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Russell King
4f911d64e0 Make /dev/port conditional on config symbol
Instead of having /dev/port support dependent in multiple places on a
string of preprocessor symbols, define a new configuration directive for
it.  This ensures that all four places remain consistent with each other.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Yoichi Yuasa
0976251676 rename TANBAC TB0219 config
Rename config for TANBAC TB0219 GPIO support to something more appropriate.

Fixes this:

drivers/char/Kconfig:906:warning: type of 'TANBAC_TB0219' redefined from 'boolean' to 'tristate'
drivers/char/Kconfig:907:warning: choice values currently only support a single
prompt

Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:13:04 -07:00
Ralf Baechle
96fac9dc95 [PATCH] Wire up DEC serial drivers in Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-29 08:22:25 -07:00
Mark Gross
03154a2710 [PATCH] minor updat to tlclk Kconfig entry
The tlclk driver is going on the MPCBL005 so I need to make the Kconfig
more more generic.  Just some text changes.

Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-06 18:02:22 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
98c47ea28a [PATCH] Char: mxser, obsolete old, nonexperimental new
Mark v 1.x as obsolete and v 2.x as non-experimental in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:28 -08:00
Ishizaki Kou
3cdc20e517 [POWERPC] Celleb: hypervisor console driver
This patch adds hypervisor console driver for Celleb platform.

Signed-off-by: Kou Ishizaki <kou.ishizaki@toshiba.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-02-07 14:03:21 +11:00
Al Viro
3b4709a6cd [PATCH] CONFIG_COMPUTONE should depend on ISA|EISA|PCI
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:52 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
3468a33e98 [PATCH] sx: fix non-PCI build
When CONFIG_PCI is not defined (i.e.  PCI bus is disabled), the sx driver
fails to link, since some pci functions are not available.  Fix this
behaviour to be able to compile this driver on machines with no PCI bus
(but with ISA bus support).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:49 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
fb0c9295b8 [PATCH] mxser_new: fix non-PCI build
When CONFIG_PCI is not defined (i.e.  PCI bus is disabled), the mxser_new
driver fails to link, since some pci functions are not available.  Fix this
behaviour to be able to compile this driver on machines with no PCI bus
(but with ISA bus support).

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:49 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
a3808ac156 [PATCH] isicom: fix build with PCI disabled
With CONFIG_PCI=n:
drivers/char/isicom.c: In function 'isicom_probe':
drivers/char/isicom.c:1793: warning: implicit declaration of function
'pci_request_region'
drivers/char/isicom.c:1827: warning: implicit declaration of function
'pci_release_region'

Let's CONFIG_ISI depend on CONFIG_PCI.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:48 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
bef1f40261 kconfig: Standardize "depends" -> "depends on" in Kconfig files
Standardize the miniscule percentage of occurrences of "depends" in
Kconfig files to "depends on", and update kconfig-language.txt to
reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-12-12 20:04:19 +01:00
Jiri Slaby
037ad48bdb [PATCH] mxser: make an experimental clone
Clone a new driver for moxa smartio devices by copying mxser.c to mxser_new.c
and mxser.h to mxser_new.h.  No other changes are made.

This is for purposes of updating the driver to the latest vendor version.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:53 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
d916faace3 Remove long-unmaintained ftape driver subsystem.
It's bitrotten, long unmaintained, long hidden under BROKEN_ON_SMP,
etc.  As scheduled in feature-removal-schedule.txt, and ack'd several
times on lkml.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-12-03 22:22:41 -05:00
Matt LaPlante
3cb2fccc5f Fix misc Kconfig typos
Fix various Kconfig typos.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30 05:22:59 +01:00
Jes Sorensen
1a4b0fc503 [PATCH] mspec driver build fix
Fix MSPEC driver to build for non SN2 enabled configs as the driver should
work in cached and uncached modes (no fetchop) on these systems.  In
addition make MSPEC select IA64_UNCACHED_ALLOCATOR, which is required for
it and move it to arch/ia64/Kconfig to avoid warnings on non ia64
architectures running allmodconfig.  Once the Kconfig code is fixed, we can
move it back.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Fernando Luis Vzquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-13 07:40:42 -08:00
Geert Uytterhoeven
4d99bfac9d [PATCH] CONFIG_TELCLOCK depends on X86
The telecom clock driver for MPBL0010 ATCA SBC depends on X86

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-16 12:19:03 -07:00
Yoichi Yuasa
af8b128719 [MIPS] Remove IT8172-based platforms, ITE 8172G and Globespan IVR support.
As per feature-removal-schedule.txt.

Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-10-03 17:59:17 +01:00
David Howells
9361401eb7 [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]
Make it possible to disable the block layer.  Not all embedded devices require
it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
the block layer to be present.

This patch does the following:

 (*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev
     support.

 (*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls
     an item that uses the block layer.  This includes:

     (*) Block I/O tracing.

