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Lv Zheng 9d24622ced ACPI / IBFT: Fix incorrect <acpi/acpi.h> inclusion in iSCSI boot firmware module
To avoid build problems and breaking dependencies between ACPI header
files, <acpi/acpi.h> should not be included directly by code outside
of the ACPI core subsystem, but this is done by the ACPI iSCSI
Boot Firmware code.

The iBFT specification doesn't mention whether or not it can appear
on a non-ACPI platform, but is says that ACPI 3.0b defines the
mechanism.  The current CONFIG_ISCSI_IBFT_FIND code doesn't use the
ACPI tables API to locate the table, so it doesn't rely on CONFIG_ACPI
directly.

However, since iBFT is is an ACPI-based mechanism (please refer to
the documentation link below for more information), it should be
correct to make CONFIG_ISCSI_IBFT_FIND depend on CONFIG_ACPI (even
though the table location can be implemented without using ACPI
tables API).

After that change, include/linux/iscsi_ibft.h can be modified to
include <linux/acpi.h> instead of <acpi/acpi.h> as appropriate.

References: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/ibft.mspx
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
[rjw: Subject and changelog]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-12-07 01:24:33 +01:00
Takashi Iwai d05c39ea67 dell_rbu: Select CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER explicitly
The usermode helper is mandatory for this driver.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-03 13:57:29 -07:00
Matt Fleming 048517722c efivars: Move pstore code into the new EFI directory
efivars.c has grown far too large and needs to be divided up. Create a
new directory and move the persistence storage code to efi-pstore.c now
that it uses the new efivar API. This helps us to greatly reduce the
size of efivars.c and paves the way for moving other code out of
efivars.c.

Note that because CONFIG_EFI_VARS can be built as a module efi-pstore
must also include support for building as a module.

Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Tested-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-04-17 13:24:01 +01:00
Seth Forshee ec0971ba53 efivars: Add module parameter to disable use as a pstore backend
We know that with some firmware implementations writing too much data to
UEFI variables can lead to bricking machines. Recent changes attempt to
address this issue, but for some it may still be prudent to avoid
writing large amounts of data until the solution has been proven on a
wide variety of hardware.

Crash dumps or other data from pstore can potentially be a large data
source. Add a pstore_module parameter to efivars to allow disabling its
use as a backend for pstore. Also add a config option,
CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE_DEFAULT_DISABLE, to allow setting the default
value of this paramter to true (i.e. disabled by default).

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-03-21 12:43:46 +00:00
Seth Forshee ed9dc8ce7a efivars: Allow disabling use as a pstore backend
Add a new option, CONFIG_EFI_VARS_PSTORE, which can be set to N to
avoid using efivars as a backend to pstore, as some users may want to
compile out the code completely.

Set the default to Y to maintain backwards compatability, since this
feature has always been enabled until now.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Seiji Aguchi <seiji.aguchi@hds.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-03-21 12:43:46 +00:00
Lars-Peter Clausen 40216ce7aa ASoC: Move SigmaDSP firmware loader to ASoC
It has been pointed out previously, that the firmware subsystem is not the right
place for the SigmaDSP firmware loader. Furthermore the SigmaDSP is currently
only used in audio products and we are aiming for better integration into the
ASoC framework in the future, with support for ALSA controls for firmware
parameters and support dynamic power management as well. So the natural choice
for the SigmaDSP firmware loader is the ASoC subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2011-11-29 12:01:10 +00:00
Mike Waychison 74c5b31c66 driver: Google EFI SMI
The "gsmi" driver bridges userland with firmware specific routines for
accessing hardware.

Currently, this driver only supports NVRAM and eventlog information.
Deprecated functions have been removed from the driver, though their
op-codes are left in place so that they are not re-used.

This driver works by trampolining into the firmware via the smi_command
outlined in the FADT table.  Three protocols are used due to various
limitations over time, but all are included herein.

This driver should only ever load on Google boards, identified by either
a "Google, Inc." board vendor string in DMI, or "GOOGLE" in the OEM
strings of the FADT ACPI table.  This logic happens in
gsmi_system_valid().

Signed-off-by: Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-29 18:09:34 -07:00
Mike Frysinger e359dc24d3 sigma-firmware: loader for Analog Devices' SigmaStudio
Analog Devices' SigmaStudio can produce firmware blobs for devices with
these DSPs embedded (like some audio codecs).  Allow these device drivers
to easily parse and load them.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:44:15 -07:00
Mike Waychison 948af1f0bb firmware: Basic dmi-sysfs support
Introduce a new module "dmi-sysfs" that exports the broken out entries
of the DMI table through sysfs.

