |
Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke.linux@gmail.com> |
include/linux/miscdevice.h - Fix typo/grammar Improve the clarity and grammar of descriptive comment on top of the minor number assignments. Fix a typo within 2 comments for macros. s/This helps in eleminating of boilerplate code. /This helps to eliminate boilerplate code./ Signed-off-by: Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke.linux@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200803054346.4285-1-sebastian.fricke.linux@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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26-Feb-2020 |
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> |
rtc/ia64: remove legacy efirtc driver There are two EFI RTC drivers, the original drivers/char/efirtc.c driver and the more modern drivers/rtc/rtc-efi.c. Both implement the same interface, but the new one does so in a more portable way. Move everything over to that one and remove the old one. Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200226224322.187960-1-alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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11-Mar-2020 |
Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com> |
misc: move FLASH_MINOR into miscdevice.h and fix conflicts FLASH_MINOR is used in both drivers/char/nwflash.c and drivers/sbus/char/flash.c with conflict minor numbers. Move all the definitions of FLASH_MINOR into miscdevice.h. Rename FLASH_MINOR for drivers/char/nwflash.c to NWFLASH_MINOR and FLASH_MINOR for drivers/sbus/char/flash.c to SBUS_FLASH_MINOR. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200120221323.GJ15860@mit.edu/t/ Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200311071654.335-3-zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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11-Mar-2020 |
Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com> |
misc: cleanup minor number definitions in c file into miscdevice.h HWRNG_MINOR and RNG_MISCDEV_MINOR are duplicate definitions, use unified HWRNG_MINOR instead and moved into miscdevice.h ANSLCD_MINOR and LCD_MINOR are duplicate definitions, use unified LCD_MINOR instead and moved into miscdevice.h MISCDEV_MINOR is renamed to PXA3XX_GCU_MINOR and moved into miscdevice.h Other definitions are just moved without any change. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200120221323.GJ15860@mit.edu/t/ Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Build-tested-by: Willy TARREAU <wtarreau@haproxy.com> Build-tested-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200311071654.335-2-zhenzhong.duan@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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21-Nov-2019 |
Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com> |
agp: move AGPGART_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h This patch move the define for AGPGART_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h. It is better that all minor number definitions are in the same place. Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1574324085-4338-3-git-send-email-clabbe@baylibre.com
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24-Oct-2019 |
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> |
rfkill: allocate static minor udev has a feature of creating /dev/<node> device-nodes if it finds a devnode:<node> modalias. This allows for auto-loading of modules that provide the node. This requires to use a statically allocated minor number for misc character devices. However, rfkill uses dynamic minor numbers and prevents auto-loading of the module. So allocate the next static misc minor number and use it for rfkill. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191024174042.19851-1-marcel@holtmann.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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01-Nov-2017 |
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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18-Sep-2017 |
Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> |
sbus: char: Move D7S_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h This patch move the define for D7S_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h. It's better that all minor number are in the same place. Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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10-May-2017 |
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> |
vhost/vsock: use static minor number Vhost-vsock is a software device so there is no probe call that causes the driver to register its misc char device node. This creates a chicken and egg problem: userspace applications must open /dev/vhost-vsock to use the driver but the file doesn't exist until the kernel module has been loaded. Use the devname modalias mechanism so that /dev/vhost-vsock is created at boot. The vhost_vsock kernel module is automatically loaded when the first application opens /dev/host-vsock. Note that the "reserved for local use" range in Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt is incorrect. The userio driver already occupies part of that range. I've updated the documentation accordingly. Cc: device@lanana.org Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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15-Dec-2016 |
Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> |
apm-emulation: move APM_MINOR_DEV to include/linux/miscdevice.h This patch move the define for APM_MINOR_DEV to include/linux/miscdevice.h It is better that all minor number definitions are in the same place. Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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13-Dec-2016 |
Corentin LABBE <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> |
hwrng: core - Move hwrng miscdev minor number to include/linux/miscdevice.h This patch move the define for hwrng's miscdev minor number to include/linux/miscdevice.h. It's better that all minor number are in the same place. Rename it to HWRNG_MINOR (from RNG_MISCDEV_MINOR) in he process since no other miscdev define have MISCDEV in their name. Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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15-Dec-2016 |
LABBE Corentin <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> |
irnet: ppp: move IRNET_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h This patch move the define for IRNET_MINOR to include/linux/miscdevice.h It is better that all minor number definitions are in the same place. Signed-off-by: Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@gmail.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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22-Oct-2016 |
