Henry Ptasinski [Thu, 9 Sep 2010 18:53:33 +0000 (11:53 -0700)]
staging: brcm80211: Add contact info to TODO list.
Signed-off-by: Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Ben Hutchings [Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:38:18 +0000 (01:38 +0100)]
staging: brcm80211: Fix some initialisation failure paths
Initialise wl_info::tasklet early so that it's safe to tasklet_kill()
it in wl_free().
Remove assertions from wl_free() that may not be true in case of
initialisation failure.
Call wl_release_fw() in case of failure after wl_request_fw().
Don't rely on wl_firmware::fw_cnt in wl_release_fw().
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Thu, 9 Sep 2010 06:14:18 +0000 (23:14 -0700)]
Staging: fix Makefile so broadcom driver will actually build.
It would be nice if people tested their patches before sending
them to me...
Cc: Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>
Cc: Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>
Cc: Nohee Ko <noheek@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Henry Ptasinski [Thu, 9 Sep 2010 04:04:42 +0000 (21:04 -0700)]
Staging: Add initial release of brcm80211 - Broadcom 802.11n wireless LAN driver.
Signed-off-by: Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>
Cc: Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>
Cc: Nohee Ko <noheek@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Nikitas Angelinas [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 21:27:55 +0000 (22:27 +0100)]
Staging: vt6656: use ARRAY_SIZE macro in channel.c
Replace (sizeof(ChannelRuleTab) / sizeof(ChannelRuleTab[0])) with
ARRAY_SIZE(ChannelRuleTab) in drivers/staging/vt6656/channel.c
Signed-off-by: Nikitas Angelinas <nikitasangelinas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Maurice Dawson [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 18:15:46 +0000 (19:15 +0100)]
Staging: comedi: fix space coding style issue in adl_pci9111.c
This is a patch to the adl_pci9111.c file that fixes up multiple please,
no space for starting a line warnings, found by the checkpatch.pl tool
Signed-off-by: Maurice Dawson <mauricedawson2699@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Vipin Mehta [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 22:19:48 +0000 (15:19 -0700)]
staging: ath6kl: Eliminating the symlink to 2.0 header files
Moving the AR6002 hw 2.0 specific register definitions files from
the hw.0 directory to a new directory, 'hw' within hw2.0.
Signed-off-by: Vipin Mehta <vmehta@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mike McCormack [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:05:21 +0000 (22:05 +0900)]
Staging: rtl8192e: Less verbose function headers
Signed-off-by: Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mike McCormack [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:05:09 +0000 (22:05 +0900)]
Staging: rtl8192e: Fix indent in some places
Signed-off-by: Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mike McCormack [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:04:57 +0000 (22:04 +0900)]
Staging: rtl8192e: Remove some redundant comments
Signed-off-by: Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mike McCormack [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:04:45 +0000 (22:04 +0900)]
Staging: rtl8192e: Remove extern and redundant declarations
Signed-off-by: Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mike McCormack [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:04:34 +0000 (22:04 +0900)]
Staging: rtl8192e: Remove function with no effect
Signed-off-by: Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mike McCormack [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:04:20 +0000 (22:04 +0900)]
Staging: rtl8192e: Remove unused macros
Signed-off-by: Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mike McCormack [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:04:10 +0000 (22:04 +0900)]
Staging: rtl8192e: Remove some commented out code
Signed-off-by: Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mike McCormack [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:03:59 +0000 (22:03 +0900)]
Staging: rtl8192e: Remove function name comments at end of functions
Signed-off-by: Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mike McCormack [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 13:03:30 +0000 (22:03 +0900)]
Staging: rtl8192e: Remove some redundant code
Signed-off-by: Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Stephen Hemminger [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 21:46:36 +0000 (14:46 -0700)]
staging: Beeceem USB Wimax driver
The Sprint 4G network uses a Wimax dongle with Beecem
chipset. The driver is typical of out of tree drivers, but
maybe useful for people, and the hardware is readily available.
