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1493 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Wolfram Joost
63890576a3 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Request HW checksum generation only for IPv4
This patch removes the NETIF_F_HW_CSUM flag to be able to use other protocols
than IPv4. Hardware checksums for IPv4 should continue to work because
NETIF_F_IP_CSUM is still set.  The sanity-check has been enhanced to check
the used protocol and to not access skb->iph for non-ipv4-packets.

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Joost <pegasos@frokaschwei.de>
Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>

 mv643xx_eth.c |   19 +++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-17 07:23:38 -05:00
Dale Farnsworth
8f5187035a [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Hold spinlocks only where needed
This driver has historically held a spin_lock during the entire open
and stop functions and while receiving multiple packets.  This is
unecessarily long and holds locks during calls that may sleep.
This patch reduces the size of windows where locks are held.

Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>

 mv643xx_eth.c |  172 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
 1 file changed, 91 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-17 07:23:38 -05:00
Dale Farnsworth
dd09b1de08 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: iounmap the correct SRAM buffer
Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>

 mv643xx_eth.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-17 07:23:37 -05:00
Paul Janzen
f7ea333765 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Fix handling of small, unaligned fragments
Fix handling of small, unaligned fragments.
It also solves a potential deadlock if skb_linearize() returns -ENOMEM.

Signed-off-by: Paul Janzen <pcj@linux.sez.to>
Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>

 mv643xx_eth.c |   54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-17 07:23:37 -05:00
Dale Farnsworth
b44cd57262 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Receive buffers require 8 byte alignment
The Marvell mv643xx ethernet hardware requires that DMA buffers be
aligned to 8-byte boundaries.  This patch satisfies this requirement.
Buffers allocated by dev_alloc_skb() only have 4-byte alignment when
slab debugging is enabled.

Also, document that the 2-byte offset to align the IP packets on
receive is a hardware feature and is not tied to NET_IP_ALIGN.

Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>

 mv643xx_eth.c |   12 +++++++++---
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-17 07:23:37 -05:00
Dale Farnsworth
16e0301831 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Add multicast support
This code is adapted from code in a ppc-specific version of the driver.

Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>

 mv643xx_eth.c |  201 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 197 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-17 07:23:37 -05:00
Paolo Galtieri
4eaa3cb35b [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Fix a NULL pointer dereference
Fix a NULL pointer dereference.

Fill in the buf_ptr and byte_cnt fields of pkt_info in
eth_tx_return_desc().

Signed-off-by: Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>

 mv643xx_eth.c |   51 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-17 07:23:37 -05:00
Paolo Galtieri
cb415d3004 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Fix dma_map/dma_unmap relations
If you do a dma_map_single you must do dma_unmap_single and if you do
a dma_map_page you must do a dma_unmap_page.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>

 mv643xx_eth.c |   51 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-17 07:23:36 -05:00
Olaf Hering
78a5e53475 [PATCH] mv643xx_eth: 2.6.16 needs ip.h and in.h
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>

 mv643xx_eth.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-17 07:23:36 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
0f1c122ecf Merge branch 'upstream-jgarzik' of git://git.tuxdriver.com/git/wireless-2.6 2006-01-17 07:22:26 -05:00
Lennert Buytenhek
5aeebe01cb [PATCH] cs89x0: credit Dmitry Pervushin
Credit Dmitry Pervushin for the PNX010X platform support.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-16 23:15:32 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
5fad5a2e1f [PATCH] hostap: don't #include C files in hostap_main.c
This patch contains an attempt to properly build hostap.o without
#include'ing C files.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-01-16 16:51:54 -05:00
Adrian Bunk
8aec938389 [PATCH] ipw2100: remove code for WIRELESS_EXT < 18
WIRELESS_EXT < 18 will never be true in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-01-16 16:51:54 -05:00
Dan Williams
d6a13a24b7 [PATCH] drivers/net/wireless: correct reported ssid lengths
ESSIDs can technically include NULL characters.  Drivers should not be
adjusting the length of the ESSID before reporting it in their
SIOCGIWESSID handlers.  Breaks stuff like wpa_supplicant.  Note that ipw
drivers, which seem to currently be the "most correct", don't have this
problem.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-01-16 16:51:53 -05:00
Pavel Roskin
a485cde662 [PATCH] hostap: allow flashing firmware
Host AP driver has code to support writing firmware to non-volatile
memory, a.k.a. flash.  This code has been extensively tested when Host
AP was a standalone driver.