     (*) Disk partition code.

     (*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS.

     (*) The SCSI layer.  As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
     	 block layer to do scheduling.  Some drivers that use SCSI facilities -
     	 such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this.

     (*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM
     	 drivers.

     (*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL.

     (*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by
     	 taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book.

 (*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and
     linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set.  sector_div() is,
     however, still used in places, and so is still available.

 (*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and
     parts of linux/fs.h.

 (*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK
     is not enabled.

 (*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are
     required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set:

     (*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening).

 (*) Makes some /proc changes:

     (*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs.

     (*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if
     given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified.

 (*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if
     CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined.  This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2.

 (*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return
     error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so).

 (*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if
     CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:31 +02:00
Ben Dooks
d202a6c088 [PATCH] Remove old drivers/char/s3c2410_rtc.c
This can now be removed, since there is now a drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c driver.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:13 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b98adfccdf Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (108 commits)
  sh: Fix occasional flush_cache_4096() stack corruption.
  sh: Calculate shm alignment at runtime.
  sh: dma-mapping compile fixes.
  sh: Initial vsyscall page support.
  sh: Clean up PAGE_SIZE definition for assembly use.
  sh: Selective flush_cache_mm() flushing.
  sh: More intelligent entry_mask/way_size calculation.
  sh: Support for L2 cache on newer SH-4A CPUs.
  sh: Update kexec support for API changes.
  sh: Optimized readsl()/writesl() support.
  sh: Report movli.l/movco.l capabilities.
  sh: CPU flags in AT_HWCAP in ELF auxvt.
  sh: Add support for 4K stacks.
  sh: Enable /proc/kcore support.
  sh: stack debugging support.
  sh: select CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
  sh: machvec rework.
  sh: Solution Engine SH7343 board support.
  sh: SH7710VoIPGW board support.
  sh: Enable verbose BUG() support.
  ...
2006-09-27 08:49:07 -07:00
Jes Sorensen
17a3b05047 [PATCH] mspec driver
Implement the special memory driver (mspec) based on the do_no_pfn
approach.  The driver is currently used only on SN2 hardware with special
fetchop support but could be beneficial on other architectures using the
uncached mode.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:13 -07:00
Paul Mundt
91550f715b sh: Kill off the rest of the legacy rtc mess.
With the new RTC class driver, we can get rid of most of the
old left over cruft.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2006-09-27 17:45:01 +09:00
Paul Mackerras
2818c5dec5 [POWERPC] Only offer CONFIG_BRIQ_PANEL if CONFIG_PPC_CHRP is enabled
since only the briQ has a briQ front panel, and the briQ is a CHRP and
is only supported if CONFIG_PPC_CHRP is set.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-08-25 15:08:21 +10:00
Andrew Morton
4288b92b96 [POWERPC] briq_panel Kconfig fix
drivers/char/briq_panel.c:28:22: error: asm/prom.h: No such file or directory

Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-07-31 15:55:04 +10:00
Stephen Rothwell
8bff05b052 [POWERPC] iseries: A new iSeries console
This driver uses the hvc_console.c infrastructure that is used by the
pSeries virtual and RTAS consoles.  This will allow us to make viocons.c
obsolete and is another step along the way to a combined kernel (as
viocons could not coexist with CONFIG_VT).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2006-07-13 18:51:22 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
a45b83957d [POWERPC] Add support for briq front panel
This adds the driver for the Briq front panel. This is a cleaned up
version of a driver that has been floating around for some time now,
initially written by Karsten Jeppesen <karsten@jeppesens.com> and
cleaned up by jk and myself.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-07-07 20:19:16 +10:00
Dave Jones
699352c30d [PATCH] GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: x86-only
AFAICT, this is x86 only, so the patch below is needed to stop this new
option showing up on PPC, IA64, etc..

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-29 10:26:21 -07:00
Jim Cromie
7a8e2a5ea4 [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: add proper Kconfig, Makefile entries
Replace the temp makefile hacks with proper CONFIG entries, which are also
added to Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-27 17:32:43 -07:00
Antonino A. Daplas
13ae664589 [PATCH] VT binding: Make VT binding a Kconfig option
To enable this feature, CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING must be set to 'y'.  This
feature will default to 'n' to minimize users accidentally corrupting their
virtual terminals.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:33 -07:00
Michael Buesch
844dd05fec [PATCH] Add new generic HW RNG core
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:19 -07:00
Michael Buesch
59f5d35f83 [PATCH] Remove old HW RNG support
This patch series replaces the old non-generic Hardware Random Number
Generator support by a fully generic RNG API.

This makes it possible to register additional RNGs from modules.  With this
patch series applied, Laptops with a bcm43xx chip (PowerBook) have a HW RNG
available now.

Additionally two new RNG drivers are added for the "ixp4xx" and "omap"
devices.  (Written by Deepak Saxena).  This patch series includes the old
patches by Deepak Saxena.

