- 05 Jan, 2006 13 commits
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Kay Sievers authored
IDE: MODALIAS support for autoloading of ide-cd, ide-disk, ... Add MODULE_ALIAS to IDE midlayer modules: ide-disk, ide-cd, ide-floppy and ide-tape, to autoload these modules depending on the probed media type of the IDE device. It is used by udev and replaces the former agent shell script of the hotplug package, which was required to lookup the media type in the proc filesystem. Using proc was racy, cause the media file is created after the hotplug event is sent out. The module autoloading does not take any effect, until something like the following udev rule is configured: SUBSYSTEM=="ide", ACTION=="add", ENV{MODALIAS}=="?*", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe $env{MODALIAS}" The module ide-scsi will not be autoloaded, cause it requires manual configuration. It can't be, and never was supported for automatic setup in the hotplug package. Adding a MODULE_ALIAS to ide-scsi for all supported media types, would just lead to a default blacklist entry anyway. $ modinfo ide-disk filename: /lib/modules/2.6.15-rc4-g1b0997f5/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-disk.ko description: ATA DISK Driver alias: ide:*m-disk* license: GPL ... $ modprobe -vn ide:m-disk insmod /lib/modules/2.6.15-rc4-g1b0997f5/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-disk.ko $ cat /sys/bus/ide/devices/0.0/modalias ide:m-disk It also adds attributes to the IDE device: $ tree /sys/bus/ide/devices/0.0/ /sys/bus/ide/devices/0.0/ |-- bus -> ../../../../../../../bus/ide |-- drivename |-- media |-- modalias |-- power | |-- state | `-- wakeup `-- uevent $ cat /sys/bus/ide/devices/0.0/{modalias,drivename,media} ide:m-disk hda disk Signed-off-by:Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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akpm@osdl.org authored
lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.text+0x25f): In function `kobject_uevent': : undefined reference to `__alloc_skb' lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.text+0x2a1): In function `kobject_uevent': : undefined reference to `skb_over_panic' lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.text+0x31d): In function `kobject_uevent': : undefined reference to `skb_over_panic' lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.text+0x356): In function `kobject_uevent': : undefined reference to `netlink_broadcast' lib/lib.a(kobject_uevent.o)(.init.text+0x9): In function `kobject_uevent_init': : undefined reference to `netlink_kernel_create' make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 Netlink is unconditionally enabled if CONFIG_NET, so that's OK. kobject_uevent.o is compiled even if !CONFIG_HOTPLUG, which is lazy. Let's compound the sin. Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by:
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Kumar Gala authored
There are cases in which a device's memory mapped registers overlap with another device's memory mapped registers. On several PowerPC devices this occurs for the MDIO bus, whose registers tended to overlap with one of the ethernet controllers. By switching from request_resource to insert_resource we can register the MDIO bus as a proper platform device and not hack around how we handle its memory mapped registers. Signed-off-by:
Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
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Frank Pavlic authored
The klist reference counting in the find functions that use klist_iter_init_node is broken. If the function (for example driver_find_device) is called with a NULL start object then everything is fine, the first call to next_device()/klist_next increases the ref-count of the first node on the list and does nothing for the start object which is NULL. If they are called with a valid start object then klist_next will decrement the ref-count for the start object but nobody has incremented it. Logical place to fix this would be klist_iter_init_node because the function puts a reference of the object into the klist_iter struct. Signed-off-by:
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by:
Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com> Cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Signed-off-by:
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Alan Stern authored
This patch (as604) makes the driver core hold a device's parent's lock as well as the device's lock during calls to the probe and remove methods in a driver. This facility is needed by USB device drivers, owing to the peculiar way USB devices work: A device provides multiple interfaces, and drivers are bound to interfaces rather than to devices; Nevertheless a reset, reset-configuration, suspend, or resume affects the entire device and requires the caller to hold the lock for the device, not just a lock for one of the interfaces. Since a USB driver's probe method is always called with the interface lock held, the locking order rules (always lock parent before child) prevent these methods from acquiring the device lock. The solution provided here is to call all probe and remove methods, for all devices (not just USB), with the parent lock already acquired. Although currently only the USB subsystem requires these changes, people have mentioned in prior discussion that the overhead of acquiring an extra semaphore in all the prove/remove sequences is not overly large. Up to now, the USB core has been using its own set of private semaphores. A followup patch will remove them, relying entirely on the device semaphores provided by the driver core. The code paths affected by this patch are: device_add and device_del: The USB core already holds the parent lock, so no actual change is needed. driver_register and driver_unregister: The driver core will now lock both the parent and the device before probing or removing. driver_bind and driver_unbind (in sysfs): These routines will now lock both the parent and the device before binding or unbinding. bus_rescan_devices: The helper routine will lock the parent before probing a device. I have not tested this patch for conflicts with other subsystems. As far as I can see, the only possibility of conflict would lie in the bus_rescan_devices pathway, and it seems pretty remote. Nevertheless, it would be good for this to get a lot of testing in -mm. Signed-off-by:
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by:
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Paul Jackson authored
The first of these changes s/hotplug/uevent/ was needed to compile sn2_defconfig (ia64/sn). The other three files changed are blind changes of all remaining bus_type.hotplug references I could find to bus_type.uevent. This patch attempts to finish similar changes made in the gregkh-driver-kill-hotplug-word-from-driver-core Nov 22 patch. Signed-off-by:
Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by:
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Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
With modules, dynamic /dev, and uevents, people really want CONFIG_HOTPLUG to be enabled in their kernels. If not, they can still disable it, but it is discouraged. Signed-off-by: -
Kay Sievers authored
Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports the state to userspace and generates events. Signed-off-by:
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Kay Sievers authored
The distinction between hotplug and uevent does not make sense these days, netlink events are the default. udev depends entirely on netlink uevents. Only during early boot and in initramfs, /sbin/hotplug is needed. So merge the two functions and provide only one interface without all the options. The netlink layer got a nice generic interface with named slots recently, which is probably a better facility to plug events for subsystem specific events. Also the new poll() interface to /proc/mounts is a nicer way to notify about changes than sending events through the core. The uevents should only be used for driver core related requests to userspace now. Signed-off-by:
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Kay Sievers authored
The names of these events have been confusing from the beginning on, as they have been more like claim/release events. We needed these events for noticing HAL if storage devices have been mounted. Thanks to Al, we have the proper solution now and can poll() /proc/mounts instead to get notfied about mount tree changes. Signed-off-by:
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Kay Sievers authored
This deprecates the /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug file, as all this stuff should be in /sys some day, right? :) In /sys/kernel/ we have now uevent_seqnum and uevent_helper. The seqnum is no longer used by udev, as the version for this kernel depends on netlink which events will never get out-of-order. Recent udev versions disable the /sbin/hotplug helper with an init script, cause it leads to OOM on big boxes by running hundreds of shells in parallel. It should be done now by: echo "" > /sys/kernel/uevent_helper (Note that "-n" does not work, cause neighter proc nor sysfs support truncate().) Signed-off-by:
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Kay Sievers authored
It makes zero sense to have hotplug, but not the netlink events enabled today. Remove this option and merge the kobject_uevent.h header into the kobject.h header file. Signed-off-by:
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Kay Sievers authored
These days we use udev to manage all kernel events. /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug will usually be disabled by an init-script. pnpnbios is not integrated with the driver core and should stay away from the now disabled /sbin/hotplug. Set the helper to /sbin/phpbios, even when there is probably no current user of this faciliy. If it's needed, it should definitely get proper driver core integration instead of forking binaries from the kernel. Signed-off-by:
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- 03 Jan, 2006 2 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Hey, it's fifteen years today since I bought the machine that got Linux started. January 2nd is a good date.
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Andi Kleen authored
Otherwise a bad mem policy system call can confuse the interleaving code into referencing undefined nodes. Originally reported by Doug Chapman I was told it's CVE-2005-3358 (one has to love these security people - they make everything sound important) Signed-off-by:
Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- 02 Jan, 2006 2 commits
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Dag-Erling Smrgrav authored
In commit 3D59121003721a8fad11ee72e646fd9d3076b5679c, the x86 and x86-64 <asm/param.h> was changed to include <linux/config.h> for the configurable timer frequency. However, asm/param.h is sometimes used in userland (it is included indirectly from <sys/param.h>), so your commit pollutes the userland namespace with tons of CONFIG_FOO macros. This greatly confuses software packages (such as BusyBox) which use CONFIG_FOO macros themselves to control the inclusion of optional features. After a short exchange, Christoph approved this patch Signed-off-by: -
Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
Some G5s still occasionally experience shutdowns due to overtemp conditions despite the recent fix. After analyzing logs from such machines, it appears that the overtemp code is a bit too quick at shutting the machine down when reaching the critical temperature (tmax + 8) and doesn't leave the fan enough time to actually cool it down. This happens if the temperature of a CPU suddenly rises too high in a very short period of time, or occasionally on boot (that is the CPUs are already overtemp by the time the driver loads). This patches makes the code a bit more relaxed, leaving a few seconds to the fans to do their job before kicking the machine shutown. Signed-off-by:
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by:
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- 01 Jan, 2006 2 commits
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Stas Sergeev authored
This should fix multi-threaded core-files Signed-off-by: stsp@aknet.ru Signed-off-by: -
Linus Torvalds authored
This is a slightly more complete fix for the previous minimal sysctl string fix. It always terminates the returned string with a NUL, even if the full result wouldn't fit in the user-supplied buffer. The returned length is the full untruncated length, so that you can tell when truncation has occurred. Signed-off-by:
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- 31 Dec, 2005 3 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Yi Yang authored
For the sysctl syscall, if the user wants to get the old value of a sysctl entry and set a new value for it in the same syscall, the old value is always overwritten by the new value if the sysctl entry is of string type and if the user sets its strategy to sysctl_string. This issue lies in the strategy being run twice if the strategy is set to sysctl_string, the general strategy sysctl_string always returns 0 if success. Such strategy routines as sysctl_jiffies and sysctl_jiffies_ms return 1 because they do read and write for the sysctl entry. The strategy routine sysctl_string return 0 although it actually read and write the sysctl entry. According to my analysis, if a strategy routine do read and write, it should return 1, if it just does some necessary check but not read and write, it should return 0, for example sysctl_intvec. Signed-off-by:
Yi Yang <yang.y.yi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
If the string was too long to fit in the user-supplied buffer, the sysctl layer would zero-terminate it by writing past the end of the buffer. Don't do that. Noticed by Yi Yang <yang.y.yi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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- 30 Dec, 2005 5 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
The old /proc interfaces were never updated to use loff_t, and are just generally broken. Now, we should be using the seq_file interface for all of the proc files, but converting the legacy functions is more work than most people care for and has little upside.. But at least we can make the non-LFS rules explicit, rather than just insanely wrapping the offset or something. Signed-off-by: -
Denny Priebe authored
This patch fixes a typo introduced by conversion to dynamic input_dev allocation. Signed-off-by:
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by:
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Dmitry Torokhov authored
This patch fixes a typo introduced by conversion to dynamic input_dev allocation. Signed-off-by:
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Dmitry Torokhov authored
This patch fixes a typo introduced by conversion to dynamic input_dev allocation. Signed-off-by:
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Erik Hovland authored
Patch from Erik Hovland This patch provides two changes. An indent is supplied for an if/else clause so that it is more readable. An acronym is incorrectly typed as UER when it should be IER. Signed-off-by:
Erik Hovland <erik@hovland.org> Signed-off-by:
Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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- 29 Dec, 2005 13 commits
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Jean Delvare authored
Thanks to Roman Zippel for the suggestion. Signed-off-by:
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> [ Short explanation: Kconfig uses ternary math: n/m/y, and !m is m ] Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
This reverts the series of commits 67dbb4ea 281ab031 47807ce3 that changed the GART VM start offset. It fixed some machines, but seems to continually interact badly with some X versions. Quoth Ben Herrenschmidt: "So I think at this point, the best is that we keep the old bogus code that at least is consistent with the bug in the server. I'm working on a big patch to X that reworks the memory map stuff completely and fixes those issues on the server side, I'll do a DRM patch matching this X fix as well so that the memory map is only ever set in one place and with what I hope is a correct algorithm..." Signed-off-by:
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Jean Delvare authored
Fix the cyclic dependency issue between CONFIG_SAA7134_ALSA and CONFIG_SAA7134_OSS (credits to Mauro Carvalho Chehab.) Signed-off-by:
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> Signed-off-by:
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Anton Blanchard authored
Sonny has noticed hotplug CPU on ppc64 is broken in 2.6.15-*. One of the problems is that htab_initialize_secondary is called when a cpu is being brought up, but it is marked __init. Signed-off-by:
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by:
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by:
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Ravikiran G Thirumalai authored
Currently, we do not pass the correct start_pfn to e820_hole_size, to calculate holes. Following patch fixes that. The bug results in incorrect number of node_present_pages for each pgdat and causes ugly output in /sys and probably VM inbalances. Signed-off-by:
Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com> Signed-off-by:
Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org> Signed-off-by:
Shair Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org> Sighed-off-by:
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Riccardo Magliocchetti authored
This patch fixes a typo introduced by conversion to dynamic input_dev allocation. Signed-off-by:
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Dave Jones authored
__get_unaligned creates a typeof the var its passed, and writes to it, which on gcc4.1, spits out the following error: drivers/char/vc_screen.c: In function 'vcs_write': drivers/char/vc_screen.c:422: error: assignment of read-only variable 'val' Signed-off-by:
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [ The "right" fix would be to try to fix <asm-generic/unaligned.h> but that's hard to do with the tools gcc gives us. So this simpler patch is preferable -- Linus ] Signed-off-by:
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Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso authored
Fix UML compilation when SKAS mode is disabled. Indeed, we were compiling SKAS-only object files, which failed due to some SKAS-only headers being excluded from the search path. Thanks to the bug report from Pekka J Enberg. Acked-by: Pekka J Enberg <penberg (at) cs ! helsinki ! fi> Signed-off-by:
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by:
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Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso authored
Today, when compiling UML, I got warnings for two used unexported symbols: readdir64 and truncate64. Indeed, my glibc headers are aliasing readdir to readdir64 and truncate to truncate64 (and so on). I'm then adding additional exports. Since I've no idea if the symbols where always provided in the supported glibc's, I've added weak definitions too. Signed-off-by:
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Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso authored
Prevent page->index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT from overflowing. There is a casting there, but was added without care, so it's at the wrong place. Note the extra parens around the shift - "+" is higher precedence than "<<", leading to a GCC warning which saved all us. Signed-off-by:
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Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso authored
Trivial removal of unused variable from this file - doesn't even change the generated assembly code, in fact (gcc should trigger a warning for unused value here). Signed-off-by:
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