Add a configuration option to the kernel to allow enabling this
functionality.  Improve the description of the RAM download option.
Mention cards that require it.  Remove obsolete scary comment.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-01-16 16:51:53 -05:00
Olaf Kirch
d834a41c96 [PATCH] ipw2200: do not sleep in ipw_request_direct_scan
Drivers should not sleep for very long inside an ioctl -
so return EAGAIN and let wpa_supplicant handle the problem.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-01-16 16:51:53 -05:00
Graham Gower
caa06b619f [PATCH] prism54/islpci_eth.c: dev_kfree_skb used with interrupts disabled
dev_kfree_skb should not be used with interrupts disabled.  Change to
use dev_kfree_skb_irq instead.

Signed-off-by: Graham Gower <graham.gower@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-01-16 16:51:53 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
3f02d072d4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial 2006-01-15 16:43:29 -08:00
Deepak Saxena
9c878967d3 [PATCH] cs89x0: add ixdp2351 support
This patch adds support for the Intel IXDP2351 to the CS89x0 driver.

Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:13 -08:00
Lennert Buytenhek
a07f0dbec0 [PATCH] cs89x0: use u16 for device register data
cs89x0 inconsistently used 'int' and 'u32' for device register data.
As the cs89x0 is a 16-bit chip, change the I/O accessors over to 'u16'.
(Spotted by Deepak Saxena.)

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:13 -08:00
Lennert Buytenhek
580d7b8cc5 [PATCH] cs89x0: use #elif instead of #else/#if/#endif
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:13 -08:00
Lennert Buytenhek
032874e492 [PATCH] cs89x0: credit Dmitry Pervushin
Credit Dmitry Pervushin for the PNX010X platform support.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:13 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
858119e159 [PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functions
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with
the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:06 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3235798804 Fix "stuct", "strut", "struc" typos
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-15 02:12:54 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
a8e82ef97a drivers/net/{,wireless/}Kconfig: remove dead URL
shadow.cabi.net does no longer exist.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-15 01:58:57 +01:00
Alex Shepard
9c782e3b20 Spelling fix in IPW2100 and IPW2200 Kconfig entries
s/remvoed/removed/

Signed-off-by: Alex Shepard <ashepard@u.washington.edu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-15 01:57:00 +01:00
John W. Linville
9f3f46b5fe [PATCH] via-velocity: use NETIF_F_IP_CSUM (hardware only support IPv4)
At least some versions of the via-velocity hardware only support
checksumming IPv4 frames in hardware.  However, the driver is currently
setting the NETIF_F_HW_CSUM flag, which indicates support for more than
just IPv4.  This results in errors when trying to use IPv6 over
via-velocity hardware.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-12 16:39:45 -05:00
Jay Vosburgh
5af47b2ff1 [PATCH] bonding: UPDATED hash-table corruption in bond_alb.c
I believe I see the race Michael refers to (tlb_choose_channel
may set head, which tlb_init_slave clears), although I was not able to
reproduce it.  I have updated his patch for the current netdev-2.6.git
tree and added a version update.  His original comment follows:

Our systems have been crashing during testing of PCI HotPlug
support in the various networking components.  We've faulted in
the bonding driver due to a bug in bond_alb.c:tlb_clear_slave()

In that routine, the last modification to the TLB hash table is
made without protection of the lock, allowing a race that can lead
tlb_choose_channel() to select an invalid table element.

	-J

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-12 16:35:39 -05:00
Dan Williams
9a6301c114 [PATCH] wireless/atmel: add IWENCODEEXT, IWAUTH, and association event support
This patch allows the Atmel driver to work correctly with wpa_supplicant
and other programs that require some conformance with WEXT-18.  It
should not affect current behavior of the driver.  The patch does four
things:

1) Implements SIOCSIWENCODEEXT, SIOCGIWENCODEEXT, SIOCSIWAUTH, and
SIOCGIWAUTH calls for unencrypted and WEP operation

2) Accepts zero-filled addresses for SIOCSIWAP, which are legal and
should turn off any previous forced WAP address

3) Sends association and de-association events to userspace at most of
the appropriate times

4) Fixes erroneous order of CIPHER_SUITE_WEP_* arguments in one location
which are actually unused anyway

