199 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
David Brownell
0b405a0f7e [PATCH] Driver Core: remove driver model detach_state
The driver model has a "detach_state" mechanism that:

 - Has never been used by any in-kernel drive;
 - Is superfluous, since driver remove() methods can do the same thing;
 - Became buggy when the suspend() parameter changed semantics and type;
 - Could self-deadlock when called from certain suspend contexts;
 - Is effectively wasted documentation, object code, and headspace.

This removes that "detach_state" mechanism; net code shrink, as well
as a per-device saving in the driver model and sysfs.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-05-17 14:54:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ad542ef5b2 Automatic merge of rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-2.6.git 2005-05-17 08:55:00 -07:00
David Woodhouse
3ec3b2fba5 AUDIT: Capture sys_socketcall arguments and sockaddrs
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2005-05-17 12:08:48 +01:00
David Woodhouse
69887ac1dc Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git 2005-05-17 12:04:46 +01:00
Krzysztof Halasa
b3dd65f958 [PATCH] Generic HDLC update
The attached patch updates generic HDLC to version 1.18.
FR Cisco LMI production-tested. Please apply to Linux 2.6. Thanks.

Changes:
- doc updates
- added Cisco LMI support to Frame-Relay code
- cleaned hdlc_fr.c a bit, removed some orphaned #defines etc.
- fixed a problem with non-functional LMI in FR DCE mode.
- changed diagnostic messages to better conform to FR standards
- all protocols: information about carrier changes (DCD line) is now
  printed to kernel logs.

Signed-Off-By: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
2005-05-15 22:24:12 -04:00
Brett Russ
cdcca89e1a [PATCH] libata: flush COMRESET set and clear
Updated patch to fix erroneous flush of COMRESET set and missing flush
of COMRESET clear.  Created a new routine scr_write_flush() to try to
prevent this in the future.  Also, this patch is based on libata-2.6
instead of the previous libata-dev-2.6 based patch.

Signed-off-by: Brett Russ <russb@emc.com>

Index: libata-2.6/drivers/scsi/libata-core.c
===================================================================
2005-05-15 19:00:51 -04:00
Sascha Hauer
a1365275e7 [PATCH] DM9000 network driver
This patch adds support for the davicom dm9000 network driver.  The dm9000
is found on some embedded arm boards such as the pimx1 or the scb9328.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

diff -puN /dev/null drivers/net/dm9000.c
2005-05-15 18:31:07 -04:00
Steve Grubb
23f32d18aa AUDIT: Fix some spelling errors
I'm going through the kernel code and have a patch that corrects 
several spelling errors in comments.

From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2005-05-13 18:35:15 +01:00
Steve Grubb
c04049939f AUDIT: Add message types to audit records
This patch adds more messages types to the audit subsystem so that audit 
analysis is quicker, intuitive, and more useful.

Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
---
I forgot one type in the big patch. I need to add one for user space 
originating SE Linux avc messages. This is used by dbus and nscd.

-Steve
---
Updated to 2.6.12-rc4-mm1.
-dwmw2

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2005-05-13 18:17:42 +01:00
fff9cfd99c [PATCH] Wireless Extensions 18 (aka WPA)
This is version 18 of the Wireless Extensions. The main change
  is that it adds all the necessary APIs for WPA and WPA2 support. This
  work was entirely done by Jouni Malinen, so let's thank him for both
  his hard work and deep expertise on the subject ;-)
        This APIs obviously doesn't do much by itself and works in
  concert with driver support (Jouni already sent you the HostAP
  changes) and userspace (Jouni is updating wpa_supplicant). This is
  also orthogonal with the ongoing work on in-kernel IEEE support (but
  potentially useful).
        The patch is attached, tested with 2.6.11. Normally, I would
  ask you to push that directly in the kernel (99% of the patch has been
  on my web page for ages and it does not affect non-WPA stuff), but
  Jouni convinced me that it should bake a few weeks in wireless-2.6
  first, so that other driver maintainers can get up to speed with it.
  
  Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-05-12 20:24:19 -04:00
7d17c1d606 [netdrvrs] Use netif_carrier_* instead of IFF_RUNNING 2005-05-12 19:45:25 -04:00
Brad Campbell
6f2f381281 [PATCH] libata basic detection and errata for PATA->SATA bridges
This patch works around an issue with WD drives (and possibly others)
over SiL PATA->SATA Bridges on SATA controllers locking up with
transfers > 200 sectors.

