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Author SHA1 Message Date
Randy Dunlap
35899c5751 kbuild: ignore smp_locks section warnings from init/exit code
Add ".smp_locks" section to whitelist as being safe from
init and exit sections.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-06-08 20:20:23 +02:00
Atsushi Nemoto
eae07ac607 [PATCH] kbuild: fix modpost segfault for 64bit mipsel kernel
Here is an updated r_info layout fix.  Please apply "check SHT_REL
sections" patch before this.

64bit mips has different r_info layout.  This patch fixes modpost
segfault for 64bit little endian mips kernel.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-21 12:59:21 -07:00
Atsushi Nemoto
2c1a51f39d [PATCH] kbuild: check SHT_REL sections
I found that modpost can not detect section mismatch on mips and i386.  On
mips64, the modpost (with r_info layout fix) can detect it.  The current
modpst only checks SHT_RELA section but I suppose SHT_REL section should be
checked also.  This patch does not contain r_info layout fix.  I'll post an
updated r_info layout fix on next mail.

Check SHT_REL sections as like as SHT_RELA sections to detect section
mismatch.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-21 12:59:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
601e7f024e Revert "kbuild: fix modpost segfault for 64bit mipsel kernel"
This reverts commit c8d8b837eb, which
caused problems for the x86 build. Quoth Sam:

  "It was discussed on mips list but apparently the fix was bogus.  I
   will not have time to look into it so mips can carry this local fix
   until we get a proper fix in mainline."

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-08 13:38:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bed7a56033 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild:
  kbuild: Do not overwrite makefile as anohter user
  kbuild: drivers/video/logo/ - fix ident glitch
  kbuild: fix gen_initramfs_list.sh
  kbuild modpost - relax driver data name
  kbuild: removing .tmp_versions considered harmful
  kbuild: fix modpost segfault for 64bit mipsel kernel
2006-05-08 09:10:44 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
72ee59b579 kbuild modpost - relax driver data name
Relax driver data name from *_driver to *driver.
This fixes the 26 section mismatch warnings in drivers/ide/pci.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-04-30 23:52:31 +02:00
Atsushi Nemoto
c8d8b837eb kbuild: fix modpost segfault for 64bit mipsel kernel
64bit mips has different r_info layout.  This patch fixes modpost
segfault for 64bit little endian mips kernel.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-04-30 23:36:48 +02:00
Dmitry Torokhov
7b7e394185 Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2006-04-29 01:11:23 -04:00
Dmitry Torokhov
ddc5d34145 Input: move input_device_id to mod_devicetable.h
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-04-26 00:14:19 -04:00
Sam Ravnborg
5ecdd0f67c kbuild: fix false section mismatch warnings
Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmail.com> pointed out a
number of false positives where we referenced variables
from a _driver variable.
Fix it by check for that pattern and ignore it.

Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> pointed out a similar
set of warnings for a number of scsi drivers.
In scsi world they misname their variables *_template or
*_sht so add these to list of variables that may have references
to .init.text with no warning.

Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> also pointed out a scsi driver
with many references to .exit.text from .rodata. This is compiler
generated references and we already ignore these for .init.text, so
ignore them for .exit.text also.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-04-15 00:35:22 +02:00
Eric Sesterhenn
eaaae38c1a kbuild: fix NULL dereference in scripts/mod/modpost.c
before is NULL in this case, concluding from the surrounding code
it seems that after is the right one to use.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-04-11 13:37:07 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
2e1ca21d46 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (46 commits)
  kbuild: remove obsoleted scripts/reference_* files
  kbuild: fix make help & make *pkg
  kconfig: fix time ordering of writes to .kconfig.d and include/linux/autoconf.h
  Kconfig: remove the CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_* options
  kbuild: add -fverbose-asm to i386 Makefile
  kbuild: clean-up genksyms
  kbuild: Lindent genksyms.c
  kbuild: fix genksyms build error
  kbuild: in makefile.txt note that Makefile is preferred name for kbuild files
  kbuild: replace PHONY with FORCE
  kbuild: Fix bug in crc symbol generating of kernel and modules
  kbuild: change kbuild to not rely on incorrect GNU make behavior
  kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user this is the problem
  kbuild: fix make dir/file.xx when asm symlink is missing
  kbuild: in the section mismatch check try harder to find symbols
  kbuild: fix section mismatch check for unwind on IA64
  kbuild: kill false positives from section mismatch warnings for powerpc
  kbuild: kill trailing whitespace in modpost & friends
  kbuild: small update of allnoconfig description
  kbuild: make namespace.pl CROSS_COMPILE happy
  ...