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-12 16:34:24 -05:00
Eric Sesterhenn / snakebyte
c213460fd4 [PATCH] replace MODULE_PARM in tulip/uli526x.c
Replace the MODULE_PARM usage in uli526x.c with module_param.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-12 16:32:35 -05:00
Kumar Gala
4d3248a29c [PATCH] gianfar: Use new PHY_ID_FMT macro
Make the driver produce the string used by phy_connect and have board specific
code pass the integer mii bus id and phy device id for the specific controller
instance.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-12 16:31:52 -05:00
Kumar Gala
a4d00f179f [PATCH] phy: Added a macro to represent the string format used to match a phy device
Add the PHY_ID_FMT macro to ensure that the format of the id string used by a
driver to match to its specific phy is consistent between the mdio_bus and the
driver.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-12 16:31:52 -05:00
Kumar Gala
1d5326774c [PATCH] gianfar mii: Use proper resource for MII memory region
We can now have the gianfar mii platform device have a proper resource for the
IO memory region for its registers.  Previously we passed this information
that the platform_data structure because we couldn't handle overlapping memory
regions for platform devices.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-12 16:31:51 -05:00
Kumar Gala
9c07b884b9 [PATCH] gfar: fix compile error
Missing include of <linux/in.h> to get definition of IPPROTO_UDP.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-12 16:31:51 -05:00
dann frazier
9ad8b9d152 [PATCH] CONFIG_AIRO needs CONFIG_CRYPTO
airo.c currently has MICSUPPORT enabled, which requires CONFIG_CRYPTO.  A
user reported a build failure which is due to the lack of a Kconfig
dependency.  See http://bugs.debian.org/344205.

This patch makes Kconfig enforce this dependency.

Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-12 16:31:51 -05:00
ODonnell, Michael
ac7c66698a [PATCH] corruption during e100 MDI register access
We have identified two related bugs in the e100 driver.

Both bugs are related to manipulation of the MDI control register.

The first problem is that the Ready bit is being ignored when writing to
the Control register; we noticed this because the Linux bonding driver
would occasionally come to the spurious conclusion that the link was down
when querying Link State.  It turned out that by failing to wait for a
previous command to complete it was selecting what was essentially a random
register in the MDI register set.  When we added code that waits for the
Ready bit (as shown in the patch file below) all such problems ceased.

The second problem is that, although access to the MDI registers involves
multiple steps which must not be intermixed, nothing was defending against
two or more threads attempting simultaneous access.  The most obvious
situation where such interference could occur involves the watchdog versus
ioctl paths, but there are probably others, so we recommend the locking
shown in our patch file.

Signed-off-by: Michael O'Donnell <Michael.ODonnell@stratus.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
Cc: Ganesh Venkatesan <ganesh.venkatesan@intel.com>
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2006-01-12 16:31:51 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
45bfe98bd7 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge
Fix up delete/modify conflict of arch/ppc/kernel/process.c by hand (it's
gone, gone, gone).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 10:21:22 -08:00
Al Viro
a5d361fc24 [PATCH] m68k: NULL noise removal
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:09:04 -08:00
Al Viro
09cc07a5c7 [PATCH] m68k: lvalues abuse in mac8390
Cast is not an lvalue

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-12 09:09:01 -08:00
Stephen Rothwell
677f8c0d04 [PATCH] powerpc: remove bitfields from HvLpEvent
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-12 20:09:29 +11:00
Jean Delvare
fd85d765b7 [PATCH] cs89x0: Fix the Kconfig help text
Fix the help text of the cs89x0 network driver Kconfig entry.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:11 -08:00
Lennert Buytenhek
91e1c46356 [PATCH] cs89x0: fix setting of ALLOW_DMA
There's an ifdef in cs89x0.c that seems to have been the wrong way round
since it was merged (and noone seems to have noticed) -- the IXDP2x01
doesn't support ISA-style DMA, but when building for IXDP2x01, cs89x0's
ALLOW_DMA is set to 1, and when building for another platform, ALLOW_DMA is
set to 0.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:11 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
b56d55b69c drivers/net/gianfar_sysfs.c: update email address of Kumar Gala
drivers/net/gianfar_sysfs.c still contained the old email address
of Kumar Gala.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-11 02:00:10 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
65e480ac55 [IRDA] DONGLE_OLD: remove dependency on non-existing symbol
Jean-Luc Leger <reiga@dspnet.fr.eu.org> reported this alternative 
dependency on a non-existing symbol.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-10 13:11:44 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
214ad78437 [IRDA]: kill drivers/net/irda/sir_core.c
EXPORT_SYMBOL's do nowadays belong to the files where the actual
functions are.

