* 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
vfs: make no_llseek the default
vfs: don't use BKL in default_llseek
llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
libfs: use generic_file_llseek for simple_attr
mac80211: disallow seeks in minstrel debug code
lirc: make chardev nonseekable
viotape: use noop_llseek
raw: use explicit llseek file operations
ibmasmfs: use generic_file_llseek
spufs: use llseek in all file operations
arm/omap: use generic_file_llseek in iommu_debug
lkdtm: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
net/wireless: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
drm: use noop_llseek
Extends FSL EHCI platform driver glue layer to support
MPC5121 USB controllers. MPC5121 Rev 2.0 silicon EHCI
registers are in big endian format. The appropriate flags
are set using the information in the platform data structure.
MPC83xx system interface registers are not available on
MPC512x, so the access to these registers is isolated in
MPC512x case. Furthermore the USB controller clocks
must be enabled before 512x register accesses which is
done by providing platform specific init callback.
The MPC512x internal USB PHY doesn't provide supply voltage.
For boards using different power switches allow specifying
DRVVBUS and PWR_FAULT signal polarity of the MPC5121 internal
PHY using "fsl,invert-drvvbus" and "fsl,invert-pwr-fault"
properties in the device tree USB nodes. Adds documentation
for this new device tree bindings.
Signed-off-by: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This assigns the minor number 192 to the yurex driver.
We also fix up the previous usb minor number entry, it was wrong.
Cc: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices file doesn't know about Wireless or
SuperSpeed USB. This patch (as1416b) teaches it, and updates the
Documentation/usb/proc_sub_info.txt file accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
CC: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add a new file /proc/tty/consoles to be able to determine the registered
system console lines. If the reading process holds /dev/console open at
the regular standard input stream the active device will be marked by an
asterisk. Show possible operations and also decode the used flags of
the listed console lines.
Signed-off-by: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Ttyprintk is a pseudo TTY driver, which allows users to make printk
messages, via output to ttyprintk device. It is possible to store
"console" messages inline with kernel messages for better analyses of
the boot process, for example.
Signed-off-by: Samo Pogacnik <samo_pogacnik@t-2.net>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
I have some systems which need legacy sysfs due to old tools that are
making assumptions that a directory can never be a symlink to another
directory, and it's a big hazzle to compile separate kernels for them.
This patch turns CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED into a run time option
that can be switched on/off the kernel command line. This way
the same binary can be used in both cases with just a option
on the command line.
The old CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 option is still there to set
the default. I kept the weird name to not break existing
config files.
Also the compat code can be still completely disabled by undefining
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_SWITCH -- just the optimizer takes
care of this now instead of lots of ifdefs. This makes the code
look nicer.
v2: This is an updated version on top of Kay's patch to only
handle the block devices. I tested it on my old systems
and that seems to work.
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Packet hub driver of Topcliff PCH
Topcliff PCH is the platform controller hub that is going to be used in
Intel's upcoming general embedded platform. All IO peripherals in
Topcliff PCH are actually devices sitting on AMBA bus. Packet hub is
a special converter device in Topcliff PCH that translate AMBA transactions
to PCI Express transactions and vice versa. Thus packet hub helps present
all IO peripherals in Topcliff PCH as PCIE devices to IA system.
Topcliff PCH has MAC address and Option ROM data.
These data are in SROM which is connected to PCIE bus.
Packet hub driver of Topcliff PCH can access MAC address and Option ROM data in
SROM via sysfs interface.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Dynamic debug lacks the ability to enable debug messages at boot time.
One could patch initramfs or service startup scripts to write to
/sys/../dynamic_debug/control, but this sucks.
This patch makes it possible to pass a query in the same format one can
write to /sys/../dynamic_debug/control via boot param.
When dynamic debug gets initialized, this query will automatically be
applied.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: jbaron@redhat.com
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: (26 commits)
include/linux/libata.h: fix typo
pata_bf54x: fix return type of bfin_set_devctl
Drivers: ata: Makefile: replace the use of <module>-objs with <module>-y
libahci: fix result_tf handling after an ATA PIO data-in command
pata_sl82c105: implement sff_irq_check() method
pata_sil680: implement sff_irq_check() method
pata_pdc202xx_old: implement sff_irq_check() method
pata_cmd640: implement sff_irq_check() method
ata_piix: Add device ID for ICH4-L
pata_sil680: make sil680_sff_exec_command() 'static'
ata: Intel IDE-R support
libata: reorder ata_queued_cmd to remove alignment padding on 64 bit builds
libata: Signal that our SATL supports WRITE SAME(16) with UNMAP
ata_piix: remove SIDPR locking
libata: implement cross-port EH exclusion
libata: add @ap to ata_wait_register() and introduce ata_msleep()
ata_piix: implement LPM support
libata: implement LPM support for port multipliers
libata: reimplement link power management
libata: implement sata_link_scr_lpm() and make ata_dev_set_feature() global
...