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> |
miscdevice: introduce builtin_misc_device This is basically the same as module_misc_device but without the presence of an exit/remove function. Similar in nature to the commit f309d4443130bf814e991f836e919dca22df37ae ("platform_device: better support builtin boilerplate avoidance"). Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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25-Aug-2016 |
PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com> |
miscdevice: Add helper macro for misc device boilerplate Many modules call misc_register and misc_deregister in its module init and exit methods without any additional code. This ends up being boilerplate. This patch adds helper macro module_misc_device(), that replaces module_init()/ module_exit() with template functions. This patch also converts drivers to use new macro. Change since v1: Add device.h include in miscdevice.h as module_driver macro was not available from other include files in some architectures. Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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24-Oct-2015 |
Stephen Chandler Paul <cpaul@redhat.com> |
Input: add userio module 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 <cpaul@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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30-Jul-2015 |
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
char: make misc_deregister a void function 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 <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Cc: Christine Caulfield <ccaulfie@redhat.com> Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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02-Feb-2015 |
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> |
misc: Add attribute groups 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 <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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16-May-2014 |
Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> |
miscdevice.h: Simple syntax fix to make pointers consistent. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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17-Feb-2014 |
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> |
misc: add comment on unused minors Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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17-Feb-2014 |
Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> |
Bluetooth: allocate static minor for vhci 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/$(uname -r)/modules.devname and then create the nodes. When first accessed these "dead" nodes will trigger the module loading. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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19-Dec-2013 |
Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> |
misc: Reserve minor for VFIO VFIO currently allocates it's own dynamic chardev range, reserving the first minor for the control part of the interface (/dev/vfio/vfio) and the remainder for VFIO groups (/dev/vfio/$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 <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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09-Sep-2013 |
Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> |
cuse: add fix minor number to /dev/cuse 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 <teg@jklm.no> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
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09-Sep-2013 |
David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> |
HID: uhid: allocate static minor udev has this nice feature of creating "dead" /dev/<node> device-nodes if it finds a devnode:<node> modalias. Once the node is accessed, the kernel automatically loads the module that provides the node. However, this requires udev to know the major:minor code to use for the node. This feature was introduced by: commit 578454ff7eab61d13a26b568f99a89a2c9edc881 Author: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Date: Thu May 20 18:07:20 2010 +0200 driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading However, uhid uses dynamic minor numbers so this doesn't actually work. We need to load uhid to know which minor it's going to use. Hence, allocate a static minor (just like uinput does) and we're good to go. Reported-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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29-Nov-2012 |
Sreekanth Reddy <Sreekanth.Reddy@lsi.com> |
[SCSI] miscdevice: Adding support for MPT3SAS_MINOR(222) Signed-off-by: Sreekanth Reddy <Sreekanth.Reddy@lsi.com> Reviewed-by: Nagalakshmi Nandigama <Nagalakshmi.Nandigama@lsi.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
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07-Jun-2012 |
Liu, Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com> |
xen/mce: Add mcelog support for Xen platform When MCA error occurs, it would be handled by Xen hypervisor first, and then the error information would be sent to initial domain for logging. This patch gets error information from Xen hypervisor and convert Xen format error into Linux format mcelog. This logic is basically self-contained, not touching other kernel components. By using tools like mcelog tool users could read specific error information, like what they did under native Linux. To test follow directions outlined in Documentation/acpi/apei/einj.txt Acked-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ke, Liping <liping.ke@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jiang, Yunhong <yunhong.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Liu, Jinsong <jinsong.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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11-Jan-2012 |
stephen hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> |
vhost-net: add module alias (v2.1) By adding some module aliases, programs (or users) won't have to explicitly call modprobe. Vhost-net will always be available if built into the kernel. It does require assigning a permanent minor number for depmod to work. Also: - use C99 style initialization. - add missing entry in documentation for loop-control Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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26-Jul-2011 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