Entries are enumerated via dmi_walk() on module load, and are populated
as kobjects rooted at /sys/firmware/dmi/entries.

Entries are named "<type>-<instance>", where:
   <type>	: is the type of the entry, and
   <instance>	: is the ordinal count within the DMI table of that
		  entry type.  This instance is used in lieu the DMI
		  entry's handle as no assurances are made by the kernel
		  that handles are unique.

All entries export the following attributes:
   length	: The length of the formatted portion of the entry
   handle	: The handle given to this entry by the firmware
   raw		: The raw bytes of the entire entry, including the
		  formatted portion, the unformatted (strings) portion,
		  and the two terminating nul characters.
   type		: The DMI entry type
   instance	: The ordinal instance of this entry given its type.
   position	: The position ordinal of the entry within the table in
		  its entirety.

Entries in dmi-sysfs are kobject backed members called "struct
dmi_sysfs_entry" and belong to dmi_kset.  They are threaded through
entry_list (protected by entry_list_lock) so that we can find them at
cleanup time.

Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-02-25 12:01:19 -08:00
David Rientjes 6a108a14fa kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT
The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.

This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel.  A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).

Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.

Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20 17:02:05 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 229aebb873 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
  Update broken web addresses in arch directory.
  Update broken web addresses in the kernel.
  Revert "drivers/usb: Remove unnecessary return's from void functions" for musb gadget
  Revert "Fix typo: configuation => configuration" partially
  ida: document IDA_BITMAP_LONGS calculation
  ext2: fix a typo on comment in ext2/inode.c
  drivers/scsi: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/s390: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  drivers/gpu/drm: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  kernel/pm_qos_params.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  fs/ecryptfs: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  fs/seq_file.c: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  arm: uengine.c: remove C99 comments
  arm: scoop.c: remove C99 comments
  Fix typo configue => configure in comments
  Fix typo: configuation => configuration
  Fix typo interrest[ing|ed] => interest[ing|ed]
  Fix various typos of valid in comments
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
	drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
	drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c
	net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
2010-10-24 13:41:39 -07:00
Justin P. Mattock 631dd1a885 Update broken web addresses in the kernel.
The patch below updates broken web addresses in the kernel

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Cc: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Dimitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-10-18 11:03:14 +02:00
Randy Dunlap 3e0f686e6b ibft: fix kconfig dependencies
Fix kconfig dependency warning to satisfy dependencies:

warning: (BE2ISCSI && SCSI_LOWLEVEL && PCI && SCSI && NET || ISCSI_IBFT && ISCSI_IBFT_FIND && SCSI) selects ISCSI_BOOT_SYSFS which has unmet direct dependencies (SCSI_LOWLEVEL && SCSI)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
2010-10-14 11:16:40 -04:00
Linus Torvalds c29c08b598 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (28 commits)
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: fix compilation warning
  [SCSI] make error handling more robust in the face of reservations
  [SCSI] tgt: fix warning
  [SCSI] drivers/message/fusion: Adjust confusing if indentation
  [SCSI] Return NEEDS_RETRY for eh commands with status BUSY
  [SCSI] ibmvfc: Driver version 1.0.9
  [SCSI] ibmvfc: Fix terminate_rport_io
  [SCSI] ibmvfc: Fix rport add/delete race resulting in oops
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.16: Change LPFC driver version to 8.3.16
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.16: FCoE Discovery and Failover Fixes
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.3.16: SLI Additions, updates, and code cleanup
  [SCSI] pm8001: introduce missing kfree
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Update driver version to 5.02.00-k3
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Added AER support for ISP82xx
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Handle outstanding mbx cmds on hung f/w scenarios
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: updated mbx_sys_info struct to sync with FW 4.6.x
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: clear AF_DPC_SCHEDULED flage when exit from do_dpc
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Stop firmware before doing init firmware.
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Use the correct request queue.
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: set correct value in sess->recovery_tmo
  ...
2010-08-14 12:34:34 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 4cde752587 firmware: ibft depends on SCSI
Prevent build errors when SCSI is not enabled:

iscsi_ibft.c:(.init.text+0x548d): undefined reference to `iscsi_boot_create_initiator'
iscsi_ibft.c:(.init.text+0x54a9): undefined reference to `iscsi_boot_create_ethernet'
iscsi_ibft.c:(.init.text+0x54c5): undefined reference to `iscsi_boot_create_target'
iscsi_ibft.c:(.init.text+0x55ff): undefined reference to `iscsi_boot_destroy_kset'
iscsi_ibft.c:(.init.text+0x561e): undefined reference to `iscsi_boot_create_kset'
iscsi_ibft.c:(.exit.text+0xe2c): undefined reference to `iscsi_boot_destroy_kset'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
2010-08-11 16:41:43 -04:00
Mike Christie aab7a8fd19 [SCSI] iscsi boot: mv iscsi_boot_sysfs to drivers/scsi
iscsi_boot_sysfs does not depend on firmware. Any iscsi driver
can use it. This patch moves iscsi_boot_sysfs to the scsi
dir, so that it can be used on any arch with any driver.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2010-08-06 10:45:07 -05:00
Mike Christie b33a84a384 ibft: convert iscsi_ibft module to iscsi boot lib
This patch just converts the iscsi_ibft module to the
iscsi boot sysfs lib module.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
2010-05-11 13:02:38 -04:00
Mike Christie ba4ee30c6c ibft: separate ibft parsing from sysfs interface
Not all iscsi drivers support ibft. For drivers like be2iscsi
that do not but are bootable through a vendor firmware specific
format/process this patch moves the sysfs interface from the ibft code
to a lib module. This then allows userspace tools to search for iscsi boot
info in a common place and in a common format.

ibft iscsi boot info is exported in the same place as it was
before: /sys/firmware/ibft.

vendor/fw boot info gets export in /sys/firmware/iscsi_bootX, where X is the
scsi host number of the HBA. Underneath these parent dirs, the
target, ethernet, and initiator dirs are the same as they were before.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
2010-05-11 13:02:38 -04:00
Mike Frysinger 9b6e3e42a4 firmware: only allow EDD on x86
Rather than have the EDD depend on !ia64 (and assuming that only ia64,
x86, x86_64 will be including this Kconfig), have EDD depend on the only
arches which can support this code.  This should allow all other arches to
cleanly include the firmware Kconfig.

Also simplify the x86 string used by FIRMWARE_MEMMAP to match EDD.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15 08:53:34 -08:00
Bernhard Walle 69ac9cd629 sysfs: add /sys/firmware/memmap
This patch adds /sys/firmware/memmap interface that represents the BIOS
(or Firmware) provided memory map. The tree looks like:

    /sys/firmware/memmap/0/start   (hex number)
                           end     (hex number)
                           type    (string)
    ...                 /1/start
                           end
                           type

With the following shell snippet one can print the memory map in the same form
the kernel prints itself when booting on x86 (the E820 map).

  --------- 8< --------------------------
    #!/bin/sh
    cd /sys/firmware/memmap
    for dir in * ; do
        start=$(cat $dir/start)
        end=$(cat $dir/end)
        type=$(cat $dir/type)
        printf "%016x-%016x (%s)\n" $start $[ $end +1] "$type"
    done
  --------- >8 --------------------------

That patch only provides the needed interface:

 1. The sysfs interface.
 2. The structure and enumeration definition.
 3. The function firmware_map_add() and firmware_map_add_early()
    that should be called from architecture code (E820/EFI, for
    example) to add the contents to the interface.

If the kernel is compiled without CONFIG_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP, the interface does
nothing without cluttering the architecture-specific code with #ifdef's.

The purpose of the new interface is kexec: While /proc/iomem represents
the *used* memory map (e.g. modified via kernel parameters like 'memmap'
and 'mem'), the /sys/firmware/memmap tree represents the unmodified memory
map provided via the firmware. So kexec can:

 - use the original memory map for rebooting,
 - use the /proc/iomem for setting up the ELF core headers for kdump
   case that should only represent the memory of the system.

The patch has been tested on i386 and x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Cc: yhlu.kernel@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-08 17:55:41 +02:00
Tim Gardner 8c4dd60682 edd: add default mode CONFIG_EDD_OFF=n, override with edd={on,off}
Add a kernel parameter option to 'edd' to enable/disable BIOS Enhanced Disk
Drive Services.  CONFIG_EDD_OFF disables EDD while still compiling EDD into
the kernel.  Default behavior can be forced using 'edd=on' or 'edd=off' as
a kernel parameter.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kernel-parameters.txt]
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:23 -07:00
Konrad Rzeszutek 138fe4e069 Firmware: add iSCSI iBFT Support
Add /sysfs/firmware/ibft/[initiator|targetX|ethernetX] directories along with
text properties which export the the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT)
structure.

What is iSCSI Boot Firmware Table?  It is a mechanism for the iSCSI tools to
extract from the machine NICs the iSCSI connection information so that they
can automagically mount the iSCSI share/target.  Currently the iSCSI
information is hard-coded in the initrd.  The /sysfs entries are read-only
one-name-and-value fields.