Signed-off-by: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
2005-05-12 15:07:47 -04:00
Chris Wright
c1b773d87e Add audit_log_type
Add audit_log_type to allow callers to specify type and pid when logging.
Convert audit_log to wrapper around audit_log_type.  Could have
converted all audit_log callers directly, but common case is default
of type AUDIT_KERNEL and pid 0.  Update audit_log_start to take type
and pid values when creating a new audit_buffer.  Move sequences that
did audit_log_start, audit_log_format, audit_set_type, audit_log_end,
to simply call audit_log_type directly.  This obsoletes audit_set_type
and audit_set_pid, so remove them.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2005-05-11 10:55:10 +01:00
Chris Wright
197c69c6af Move ifdef CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL to header
Remove code conditionally dependent on CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL from audit.c.
Move these dependencies to audit.h with the rest.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2005-05-11 10:54:05 +01:00
Russell King
05ab301463 [PATCH] Serial: Add uart_insert_char()
Add uart_insert_char(), which handles inserting characters into the
flip buffer.  This helper function handles the correct semantics
for handling overrun in addition to inserting normal characters.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-05-09 23:21:59 +01:00
Steve Grubb
c2f0c7c356 The attached patch addresses the problem with getting the audit daemon
shutdown credential information. It creates a new message type 
AUDIT_TERM_INFO, which is used by the audit daemon to query who issued the 
shutdown. 

It requires the placement of a hook function that gathers the information. The 
hook is after the DAC & MAC checks and before the function returns. Racing 
threads could overwrite the uid & pid - but they would have to be root and 
have policy that allows signalling the audit daemon. That should be a 
manageable risk.

The userspace component will be released later in audit 0.7.2. When it 
receives the TERM signal, it queries the kernel for shutdown information. 
When it receives it, it writes the message and exits. The message looks 
like this:

type=DAEMON msg=auditd(1114551182.000) auditd normal halt, sending pid=2650 
uid=525, auditd pid=1685

Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2005-05-06 12:38:39 +01:00
Jesper Juhl
02c30a84e6 [PATCH] update Ross Biro bouncing email address
Ross moved.  Remove the bad email address so people will find the correct
one in ./CREDITS.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:49 -07:00
Domen Puncer
845d34318f [PATCH] Spelling cleanups in shrinker code
Just a few small cleanups to make this coherent english.

Signed-Off-By:  Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:49 -07:00
Domen Puncer
fba478b171 [PATCH] ixj* - compile warning cleanup
compile warning cleanup - suggested by Adrian Bunk; remove unmaintained rcs
char strings from source and handle the occurrences of their use, make sure
kernel-userspace issues taken care of; break out into separate patch

Signed-off-by: Stephen Biggs <yrgrknmxpzlk@gawab.com>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:48 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
3677209239 [PATCH] comments on locking of task->comm
Add some comments about task->comm, to explain what it is near its definition
and provide some important pointers to its uses.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:48 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
75c96f8584 [PATCH] make some things static
This patch makes some needlessly global identifiers static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:47 -07:00
Andrew Morton
d17d7fa44d [PATCH] revert ext3-writepages-support-for-writeback-mode
This had a fatal lock ranking bug: we do journal_start outside
mpage_writepages()'s lock_page().

Revert the whole thing, think again.

Credit-to: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>

For identifying the bug.

Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:44 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
2ef41634de [PATCH] remove do_sync parameter from __invalidate_device
The only caller that ever sets it can call fsync_bdev itself easily.  Also
update some comments.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:44 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
5b76ffd5d9 [PATCH] DAC960: add support for Mylex AcceleRAID 4/5/600
This patch adds support for a new class of DAC960 controllers.  It's based
on the GPLed idac320 driver from IBM for Linux 2.4.18.  That driver is a
fork of the 2.4.18 version of DAC960 that adds support for this new type of
controllers (internally called "GEM Series"), that differ from other DAC960
V2 firmware controllers only in the register offsets and removes support
for all others.

This patch instead integrates support for these controllers into the DAC960
driver.

Thanks to Anders Norrbring for pointing me to the idac320 driver and
testing this patch.

No Signed-Off: line because all code is either copy & pasted from IBM's
idac320 driver or support for other controllers in the 2.6 DAC960 driver.

Note: the really odd formating matches the rest of the DAC960 driver.

