Here is the "small" driver core patches for 4.11-rc1.
Not much here, some firmware documentation and self-test updates, a
debugfs code formatting issue, and a new feature for call_usermodehelper
to make it more robust on systems that want to lock it down in a more
secure way.
All of these have been linux-next for a while now with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the "small" driver core patches for 4.11-rc1.
Not much here, some firmware documentation and self-test updates, a
debugfs code formatting issue, and a new feature for call_usermodehelper
to make it more robust on systems that want to lock it down in a more
secure way.
All of these have been linux-next for a while now with no reported
issues"
* tag 'driver-core-4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
kernfs: handle null pointers while printing node name and path
Introduce STATIC_USERMODEHELPER to mediate call_usermodehelper()
Make static usermode helper binaries constant
kmod: make usermodehelper path a const string
firmware: revamp firmware documentation
selftests: firmware: send expected errors to /dev/null
selftests: firmware: only modprobe if driver is missing
platform: Print the resource range if device failed to claim
kref: prefer atomic_inc_not_zero to atomic_add_unless
debugfs: improve formatting of debugfs_real_fops()
Here is the big char/misc driver patchset for 4.11-rc1.
Lots of different driver subsystems updated here. Rework for the hyperv
subsystem to handle new platforms better, mei and w1 and extcon driver
updates, as well as a number of other "minor" driver updates. Full
details are in the shortlog below.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big char/misc driver patchset for 4.11-rc1.
Lots of different driver subsystems updated here: rework for the
hyperv subsystem to handle new platforms better, mei and w1 and extcon
driver updates, as well as a number of other "minor" driver updates.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (169 commits)
goldfish: Sanitize the broken interrupt handler
x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loading
vmbus: replace modulus operation with subtraction
vmbus: constify parameters where possible
vmbus: expose hv_begin/end_read
vmbus: remove conditional locking of vmbus_write
vmbus: add direct isr callback mode
vmbus: change to per channel tasklet
vmbus: put related per-cpu variable together
vmbus: callback is in softirq not workqueue
binder: Add support for file-descriptor arrays
binder: Add support for scatter-gather
binder: Add extra size to allocator
binder: Refactor binder_transact()
binder: Support multiple /dev instances
binder: Deal with contexts in debugfs
binder: Support multiple context managers
binder: Split flat_binder_object
auxdisplay: ht16k33: remove private workqueue
auxdisplay: ht16k33: rework input device initialization
...
* socket owner support for connections, so when the wifi
manager (e.g. wpa_supplicant) is killed, connections are
torn down - wpa_supplicant is critical to managing certain
operations, and can opt in to this where applicable
* minstrel & minstrel_ht updates to be more efficient (time and space)
* set wifi_acked/wifi_acked_valid for skb->destructor use in the
kernel, which was already available to userspace
* don't indicate new mesh peers that might be used if there's no
room to add them
* multicast-to-unicast support in mac80211, for better medium usage
(since unicast frames can use *much* higher rates, by ~3 orders of
magnitude)
* add API to read channel (frequency) limitations from DT
* add infrastructure to allow randomizing public action frames for
MAC address privacy (still requires driver support)
* many cleanups and small improvements/fixes across the board
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Merge tag 'mac80211-next-for-davem-2017-01-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jberg/mac80211-next
Johannes Berg says:
====================
For 4.11, we seem to have more than in the past few releases:
* socket owner support for connections, so when the wifi
manager (e.g. wpa_supplicant) is killed, connections are
torn down - wpa_supplicant is critical to managing certain
operations, and can opt in to this where applicable
* minstrel & minstrel_ht updates to be more efficient (time and space)
* set wifi_acked/wifi_acked_valid for skb->destructor use in the
kernel, which was already available to userspace
* don't indicate new mesh peers that might be used if there's no
room to add them
* multicast-to-unicast support in mac80211, for better medium usage
(since unicast frames can use *much* higher rates, by ~3 orders of
magnitude)
* add API to read channel (frequency) limitations from DT
* add infrastructure to allow randomizing public action frames for
MAC address privacy (still requires driver support)
* many cleanups and small improvements/fixes across the board
====================
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Understanding this code is getting out of control without any
notes. Give the firmware_class driver a much needed documentation love,
and while at it convert it to the new sphinx documentation format.
v2: typos and small fixes
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The references to drivers/base/power/main.c and
drivers/acpi/scan.c from Documentation/driver-api/infrastructure.rst
are confusing. They both cause descriptions of functions that are
not relevant to device drivers at all to be generated and none of
them is sufficient to cover the API in a meaningful way.
Drop them for now.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Instead of storing the concepts dictionary inside header file,
move it to the subsystem documentation.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Currently, there's no device driver documentation for the EDAC
subsystem at the driver-api book. Fill in the blanks for the
structures and functions that misses documentation, uniform
the word on the existing ones, and add a new edac.rst file at
driver-api, in order to document the EDAC subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Just prep work to polish and consolidate all the dma-buf related
documenation.
Unfortunately I didn't discover a way to both integrate this new file
into the overall toc while keeping it at the current place. Work
around that by moving it into the overall driver-api/index.rst.
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Document device links as introduced in v4.10 with commits:
4bdb35506b ("driver core: Add a wrapper around
__device_release_driver()")
9ed9895370 ("driver core: Functional dependencies tracking
support")
8c73b42884 ("PM / sleep: Make async suspend/resume of devices use
device links")
21d5c57b37 ("PM / runtime: Use device links")
baa8809f60 ("PM / runtime: Optimize the use of device links")
Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
[ jc: Moved from core-api to driver-api ]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Put this documentation with the other driver docs and try to keep the top
level reasonably clean.
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This is a conversion of the USB documentation to the Sphinx format.
No content was altered or reformatted.
Signed-off-by: Oliver <oneukum@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Few files under dma-buf/ changed their names but the changes didn't
applied to a document that referencing them. It is causing few
documentation build warnings. This commit fixes the problems by
applying changed file names on the document.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add minimal conf.py makes the driver-api folder buildable
stand-alone. To build only this folder run::
make SPHINXDIRS=driver-api htmldocs
make SPHINXDIRS=driver-api pdfdocs
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Perform a relatively simple conversion of vme_api.txt to reStructuredText
and move under driver-api, which seems the most logical place for this
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@collabora.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
It never made sense to keep these documents together; move each into its
own file.
Drop the section numbering on hsi.txt on its way to its own file.
Suggested-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The HSI subsystem documentation was split across hsi.txt and the
device-drivers docbook. Now that the latter has been converted to Sphinx,
pull in the HSI document so that it's all in one place.
Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
We don't need to keep it as a single large file anymore; split it up so
that it is easier to manage and the individual sections can be read
directly as plain files.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