Here is a staging ready version (i.e warts and all)
0. Started with Rel_5.2.7.3P1_USB from Sprint4GDeveloperPack-1.1
1. Consolidated files in staging
2. Remove Dos cr/lf
3. Remove unnecessary ioctl from usbbcm_fops
Applied patches that were in the developer pack, surprising
there were ones for 2.6.35 already.
This is compile tested only, see TODO for what still needs
to be done.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 09:47:47 +0000 (02:47 -0700)]
Staging: keucr: fix up some coding style issues in the .h files
This resolves a few of the coding style issues in the .h files
for this driver. It doesn't get all of them by far, but it's a
good start.
Cc: Al Cho <acho@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Al Cho [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 07:42:32 +0000 (00:42 -0700)]
Staging: add USB ENE card reader driver
This driver is for the ENE card reader that can be found in many
different laptops. It was written by ENE, but cleaned up to
work properly in the kernel tree by Novell.
Signed-off-by: Al Cho <acho@novell.com>
Cc: <yiyingc@ene.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Javier Martinez Canillas [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 04:05:40 +0000 (00:05 -0400)]
staging: xgifb: Removes unnecesary log
This patch fixes a compile warning removing an unnecessary log message.
I redo the patch against today linux-next.
Thanks a lot
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Javier Martinez Canillas [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 04:07:57 +0000 (00:07 -0400)]
staging : xgifb: Removes compilation conditionals
This patch fixes a compilation warning in today linux-next
removing some compilation conditionals.
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Vipin Mehta [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 00:06:50 +0000 (17:06 -0700)]
staging: ath6kl: Fixing a compilation error introduced by commit
ec53d6123bea9f69887f194b5d4294a43292120d.
Signed-off-by: Vipin Mehta <vmehta@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Andy Shevchenko [Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:20:22 +0000 (18:20 +0300)]
staging: ath6kl: use native methods from kernel library
There are already implemented methods such hex_to_bin() or isxdigit() in
the kernel. Let's use them.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vipin Mehta <Vipin.Mehta@Atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Andy Shevchenko [Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:20:21 +0000 (18:20 +0300)]
staging: rtl8712: throw away custom hex_to_bin()
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Wed, 8 Sep 2010 08:49:45 +0000 (01:49 -0700)]
Staging: xgifb: revert a warning fix and resolve it properly
Jiri pointed out that the previous compiler warning fix was incorrect as
the compiler was properly saying that the variable was not being set.
This was due to a #define commenting out all of the logic in the
function.
This patch reverts Javier's previous one, and properly fixes the issue
by making the function actually doing something.
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Prashant P. Shah [Tue, 7 Sep 2010 13:14:50 +0000 (18:44 +0530)]
Staging: otus: removes global variable initialization to 0 in wwrap.c
This is a patch to the wwrap.c file that removes the initialization
of global variable 'smp_kevent_Lock' to 0
Signed-off-by: Prashant P. Shah <pshah.mumbai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:33:47 +0000 (14:33 +0000)]
staging: Bulk convert the semaphore mess
init_MUTEX(_LOCKED) and DECLARE_MUTEX are going away. Bulk convert
staging users.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Javier Martinez Canillas [Tue, 7 Sep 2010 05:34:05 +0000 (01:34 -0400)]
staging: xgifb: Initialize uninitialized variables
Current patch solves compilation warnings in staging/xgifb for using
possibly uninitialized variables.
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Prashant P. Shah [Mon, 6 Sep 2010 12:04:26 +0000 (17:34 +0530)]
Staging: xgifb: fixed many style issues in XGI_main_26.c
This is a patch to the XGI_main_26 file that fixes many style
issues found by the checkpatch.pl tool.