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2: (48 commits)
ocfs2: Avoid to evaluate xattr block flags again.
ocfs2/cluster: Release debugfs file elapsed_time_in_ms
ocfs2: Add a mount option "coherency=*" to handle cluster coherency for O_DIRECT writes.
Initialize max_slots early
When I tried to compile I got the following warning: fs/ocfs2/slot_map.c: In function ‘ocfs2_init_slot_info’: fs/ocfs2/slot_map.c:360: warning: ‘bytes’ may be used uninitialized in this function fs/ocfs2/slot_map.c:360: note: ‘bytes’ was declared here Compiler: gcc version 4.4.3 (GCC) on Mandriva I'm not sure why this warning occurs, I think compiler don't know that variable "bytes" is initialized when it is sent by reference to ocfs2_slot_map_physical_size and it throws that ugly warning. However, a simple initialization of "bytes" variable with 0 will fix it.
ocfs2: validate bg_free_bits_count after update
ocfs2/cluster: Bump up dlm protocol to version 1.1
ocfs2/cluster: Show per region heartbeat elapsed time
ocfs2/cluster: Add mlogs for heartbeat up/down events
ocfs2/cluster: Create debugfs dir/files for each region
ocfs2/cluster: Create debugfs files for live, quorum and failed region bitmaps
ocfs2/cluster: Maintain bitmap of failed regions
ocfs2/cluster: Maintain bitmap of quorum regions
ocfs2/cluster: Track bitmap of live heartbeat regions
ocfs2/cluster: Track number of global heartbeat regions
ocfs2/cluster: Maintain live node bitmap per heartbeat region
ocfs2/cluster: Reorganize o2hb debugfs init
ocfs2/cluster: Check slots for unconfigured live nodes
ocfs2/cluster: Print messages when adding/removing nodes
ocfs2/cluster: Print messages when adding/removing heartbeat regions
...
This is a scheleton for libata transport class.
All information is read only, exporting information from libata:
- ata_port class: one per ATA port
- ata_link class: one per ATA port or 15 for SATA Port Multiplier
- ata_device class: up to 2 for PATA link, usually one for SATA.
Signed-off-by: Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
* 'devel' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (278 commits)
arm: remove machine_desc.io_pg_offst and .phys_io
arm: use addruart macro to establish debug mappings
arm: return both physical and virtual addresses from addruart
arm/debug: consolidate addruart macros for CONFIG_DEBUG_ICEDCC
ARM: make struct machine_desc definition coherent with its comment
eukrea_mbimxsd-baseboard: Pass the correct GPIO to gpio_free
cpuimx27: fix compile when ULPI is selected
mach-pcm037_eet: fix compile errors
Fixing ethernet driver compilation error for i.MX31 ADS board
cpuimx51: update board support
mx5: add cpuimx51sd module and its baseboard
iomux-mx51: fix GPIO_1_xx 's IOMUX configuration
imx-esdhc: update devices registration
mx51: add resources for SD/MMC on i.MX51
iomux-mx51: fix SD1 and SD2's iomux configuration
clock-mx51: rename CLOCK1 to CLOCK_CCGR for better readability
clock-mx51: factorize clk_set_parent and clk_get_rate
eukrea_mbimxsd: add support for DVI displays
cpuimx25 & cpuimx35: fix OTG port registration in host mode
i.MX31 and i.MX35 : fix errate TLSbo65953 and ENGcm09472
...