Trivial conflict in arch/ppc/boot/Makefile manually fixed up
2006-03-25 08:48:48 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg
7670f023aa [PATCH] kbuild: fix buffer overflow in modpost
Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> reported that modpost would stop with SIGABRT if
used with long filepaths.
The error looked like:
>   Building modules, stage 2.
>   MODPOST
> *** glibc detected *** scripts/mod/modpost: realloc(): invalid next size:
+0x0809f588 ***
> [...]

Fix this by allocating at least the required memory + SZ bytes each time.
Before we sometimes ended up allocating too little memory resuting in the
glibc detected bug above.  Based on patch originally submitted by: Jiri
Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-17 07:51:25 -08:00
Luke Yang
f7b05e64bd kbuild: Fix bug in crc symbol generating of kernel and modules
The scripts/genksyms/genksyms.c uses hardcoded "__crc_" prefix for
crc symbols in kernel and modules. The prefix should be replaced by
"MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX##__crc_" otherwise there will be warnings when
MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX is not NULL.

I am sorry my last patch for this issue is actually wrong. I revert
it in this patch.

Signed-off-by: Luke Yang <luke.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-08 18:33:16 +01:00
Bastian Blank
de1d9c033f [PATCH] s390: fix match in ccw modalias
Fix matching of devmodel in modaliases.  It breaks automatic loading of any
dasd module.

Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-06 18:40:45 -08:00
Sam Ravnborg
7b75b13cda kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user this is the problem
Warning now looks like this:
WARNING: vmlinux: 'strcpy' exported twice. Previous export was in vmlinux

Which gives much better hint how to fix it.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-05 13:48:58 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
43c74d1795 kbuild: in the section mismatch check try harder to find symbols
When searching for symbols the only check performed was if
offset equals st_value. Adding an additional check to see if st_name
points t a valid name made us sort out a few more false positives and
let us report more correct names in warnings.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-05 12:02:46 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
e835a39c1c kbuild: fix section mismatch check for unwind on IA64
Parameters to strstr() was reversed.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-05 11:34:15 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
9209aed072 kbuild: kill false positives from section mismatch warnings for powerpc
Building an allmodconfig kernel for ppc64 revealed a number of false
positives - originally reported by Andrew Morton.
This patch removes most if not all false positives for ppc64:

Section .opd
The .opd section contains function descriptors at least for ppc64.
So ignore it for .init.text (was ignored for .exit.text).
See description of function descriptors here:
http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/ELF/ppc64/PPC-elf64abi-1.7.html

Section .toc1
ppc64 places some static variables in .toc1 - ignore the.

Section __bug_tabe
BUG() and friends uses __bug_table. Ignore warnings from that section.

Module parameters are placed in .data.rel for ppc64, for adjust pattern to
match on section named .data*

Tested with gcc: 3.4.0 and binutils 2.15.90.0.3

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-05 00:16:26 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
62070fa42c kbuild: kill trailing whitespace in modpost & friends
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-03-03 16:46:04 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
4c8fbca583 kbuild: whitelist false section mismatch warnings
In several cases the section mismatch check triggered false warnings.
Following patch introduce a whitelist to 'false positives' are not warned of.
Two types of patterns are recognised:
1) Typical case when a module parameter is _initdata
2) When a function pointer is assigned to a driver structure

In both patterns we rely on the actual name of the variable assigned

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-26 22:18:11 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
382168f479 kbuild: Add copyright to modpost.c
It seems popular to protect your work with copyright, so I decided to do
so for modpost which I patch a great deal atm.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-26 20:11:17 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
6e10133fa4 kbuild: do not warn when unwind sections references .init/.exit sections
Andrew Morton reported a number of false positives for ia64 - like these:
WARNING: drivers/acpi/button.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .IA_64.unwind.init.text after '' (at offset 0x0)
WARNING: drivers/acpi/button.o - Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text: from .IA_64.unwind.exit.text after '' (at offset 0x0)
WARNING: drivers/acpi/processor.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .IA_64.unwind after '' (at offset 0x1e8)

They are all false positives - or at least the .c code looks OK.
It is not known why sometimes a section name is appended and sometimes not.

Fix is to accept references from all sections that includes "unwind." in the name.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-22 21:24:50 +01:00
akpm@osdl.org
fededcd2af kbuild: fix modpost compile with older gcc
The kernel now requires that CC be 3.1.0 or higher.  But we shouldn't place
that requirement upon HOSTCC unless we really need to.  Fixes my ia64 problem.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-22 20:23:51 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
93684d3b80 kbuild: include symbol names in section mismatch warnings
Try to look up the symbol that is referenced. Include the symbol
name in the warning message.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 11:53:35 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
8ea80ca4f5 kbuild: fix segfault in modpost
Do not try to look up section name until we know it is not a special
section. Otherwise we will address outside legal space and segfault.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:56:18 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
41370d3b5e kbuild: do not segfault in modpost if MODVERDIR is not defined
A combination of calling modpost with option -a and MODVERDIR undefined
caused segmentation fault. So provide a default value and accept the
error messages it generates instead.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:22 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
b39927cf4c kbuild: check for section mismatch during modpost stage
Section mismatch is identified as references to .init*
sections from non .init sections. And likewise references
to .exit.* sections outside .exit sections.