- extra spaces
- invalid code indent
- extra braces
- invalid comment style
Signed-off-by: Prashant P. Shah <pshah.mumbai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Greg Kroah-Hartman [Mon, 6 Sep 2010 03:55:55 +0000 (20:55 -0700)]
Staging: rt2860: Fix brace coding style issue
This fixes a single brace issue in the rt_linux.c file.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Bernie Thompson [Mon, 6 Sep 2010 01:29:56 +0000 (18:29 -0700)]
staging: udlfb: fix checkpatch and style
Fix warnings detected by tools
Signed-off-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Bernie Thompson [Mon, 6 Sep 2010 01:28:29 +0000 (18:28 -0700)]
staging: udlfb: fix incorrect fb_defio implementation for multiple framebuffers
Fix fb_defio bug in udlfb for multiple framebuffers
Previously when using fb_defio with multiple DisplayLink attached displays
udlfb incorrectly used a shared datastructure where it needed to have
one per fb_info struct. This was completely broken and caused all kinds of
problems, including rendering to one framebuffer affecting others.
Signed-off-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Michael Prokop [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 21:29:32 +0000 (23:29 +0200)]
Staging: cxt1e1: Kconfig: SBE_PMCC4_NCOMM can not be compiled as module, adjust help description
The Kconfig description for CONFIG_SBE_PMCC4_NCOMM says:
If you have purchased this optional support you must say Y or M
here to allow the driver to operate with the NCOMM product.
This is not correct as it can not be built as module,
this patch updates the description accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Julia Lawall [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 19:00:24 +0000 (21:00 +0200)]
Staging: comedi: Fix unsigned return type
In each case, the function has an unsigned return type, but returns a
negative constant to indicate an error condition. For move_block_from_dma,
there is only one call and the return value is dropped, so it need not be
unsigned. For labpc_eeprom_write, there is only one call and the result is
stored in a signed variable, so again the unsigned return type is not
necessary.
A sematic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@exists@
identifier f;
constant C;
@@
unsigned f(...)
{ <+...
* return -C;
...+> }
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Vasiliy Kulikov [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 18:32:53 +0000 (22:32 +0400)]
staging: westbridge: improve error path
kmalloc() may fail, check for it.
Allocated memory is not freed.
Use IS_ERR() instead of strict checking.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Cc: David Cross <david.cross@cypress.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Vasiliy Kulikov [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 18:32:29 +0000 (22:32 +0400)]
staging: ath6kl: check return code of get_user and put_user
Function get_user may fail. Check for it.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Vasiliy Kulikov [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 18:32:33 +0000 (22:32 +0400)]
staging: comedi: check return code of put_user
Function put_user may fail. Check for it.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Vasiliy Kulikov [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 18:32:45 +0000 (22:32 +0400)]
staging: tidspbridge: check return code of get_user
Function get_user may fail. Check for it.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Vasiliy Kulikov [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 18:32:41 +0000 (22:32 +0400)]
staging: rtl8192u: improve error path
Functions alloc_ieee80211 and register_netdev may fail. Check for it.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Vasiliy Kulikov [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 18:32:49 +0000 (22:32 +0400)]
staging: tidspbridge: check return code of kzalloc
Function kzalloc may fail. Check for it.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Bernie Thompson [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:35:39 +0000 (16:35 -0700)]
staging: udlfb: add module options for console and fb_defio
Add module options for console and fb_defio
Convert fb_defio on/off switch to module option and add console option.
>From the command line, pass options to modprobe
modprobe udlfb defio=1 console=1
Or for permanent option, create file like /etc/modprobe.d/options with text
options udlfb defio=1 console=1
Accepted options:
fb_defio Make use of the fb_defio (CONFIG_FB_DEFERRED_IO) kernel
module to track changed areas of the framebuffer by page faults.
Standard fbdev applications that use mmap but that do not
report damage, may be able to work with this enabled.
Disabled by default because of overhead and other issues.
console Allow fbcon to attach to udlfb provided framebuffers. This
is disabled by default because fbcon will aggressively consume
the first framebuffer it finds, which isn't usually what the
user wants in the case of USB displays.
Signed-off-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Bernie Thompson [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:35:31 +0000 (16:35 -0700)]
staging: udlfb: support for writing backup EDID to sysfs file
Support writing default/backup edid via /sys/class/graphics/fb?/edid
Writing a backup edid blob to the 'edid' file will cause udlfb to
attempt to re-read the edid from hardware.