* 'next-spi' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6: (53 commits)
spi/omap2_mcspi: Verify TX reg is empty after TX only xfer with DMA
spi/omap2_mcspi: disable channel after TX_ONLY transfer in PIO mode
spi/bfin_spi: namespace local structs
spi/bfin_spi: init early
spi/bfin_spi: check per-transfer bits_per_word
spi/bfin_spi: warn when CS is driven by hardware (CPHA=0)
spi/bfin_spi: cs should be always low when a new transfer begins
spi/bfin_spi: fix typo in comment
spi/bfin_spi: reject unsupported SPI modes
spi/bfin_spi: use dma_disable_irq_nosync() in irq handler
spi/bfin_spi: combine duplicate SPI_CTL read/write logic
spi/bfin_spi: reset ctl_reg bits when setup is run again on a device
spi/bfin_spi: push all size checks into the transfer function
spi/bfin_spi: use nosync when disabling the IRQ from the IRQ handler
spi/bfin_spi: sync hardware state before reprogramming everything
spi/bfin_spi: save/restore state when suspending/resuming
spi/bfin_spi: redo GPIO CS handling
Blackfin: SPI: expand SPI bitmasks
spi/bfin_spi: use the SPI namespaced bit names
spi/bfin_spi: drop extra memory we don't need
...
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (96 commits)
apic, x86: Use BIOS settings for IBS and MCE threshold interrupt LVT offsets
apic, x86: Check if EILVT APIC registers are available (AMD only)
x86: ioapic: Call free_irte only if interrupt remapping enabled
arm: Use ARCH_IRQ_INIT_FLAGS
genirq, ARM: Fix boot on ARM platforms
genirq: Fix CONFIG_GENIRQ_NO_DEPRECATED=y build
x86: Switch sparse_irq allocations to GFP_KERNEL
genirq: Switch sparse_irq allocator to GFP_KERNEL
genirq: Make sparse_lock a mutex
x86: lguest: Use new irq allocator
genirq: Remove the now unused sparse irq leftovers
genirq: Sanitize dynamic irq handling
genirq: Remove arch_init_chip_data()
x86: xen: Sanitise sparse_irq handling
x86: Use sane enumeration
x86: uv: Clean up the direct access to irq_desc
x86: Make io_apic.c local functions static
genirq: Remove irq_2_iommu
x86: Speed up the irq_remapped check in hot pathes
intr_remap: Simplify the code further
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/Kconfig
* 'x86-vmware-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, paravirt: Remove alloc_pmd_clone hook, only used by VMI
x86, vmware: Remove deprecated VMI kernel support
Fix up trivial #include conflict in arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
* 'x86-bios-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, bios: Make the x86 early memory reservation a kernel option
x86, bios: By default, reserve the low 64K for all BIOSes
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (29 commits)
sched: Export account_system_vtime()
sched: Call tick_check_idle before __irq_enter
sched: Remove irq time from available CPU power
sched: Do not account irq time to current task
x86: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING
sched: Add IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING, finer accounting of irq time
sched: Add a PF flag for ksoftirqd identification
sched: Consolidate account_system_vtime extern declaration
sched: Fix softirq time accounting
sched: Drop group_capacity to 1 only if local group has extra capacity
sched: Force balancing on newidle balance if local group has capacity
sched: Set group_imb only a task can be pulled from the busiest cpu
sched: Do not consider SCHED_IDLE tasks to be cache hot
sched: Drop all load weight manipulation for RT tasks
sched: Create special class for stop/migrate work
sched: Unindent labels
sched: Comment updates: fix default latency and granularity numbers
tracing/sched: Add sched_pi_setprio tracepoint
sched: Give CPU bound RT tasks preference
sched: Try not to migrate higher priority RT tasks
...
After a period of RFC for this driver, I think it is ready
for inclusion in the platform-driver-x86 tree, hopefully to
be staged in the next merge window into Linus's tree.
--Vernon
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IBM Real-Time "SMI Free" mode driver
This driver supports the Real-Time Linux (RTL) BIOS feature.
The RTL feature allows non-fatal System Management Interrupts
(SMIs) to be disabled on supported IBM platforms and is
intended to be coupled with a user-space daemon to monitor
the hardware in a way that can be prioritized and scheduled
to better suit the requirements for the system.
The Device is presented as a special "_RTL_" table to the OS
in the Extended BIOS Data Area. There is a simple protocol
for entering and exiting the mode at runtime. This driver
creates a simple sysfs interface to allow a simple entry and
exit from RTL mode in the UFI/BIOS.
Since the driver is specific to IBM SystemX hardware (x86-
based servers) it only builds on x86 builds. To reduce the
risk of loading on the wrong hardware, the module uses DMI
information and checks a list of servers that are known to
work.