The usual set of data exposed is:

# for a in `find /sys/firmware/ibft/ -type f -print`; do  echo -n "$a: ";  cat $a; done
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/target-name: iqn.2007.com.intel-sbx44:storage-10gb
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/nic-assoc: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/chap-type: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/lun: 00000000
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/port: 3260
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/ip-addr: 192.168.79.116
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/flags: 3
/sys/firmware/ibft/target0/index: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/mac: 00:11:25:9d:8b:01
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/vlan: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/gateway: 192.168.79.254
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/origin: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/subnet-mask: 255.255.252.0
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/ip-addr: 192.168.77.41
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/flags: 7
/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernet0/index: 0
/sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/initiator-name: iqn.2007-07.com:konrad.initiator
/sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/flags: 3
/sys/firmware/ibft/initiator/index: 0

For full details of the IBFT structure please take a look at:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/systems/support/system_x_pdf/ibm_iscsi_boot_firmware_table_v1.02.pdf

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek <konradr@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-19 19:10:28 -07:00
Lennart Poettering 4f5c791a85 DMI-based module autoloading
The patch below adds DMI/SMBIOS based module autoloading to the Linux
kernel. The idea is to load laptop drivers automatically (and other
drivers which cannot be autoloaded otherwise), based on the DMI system
identification information of the BIOS.

Right now most distros manually try to load all available laptop
drivers on bootup in the hope that at least one of them loads
successfully. This patch does away with all that, and uses udev to
automatically load matching drivers on the right machines.

Basically the patch just exports the DMI information that has been
parsed by the kernel anyway to userspace via a sysfs device
/sys/class/dmi/id and makes sure that proper modalias attributes are
available. Besides adding the "modalias" attribute it also adds
attributes for a few other DMI fields which might be useful for
writing udev rules.

This patch is not an attempt to export the entire DMI/SMBIOS data to
userspace. We already have "dmidecode" which parses the complete DMI
info from userspace. The purpose of this patch is machine model
identification and good udev integration.

To take advantage of DMI based module autoloading, a driver should
export one or more MODULE_ALIAS fields similar to these:

MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:pnMS-1013:pvr0131*:cvnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:ct10:*");
MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnMicro-StarInternational:pnMS-1058:pvr0581:rvnMSI:rnMS-1058:*:ct10:*");
MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnMicro-StarInternational:pnMS-1412:*:rvnMSI:rnMS-1412:*:cvnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:ct10:*");
MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnNOTEBOOK:pnSAM2000:pvr0131*:cvnMICRO-STARINT'LCO.,LTD:ct10:*");

These lines are specific to my msi-laptop.c driver. They are basically
just a concatenation of a few carefully selected DMI fields with all
potentially bad characters stripped.

Besides laptop drivers, modules like "hdaps", the i2c modules
and the hwmon modules are good candidates for "dmi:" MODULE_ALIAS
lines.

Besides merely exporting the DMI data via sysfs the patch adds
support for a few more DMI fields. Especially the CHASSIS fields are
very useful to identify different laptop modules. The patch also adds
working MODULE_ALIAS lines to my msi-laptop.c driver.

I'd like to thank Kay Sievers for helping me to clean up this patch
for posting it on lkml.

Patch is against Linus' current GIT HEAD. Should probably apply to
older kernels as well without modification.


Signed-off-by: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:00 -07:00
Matt LaPlante 095096038d Fix several typos in drivers/
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:31:37 +02:00
Chris Wedgwood 5d18639a83 [PATCH] EDD isn't EXPERIMENTAL anymore
Lots of people use this.  Apparently RH has for over 18 months so lets
drop EXPERIMENTAL.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:06 -07:00
Dave Jones 6c52f1377d [PATCH] dell_rbu driver depends on x86[64]
This driver only appears on IA32 & EM64T boxes.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-22 09:13:44 -08:00
Andi Kleen 162a88f7b8 [PATCH] Don't set dcdbas driver to default m
It's nasty to set random drivers to default m because people who just press
enter on make oldconfig get these.  Remove the default m

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:28 -08:00
Brian Gerst 0d078f6f96 [PATCH] CONFIG_IA32
Add CONFIG_X86_32 for i386.  This allows selecting options that only apply
to 32-bit systems.

(X86 && !X86_64) becomes X86_32
(X86 ||  X86_64) becomes X86

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:10 -08:00
Doug Warzecha 90563ec412 [PATCH] dcdbas: add Dell Systems Management Base Driver with sysfs support
This patch adds the Dell Systems Management Base Driver with sysfs support.

This driver has been tested with Dell OpenManage.

Signed-off-by: Doug Warzecha <Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:27 -07:00
Abhay Salunke 6c54c28e69 [PATCH] dell_rbu: new Dell BIOS update driver
Remote BIOS Update driver for updating BIOS images on Dell servers and
desktops.  See dell_rbu.txt for details.

Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:27 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
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!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00