linux_dsm_epyc7002/drivers
Daniel Vetter b0e898ac55 drm: remove FASYNC support
So I've stumbled over drm_fasync and wondered what it does. Digging
that up is quite a story.

First I've had to read up on what this does and ended up being rather
bewildered why peopled loved signals so much back in the days that
they've created SIGIO just for that ...

Then I wondered how this ever works, and what that strange "No-op."
comment right above it should mean. After all calling the core fasync
helper is pretty obviously not a noop. After reading through the
kernels FASYNC implementation I've noticed that signals are only sent
out to the processes attached with FASYNC by calling kill_fasync.

No merged drm driver has ever done that.

After more digging I've found out that the only driver that ever used
this is the so called GAMMA driver. I've frankly never heard of such a
gpu brand ever before. Now FASYNC seems to not have been the only bad
thing with that driver, since Dave Airlie removed it from the drm
driver with prejudice:

commit 1430163b4bbf7b00367ea1066c1c5fe85dbeefed
Author: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Date:   Sun Aug 29 12:04:35 2004 +0000

    Drop GAMMA DRM from a great height ...

Long story short, the drm fasync support seems to be doing absolutely
nothing. And the only user of it was never merged into the upstream
kernel. And we don't need any fops->fasync callback since the fcntl
implementation in the kernel already implements the noop case
correctly.

So stop this particular cargo-cult and rip it all out.

v2: Kill drm_fasync assignments in rcar (newly added) and imx drivers
(somehow I've missed that one in staging). Also drop the reference in
the drm DocBook. ARM compile-fail reported by Rob Clark.

v3: Move the removal of dev->buf_asnyc assignment in drm_setup to this
patch here.

v4: Actually git add ... tsk.

Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2013-08-19 10:05:17 +10:00
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accessibility
acpi Revert "ACPI / video / i915: No ACPI backlight if firmware expects Windows 8" 2013-07-26 14:59:20 +02:00
amba
ata ahci_imx: depend on CONFIG_MFD_SYSCON 2013-07-26 08:57:56 -04:00
atm
auxdisplay
base Driver core patches for 3.11-rc2 2013-07-18 12:48:40 -07:00
bcma
block Merge branch 'for-3.11/drivers' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2013-07-22 19:02:52 -07:00
bluetooth
bus ARM SoC device tree changes 2013-07-02 14:23:01 -07:00
cdrom drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: use kzalloc() for failing hardware 2013-07-03 16:07:25 -07:00
char Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2013-07-13 14:52:21 -07:00
clk Power management and ACPI updates for 3.11-rc1 2013-07-03 14:35:40 -07:00
clocksource clocksource+irqchip: delete __cpuinit usage from all related files 2013-07-14 19:36:57 -04:00
connector
cpufreq cpufreq / intel_pstate: Change to scale off of max P-state 2013-07-23 04:18:28 +02:00
cpuidle Power management and ACPI updates for 3.11-rc1 2013-07-03 14:35:40 -07:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2013-07-24 11:05:18 -07:00
dca
devfreq Merge branch 'akpm' (updates from Andrew Morton) 2013-07-03 17:12:13 -07:00
dio
dma drivers/dma/iop-adma.c: fix new warnings 2013-07-09 10:33:19 -07:00
edac EDAC: Fix lockdep splat 2013-07-23 16:01:28 -07:00
eisa
extcon drivers: avoid format string in dev_set_name 2013-07-03 16:07:41 -07:00
firewire
firmware efivars: check for EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES 2013-07-11 11:00:31 +01:00
fmc
gpio drivers: gpio: msm: Fix the error condition for reading ngpio 2013-07-20 23:33:33 +02:00
gpu drm: remove FASYNC support 2013-08-19 10:05:17 +10:00
hid Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2013-07-04 15:35:08 -07:00
hsi drivers: avoid format string in dev_set_name 2013-07-03 16:07:41 -07:00
hv Drivers: hv: balloon: Do not post pressure status if interrupted 2013-07-16 23:19:19 -07:00
hwmon Single patch to staticize a local variable 2013-07-18 11:32:36 -07:00
hwspinlock
i2c Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2013-07-13 14:52:21 -07:00
ide Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/ide 2013-07-10 18:15:41 -07:00
idle
iio The first round of IIO fixes for the 3.11 cycle. 2013-07-16 22:41:38 -07:00
infiniband Main batch of InfiniBand/RDMA changes for 3.11 merge window: 2013-07-13 12:57:21 -07:00
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2013-07-13 18:05:13 -07:00
iommu IOMMU Updates for Linux 3.11 2013-07-10 14:46:40 -07:00
ipack
irqchip clocksource+irqchip: delete __cpuinit usage from all related files 2013-07-14 19:36:57 -04:00
isdn Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2013-07-09 18:24:39 -07:00
leds leds: mc13783: Fix "uninitialized variable" warning 2013-07-02 08:44:02 -07:00
lguest Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-07-04 11:40:58 -07:00
macintosh macintosh/windfarm: Remove obsolete cleanup for clientdata 2013-07-01 11:46:56 +10:00
mailbox
md 2 more bugfixes for md in 3.11 2013-07-26 11:20:10 -07:00
media [media] saa7134: Fix unlocked snd_pcm_stop() call 2013-07-15 21:25:14 +02:00
memory
memstick drivers/memstick/host/r592.c: convert to module_pci_driver 2013-07-03 16:08:06 -07:00
message drivers: avoid format strings in names passed to alloc_workqueue() 2013-07-03 16:07:41 -07:00
mfd For the 3.11 merge we only have one new MFD driver for the Kontron PLD. 2013-07-10 11:10:27 -07:00
misc Char/Misc patches for 3.11-rc3 2013-07-26 11:36:12 -07:00
mmc ARM: pxa: propagate errors from regulator_enable() to pxamci 2013-07-23 12:15:15 -07:00
mtd A couple of fixes and clean-ups, allow for assigning user-defined 2013-07-05 12:09:48 -07:00
net macvtap: do not zerocopy if iov needs more pages than MAX_SKB_FRAGS 2013-07-18 13:04:25 -07:00
nfc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2013-07-09 18:24:39 -07:00
ntb
nubus
of of/irq: init struct resource to 0 in of_irq_to_resource() 2013-07-22 19:40:38 +01:00
oprofile drivers: delete __cpuinit usage from all remaining drivers files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
parisc parisc: fix LMMIO mismatch between PAT length and MASK register 2013-07-09 22:09:16 +02:00
parport Merge branch 'akpm' (updates from Andrew Morton) 2013-07-03 17:12:13 -07:00
pci powerpc/pci/hotplug: Don't need to remove from EEH cache twice 2013-07-24 14:18:47 +10:00
pcmcia Driver core patches for 3.11-rc1 2013-07-02 11:44:19 -07:00
pinctrl pinctrl: fix a memleak when freeing maps 2013-07-25 17:18:36 +02:00
platform x86 platform drivers: fix gpio leak 2013-07-10 15:42:51 -04:00
pnp PNP / ACPI: avoid garbage in resource name 2013-07-18 01:38:59 +02:00
power Nothing exciting this time, just assorted fixes and cleanups. 2013-07-10 11:13:00 -07:00
pps pps-gpio: add device-tree binding and support 2013-07-03 16:08:06 -07:00
ps3
ptp
pwm
rapidio Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2013-07-13 14:52:21 -07:00
regulator For the 3.11 merge we only have one new MFD driver for the Kontron PLD. 2013-07-10 11:10:27 -07:00
remoteproc Trivial remoteproc fixes by Suman Anna, Wei Yongjun and Thomas Meyer. 2013-07-11 12:35:09 -07:00
reset
rpmsg
rtc For the 3.11 merge we only have one new MFD driver for the Kontron PLD. 2013-07-10 11:10:27 -07:00
s390 s390/zcrypt: Alias for new zcrypt device driver base module 2013-07-19 08:37:39 +02:00
sbus
scsi [SCSI] isci: fix breakage caused by >16byte CDB patch 2013-07-24 14:18:12 -07:00
sfi
sh Merge branch 'pm-assorted' 2013-06-28 13:01:40 +02:00
sn
spi Merge remote-tracking branch 'spi/fix/xilinx' into spi-linus 2013-07-15 11:46:16 +01:00
ssb Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2013-07-13 14:52:21 -07:00
staging drm: remove FASYNC support 2013-08-19 10:05:17 +10:00
target Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2013-07-11 12:57:19 -07:00
tc
thermal Thermal: Fix lockup of cpu_down() 2013-07-22 09:34:46 +08:00
tty serial: tegra: correct help message in Kconfig from 'ttyHS' to 'ttyTHS' 2013-07-24 15:23:38 -07:00
uio uio: use vma_pages() to replace (vm_end - vm_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT 2013-07-03 16:07:26 -07:00
usb usb: Clear both buffers when clearing a control transfer TT buffer. 2013-07-25 11:37:13 -07:00
uwb drivers: avoid format string in dev_set_name 2013-07-03 16:07:41 -07:00
vfio vfio Updates for v3.11 2013-07-10 14:50:08 -07:00
vhost vhost: more fixes for 3.11 2013-07-23 14:38:20 -07:00
video mfd: max8925: fix dt code for backlight 2013-07-25 16:57:00 -07:00
virt
virtio No real surprises. 2013-07-10 14:50:58 -07:00
vlynq
vme
w1 drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2408.c: add magic sequence to disable P0 test mode 2013-07-03 16:08:06 -07:00
watchdog Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2013-07-13 14:52:21 -07:00
xen drivers: delete __cpuinit usage from all remaining drivers files 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -04:00
zorro zorro: switch to fixed_size_llseek() 2013-06-29 12:57:28 +04:00
Kconfig For the 3.11 merge we only have one new MFD driver for the Kontron PLD. 2013-07-10 11:10:27 -07:00
Makefile For the 3.11 merge we only have one new MFD driver for the Kontron PLD. 2013-07-10 11:10:27 -07:00