Signed-off-by: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
CAN has no addressing scheme. It is currently impossible for userspace
to tell is a received CAN frame comes from another process on the local
host, or from a remote CAN device.
This patch add support for userspace applications to distinguish between
'own', 'local' and 'remote' CAN traffic. The distinction is made by returning
flags in msg->msg_flags in the call to recvmsg().
The added documentation explains the introduced flags.
Signed-off-by: Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be>
Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds IRQ_TIME_ACCOUNTING option on x86 and runtime enables it
when TSC is enabled.
This change just enables fine grained irq time accounting, isn't used yet.
Following patches use it for different purposes.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-6-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
SoCs have a standard set of tuples consisting of frequency and
voltage pairs that the device will support per voltage domain. These
are called Operating Performance Points or OPPs. The actual
definitions of OPP varies over silicon versions. For a specific domain,
we can have a set of {frequency, voltage} pairs. As the kernel boots
and more information is available, a default set of these are activated
based on the precise nature of device. Further on operation, based on
conditions prevailing in the system (such as temperature), some OPP
availability may be temporarily controlled by the SoC frameworks.
To implement an OPP, some sort of power management support is necessary
hence this library depends on CONFIG_PM.
Contributions include:
Sanjeev Premi for the initial concept:
http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/50998/
Kevin Hilman for converting original design to device-based.
Kevin Hilman and Paul Walmsey for cleaning up many of the function
abstractions, improvements and data structure handling.
Romit Dasgupta for using enums instead of opp pointers.
Thara Gopinath, Eduardo Valentin and Vishwanath BS for fixes and
cleanups.
Linus Walleij for recommending this layer be made generic for usage
in other architectures beyond OMAP and ARM.
Mark Brown, Andrew Morton, Rafael J. Wysocki, Paul E. McKenney for
valuable improvements.
Discussions and comments from:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=126033945313269&w=2http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=125482970102327&w=2http://marc.info/?t=125809247500002&r=1&w=2http://marc.info/?l=linux-omap&m=126025973426007&w=2http://marc.info/?t=128152609200064&r=1&w=2http://marc.info/?t=128468723000002&r=1&w=2
incorporated.
v1: http://marc.info/?t=128468723000002&r=1&w=2
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
If the device which fails to resume is part of a loadable kernel module
it won't be checked at startup against the magic number stored in the
RTC.
Add a read-only sysfs attribute /sys/power/pm_trace_dev_match which
contains a list of newline separated devices (usually just the one)
which currently match the last magic number. This allows the device
which is failing to resume to be found after the modules are loaded
again.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james@albanarts.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
This patch (as1427) implements the "autosuspend" facility for runtime
PM. A few new fields are added to the dev_pm_info structure and
several new PM helper functions are defined, for telling the PM core
whether or not a device uses autosuspend, for setting the autosuspend
delay, and for marking periods of device activity.
Drivers that do not want to use autosuspend can continue using the
same helper functions as before; their behavior will not change. In
addition, drivers supporting autosuspend can also call the old helper
functions to get the old behavior.
The details are all explained in Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt
and Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Some devices, such as USB interfaces, cannot be power-managed
independently of their parents, i.e., they cannot be put in low power
while the parent remains at full power. This patch (as1425) creates a
new "no_callbacks" flag, which tells the PM core not to invoke the
runtime-PM callback routines for the such devices but instead to
assume that the callbacks always succeed. In addition, the
non-debugging runtime-PM sysfs attributes for the devices are removed,
since they are pretty much meaningless.
The advantage of this scheme comes not so much from avoiding the
callbacks themselves, but rather from the fact that without the need
for a process context in which to run the callbacks, more work can be
done in interrupt context.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Introduce struct wakeup_source for representing system wakeup sources
within the kernel and for collecting statistics related to them.
Make the recently introduced helper functions pm_wakeup_event(),
pm_stay_awake() and pm_relax() use struct wakeup_source objects
internally, so that wakeup statistics associated with wakeup devices
can be collected and reported in a consistent way (the definition of
pm_relax() is changed, which is harmless, because this function is
not called directly by anyone yet). Introduce new wakeup-related
sysfs device attributes in /sys/devices/.../power for reporting the
device wakeup statistics.
