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Chris Wright
2c3c8bea60 sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacks
This allows bin_attr->read,write,mmap callbacks to check file specific data
(such as inode owner) as part of any privilege validation.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21 09:37:31 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov
e177123f0c firmware loader: do not allocate firmare id separately
fw_id has the same life time as firmware_priv so it makes sense to move
it into firmware_priv structure instead of allocating separately.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21 09:37:30 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov
bcb9bd18e3 firmware loader: split out builtin firmware handling
Split builtin firmware handling into separate functions to clean up the
main body of code.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21 09:37:30 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov
673fae90d5 firmware loader: rely on driver core to create class attribute
Do not create 'timeout' attribute manually, let driver core do it for us.
This also ensures that attribute is cleaned up properly.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21 09:37:30 -07:00
Johannes Berg
e9045f9178 firmware class: export nowait to userspace
When we use request_firmware_nowait(), userspace may
not want to answer negatively right away when for
example it is answering from an initrd only, but
with request_firmware() it has to in order to not
delay the kernel boot until the request times out.

This allows userspace to differentiate between the
two in order to be able to reply negatively to async
requests only when all filesystems have been mounted
and have been checked for the requested firmware file.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21 09:37:30 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
6f18ff91d9 Driver core: Reduce the level of request_firmware() messages
The messages from _request_firmware() informing that firmware is
being requested or built-in firmware is going to be used are printed
at KERN_INFO, which produces lots of noise on systems with huge
numbers of AMD CPUs.  Reduce the level of these messages to
KERN_DEBUG to get rid of that noise.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21 09:37:29 -07:00
David Woodhouse
dd336c554d firmware_class: fix memory leak - free allocated pages
fix memory leak introduced by the patch 6e03a201bb:
firmware: speed up request_firmware()

1. vfree won't release pages there were allocated explicitly and mapped
using vmap. The memory has to be vunmap-ed and the pages needs
to be freed explicitly

2. page array is moved into the 'struct
firmware' so that we can free it from release_firmware()
and not only in fw_dev_release()

The fix doesn't break the firmware load speed.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Singed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-21 09:37:28 -07:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Randy Dunlap
e59817bf08 driver-core: fix missing kernel-doc in firmware_class
Fix kernel-doc warning in firmware_class.c:

Warning(drivers/base/firmware_class.c:94): No description found for parameter 'attr'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-19 07:12:16 -07:00
Jiri Kosina
e1955ca0ee sysfs: use sysfs_bin_attr_init in firmware class driver
Annotate dynamic sysfs attribute in fw_setup_device(). This gets
rid of the following lockdep warning:

bnx2 0000:08:00.0: firmware: requesting bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j6.fw
BUG: key ffff880008293470 not in .data!
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2706 lockdep_init_map+0x562/0x620()
Modules linked in: bnx2(+) sg tpm_bios floppy rtc_lib usb_storage i2c_piix4 joydev button container shpchp i2c_core sr_mod cdrom pci_hotplug usbhid hid ohci_hcd ehci_hcd sd_mod usbcore edd ext3 mbcache jbd fan ata_generic sata_svw pata_serverworks libata scsi_mod thermal processor
Pid: 1915, comm: work_for_cpu Not tainted 2.6.34-rc1-default #81
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8107c1d2>] ? lockdep_init_map+0x562/0x620
 [<ffffffff81049fd8>] warn_slowpath_common+0x78/0xd0
 [<ffffffff8104a03f>] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x20
 [<ffffffff8107c1d2>] lockdep_init_map+0x562/0x620
 [<ffffffff8117a236>] ? sysfs_new_dirent+0x76/0x120
 [<ffffffff8126edb2>] ? put_device+0x12/0x20
 [<ffffffff811797cc>] sysfs_add_file_mode+0x6c/0xd0
 [<ffffffff8117983c>] sysfs_add_file+0xc/0x10
 [<ffffffff8117bf61>] sysfs_create_bin_file+0x21/0x30
 [<ffffffff81279c61>] _request_firmware+0x2f1/0x650
 [<ffffffff8127a04e>] request_firmware+0xe/0x10
 [<ffffffffa01ec19e>] bnx2_init_one+0x8f5/0x177e [bnx2]
 [<ffffffff81389eab>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2b/0x40
 [<ffffffff81040ed9>] ? finish_task_switch+0x69/0x100
 [<ffffffff81040e70>] ? finish_task_switch+0x0/0x100
 [<ffffffff81064b40>] ? do_work_for_cpu+0x0/0x30
 [<ffffffff811e6302>] local_pci_probe+0x12/0x20
 [<ffffffff81064b53>] do_work_for_cpu+0x13/0x30
 [<ffffffff81064b40>] ? do_work_for_cpu+0x0/0x30
 [<ffffffff81068c56>] kthread+0x96/0xa0
 [<ffffffff81003e64>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
 [<ffffffff8138a350>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
 [<ffffffff81068bc0>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0
 [<ffffffff81003e60>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
---[ end trace a2ecee9c9602d195 ]---

Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-19 07:12:10 -07:00
Ben Hutchings
3c31f07ad0 Driver core: Fix first line of kernel-doc for a few functions
The function name must be followed by a space, hypen, space, and a
short description.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:51 -08:00
Luis R. Rodriguez
985fc176a6 driver-core: firmware_class: remove base.h header inclusion
base.h is used by base drivers for sharing internal structures.
Turns out firmware_class does not depend on it at all so remove it.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:49 -08:00
Andi Kleen
28812fe11a driver-core: Add attribute argument to class_attribute show/store
Passing the attribute to the low level IO functions allows all kinds
of cleanups, by sharing low level IO code without requiring
an own function for every piece of data.

Also drivers can extend the attributes with own data fields
and use that in the low level function.

This makes the class attributes the same as sysdev_class attributes
and plain attributes.

This will allow further cleanups in drivers.

Full tree sweep converting all users.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-07 17:04:48 -08:00
Johannes Berg
9ebfbd45f9 firmware_class: make request_firmware_nowait more useful
Unfortunately, one cannot hold on to the struct firmware
that request_firmware_nowait() hands off, which is needed
in some cases. Allow this by requiring the callback to
free it (via release_firmware).

Additionally, give it a gfp_t parameter -- all the current
users call it from a GFP_KERNEL context so the GFP_ATOMIC
isn't necessary. This also marks an API break which is
useful in a sense, although that is obviously not the
primary purpose of this change.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-11 11:24:52 -08:00
Ming Lei
3b4418c67a driver core: firmware_class:fix memory leak of page pointers array
The page pointers array is allocated in fw_realloc_buffer() called by
firmware_data_write(), and should be freed in release function of firmware
device.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-07-28 13:45:22 -07:00
Jiri Slaby
308975fa7a Firmware: firmware_class, fix lock imbalance
Add omitted unlock in firmware_data_read.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-07-12 13:02:10 -07:00
Catalin Marinas
0f2f2221b4 Free struct device in fw_dev_release()
The f_dev in _request_firmware() is allocated via the fw_setup_device()
and fw_register_device() calls and its class set to firmware_class (the
class release function is fw_dev_release).

Commit 6acf70f078 replaced the kfree(dev) in fw_dev_release() with a
put_device() call but my understanding is that the release function is
called via put_device -> kobject_put -> kref_put -> koject_release etc.
and it should call kfree since it's the last to see this device
structure alive.

Because of that, the _request_firmware() function on its -ENOENT error
path only calls device_unregister(f_dev) which would eventually call
fw_dev_release() but there is no kfree (the subsequent put_device call
would just make the kref negative).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-08 09:34:08 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
acc0e90fbc driver core: fix gcc 4.3.3 warnings about string literals
This removes the
	warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
warnings in the driver core that gcc 4.3.3 complains about.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15 21:30:25 -07:00
Samuel Ortiz
976821d756 firmware: allocate firmware id dynamically
The firmware loader has a statically allocated 30 bytes long string for
the firmware id (a.k.a. the firmware file name). There is no reason why
we couldnt allocate it dynamically, and avoid having restrictions on the
firmware names lengths.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>,
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15 21:30:24 -07:00
Ming Lei
7fcab09979 driver core: fix documentation of request_firmware_nowait
request_firmware_nowait declares it can be called in non-sleep contexts,
but kthead_run called by request_firmware_nowait may sleep. So fix its
documentation and comment to make callers clear about it.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15 21:30:24 -07:00
Ming Lei
6acf70f078 driver core: firmware_class: replace kfree(dev) with put_device(dev)
against v2.6.30-rc3-next tree.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-06-15 21:30:24 -07:00
David Woodhouse
6e03a201bb firmware: speed up request_firmware(), v3
Rather than calling vmalloc() repeatedly to grow the firmware image as
we receive data from userspace, just allocate and fill individual pages.
Then vmap() the whole lot in one go when we're done.

A quick test with a 337KiB iwlagn firmware shows the time taken for
request_firmware() going from ~32ms to ~5ms after I apply this patch.

