This patch redesigns the interface between the generic memconsole driver
and its implementations to become more flexible than a flat memory
buffer with unchanging bounds. This allows memconsoles like coreboot's
to include lines that were added by runtime firmware after the driver
was initialized. Since the console log size is thus no longer static,
this means that the /sys/firmware/log file has to become unseekable.
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Here is the big set of new char/misc driver drivers and features for
4.12-rc1.
There's lots of new drivers added this time around, new firmware drivers
from Google, more auxdisplay drivers, extcon drivers, fpga drivers, and
a bunch of other driver updates. Nothing major, except if you happen to
have the hardware for these drivers, and then you will be happy :)
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-4.12-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 set of new char/misc driver drivers and features for
4.12-rc1.
There's lots of new drivers added this time around, new firmware
drivers from Google, more auxdisplay drivers, extcon drivers, fpga
drivers, and a bunch of other driver updates. Nothing major, except if
you happen to have the hardware for these drivers, and then you will
be happy :)
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-4.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (136 commits)
firmware: google memconsole: Fix return value check in platform_memconsole_init()
firmware: Google VPD: Fix return value check in vpd_platform_init()
goldfish_pipe: fix build warning about using too much stack.
goldfish_pipe: An implementation of more parallel pipe
fpga fr br: update supported version numbers
fpga: region: release FPGA region reference in error path
fpga altera-hps2fpga: disable/unprepare clock on error in alt_fpga_bridge_probe()
mei: drop the TODO from samples
firmware: Google VPD sysfs driver
firmware: Google VPD: import lib_vpd source files
misc: lkdtm: Add volatile to intentional NULL pointer reference
eeprom: idt_89hpesx: Add OF device ID table
misc: ds1682: Add OF device ID table
misc: tsl2550: Add OF device ID table
w1: Remove unneeded use of assert() and remove w1_log.h
w1: Use kernel common min() implementation
uio_mf624: Align memory regions to page size and set correct offsets
uio_mf624: Refactor memory info initialization
uio: Allow handling of non page-aligned memory regions
hangcheck-timer: Fix typo in comment
...
This patch splits memconsole.c in 2 parts. One containing the
architecture-independent part and the other one containing the EBDA
specific part. This prepares the integration of coreboot support for the
memconsole.
The memconsole driver is now named as memconsole-x86-legacy.
Signed-off-by: Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Julius Werner
Linus Torvalds
Thierry Escande