If we still don't have a good edid, it will use the backup edid instead.
The intent is to 1) enable user-supplied edid
2) enable udev rules to backup the last known good edid
for a device, and then provide that edid as a backup for all future starts
Signed-off-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Bernie Thompson [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:35:27 +0000 (16:35 -0700)]
staging: udlfb: fix big endian rendering error
Fix big endian rendering bug (affects PowerPC)
Thanks to Christian Melki at Ericsson for finding and suggesting patch.
Signed-off-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Bernie Thompson [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:35:23 +0000 (16:35 -0700)]
staging: udlfb: enhance EDID and mode handling support
Enhance EDID and mode table handling
* Adds support for lower-end DL chips on higher-end monitors
* Adds support for using fbdev standard EDID parsing and handling
* Adds support for more dynamic reallocation of framebuffer, based on new EDID
Queries EDID from hardware with several retries then
queries DisplayLink chip for max pixel area via vendor descriptor.
Uses existing fbdev mode handling service funcations to build mode list
of common modes between adapter and monitor.
This enables lower-end chips (e.g. DL-125) to successfully pick a compatible
mode on higher end monitors (e.g. whose default mode is over 1280x1024).
Reallocate framebuffer if necessary in response to new max mode.
Signed-off-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Bernie Thompson [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:35:19 +0000 (16:35 -0700)]
staging: udlfb: revamp reference handling to insure successful shutdown
Revamp reference handling and synchronization for unload/shutdown
Udlfb is a "virtual" framebuffer device that really exists on
two separate stacks: at the bottom of the framebuffer interface,
and on top of USB. During unload, there's no guarantee which
one will tear down first. So reference counting must be solid
to handle all possibilities and not access anything once its gone.
Signed-off-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Bernie Thompson [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:35:15 +0000 (16:35 -0700)]
staging: udlfb: remove metrics_misc sysfs attribute
Remove metrics_misc sysfs attribute
Previously returned multiple values, which goes against sysfs guidelines.
Had been used for debugging to figure out which of the multiple
fbdev interfaces an app was using, but log file messages are sufficient.
Signed-off-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Bernie Thompson [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:35:10 +0000 (16:35 -0700)]
staging: udlfb: add DPMS support
Add ability to power off monitor with standard blanking interface
Used by X servers and others to manage power of dislpay
Signed-off-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Bernie Thompson [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:35:04 +0000 (16:35 -0700)]
staging: udlfb: fbdev character read and write support
Restore fbdev character read and write support
Enables access to the framebuffer from simple reads and writes
to /dev/fb0 (or fb1, ...). Low performance, because of extra copy
and because udlfb must scan every pixel for changes. But very
useful for testing and simple image display, etc.
Signed-off-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Bernie Thompson [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 23:34:58 +0000 (16:34 -0700)]
staging: udlfb: Add intro udlfb documentation
Add documentation for the udlfb framebuffer driver for DisplayLink devices.
Signed-off-by: Bernie Thompson <bernie@plugable.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Joe Perches [Sun, 5 Sep 2010 01:52:47 +0000 (18:52 -0700)]
staging: lirc: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Javier Martinez Canillas [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:08:20 +0000 (19:08 -0400)]
staging: xgifb: Removes unused variable
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <martinez.javier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sven Eckelmann [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:38 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: Update mtu of bat device by changing mtu of slave device
We must reduce our own mtu when we reduce the mtu of any device we use
to transfer our packets. Otherwise we may accept to large packets which
gets dropped by the actual device.
Reported-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sven Eckelmann [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:37 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: Don't inform about dropped packets in nodebug
Information about dropped packets are usually only interesting for
debugging purposes and otherwise open the possibility to flood the logs
of the target machine with useless information.
pr_debug will not output those information on a nodebug kernel.