.init.* sections are discarded after a module is initialized
and references to .init.* sections are oops candidates.
.exit.* sections are discarded when a module is built-in and
thus references to .exit are also oops candidates.

The checks were possible to do using 'make buildcheck' which
called the two perl scripts: reference_discarded.pl and
reference_init.pl. This patch just moves the same functionality
inside modpost and the scripts are then obsoleted.
They will though be kept for a while so users can do double
checks - but note that some .o files are skipped by the perl scripts
so result is not 1:1.
All credit for the concept goes to Keith Owens who implemented
the original perl scrips - this patch just moves it to modpost.

Compared to the perl script the implmentation in modpost will be run
for each kernel build - thus catching the error much sooner, but
the downside is that the individual .o file are not always identified.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:20 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
8e70c45887 kbuild: warn about duplicate exported symbols
In modpost introduce a check for symbols exported twice.
This check caught only one victim (inet_bind_bucket_create) for
which a patch is already sent to netdev.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:18 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
040fcc819a kbuild: improved modversioning support for external modules
With following patch a second option is enabled to obtain
symbol information from a second external module when a
external module is build.
The recommended approach is to use a common kbuild file but
that may be impractical in certain cases.
With this patch one can copy over a Module.symvers from one
external module to make symbols (and symbol versions) available
for another external module.

Updated documentation in Documentation/kbuild/modules.txt

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:18 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
5c3ead8c72 kbuild: apply CodingStyle to modpost.c
Just some light CodingStyle updates - no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:17 +01:00
Sam Ravnborg
cb80514d9c kbuild: use warn()/fatal() consistent in modpost
modpost.c provides warn() and fatal() - so use them all over the place.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-02-19 09:51:17 +01:00
Brian Gerst
cc6fa432f5 modpost/file2alias: Fix typo
SND_MAX should be FF_MAX

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-01-08 18:44:01 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
db9edfd7e3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
Trivial manual merge fixup for usb_find_interface clashes.
2006-01-04 18:44:12 -08:00
Rusty Russell
1d8f430c15 [PATCH] Input: add modalias support
Here's the patch for modalias support for input classes.  It uses
comma-separated numbers, and doesn't describe all the potential keys (no
module currently cares, and that would make the strings huge).  The
changes to input.h are to move the definitions needed by file2alias
outside __KERNEL__.  I chose not to move those definitions to
mod_devicetable.h, because there are so many that it might break compile
of something else in the kernel.

The rest is fairly straightforward.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
CC: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 16:18:09 -08:00
Ustyugov Roman
f83b5e323f kbuild: set correct KBUILD_MODNAME when using well known kernel symbols as module names
This patch fixes a problem when we use well known kernel symbols as module
names.

For example, if module source name is current.c, idle_stack.c or etc.,
we have a bad KBUILD_MODNAME value.
For example, KBUILD_MODNAME will be "get_current()" instead of "current", or
"(init_thread_union.stack)" instead of "idle_task".

The trick is to define a stringify macro on the commandline - named
KBUILD_STR for namespace reasons - and then to stringify the module
name.

There are a few uses of KBUILD_MODNAME throughout the tree but the usage
is for debug and will not be harmed by this change so left untouched for now.

While at it KBUILD_BASENAME was changed too. Any spinlock usage in the
unix module would have created wrong section names without it.
Usage in spinlock.h fixed so it no longer stringify KBUILD_BASENAME.

Original patch from Ustyogov Roman - all bugs introduced by me.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-12-26 00:33:41 +01:00
Luke Yang
9572b28faf kbuild: Fix crc-error warning on modules
This is the patch for the following issue:

 In include/linux/module.h, "__crc_" and "__ksymtab_" are hard
coded to be the   prefix for some kinds of symbols (CRC symbol and
ksymtab section). But in script /mod/modpost.c,
MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX##"__crc_" is used as the prefix to search CRC
symbols. So if an architecture (such as h8300 or Blackfin) defines
MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX as not NULL ("_"), modpost will always warn about
"no invalid crc".
  And it is the same with KSYMTAB_PFX.