Moving the module_init/module_exit to the file with the actual functions
has the advantage of saving a few bytes due to the removal of two
functions.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-10 13:10:02 -08:00
Greg Ungerer
892b62527f [PATCH] m68knommu: allow configure of FEC for M520x CPU family
Allow the ColdFire FEC ethernet driver to be enabled on the M520x CPU
family.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:27 -08:00
Alan Cox
33f0f88f1c [PATCH] TTY layer buffering revamp
The API and code have been through various bits of initial review by
serial driver people but they definitely need to live somewhere for a
while so the unconverted drivers can get knocked into shape, existing
drivers that have been updated can be better tuned and bugs whacked out.

This replaces the tty flip buffers with kmalloc objects in rings. In the
normal situation for an IRQ driven serial port at typical speeds the
behaviour is pretty much the same, two buffers end up allocated and the
kernel cycles between them as before.

When there are delays or at high speed we now behave far better as the
buffer pool can grow a bit rather than lose characters. This also means
that we can operate at higher speeds reliably.

For drivers that receive characters in blocks (DMA based, USB and
especially virtualisation) the layer allows a lot of driver specific
code that works around the tty layer with private secondary queues to be
removed. The IBM folks need this sort of layer, the smart serial port
people do, the virtualisers do (because a virtualised tty typically
operates at infinite speed rather than emulating 9600 baud).

Finally many drivers had invalid and unsafe attempts to avoid buffer
overflows by directly invoking tty methods extracted out of the innards
of work queue structs. These are no longer needed and all go away. That
fixes various random hangs with serial ports on overflow.

The other change in here is to optimise the receive_room path that is
used by some callers. It turns out that only one ldisc uses receive room
except asa constant and it updates it far far less than the value is
read. We thus make it a variable not a function call.

I expect the code to contain bugs due to the size alone but I'll be
watching and squashing them and feeding out new patches as it goes.

Because the buffers now dynamically expand you should only run out of
buffering when the kernel runs out of memory for real.  That means a lot of
the horrible hacks high performance drivers used to do just aren't needed any
more.

Description:

tty_insert_flip_char is an old API and continues to work as before, as does
tty_flip_buffer_push() [this is why many drivers dont need modification].  It
does now also return the number of chars inserted

There are also

tty_buffer_request_room(tty, len)

which asks for a buffer block of the length requested and returns the space
found.  This improves efficiency with hardware that knows how much to
transfer.

and tty_insert_flip_string_flags(tty, str, flags, len)

to insert a string of characters and flags

For a smart interface the usual code is

    len = tty_request_buffer_room(tty, amount_hardware_says);
    tty_insert_flip_string(tty, buffer_from_card, len);

More description!

At the moment tty buffers are attached directly to the tty.  This is causing a
lot of the problems related to tty layer locking, also problems at high speed
and also with bursty data (such as occurs in virtualised environments)

I'm working on ripping out the flip buffers and replacing them with a pool of
dynamically allocated buffers.  This allows both for old style "byte I/O"
devices and also helps virtualisation and smart devices where large blocks of
data suddenely materialise and need storing.

So far so good.  Lots of drivers reference tty->flip.*.  Several of them also
call directly and unsafely into function pointers it provides.  This will all
break.  Most drivers can use tty_insert_flip_char which can be kept as an API
but others need more.

At the moment I've added the following interfaces, if people think more will
be needed now is a good time to say

 int tty_buffer_request_room(tty, size)

Try and ensure at least size bytes are available, returns actual room (may be
zero).  At the moment it just uses the flipbuf space but that will change.
Repeated calls without characters being added are not cumulative.  (ie if you
call it with 1, 1, 1, and then 4 you'll have four characters of space.  The
other functions will also try and grow buffers in future but this will be a
more efficient way when you know block sizes.

 int tty_insert_flip_char(tty, ch, flag)

As before insert a character if there is room.  Now returns 1 for success, 0
for failure.

 int tty_insert_flip_string(tty, str, len)

Insert a block of non error characters.  Returns the number inserted.

 int tty_prepare_flip_string(tty, strptr, len)

Adjust the buffer to allow len characters to be added.  Returns a buffer
pointer in strptr and the length available.  This allows for hardware that
needs to use functions like insl or mencpy_fromio.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:59 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
3c6bee1d40 [PATCH] turn "const static" into "static const"
ICC likes to complain about storage class not being first, GCC doesn't
care much (except for cases like "inline static").
have a hard time seeing how it could break anything.

Thanks to Gabriel A. Devenyi for pointing out
http://linuxicc.sourceforge.net/ which is what made me create this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:55 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
e7c368b767 [PATCH] drivers/net/irda/irport.c: cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make a needlessly global function static
- remove the unneeded global function irport_probe

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:55 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a457aa6c2b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial 2006-01-09 17:06:53 -08:00