Some visually impaired people use hardware devices which directly read
the vga screen. When newt for instance asks to hide the cursor for
better visual aspect, the kernel puts the vga cursor out of the screen,
so that the cursor position can't be read by the hardware device. This
is a great loss for such people.
Here is a patch which uses the same technique as CUR_NONE for hiding the
cursor while still moving it.
Mario, you should apply it to the speakup kernel for access floppies
asap. I'll submit a 2.4 patch too.
Signed-off-by: samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Statically allocated devices in module data is a potential cause
of oopsen. The device may be in use by a userspace process, which
will keep a reference to the device. If the module is unloaded,
the module data will be freed. Subsequent use of the platform
device will cause a kernel oops.
Use generic platform device allocation/release code in modules.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Statically allocated devices in module data is a potential cause
of oopsen. The device may be in use by a userspace process, which
will keep a reference to the device. If the module is unloaded,
the module data will be freed. Subsequent use of the platform
device will cause a kernel oops.
Use generic platform device allocation/release code in modules.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Release code in driver modules is a potential cause of oopsen.
The device may be in use by a userspace process, which will keep
a reference to the device. If the module is unloaded, the module
text will be freed. Subsequently, when the last reference is
dropped, the release code will be called, which no longer exists.
Use generic platform device allocation/release code in modules.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Release code in driver modules is a potential cause of oopsen.
The device may be in use by a userspace process, which will keep
a reference to the device. If the module is unloaded, the module
text will be freed. Subsequently, when the last reference is
dropped, the release code will be called, which no longer exists.
Use generic platform device allocation/release code in modules.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Release code in driver modules is a potential cause of oopsen.
The device may be in use by a userspace process, which will keep
a reference to the device. If the module is unloaded, the module
text will be freed. Subsequently, when the last reference is
dropped, the release code will be called, which no longer exists.
Use generic platform device allocation/release code in modules.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Release code in driver modules is a potential cause of oopsen.
The device may be in use by a userspace process, which will keep
a reference to the device. If the module is unloaded, the module
text will be freed. Subsequently, when the last reference is
dropped, the release code will be called, which no longer exists.
Use generic platform device allocation/release code in modules.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Re-jig the simple platform device support to allow private data
to be attached to a platform device, as well as allowing the
parent device to be set.
Example usage:
pdev = platform_device_alloc("mydev", id);
if (pdev) {
err = platform_device_add_resources(pdev, &resources,
ARRAY_SIZE(resources));
if (err == 0)
err = platform_device_add_data(pdev, &platform_data,
sizeof(platform_data));
if (err == 0)
err = platform_device_add(pdev);
} else {
err = -ENOMEM;
}
if (err)
platform_device_put(pdev);
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Adds a phy_mask field to struct mii_bus and uses it. This field
indicates each phy address to be ignored when probing the mdio bus.
This support is needed for the fs_enet and ibm_emac drivers to be
converted to the generic phy layer among other drivers. Many systems
lock up on probing certain phy addresses or probing doesn't return
0xffff when nothing is found at the address. A new driver I'm
working on also makes use of this mask.
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Some boards using the 79c976 pcnet32 chip will hang the system if the
ethtool --register-dump is performed with the device operational. The
request to read bcr30 is retried by the PCI device infinitely without
returning data, hanging the system.
Tested ia32 and ppc64.
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
This patch is a better fix for Allied Telesyn 2700/2701 FX boards than
the change made in early January this year. It allows the user to
select the speed/duplex via module_param, but if no selection is made,
forces the speed to 100 FD. It fixes both Bugzilla bugs 2669 and 4551.
Tested ia32 and ppc64 by myself, and by the originator of bug 2669.
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Display the name eth%d or pci_name() of device which fails to allocate
memory. When changing ring size via ethtool, it also releases the
lock before returning on error. Added comment that the caller of
pcnet32_alloc_ring must call pcnet32_free_ring on error, to avoid leak.
Tested ia32 by forcing allocation errors.
Signed-off-by: Don Fry <brazilnut@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Hi,
This patch provides updated documentation on the Neterion(S2io) driver.
Please review the patch.
Signed-off-by: Ravinandan Arakali <ravinandan.arakali@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Hi,
This patch provides dynamic two buffer-mode and 3 buffer-mode options.
Previously 2 buffer-mode was compilation option. Now with this patch applied
one can load driver in 2 buffer-mode with module-load parameter
ie.