Change the global wakeup events counters event_count and
events_in_progress into atomic variables, so that it is not necessary
to acquire a global spinlock in pm_wakeup_event(), pm_stay_awake()
and pm_relax(), which should allow us to avoid lock contention in
these functions on SMP systems with many wakeup devices.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The default hibernation image size is currently hard coded and euqal
to 500 MB, which is not a reasonable default on many contemporary
systems. Make it equal 2/5 of the total RAM size (this is slightly
below the maximum, i.e. 1/2 of the total RAM size, and seems to be
generally suitable).
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Tested-by: M. Vefa Bicakci <bicave@superonline.com>
Compress hibernation image with LZO in order to save on I/O and
therefore time to hibernate/thaw.
[rjw: Added hibernate=nocompress command line option instead of just
nocompress which would be confusing, fixed a couple of compiler
warnings, fixed kerneldoc comments, minor cleanups.]
Signed-off-by: Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Update kprobes.txt about interrupts disabled state inside
kprobes handlers, because optimized probe/boosted kretprobe
run without disabling interrrupts on x86.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference: <20101014031018.4100.64883.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Updates to Phonet doc for Pipe controller 'connect' socket
implementation and changes related to socket options.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Sanghvi <kumar.sanghvi@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Also modifiy the document of cell-index in SPI controller. Add the
SPI flash(s25fl128p01) support on p4080ds and mpc8536ds board.
Signed-off-by: Mingkai Hu <Mingkai.hu@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Currently, the default behavior of O_DIRECT writes was allowing
concurrent writing among nodes to the same file, with no cluster
coherency guaranteed (no EX lock held). This can leave stale data in
the cache for buffered reads on other nodes.
The new mount option introduce a chance to choose two different
behaviors for O_DIRECT writes:
* coherency=full, as the default value, will disallow
concurrent O_DIRECT writes by taking
EX locks.
* coherency=buffered, allow concurrent O_DIRECT writes
without EX lock among nodes, which
gains high performance at risk of
getting stale data on other nodes.
Signed-off-by: Tristan Ye <tristan.ye@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Add WQ_MEM_RECLAIM flag which currently maps to WQ_RESCUER, mark
WQ_RESCUER as internal and replace all external WQ_RESCUER usages to
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM.
This makes the API users express the intent of the workqueue instead
of indicating the internal mechanism used to guarantee forward
progress. This is also to make it cleaner to add more semantics to
WQ_MEM_RECLAIM. For example, if deemed necessary, memory reclaim
workqueues can be made highpri.
This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
The drivers
- ohci1394 (controller driver)
- ieee1394 (core)
- dv1394, raw1394, video1394 (userspace ABI)
- eth1394, sbp2 (protocol drivers)
are replaced by
- firewire-ohci (controller driver)
- firewire-core (core and userspace ABI)
- firewire-net, firewire-sbp2 (protocol drivers)
which are more featureful, better performing, and more secure than the older
drivers; all with a smaller and more modern code base.
The driver firedtv in drivers/media/dvb/firewire/ contains backends to both
ieee1394 and firewire-core. Its ieee1394 backend code can be removed in an
independent commit; firedtv as-is builds and works fine without ieee1394.
The driver pcilynx (an incomplete controller driver) is deleted without
replacement since PCILynx cards are extremely rare. Owners of these cards
use them with the stand-alone bus sniffer driver nosy instead.
The drivers nosy and init_ohci1394_dma which do not interact with either of
the two IEEE 1394 stacks are not affected by the ieee1394 subsystem removal.
There are still some issues with the newer firewire subsystem compared to
the older one:
- The rare and quirky controllers ALi M52xx, Apple UniNorth v1, NVIDIA
NForce2 are even less well supported by firewire-ohci than by ohci1394.
I am looking into the M52xx issue.
- The experimental firewire-net is reportedly less stable than its
experimental cousin eth1394.
- Audio playback of a certain group of audio devices (ones based on DICE
chipset with EAP; supported by prerelease FFADO code) does not work yet.
This issue is still under investigation.
- There were some ieee1394 based out-of-the-mainline drivers. Of them,
only lisight, an audio driver for iSight webcams, seems still useful.
Work is underway to reimplement it on top of firewire-core.
All these remainig issues are minor; they should not stand in the way of
overall better user experience of IEEE 1394 on Linux, together with a
reduction in support efforts and maintenance burden. The coexistence of two
IEEE 1394 kernel driver stacks in the mainline since 2.6.22 shall end now,
as announced earlier this year.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