Reported-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sven Eckelmann [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:36 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: Remove duplicate of attached device name
batman_if has the name of the net_dev as extra string in its own
structure, but also holds a reference to the actual net_device structure
which always has the current name of the device. This makes it
unneccessary and also more complex because we must update the name in
situations when we receive a NETDEV_CHANGENAME event.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Marek Lindner [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:35 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: multiple mesh clouds
This patch removes all remaining global variables and includes the
necessary bits into the bat_priv structure. It is the last
remaining piece to allow multiple concurrent mesh clouds on the
same device.
A few global variables have been rendered obsolete during the process
and have been removed entirely.
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Marek Lindner [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:34 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: attach each hard-interface to a soft-interface
This patch replaces the static bat0 interface with a dynamic/abstracted
approach. It is now possible to create multiple batX interfaces by
assigning hard interfaces to them. Each batX interface acts as an
independent mesh network. A soft interface is removed once no hard
interface references it any longer.
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sven Eckelmann [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:33 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: Provide full headers and packets as linear skb
We must ensure that all interesting data is linear and not paged out to
access all information in a header or a full batman-adv related packet.
Otherwise we may drop packets which have non-linear headers but which
hold valid data.
This doesn't affect non-linear skbs which have all headers in a linear
head unless we must process the whole packet like in ogms or vis
packets.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sven Eckelmann [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:32 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: Create copy of skb with pre-allocated headroom
We can use skb_cow instead of a handwritten function to test and create
a writable skb buffer. This also allows us to pre-allocate headroom to
be able to send the data without re-allocating the buffer again to add
the ethernet header.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sven Eckelmann [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:31 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: Prepare vis packets directly inside a skb
The vis information structure is used in a way that it can be transfered
directly as packet. It still had to be copied into a skb because of an
extra buffer used for the actual preparation of the data. This is
unnecessary and can be replaced by a simple clone instead of an full
copy before each send.
This makes also the send_raw_packet function obsolete.
Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sven Eckelmann [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:30 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: Aggregate batman packets directly in skb
All originator messages are send through aggregation buffers. Those
buffers can directly be allocated as skb to reduce the cost of
allocation an extra buffer and copying them to a new allocated skb
directly before it gets send.
Now only the skb must be cloned in case of send_packet_to_if as it gets
called by send_packet for each interface. Non-primary ogms must not
cloned at all because they will only send once and the forward_packet
structure is freed by send_outstanding_bat_packet afterwards.
Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sven Eckelmann [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:29 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: Only clone skb data for multiple broadcasts
batman-adv tries to resend broadcasts on all interfaces up to three
times. For each round and each interface it must provide a skb which
gets consumed by the sending function.
It is unnecessary to copy the data of each broadcast because the actual
data is either not shared or already copied by add_bcast_packet_to_list.
So it is enough to just copy the skb control data
Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sven Eckelmann [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:28 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: Keep header writable and unshared
my_skb_push provided an easy way to allocate enough headroom in
situation were we don't have enough space left and move the data pointer
to the new position, but we didn't checked wether we are allowed to
write to the new pushed header. This is for example a problem when the
skb was cloned and thus doesn't have a private data part.
my_skb_head_push now replaces my_skb_push by using skb_cow_head to
provide only a large enough, writable header without testing for the
rest of the (maybe shared) data. It will also move the data pointer
using skb_push when skb_cow_head doesn't fail.
This should give us enough flexibility in situation were skbs will be
queued by underlying layers and still doesn't unnecessarily copy the
data in situations when the skb was consumed right away during
dev_queue_xmit.
Reported-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Marek Lindner [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:27 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: register the batman-adv packet type per interface
Batman-adv globally registered the batman-adv packet type and installed
a hook to batman_skb_recv(). Each interface receiving a packet with that
type would end up in this function which then had to loop through all
batman-adv internal interface structures to find the its meta data. The
more interfaces a system had the longer the loops might take. Each and
every packet goes through this function making it a performance critical
loop.