[v2: define PAGE_KERNEL_RO as PAGE_KERNEL where necessary, use min_t()]
[v3: kunmap() takes the struct page *, not the virtual address]

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
2009-05-15 12:51:29 +01:00
Ming Lei
f67f129e51 Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject
This patch implements uevent suppress in kobject and removes it
from struct device, based on the following ideas:

1,Uevent sending should be one attribute of kobject, so suppressing it
in kobject layer is more natural than in device layer. By this way,
we can do it for other objects embedded with kobject.

2,It may save several bytes for each instance of struct device.(On my
omap3(32bit ARM) based box, can save 8bytes per device object)

This patch also introduces dev_set|get_uevent_suppress() helpers to
set and query uevent_suppress attribute in case to help kobject
as private part of struct device in future.

[This version is against the latest driver-core patch set of Greg,please
ignore the last version.]

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-03-24 16:38:26 -07:00
Kay Sievers
1e0b2cf933 driver core: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-06 10:44:31 -08:00
Bjorn Helgaas
266a813c08 firmware: use dev_printk when possible
Convert printks to use dev_printk().

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:47 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
f37e66173e firmware: use memory_read_from_buffer()
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:44 -07:00
David Woodhouse
5658c76944 firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image
Some drivers have their own hacks to bypass the kernel's firmware loader
and build their firmware into the kernel; this renders those unnecessary.

Other drivers don't use the firmware loader at all, because they always
want the firmware to be available. This allows them to start using the
firmware loader.

A third set of drivers already use the firmware loader, but can't be
used without help from userspace, which sometimes requires an initrd.
This allows them to work in a static kernel.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-07-10 14:30:13 +01:00
David Woodhouse
b7a39bd0af firmware: make fw->data const
In preparation for supporting firmware files linked into the static
kernel, make fw->data const to ensure that users aren't modifying it (so
that we can pass a pointer to the original in-kernel copy, rather than
having to copy it).

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-07-10 14:29:25 +01:00
Ciaran McCreesh
9a3be324e3 firmware loader: printk when requesting firmware
Before requesting firmware, printk a message saying what we're requesting. This
makes it easier to see what's going on, and provides an explanation for the
huge silent delay that one would otherwise get after accidentally building
ipw2200 as a non-module.

Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:05 -07:00
Harvey Harrison
2b3a302a09 driver core: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-19 19:10:29 -07:00
Michael E Brown
7d640c4a5b Driver core: Revert "Fix Firmware class name collision"
This reverts commit 109f0e93b6.

The original patch breaks BIOS updates on all Dell machines. The path to
the firmware file for the dell_rbu driver changes, which breaks all of
the userspace tools which rely on it.

Note that this patch re-introduces a problem with i2c name collision
that was previously fixed by this patch.

Signed-off-by: Michael E Brown <michael_e_brown@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-07 11:31:46 -08:00
Markus Rechberger
109f0e93b6 Fix Firmware class name collision
following patch fixes the i2c name collision with i2c-dev.

http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php/Bugtracker#i2c_core_problem

This issue has been experienced with em28xx and saa7133 based devices.
I discussed that problem with Jean Delvare a while ago and he proposed 
to add a prefix to the class name.

Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:06 -07:00
Kay Sievers
7eff2e7a8b Driver core: change add_uevent_var to use a struct
This changes the uevent buffer functions to use a struct instead of a
long list of parameters. It does no longer require the caller to do the
proper buffer termination and size accounting, which is currently wrong
in some places. It fixes a known bug where parts of the uevent
environment are overwritten because of wrong index calculations.

Many thanks to Mathieu Desnoyers for finding bugs and improving the
error handling.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:51:01 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
42e61f4adb kernel-doc fixes for PCI and drivers/base/
Fix undocumented function parameters in PCI and drivers/base.

Warning(linux-2.6.23-rc1//drivers/pci/pci.c:1526): No description found for parameter 'rq'
Warning(linux-2.6.23-rc1//drivers/base/firmware_class.c:245): No description found for parameter 'bin_attr'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-30 14:25:12 -07:00
Zhang Rui
91a6902958 sysfs: add parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in .read/.write methods for sysfs binary attributes
Well, first of all, I don't want to change so many files either.

What I do:
Adding a new parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in the
.read/.write methods for the sysfs binary attributes.

In fact, only the four lines change in fs/sysfs/bin.c and
include/linux/sysfs.h do the real work.
But I have to update all the files that use binary attributes
to make them compatible with the new .read and .write methods.
I'm not sure if I missed any. :(

Why I do this:
For a sysfs attribute, we can get a pointer pointing to the
struct attribute in the .show/.store method,
while we can't do this for the binary attributes.
I don't know why this is different, but this does make it not
so handy to use the binary attributes as the regular ones.
So I think this patch is reasonable. :)

Who benefits from it:
The patch that exposes ACPI tables in sysfs
requires such an improvement.
All the table binary attributes share the same .read method.
Parameter "struct bin_attribute *" is used to get
the table signature and instance number which are used to
distinguish different ACPI table binary attributes.