Cc: Dave Olien <dmo@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:43 -07:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
64f562c6df [PATCH] kprobes: Allow multiple kprobes at the same address
Allow registration of multiple kprobes at an address in an architecture
agnostic way.  Corresponding handlers will be invoked in a sequence.  But,
a kprobe and a jprobe can't (yet) co-exist at the same address.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <amavin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:39 -07:00
Stuart Brady
60d300c02f [PATCH] include/linux/soundcard.h: endianness fix
Fixes for big-endian systems in soundcard.h and awe_voice.h

This patch fixes the AFMT_S16_NE (include/linux/soundcard.h) and AWE_PATCH
(awe_voice.h) macros on big-endian systems.

It also moves _PATCHKEY into a new file, patchkey.h, in order to remove a
duplicate definition of it from awe_voice.h.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Brady <sdbrady@ntlworld.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:31 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
3ef4e9a8db [ATALK]: Add alloc_ltalkdev().
this matches the API used by other link layer like ethernet or token
ring.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-05 14:25:59 -07:00
David Woodhouse
bfd4bda097 Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git 2005-05-05 13:59:37 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
9171078ab5 [PATCH] PCI: drivers/pci/pci.c: remove pci_dac_set_dma_mask
pci_dac_set_dma_mask is currently completely unused.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-05-03 23:45:17 -07:00
Greg KH
c895817722 [PATCH] PCI: Add pci shutdown ability
Now pci drivers can know when the system is going down without having to
add a reboot notifier event.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-05-03 23:45:15 -07:00
Thomas Graf
db46edc6d3 [RTNETLINK] Cleanup rtnetlink_link tables
Converts remaining rtnetlink_link tables to use c99 designated
initializers to make greping a little bit easier.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03 14:29:39 -07:00
Thomas Graf
f90a0a74b8 [RTNETLINK] Fix & cleanup rtm_min/rtm_max
Converts rtm_min and rtm_max arrays to use c99 designated
initializers for easier insertion of new message families.
RTM_GETMULTICAST and RTM_GETANYCAST did not have the minimal
message size specified which means that the netlink message
was parsed for routing attributes starting from the header.
Adds the proper minimal message sizes for these messages
(netlink header + common rtnetlink header) to fix this issue.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03 14:29:00 -07:00
Thomas Graf
d775fc09f1 [RTNETLINK] Fix RTM_MAX to represent the maximum valid message type
RTM_MAX is currently set to the maximum reserverd message type plus one
thus being the cause of two bugs for new types being assigned a) given the
new family registers only the NEW command in its reserved block the array
size for per family entries is calculated one entry short and b) given the
new family registers all commands RTM_MAX would point to the first entry
of the block following this one and the rtnetlink receive path would accept
a message type for a nonexisting family.

This patch changes RTM_MAX to point to the maximum valid message type
by aligning it to the start of the next block and subtracting one.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03 14:27:35 -07:00
Thomas Graf
492b558b31 [XFRM]: Cleanup xfrm_msg_min and xfrm_dispatch
Converts xfrm_msg_min and xfrm_dispatch to use c99 designated
initializers to make greping a little bit easier. Also replaces
two hardcoded message type with meaningful names.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03 14:26:40 -07:00
Thomas Graf
526bdb80a2 [XFRM]: Prevent off-by-one access to xfrm_dispatch
Makes the type > XFRM_MSG_MAX check behave correctly to
protect access to xfrm_dispatch.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-03 14:26:01 -07:00
David Woodhouse
27b030d58c Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git 2005-05-03 08:14:09 +01:00
Adrian Bunk
408b664a7d [PATCH] make lots of things static
Another large rollup of various patches from Adrian which make things static
where they were needlessly exported.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:29 -07:00
Martin Waitz
67be2dd1ba [PATCH] DocBook: fix some descriptions
Some KernelDoc descriptions are updated to match the current code.
No code changes.

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:26 -07:00
Pavel Pisa
4dc3b16ba1 [PATCH] DocBook: changes and extensions to the kernel documentation
I have recompiled Linux kernel 2.6.11.5 documentation for me and our
university students again.  The documentation could be extended for more
sources which are equipped by structured comments for recent 2.6 kernels.  I
have tried to proceed with that task.  I have done that more times from 2.6.0
time and it gets boring to do same changes again and again.  Linux kernel
compiles after changes for i386 and ARM targets.  I have added references to
some more files into kernel-api book, I have added some section names as well.
 So please, check that changes do not break something and that categories are
not too much skewed.

I have changed kernel-doc to accept "fastcall" and "asmlinkage" words reserved
by kernel convention.  Most of the other changes are modifications in the
comments to make kernel-doc happy, accept some parameters description and do
not bail out on errors.  Changed <pid> to @pid in the description, moved some
#ifdef before comments to correct function to comments bindings, etc.