switch miscdevice to umode_t Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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29-Aug-2011 |
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> |
miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types By removing the implicit presence of module.h from this file, we will see things like: In file included from fs/dlm/user.c:9: include/linux/miscdevice.h:50: error: field ‘list’ has incomplete type include/linux/miscdevice.h:54: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘mode_t’ Call out lists.h and types.h for inclusion to fix each of the above respectively. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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29-Aug-2011 |
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> |
miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h This file has a define MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV which in turn will use the MODULE_ALIAS define, but only if the former is explicitly used by modular device driver code (and such code should be already including module.h). Delete the include, since module.h is such a giant thing that we don't want it implicitly sneaking into compiles where it isn't specifically required. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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31-Jul-2011 |
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> |
loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation Loop devices today have a fixed pre-allocated number of usually 8. The number can only be changed at module init time. To find a free device to use, /dev/loop%i needs to be scanned, and all devices need to be opened until a free one is possibly found. This adds a new /dev/loop-control device node, that allows to dynamically find or allocate a free device, and to add and remove loop devices from the running system: LOOP_CTL_ADD adds a specific device. Arg is the number of the device. It returns the device i or a negative error code. LOOP_CTL_REMOVE removes a specific device, Arg is the number the device. It returns the device i or a negative error code. LOOP_CTL_GET_FREE finds the next unbound device or allocates a new one. No arg is given. It returns the device i or a negative error code. The loop kernel module gets automatically loaded when /dev/loop-control is accessed the first time. The alias specified in the module, instructs udev to create this 'dead' device node, even when the module is not loaded. Example: cfd = open("/dev/loop-control", O_RDWR); # add a new specific loop device err = ioctl(cfd, LOOP_CTL_ADD, devnr); # remove a specific loop device err = ioctl(cfd, LOOP_CTL_REMOVE, devnr); # find or allocate a free loop device to use devnr = ioctl(cfd, LOOP_CTL_GET_FREE); sprintf(loopname, "/dev/loop%i", devnr); ffd = open("backing-file", O_RDWR); lfd = open(loopname, O_RDWR); err = ioctl(lfd, LOOP_SET_FD, ffd); Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
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19-Aug-2010 |
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> |
Input: uinput - add devname alias to allow module on-demand load Recent modprobe and udev versions allow to create device nodes for modules which are not loaded. Only the first access will cause the in-kernel module loader to pull-in the module. Systems which never access the device node will not needlessly load the module, and no longer need init scripts or other facilities to unconditionally load it. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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11-Aug-2010 |
Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha@redhat.com> |
dm: allow autoloading of dm mod Add devname:mapper/control and MAPPER_CTRL_MINOR module alias to support dm-mod module autoloading. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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09-Jun-2010 |
Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> |
misc: Fix allocation 'borrowed' by vhost_net 10, 233 is allocated officially to /dev/kmview which is shipping in Ubuntu and Debian distributions. vhost_net seem to have borrowed it without making a proper request and this causes regressions in the other distributions. vhost_net can use a dynamic minor so use that instead. Also update the file with a comment to try and avoid future misunderstandings. cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <device@lanana.org> [ We should have caught this before 2.6.34 got released. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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20-May-2010 |
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> |
driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading This adds: alias: devname:<name> to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading of the kernel module when the device node is accessed. Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too much in love with their modularization that we need to cover the common cases with this new facility. It will allow us to remove a bunch of pretty useless init scripts and modprobes from init scripts. The static device node aliases will be carried in the module itself. The program depmod will extract this information to a file in the module directory: $ cat /lib/modules/2.6.34-00650-g537b60d-dirty/modules.devname # Device nodes to trigger on-demand module loading. microcode cpu/microcode c10:184 fuse fuse c10:229 ppp_generic ppp c108:0 tun net/tun c10:200 dm_mod mapper/control c10:235 Udev will pick up the depmod created file on startup and create all the static device nodes which the kernel modules specify, so that these modules get automatically loaded when the device node is accessed: $ /sbin/udevd --debug ... static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/cpu/microcode' c10:184 static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/fuse' c10:229 static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/ppp' c108:0 static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/net/tun' c10:200 static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/mapper/control' c10:235 udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/net/tun' 0666 udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/fuse' 0666 A few device nodes are switched to statically allocated numbers, to allow the static nodes to work. This might also useful for systems which still run a plain static /dev, which is completely unsafe to use with any dynamic minor numbers. Note: The devname aliases must be limited to the *common* and *single*instance* device nodes, like the misc devices, and never be used for conceptually limited systems like the loop devices, which should rather get fixed properly and get a control node for losetup to talk to, instead of creating a random number of device nodes in advance, regardless if they are ever used. This facility is to hide the mess distros are creating with too modualized kernels, and just to hide that these modules are not compiled-in, and not to paper-over broken concepts. Thanks! :) Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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13-Jan-2010 |
Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> |
vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce the number of system calls involved in virtio networking. Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification. There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope - uses eventfd for signalling - structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for migration, bug work-arounds in userspace) - write logging is supported (good for migration) - support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm) common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear. I used Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself. What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls. Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm. How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap device. Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac etc. Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes. Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to 4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU utilization. Features that I plan to look at in the future: - mergeable buffers - zero copy - scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to use Note on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU): what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a workqueue item. The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage. (Includes fixes by Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>, David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>) Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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18-Sep-2009 |
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> |
Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissions This allows subsytems to provide devtmpfs with non-default permissions for the device node. Instead of the default mode of 0600, null, zero, random, urandom, full, tty, ptmx now have a mode of 0666, which allows non-privileged processes to access standard device nodes in case no other userspace process applies the expected permissions. This also fixes a wrong assignment in pktcdvd and a checkpatch.pl complain. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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30-Apr-2009 |
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> |
Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices. This adds support for misc devices to report their requested nodename to userspace. It also updates a number of misc drivers to provide the needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them. Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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09-Mar-2009 |
Eric Moore <eric.moore@lsi.com> |
[SCSI] mpt2sas: add MPT2SAS_MINOR(221) to miscdevice.h Signed-off-by: Eric Moore <eric.moore@lsi.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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25-Nov-2008 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
fuse: move FUSE_MINOR to miscdevice.h Move FUSE_MINOR to miscdevice.h. While at it, de-uglify the file. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
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23-Mar-2008 |
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> |
PM: Remove destroy_suspended_device() After 2.6.24 there was a plan to make the PM core acquire all device semaphores during a suspend/hibernation to protect itself from concurrent operations involving device objects. That proved to be too heavy-handed and we found a better way to achieve the goal, but before it happened, we had introduced the functions device_pm_schedule_removal() and destroy_suspended_device() to allow drivers to "safely" destroy a suspended device and we had adapted some drivers to use them. Now that these functions are no longer necessary, it seems reasonable to remove them and modify their users to use the normal device unregistration instead. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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04-Feb-2008 |
Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> |
Misc: Add possibility to remove misc devices during suspend/resume Make it possible to unregister a misc device object in a safe way during a suspend/resume cycle. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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04-Mar-2007 |
Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> |
KVM: Use own minor number Use the minor number (232) allocated to kvm by lanana. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
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27-Jul-2006 |
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> |
Driver core: change misc class_devices to be real devices This also ment that some of the misc drivers had to also be fixed up as they were assuming the device was a class_device. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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20-Jun-2005 |
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> |
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed Also fixes all drivers that set this field. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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28-Mar-2006 |
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> |
[PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inode Mark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the ripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then "do stuff" with it. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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16-Apr-2005 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> |
Linux-2.6.12-rc2 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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