Signed-off-by: Luke Yang <luke.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-12-25 21:18:11 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
a9d1b24d91 [PATCH] I2C: add i2c module alias for i2c drivers to use
This is the start of adding hotplug-like support for i2c devices.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 14:02:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1e65174a33 Add some basic .gitignore files
This still leaves driver and architecture-specific subdirectories alone,
but gets rid of the bulk of the "generic" generated files that we should
ignore.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-18 08:26:15 -07:00
Kars de Jong
4fb7edce52 [PATCH] pcmcia: fix cross-platform issues with pcmcia module aliases
- Added a missing TO_NATIVE call to scripts/mod/file2alias.c:do_pcmcia_entry()
- Add an alignment attribute to struct pcmcia_device_no to solve an alignment
  issue seen when cross-compiling on x86 for m68k.

Signed-off-by: Kars de Jong <jongk@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2005-09-26 13:13:58 +02:00
Al Viro
7caaeabb17 [SPARC]: Fix dot-symbol exporting for good.
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

Instead of playing all of these hand-coded assembler aliasing games,
just translate symbol names in the name space ".sym" to "_Sym" at
module load time.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-11 20:14:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ef88b7dba2 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2005-09-06 00:35:51 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
fb120da678 [PATCH] Make MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE work for vio devices
Make MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE work for vio devices.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-08-30 13:31:56 +10:00
Ben Colline
8d5290149e [SPARC]: Deal with glibc changing macro names in modpost.c
GLIBC 2.3.4 and later changed the STT_REGISTER macro to
STT_SPARC_REGISTER, so we need to cope with that somehow.

Original patch from fabbione, reposted by Ben Collins.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-08-19 13:44:57 -07:00
J.A. Magallon
61d9cdf2a9 [PATCH] kbuild: signed char fixes for scripts
This time I did not break anything... and they shut up gcc4 ;)

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-27 22:27:08 +02:00
Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
b95d4fec89 [PATCH] kbuild: modpost needs to cope with new glibc elf header on sparc
Recently a change in the glibc elf.h header has been introduced causing
modpost to spawn tons of warnings (like the one below) building the kernel
on sparc:

[SNIP]
*** Warning: "current_thread_info_reg" [net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_rpcgss.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "" [net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_rpcgss.ko] undefined!
*** Warning: "" [net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_rpcgss.ko] undefined!
[SNIP]

Ben Collins discovered that the STT_REGISTERED definition in glibc did change
and that this change needs to be propagated to modpost.

glibc change:
-#define STT_REGISTER   13              /* Global register reserved to app. */
+#define STT_SPARC_REGISTER     13      /* Global register reserved to app. */

I did and tested this simple patch to maintain compatibility with newer (>= 2.3.4)
and older (<= 2.3.2) glibc.

Signed-off-by: Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-07-13 17:05:32 +00:00
Jeff Mahoney
5e6557722e [PATCH] openfirmware: generate device table for userspace
This converts the usage of struct of_match to struct of_device_id,
similar to pci_device_id.  This allows a device table to be generated,
which can be parsed by depmod(8) to generate a map file for module
loading.

In order for hotplug to work with macio devices, patches to
module-init-tools and hotplug must be applied.  Those patches are
available at:

 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/jeffm/linux/macio-hotplug/

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-06 12:55:20 -07:00
Dominik Brodowski
90829cfe1d [PATCH] pcmcia: file2alias
Create PCMCIA entries in modules.alias

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27 18:03:07 -07:00
Roman Kagan
b19dcd9341 [PATCH] USB: scripts/mod/file2alias.c: handle numeric ranges for USB bcdDevice
Another attempt at that...

The attached patch fixes the longstanding problem with USB bcdDevice
numeric ranges incorrectly converted into patterns for MODULE_ALIAS
generation.  Previously it put both the lower and the upper limits into
the pattern, dlXdhY, making it impossible to fnmatch against except for
a few special cases, like dl*dh* or dlXdhX.

The patch makes it generate multiple MODULE_ALIAS lines covering the
whole range with fnmatch-able patterns.  E.g. for a range between 0x0001
and 0x8345 it gives the following patterns:

000[1-9]
00[1-9]*
0[1-9]*
[1-7]*
8[0-2]*
83[0-3]*
834[0-5]

Since bcdDevice is 2 bytes wide = 4 digits in hex representation, the
max no. of patters is 2 * 4 - 1 = 7.

The values are BCD (binary-coded decimals) and not hex, so patterns
using a dash seem to be safe regardless of locale collation order.

The patch changes bcdDevice part of the alias from dlXdhY to dZ, but
this shouldn't have big compatibility issues because fnmatch()-based
modprobing hasn't yet been widely used.  Besides, the most common (and
almost the only working) case of dl*dh* becomes d* and thus continues to
work.

The patch is against 2.6.12-rc2, applies to -mm3 with an offset.  The
matching patch to fix the MODALIAS environment variable now generated by
the usb hotplug function follows.

Signed-off-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-22 15:07:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 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!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00