#insmod s2io.ko rx_ring_mode=2
This patch also provides 3 buffer-mode which provides header separation
functionality. In 3 buffer-mode skb->data will have L2/L3/L4 headers and
"skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list->data" will have have L4 payload.
one can load driver in 3 buffer-mode with same above module-load parameter
ie.
#insmod s2io.ko rx_ring_mode=3
Please review the patch.
Signed-off-by: Ananda Raju <ananda.raju@neterion.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
fid is declared as a u32 (unsigned int), and then a few lines later, it is checked for a value < 0, which is clearly useless.
In the two locations this function is used, in one it is *explicitly* given a negative number, which would be ignored with the
current definition.
Thanks to LinuxICC (http://linuxicc.sf.net).
Signed-off-by: Gabriel A. Devenyi <ace@staticwave.ca>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Currently the driver takes a reference only for requests coming by way
of the gendisk, not for requests coming by way of the struct device or
struct scsi_device. Such requests can arrive in the rescan, flush,
and shutdown pathways.
The patch also makes the scsi_disk keep a reference to the underlying
scsi_device, and it erases the scsi_device's pointer to the scsi_disk
when the scsi_device is removed (since the pointer should no longer be
used).
This resolves Bugzilla entry #5237.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
The printks that aren't for debugging should use the name of the controller,
not the driver name. Multiple MMC controllers aren't that common today, but
this is the right way to do things.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
- egcs is not supported by kernel 2.6
- gcc 3.3 seems to be a good choice on ARM
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
There is a broken if clause in the wbsd driver that can cause the
driver to try and configure the chip even though none is found. This
results in i/o on invalid ports.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Use ata_pad_{alloc,free} in two drivers, to factor out common code.
Add ata_pad_{alloc,free} to two other drivers, which needed the padding
but had not been updated.
This adds support for the Nvidia Geforce 7800 series of cards to the
nvidiafb framebuffer driver. All it does is add the PCI device id for
the 7800, 7800 GTX, 7800 GO, and 7800 GTX GO cards to the module device
table for the nvidiafb.ko driver, so that nvidiafb.ko will actually work
on these cards.
I also added the relevant PCI device ids to linux/pci_ids.h
I tested it on my 7800 GTX here and it works like a charm. I now can
get framebuffer support on this card! Woo hoo!! Nothing like 200x75 text
mode to make your eyes BLEED. ;)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We can't currently use asm-ppc/page.h in vmlinux.lds.S, so until
we have a merged page.h, define PAGE_SIZE and KERNELBASE locally.
Also gets rid of some dynamic executable cruft that we had for
32-bit. With -Ttext=$(KERNELBASE) this didn't cause any problem,
but when we changed to putting . = KERNELBASE in the vmlinux.lds.S
this cruft caused the text to get linked at 0xa0 instead of
0xc0000000. Oops.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
This also moves setup_cpu_maps to setup-common.c (calling it
smp_setup_cpu_maps) and uses it on both 32-bit and 64-bit.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Fix some dprintk's so that NLM, NFS client, and RPC client compile
cleanly if CONFIG_SYSCTL is disabled.
Test plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled and CONFIG_SYSCTL disabled.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The sunrpc module should build properly even when CONFIG_SYSCTL is
disabled.
Reported by Jan-Benedict Glaw.
Test plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS as a module and built-in, and CONFIG_SYSCTL
enabled and disabled.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Now that we have a method of dealing with delegation recalls, actually
enable the caching of posix and BSD locks.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Delegations allow us to cache posix and BSD locks, however when the
delegation is recalled, we need to "flush the cache" and send
the cached LOCK requests to the server.
This patch sets up the mechanism for doing so.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
I missed this one... Any form of rename will result in a delegation
recall, so it is more efficient to return the one we hold before
trying the rename.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
RFC 3530 states that for OPEN_DOWNGRADE "The share_access and share_deny
bits specified must be exactly equal to the union of the share_access and
share_deny bits specified for some subset of the OPENs in effect for
current openowner on the current file.
Setattr is currently violating the NFSv4 rules for OPEN_DOWNGRADE in that
it may cause a downgrade from OPEN4_SHARE_ACCESS_BOTH to
OPEN4_SHARE_ACCESS_WRITE despite the fact that there exists no open file
with O_WRONLY access mode.
Fix the problem by replacing nfs4_find_state() with a modified version of
nfs_find_open_context().
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We must not remove the nfs4_state structure from the inode open lists
before we are in sequence lock.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
At header fixup time, it is not yet legal to ioremap() PCI
device registers, yet that is what this quirk code needs to
do.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Do not transfer remaining time slice to another cpu on process exit.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