This patch installs the hook for each activated interface. The called
batman_skb_recv() can distinguish these calls, therefore avoiding the
loop through the interface structures.
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sven Eckelmann [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:26 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: Directly prepare icmp packets in socket buffer
It is unnecessary to generate an icmp packet in an extra memory region
and than copying it to a new allocated skb.
This also resolved the problem that we do inform the user that we
couldn't send the packet because we couldn't allocate the socket buffer.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Andreas Langer [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:25 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: layer2 unicast packet fragmentation
This patch implements a simple layer2 fragmentation to allow traffic
exchange over network interfaces with a MTU smaller than 1500 bytes. The
fragmentation splits the big packets into two parts and marks the frames
accordingly. The receiving end buffers the packets to reassemble the
orignal packet before passing it to the higher layers. This feature
makes it necessary to modify the batman-adv encapsulation for unicast
packets by adding a sequence number, flags and the originator address.
This modifcation is part of a seperate packet type for fragemented
packets to keep the original overhead as low as possible. This patch
enables the feature by default to ensure the data traffic can travel
through the network. But it also prints a warning to notify the user
about the performance implications.
Note: Fragmentation should be avoided at all costs since it has a
dramatic impact on the performance, especially when it comes wifi
networks. Instead of a single packet, 2 packets have to be sent! Not
only valuable airtime is wasted but also packetloss decreases the
throughput. A link with 50% packetloss and fragmentation enabled is
pretty much unusable.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Langer <an.langer@gmx.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Marek Lindner [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:24 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: refactoring unicast payload code
Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Simon Wunderlich [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:23 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: move queue counters into bat_priv
to support multiple mesh devices later, we need to move global variables
like the queues into corresponding private structs bat_priv of the soft
devices.
Note that this patch still has a lot of FIXMEs and depends on the global
soft_device variable. This should be resolved later, e.g. by referencing
the parent soft device in batman_if.
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
[sven.eckelmann@gmx.de: Rework on top of current version]
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sven Eckelmann [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:22 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: Calculate hamming weight using optimized kernel functions
The Kernighan algorithm is not able to calculate the number of set bits
in parallel and the compiler cannot replace it with optimized
instructions.
The kernel provides specialised functions for each cpu which can either
use a software implementation or hardware instruction depending on the
target cpu.
Reported-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Simon Wunderlich [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:21 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: Count Ethernet header for incoming packets
The Ethernet header is counted when transmitting a packet, so it should also
be counted when receiving a packet. With this patch, the rx_bytes and tx_bytes
statistics behave like an ordinary Ethernet interface.
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sven Eckelmann [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:20 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: Start new development cycle
Version 2010.1.0 of the extra kernel module was released and thus the
documentation should be updated and everything prepared for the the
upcoming patchset.
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sven Eckelmann [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:19 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Staging: batman-adv: Remove CHANGELOG
The changelog is only generated on standalone releases. Thus it has no
real value for the in-kernel version of batman-adv.
Reported-by: Abraham Arce <abraham.arce.moreno@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sven Eckelmann [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 23:58:18 +0000 (01:58 +0200)]
Revert: "Staging: batman-adv: Adding netfilter-bridge hooks"
This reverts commit
96d592ed599434d2d5f339a1d282871bc6377d2c.
The netfilter hook seems to be misused and may leak skbs in situations
when NF_HOOK returns NF_STOLEN. It may not filter everything as
expected. Also the ethernet bridge tables are not yet capable to
understand batman-adv packet correctly.
It was only added for testing purposes and can be removed again.
Reported-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Prashant P. Shah [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 06:39:32 +0000 (12:09 +0530)]
Staging: xgifb: fixed many style issues in vb_util.c
This is a patch to the vb_util.c file that fixes many style
issues found by the checkpatch.pl tool.
- extra spaces
- invalid code indent
- extra braces
- invalid comment style
Signed-off-by: Prashant P. Shah <pshah.mumbai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Prashant P. Shah [Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:55:38 +0000 (15:25 +0530)]
Staging: xgifb: fixed many style issues in vb_init.c
This is a patch to the vb_init.c file that fixes many style
issues found by the checkpatch.pl tool.