Without this parameter, we need to offer different .read methods
for different ACPI table binary attributes.
This is impossible as there are various ACPI tables on different
platforms, and we don't know what they are until they are loaded.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:09 -07:00
Tejun Heo
7b595756ec sysfs: kill unnecessary attribute->owner
sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game.  After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners.  Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.

This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner.  Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.

For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293

(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:06 -07:00
Markus Rechberger
87d37a4f47 firmware: remove orphaned Email
Manuel Estrada Sainz passed away on May 9th 2004, his email account got
deactivated. He was in charge of the firmware_class code, and still got
CC'ed in recent discussions about it.

Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-06-08 12:41:08 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
bdc4960a0b Driver core: switch firmware_class to uevent_suppress.
Use uevent_suppress instead of returning an error code in
firmware_uevent(). Get rid of the now unneeded FW_STATUS_READY
and FW_STATUS_READY_NOHOTPLUG.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-27 10:57:29 -07:00
Dave Jones
2f65168de7 Driver Core: Increase the default timeout value of the firmware subsystem
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174589

The ipw driver sometimes takes a long time to load its firmware.
Whilst the ipw driver should be using the async interface of
the firmware loader to make this a non-issue, this is a minimal fix.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-07 10:37:14 -08:00
Randy Dunlap
af9997e426 [PATCH] fix kernel-doc warnings in 2.6.20-rc1
Fix kernel-doc warnings in 2.6.20-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-22 08:55:47 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
e55c8790d4 Driver core: convert firmware code to use struct device
Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making
everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the
/sys/class directory.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:52:00 -08:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
563d075702 [PATCH] kthread: drivers/base/firmware_class.c
Replace kernel_thread() call in drivers/base/firmware_class.c with
kthread_create() since kernel_thread() is deprecated in drivers.

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@debian.org>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29 09:18:08 -07:00
Shaohua Li
a30a6a2cb0 [PATCH] x86 microcode: using request_firmware to pull microcode
Using request_firmware to pull ucode from userspace, so we don't need the
application 'microcode_ctl' to assist.  We name each ucode file according
to CPU's info as intel-ucode/family-model-stepping.  In this way we could
split ucode file as small one.  This has a lot of advantages such as
selectively update and validate microcode for specific models, better
manage microcode file, easily write tools for administerators and so on.
with the changes, we should put all intel-ucode/xx-xx-xx microcode files
into the firmware dir (I had a tool to split previous big data file into
small one and later we will release new style data file).  The init script
should be changed to just loading the driver without unloading

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
Laura Garcia
cad1e55d4d [PATCH] firmware_class: s/semaphores/mutexes
Hi, this patch converts semaphores to mutexes for Randy's firmware_class.

Signed-off-by: Laura Garcia Liebana <nevola@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-21 12:40:49 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
1b81d6637d [PATCH] drivers/base/firmware_class.c: cleanups
- remove the following global function that is both unused and
  unimplemented:
  - register_firmware()

- make the following needlessly global function static:
  - firmware_class_uevent()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-21 12:59:19 -07:00
Jeff Moyer
30560ba6ed [PATCH] firmware: fix BUG: in fw_realloc_buffer
The fw_realloc_buffer routine does not handle an increase in buffer size of
more than 4k.  It's not clear to me why it expects that it will only get an
extra 4k of data.  The attached patch modifies fw_realloc_buffer to vmalloc
as much memory as is requested, instead of what we previously had + 4k.

I've tested this on my laptop, which would crash occaisionally on boot
without the patch.  With the patch, it hasn't crashed, but I can't be
certain that this code path is exercised.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20 13:42:58 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
858119e159 [PATCH] Unlinline a bunch of other functions
Remove the "inline" keyword from a bunch of big functions in the kernel with
the goal of shrinking it by 30kb to 40kb

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:06 -08:00
Randy.Dunlap
c59ede7b78 [PATCH] move capable() to capability.h
- Move capable() from sched.h to capability.h;

- Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used
	(in include/, block/, ipc/, kernel/, a few drivers/,
	mm/, security/, & sound/;
	many more drivers/ to go)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:13 -08:00
Kay Sievers
312c004d36 [PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"
Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling
real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports
the state to userspace and generates events.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 16:18:08 -08:00
matthieu castet
113fab1386 [PATCH] fix leaks in request_firmware_nowait
Wasn't checking return error and forgot to free in some case.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:17 -08:00