You can see result of the modified documentation build at
  http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa/linux/lkdb-2.6.11.tar.gz

Some more sources are ready to be included into kernel-doc generated
documentation.  Sources has been added into kernel-api for now.  Some more
section names added and probably some more chaos introduced as result of quick
cleanup work.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:25 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
7149437669 [PATCH] fbdev: Batch cmap changes at driver level
This patch adds to the fbdev interface a set_cmap callback that allow the
driver to "batch" palette changes.  This is useful for drivers like
radeonfb which might require lenghtly workarounds on palette accesses, thus
allowing to factor out those workarounds efficiently.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:22 -07:00
Al Viro
f8e08a8466 [PATCH] reiserfs endianness: sanitize reiserfs_key union
Since we only access reiserfs_key ->u.k_offset_v2 guts in four helper
functions, we are free to sanitize those, as long as

- layout of the structure is unchanged (it's on-disk object)

- behaviour of these helpers is same as before.

Patch kills the mess with endianness-dependent bitfields and replaces them
with a single __le64.  Helpers are switched to straightforward shift/and/or.

Benefits:

- exact same definitions for little- and big-endian architectures; no ifdefs
  in sight.

- generate the same code on little-endian and improved on big-endian.

- doesn't rely on lousy bitfields handling in gcc codegenerator.

- happens to be standard C (unsigned long long is not a valid type for a
  bitfield; it's a gccism and not well-implemented one, at that).

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:19 -07:00
Al Viro
6b9f5829e6 [PATCH] reiserfs endianness: comp_short_keys() cleanup
comp_short_keys() massaged into sane form, which kills the last place where
pointer to in_core_key (or any object containing such) would be cast to or
from something else.  At that point we are free to change layout of
in_core_key - nothing depends on it anymore.

So we drop the mess with union in there and simply use (unconditional) __u64
k_offset and __u8 k_type instead; places using in_core_key switched to those.
That gives _far_ better code than current mess - on all platforms.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:19 -07:00
Al Viro
b8cc936f62 [PATCH] reiserfs endianness: fix endianness bugs
fixes for a couple of bugs exposed by the above: le32_to_cpu() used on 16bit
value and missing conversion in comparison of host- and little-endian values.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:18 -07:00
Al Viro
3e8962be91 [PATCH] reiserfs endianness: annotate little-endian objects
little-endian objects annotated as such; again, obviously no changes of
resulting code, we only replace __u16 with __le16, etc.  in relevant places.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:18 -07:00
Al Viro
6a3a16f2ef [PATCH] reiserfs endianness: clone struct reiserfs_key
struct reiserfs_key cloned; (currently) identical struct in_core_key added.
Places that expect host-endian data in reiserfs_key switched to in_core_key.
Basically, we get annotation of reiserfs_key users and keep the resulting tree
obviously equivalent to original.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:17 -07:00
Ian Kent
d46aa455dd [PATCH] autofs4: bump version number
Bump autofs4 version so we know what's going on.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:17 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
e5bdd883a1 [PATCH] new valid_signal() function
This patch adds a new function valid_signal() that tests if its argument is
a valid signal number.

The reasons for adding this new function are:

- some code currently testing _NSIG directly has off-by-one errors.
  Using this function instead avoids such errors.

- some code currently tests unsigned signal numbers for <0 which is
  pointless and generates warnings when building with gcc -W.  Using this
  function instead avoids such warnings.

I considered various places to add this function but eventually settled on
include/linux/signal.h as the most logical place for it.  If there's some
reason this is a bad choice then please let me know (hints as to a better
location are then welcome of course).

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:13 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
7d87e14c23 [PATCH] consolidate sys_shmat
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:12 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
9b06e81898 [PATCH] Deprecate synchronize_kernel, GPL replacement
The synchronize_kernel() primitive is used for quite a few different purposes:
waiting for RCU readers, waiting for NMIs, waiting for interrupts, and so on.
This makes RCU code harder to read, since synchronize_kernel() might or might
not have matching rcu_read_lock()s.  This patch creates a new
synchronize_rcu() that is to be used for RCU readers and a new
synchronize_sched() that is used for the rest.  These two new primitives
currently have the same implementation, but this is might well change with
additional real-time support.  Both new primitives are GPL-only, the old
primitive is deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:04 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
512345be25 [PATCH] Add deprecated_for_modules
Add a deprecated_for_modules macro that allows symbols to be deprecated only
when used by modules, as suggested by Andrew Morton some months back.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01 08:59:03 -07:00