The old x86-rng driver has beed split.

The userspace RNG daemon can later be updated to select the RNG through
/sys/class/misc/hw_random/ for convenience.  For now it is sufficient to use
cat and echo -n on the sysfs attributes.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-26 09:58:19 -07:00
Yoichi Yuasa
584e1236bb [PATCH] add "select GPIO_VR41XX" for TANBAC_TB0229
TANBAC_TB0229 requires GPIO_VR41XX.  This patch adds "select GPIO_VR41XX"
for TANBAC_TB0229.

Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:22 -07:00
Alan Cox
655fdeab80 [PATCH] Final rio polish
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-15 11:20:57 -07:00
Yoichi Yuasa
8417eb7a16 [PATCH] RTC subsystem: VR41XX driver
This patch updates VR4100 series RTC driver.

* This driver supports new RTC subsystem.
* Simple set time/read time test worked fine.

Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11 06:18:47 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
bac30d1a78 Merge ../linux-2.6 2006-03-29 13:24:50 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann
f4d1749e95 [PATCH] powerpc: add hvc backend for rtas
Current Cell hardware is using the console through a set
of rtas calls. This driver is needed to get console
output on those boards.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <abergman@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-28 16:45:28 +11:00
Ryan S. Arnold
45d607ed92 [PATCH] powerpc: hvc_console updates
These are some updates from both Ryan and Arnd for the hvc_console
driver:

The main point is to enable the inclusion of a console driver
for rtas, which is currrently needed for the cell platform.

Also shuffle around some data-type declarations and moves some
functions out of include/asm-ppc64/hvconsole.h and into a new
drivers/char/hvc_console.h file.

Signed-off-by: "Ryan S. Arnold" <rsa@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <abergman@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-28 16:45:26 +11:00
Alessandro Zummo
12b824fb15 [PATCH] RTC subsystem: ARM cleanup
This patch removes from the ARM subsytem some of the rtc-related functions
that have been included in the RTC subsystem.  It also fixes some naming
collisions.

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:50 -08:00
maximilian attems
5ff2a7e25d [PATCH] isicom: select FW_LOADER
The isicom driver uses request_firmware() and thus needs to select
FW_LOADER.

Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:56:58 -08:00
Alan Cox
db3185242a [PATCH] rio driver rework continued #5
Final polish.  There is no more save_flags/cli type locking left.  We also no
longer use the pcicopy function and file so they can go.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-24 07:33:29 -08:00
Anton Blanchard
8ac4fc53fe [PATCH] powerpc: dont allow old RTC to be selected
Now powerpc uses the generic RTC stuff we should not enable the old RTC.
Doing so will result in hangs at boot.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-23 14:40:16 +11:00
Al Viro
8ef9cf3181 [PATCH] synclink_gt is PCI-only
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-08 01:04:50 -05:00
Jan Glauber
3633b0475e [PATCH] s390: hangcheck timer support
Remove useless s390 define from hangcheck-timer, remove wrong definition of a
TOD second and other s390 ifdefs.  Use monotonic_clock instead.

Add hangcheck-timer option, copied from drivers/char/Kconfig.  This is ugly
but unless we have a big Kconfig cleanup we cannot include
drivers/char/Kconfig...

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:24 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
b480146fd1 ftape: remove some outdated information from Kconfig files
This patch removes some outdated information about the ftape driver like
pointers to no longer existing webpages from Kconfig files.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-15 01:57:47 +01:00
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
Alexey Dobriyan
aed615a95f [PATCH] Disable rio on 64-bit platforms
Do it via Kconfig rather than via #error.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:26 -08:00
Ben Gardner
e329113ca4 [PATCH] i386: GPIO driver for AMD CS5535/CS5536
A simple driver for the CS5535 and CS5536 that allows a user-space program
to manipulate GPIO pins.  The CS5535/CS5536 chips are Geode processor
companion devices.

Signed-off-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:24 -08:00
Paul Fulghum
705b6c7b34 [PATCH] new driver synclink_gt
New character device driver for the SyncLink GT and SyncLink AC families of
synchronous and asynchronous serial adapters

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:45 -08:00
David Howells
2919b51075 [PATCH] frv: suppress configuration of certain features for FRV
Suppress configuration of certain features for the FRV arch as they can't be
built for FRV at the moment:

 (*) RTC

 (*) HISAX_*

 (*) PARPORT_PC

 (*) VGA_CONSOLE

 (*) BINFMT_ELF

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:13:36 -08:00
Martin Schwidefsky
347a8dc3b8 [PATCH] s390: cleanup Kconfig
Sanitize some s390 Kconfig options.  We have ARCH_S390, ARCH_S390X,
ARCH_S390_31, 64BIT, S390_SUPPORT and COMPAT.  Replace these 6 options by
S390, 64BIT and COMPAT.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:53 -08:00