- extra spaces
- invalid code indent
- extra braces
- invalid comment style
Signed-off-by: Prashant P. Shah <pshah.mumbai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Prashant P. Shah [Fri, 3 Sep 2010 16:42:12 +0000 (22:12 +0530)]
Staging: xgifb: fixed many style issue in vb_setmode.c
This is a patch to the vb_setmode.c file that fixes many style
issues found by the checkpatch.pl tool.
- extra spaces
- invalid code indent
- extra braces
- invalid comment style
Signed-off-by: Prashant P. Shah <pshah.mumbai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Prashant P. Shah [Wed, 1 Sep 2010 16:07:35 +0000 (21:37 +0530)]
Staging: xgifb: fixed many style issue in vb_ext.c
This is a patch to the vb_ext.c file that fixes many style
issues found by the checkpatch.pl tool.
- extra spaces
- invalid code indent
- extra braces
- invalid comment style
Signed-off-by: Prashant P. Shah <pshah.mumbai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Andre Nogueira [Wed, 1 Sep 2010 00:03:47 +0000 (01:03 +0100)]
Staging: rtl8186se: Remove a duplicate include directive in ieee80211.h
This patch removes a duplicate include directive in
drivers/staging/rtl8187se/ieee80211/ieee80211.h.
Signed-off-by: Andre Nogueira <andre.neo.net@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Andrea Gelmini [Wed, 1 Sep 2010 09:08:55 +0000 (11:08 +0200)]
staging: spectra: Kconfig: add missing '.'
All help messages end with full stop.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gelma.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Jiri Slaby [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 13:03:07 +0000 (15:03 +0200)]
Staging: ath6kl, remove unneeded ptr checking
In wmi_bssInfo_event_rx, there is unneeded check for bss, because it
is in the branch where the bss is checked to be non-null already.
Remove the superfluous check.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Vipin Mehta <vmehta@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Jiri Slaby [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 12:16:26 +0000 (14:16 +0200)]
Staging: lirc, fix lock imbalance
[2nd version -- melded all three together]
1) There is a missing return or goto statement in one fail path in
sasem_probe, so that the code contiues its normal execution (and
unlocks a mutex twice). Fix that by jumping to the right place.
Anyway the code is very broken on its fail paths and there are many
leaks. But that's a different story.
2) There is an omitted unlock in one fail path in vfd_write, jump to
the right place to unlock the lock.
3) In the probe function, there is one more error where the lock is
not unlocked. Fix that by jumping to the proper place.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Jiri Slaby [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 12:32:25 +0000 (14:32 +0200)]
Staging: lirc, fix NULL dereference
When 'context' allocation fails in imon_probe, we jump to unlock
context->ctx_lock. This is wrong as context is NULL and the lock is
not locked.
Fix the labels.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Uwe Kleine-König [Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:40:27 +0000 (15:40 +0200)]
staging/trivial: fix typos concerning "through"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Uwe Kleine-König [Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:40:26 +0000 (15:40 +0200)]
staging/trivial: fix typos concerning "management"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Uwe Kleine-König [Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:40:25 +0000 (15:40 +0200)]
staging/trivial: fix typos concerning "initiali[zs]e"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Uwe Kleine-König [Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:40:24 +0000 (15:40 +0200)]
staging/trivial: fix typos concerning "address"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Uwe Kleine-König [Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:40:23 +0000 (15:40 +0200)]
staging/trivial: fix typos concerning "access"
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Uwe Kleine-König [Wed, 1 Sep 2010 13:40:22 +0000 (15:40 +0200)]
staging/comedi: fix syntax error
I don't know how gcc interprets this, but it wouldn't surprise me if it
choose something different than start-of-comment
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Jonathan Cameron [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 16:54:51 +0000 (17:54 +0100)]
staging: iio: documentation - partial update to make more of it true.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Jonathan Cameron [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 16:54:50 +0000 (17:54 +0100)]
staging: iio: lis3l02dqbuffersimple.c bring example up to date.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Jonathan Cameron [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 16:54:49 +0000 (17:54 +0100)]
staging: iio: remove odd structure definition.
