Unless we finally completely remove it, people will always add new users.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch removes the PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE option that had already
been marked as broken.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Currently, there is no minimum number of fields required when adding
a new device ID to a PCI driver through the new_id sysfs file. It is
possible to add a new ID with only the vendor ID set, causing the
driver to attempt to attach to all PCI devices from that vendor. This
has been reported to happen accidentally:
http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2007-March/019366.html
It is even possible to not even set the vendor ID field, causing the
driver to attempt to attach to _all_ the PCI devices.
This sounds dangerous and I fail to see any valid use of this
"feature". Thus I suggest that we now require at least the first two
fields (vendor ID and device ID) to be set. For what it's worth, this
is what the USB subsystem does.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg> spotted a brainfart where I had
failed to update copied text with *_remove and __devexit().
Marin made a good comment in his email to me:
| mydriver_probe() is _always_ executed, while mydriver_remove() is not.
| See: include/linux/init.h
Which says:
/* Functions marked as __devexit may be discarded at kernel link time, depending
on config options. Newer versions of binutils detect references from
retained sections to discarded sections and flag an error. Pointers to
__devexit functions must use __devexit_p(function_name), the wrapper will
insert either the function_name or NULL, depending on the config options.
*/
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Rewrite Documentation/pci.txt:
o restructure document to match how API is used when writing init code.
o update to reflect changes in struct pci_driver function pointers.
o removed language on "new style vs old style" device discovery.
"Old style" is now deprecated. Don't use it. Left description in
to document existing driver behaviors.
o add section "Legacy I/O Port free driver" by Kenji Kaneshige
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/11/22/25
(renamed to "pci_enable_device_bars() and Legacy I/O Port space")
o add "MMIO space and write posting" section to help avoid common pitfall
when converting drivers from IO Port space to MMIO space.
Orignally posted http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/27/24
o many typo/grammer/spelling corrections from Randy Dunlap
o two more spelling corrections from Stephan Richter
o fix CodingStyle as per Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 02:46:11AM -0700, Rajesh Shah wrote:
> This patch assumes that pci_request_region() will always be called
> after pci_enable_device() and pci_release_region() will always
> be called before pci_disable_device(). We cannot make this
> assumption,since it's perfectly legal to disable a device
> first and then release it's regions. So, I think that patch
> needs to change.
Patch below clarifies comments in Documentation/pci.txt.
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Document that we don't like to add more PCI device ids
but are happy to accept PCI vendor ids for linux/include/pci_ids.h
Original text from Jeff Garzik.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch contains the most trivial from Rusty's trivial patches:
- spelling fixes
- remove duplicate includes
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This removes very old functions from pci docs, which are no longer in
the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
pci_find_slot() doesn't work on multiple-domain boxes so pci_get_slot()
should be used instead.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
