Set the backing device info capabilities for /dev/mem and /dev/kmem to
permit direct sharing under no-MMU conditions and full mapping capabilities
under MMU conditions. Make the BDI used by these available to all directly
mappable character devices.
Also comment the capabilities for /dev/zero.
[akpm@osdl.org: ifdef reductions]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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>
In some applications people have expressed a need for an mmap() method,
so we implement a simple stub for this that maps back a page with the
counter in it.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
We had quite a bit of whitespace damage, clean most of it up..
Signed-off-by: Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <a.othieno@bluewin.ch>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
annotated, fixed a roothole in ->write(). Dereferencing user-supplied pointer
is a Bad Idea(tm)...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If one of the OEM flags becomes set in the flags from the hardware, the
driver could hang if no OEM handler was set. Fix the code to handle this.
This was tested by setting the flags by hand after they were fetched.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Ackde-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When the ipmi_si module is loaded on a system without any ipmi device, it
fails with nodev. It would be fine if all resources were freed. A call to
device_unregister() is missing, resulting to a oops when you remove the
ipmi_msghandler.
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <apatard@mandriva.com>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
No other tty driver will print on the console when the open of it fails.
On systems that happen to be configured for both ttyS0 and hvc0 console,
this will keep flooding the console output. This is most likely to
happen with systems booted between with and without hypervisor from the
same filesystem.
Let's just remove it. When it's really needed (i.e. when the open fails
and someone is trying to debug it), noone will see the output anyway. And
init will report the opens failing in due time through the syslog.
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Ryan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Sometimes the logic to handle AGPx8->AGPx4 fallback failed, as can
be seen in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197346
The failures occured if the bridge was in AGPx8 mode, but the
user hadn't specified a mode in their X config. We weren't
setting the mode to the highest mode capable by the video card+bridge
(as we do in the AGPv2 case), which was leading to all kinds of
mayhem including us believing that after falling back from AGPx8, that
we couldn't do x4 mode (which is disastrous in AGPv3, as those are
the only two modes possible).
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
drivers/char/agp/backend.c: In function `agp_backend_initialize':
drivers/char/agp/backend.c:141: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Olaf Kirch of SuSE tracked down a problem where module unloads of the IPMI
driver would occasionally result in Oopses. He tracked that down to a
variable that wasn't always initialized properly in some situations. This
patch initializes that variable. Olaf sent a patch that kzalloc-ed the
data, but this structure is large enough that I would perfer to not do
that. Thanks Olaf!
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The last argument of module_param is permissions, not default value.
Acked-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix receive tty error handling in synclink_gt driver. Adrian reported
compiler warning for incorrect bit test against char variable. I
determined these and other device specific error bits were incorrectly
defined.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The radeon requires a VAP state flush when enabling/disabling
vertex programs on the r200 cards.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Unlike the other tty comment patch this one has code changes. Specifically
it limits the queue size for a tty to 64K characters (128Kbytes) worst case
even if the tty is ignoring tty->throttle. This is because certain drivers
don't honour the throttle value correctly, although it is a useful
safeguard anyway.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Doesn't fix them but does show up some interesting areas that need review
and fixing.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When reading /dev/vcsa while a font with more than 256 characters is
loaded, one of the attribute bits records the 9th bit of the character.
But depending on the console driver (vgacon or fbcon for instance), that's
bit 3 or bit 0. And there is no way for userland to know that, thus no way
for userland to safely grab the screen content. So here is a (tested)
patch:
Add a VT_GETHIFONTMASK ioctl for knowing which bit is the 9th bit for VC
text (vc_hi_font_mask field of the vc_data structure).
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
While testing Moxa C218T/PCI on PowerPC 405EP I found that loading firmware
using the linux kernel driver fails because calculation of the checksum is
not endianess independent in the original code.
After I fixed this I found that uploading firmware in a system with
multiple cards causes a kernel oops. I had a look in the recent moxa
sources and found that they do some kind of locking there. Applying this
lock fixed the problem.
Alan sayeth:
Checksum changes are clearly correct. Other changes is an improvement but
not I think enough to handle malicious firmware attacks. That said such an
attacker has CAP_SYS_RAWIO anyway so that part is irrelevant except for
neatness.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Dirk Eibach <eibach@gdsys.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
When cdev_add() failed there is no reason to call cdev_del().
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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>
Three typos in drivers/char/watchdog/Kconfig...
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
A set of tty line discipline cleanup patches were introduced before the
dawn of time, in kernel version 2.4.21. This patch performs that cleanup
for the hvsi driver.
The hvsi driver is used only on IBM pSeries PowerPC boxes. The driver was
originally written by Hollis Blanchard, who has delegated maintainership to
me. So this my first and maybe only patch in this official new role,
because this driver is otherwise bug-free :-)
Alan: "Actually its also a bug fix, tty->ldisc should be locked by refcounting
and the helpers do this for you."
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Under certain rare circumstances, it appears that there can be be a
NULL-pointer deref when a user fiddles with terminal emeulation programs while
outpu is being sent to the console. This patch checks for and avoids a
NULL-pointer deref.
Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <hollisbl@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Seems like the omap-rng driver in the main tree predates the switch from
<asm/hardware/clock.h> to <linux/clk.h> ... now it builds OK.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a platform check to the snsc driver init function, to prevent
loading on non-sn2 systems.
Signed-off-by: Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