I've no idea where this came from!
Also fixed form -> from in comment
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Jonathan Cameron [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 16:54:48 +0000 (17:54 +0100)]
staging: iio: Make use of the convenient IIO_TRIGGER_NAME_ATTR macro
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Jonathan Cameron [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 16:54:47 +0000 (17:54 +0100)]
staging: iio: Remove deprecated ATTR_TEMP in favour of ATTR_TEMP_RAW
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Jonathan Cameron [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 16:54:46 +0000 (17:54 +0100)]
staging: iio: Remove long dead function definitions from headers
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Jonathan Cameron [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 16:54:45 +0000 (17:54 +0100)]
staging: iio: unecessary header removal and kernel doc clean up
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Jonathan Cameron [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 16:54:44 +0000 (17:54 +0100)]
staging: iio: simplify logic in iio_interrupt_handler
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Jonathan Cameron [Sat, 4 Sep 2010 16:54:43 +0000 (17:54 +0100)]
staging: iio: convert idr to ida as pointer never provided
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Manuel Stahl <manuel.stahl@iis.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Vipin Mehta [Wed, 1 Sep 2010 19:06:33 +0000 (12:06 -0700)]
staging: add ath6kl driver for AR6003 chip
AR6003 is a single stream, SDIO based 802.11 chipset from
Atheros optimized for mobile and embedded devices. ath6kl is a
cfg80211 driver for AR6003 and supports both the station and
AP mode of operation.
Station mode supports 802.11 a/b/g/n with HT20 on 2.4/5GHz and
HT40 only on 5GHz. Some of the other features include WPA/WPA2,
WPS, WMM, WMM-PS, and BT coexistence. AP mode can be operated
only in b/g mode with support for a subset of features mentioned
above.
The driver supports cfg80211 but comes with its own set of
wext ioctls which have historically supported some of our
customers with features like BT 3.0 and AP mode of operation.
For further details, please refer to:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath6kl
The driver requires firmware that runs on the chip's network
processor. The majority of it is stored in ROM. The binaries
that are downloaded and executed from RAM are as follows:
1) Patch against the code in ROM for bug fixes and feature
enhancements.
2) Code to copy the data from the OTP region of the memory
into RAM.
3) Calibration file carrying board specific data.
The above files need to be present in the directory
'/lib/firmware/ath6k/AR6003/hw2.0/' for the driver to initialize
the chip upon enumeration. The files can be downloaded from the
link specified at the following location:
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath6kl#Download
This driver is only provided in the interim while we work on
the mac80211 replacement, ath6k. Once the mac80211 driver
achieves feature parity with the ath6kl driver, the ath6kl will
be deprecated and removed from staging.
Signed-off-by: Vipin Mehta <vmehta@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Nitin Gupta [Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:26:55 +0000 (22:56 +0530)]
Staging: zram: Update zram documentation
Update zram documentation to reflect transition form
ioctl to sysfs interface.
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Nitin Gupta [Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:26:48 +0000 (22:56 +0530)]
Staging: zram: Remove need for explicit device initialization
Currently, the user has to explicitly write a positive value to
initstate sysfs node before the device can be used. This event
triggers allocation of per-device metadata like memory pool,
table array and so on.
We do not pre-initialize all zram devices since the 'table' array,
mapping disk blocks to compressed chunks, takes considerable amount
of memory (8 bytes per page). So, pre-initializing all devices will
be quite wasteful if only few or none of the devices are actually
used.
This explicit device initialization from user is an odd requirement and
can be easily avoided. We now initialize the device when first write is
done to the device.
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Nitin Gupta [Mon, 9 Aug 2010 17:26:56 +0000 (22:56 +0530)]
Staging: zram: Document sysfs entries
Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>