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Anton Altaparmakov 1f04c0a24b Merge branch 'master' of /usr/src/ntfs-2.6/ 2005-10-31 10:06:46 +00:00
Tim Schmielau 4e57b68178 [PATCH] fix missing includes
I recently picked up my older work to remove unnecessary #includes of
sched.h, starting from a patch by Dave Jones to not include sched.h
from module.h. This reduces the number of indirect includes of sched.h
by ~300. Another ~400 pointless direct includes can be removed after
this disentangling (patch to follow later).
However, quite a few indirect includes need to be fixed up for this.

In order to feed the patches through -mm with as little disturbance as
possible, I've split out the fixes I accumulated up to now (complete for
i386 and x86_64, more archs to follow later) and post them before the real
patch.  This way this large part of the patch is kept simple with only
adding #includes, and all hunks are independent of each other.  So if any
hunk rejects or gets in the way of other patches, just drop it.  My scripts
will pick it up again in the next round.

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:32 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney a241ec65ae [PATCH] RCU torture-testing kernel module
This patch is a rewrite of the one submitted on October 1st, using modules
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112819093522998&w=2).

This rewrite adds a tristate CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST, which enables an
intense torture test of the RCU infratructure.  This is needed due to the
continued changes to the RCU infrastructure to accommodate dynamic ticks,
CPU hotplug, realtime, and so on.  Most of the code is in a separate file
that is compiled only if the CONFIG variable is set.  Documentation on how
to run the test and interpret the output is also included.

This code has been tested on i386 and ppc64, and an earlier version of the
code has received extensive testing on a number of architectures as part of
the PREEMPT_RT patchset.

Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:27 -08:00
David Howells 29db919063 [PATCH] Keys: Add LSM hooks for key management [try #3]
The attached patch adds LSM hooks for key management facilities. The notable
changes are:

 (1) The key struct now supports a security pointer for the use of security
     modules. This will permit key labelling and restrictions on which
     programs may access a key.

 (2) Security modules get a chance to note (or abort) the allocation of a key.

 (3) The key permission checking can now be enhanced by the security modules;
     the permissions check consults LSM if all other checks bear out.

 (4) The key permissions checking functions now return an error code rather
     than a boolean value.

 (5) An extra permission has been added to govern the modification of
     attributes (UID, GID, permissions).

Note that there isn't an LSM hook specifically for each keyctl() operation,
but rather the permissions hook allows control of individual operations based
on the permission request bits.

Key management access control through LSM is enabled by automatically if both
CONFIG_KEYS and CONFIG_SECURITY are enabled.

This should be applied on top of the patch ensubjected:

	[PATCH] Keys: Possessor permissions should be additive

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:23 -08:00
Jean Delvare 33430dc593 [PATCH] Typo fix: explictly -> explicitly
(akpm: I don't do typo patches, but one of these is in a printk string)

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:20 -08:00
Jeff Garzik d61780c0d3 [PATCH] remove some more check_region stuff
Removed some more references to check_region().

I checked these changes into the 'checkreg' branch of
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git

The only valid references remaining are in:
drivers/scsi/advansys.c
drivers/scsi/BusLogic.c
drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.c
sound/oss/pss.c

  Remove last vestiges of ide_check_region()
  drivers/char/specialix: trim trailing whitespace
  drivers/char/specialix: eliminate use of check_region()
  Remove outdated and unused references to check_region()
  [sound oss] remove check_region() usage from cs4232, wavfront
  [netdrvr eepro] trim trailing whitespace
  [netdrvr eepro] remove check_region() usage

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:18 -08:00
Anton Altaparmakov 07b188ab77 Merge branch 'master' of /usr/src/ntfs-2.6/ 2005-10-30 21:00:04 +00:00
Hugh Dickins 663b97f7ef [PATCH] mm: flush_tlb_range outside ptlock
There was one small but very significant change in the previous patch:
mprotect's flush_tlb_range fell outside the page_table_lock: as it is in 2.4,
but that doesn't prove it safe in 2.6.

On some architectures flush_tlb_range comes to the same as flush_tlb_mm, which
has always been called from outside page_table_lock in dup_mmap, and is so
proved safe.  Others required a deeper audit: I could find no reliance on
page_table_lock in any; but in ia64 and parisc found some code which looks a
bit as if it might want preemption disabled.  That won't do any actual harm,
so pending a decision from the maintainers, disable preemption there.

Remove comments on page_table_lock from flush_tlb_mm, flush_tlb_range and
flush_tlb_page entries in cachetlb.txt: they were rather misleading (what
generic code does is different from what usually happens), the rules are now
changing, and it's not yet clear where we'll end up (will the generic
tlb_flush_mmu happen always under lock?  never under lock?  or sometimes under
and sometimes not?).

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:40 -07:00
Hugh Dickins f9c98d0287 [PATCH] mm: m68k kill stram swap
Please, please now delete the Atari CONFIG_STRAM_SWAP code.  It may be
excellent and ingenious code, but its reference to swap_vfsmnt betrays that it
hasn't been built since 2.5.1 (four years old come December), it's delving
deep into matters which are the preserve of core mm code, its only purpose is
to give the more conscientious mm guys an anxiety attack from time to time;
yet we keep on breaking it more and more.

If you want to use RAM for swap, then if the MTD driver does not already
provide just what you need, I'm sure David could be persuaded to add the
extra.  But you'd also like to be able to allocate extents of that swap for
other use: we can give you a core interface for that if you need.  But unbuilt
for four years suggests to me that there's no need at all.

I cannot swear the patch below won't break your build, but believe so.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-29 21:40:38 -07:00
Pete Popov 26a940e217 Cleaned up AMD Au1200 IDE driver:
- converted to platform bus
- removed pci dependencies
- removed virt_to_phys/phys_to_virt calls
    
System now can root off of a disk.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/mips/AU1xxx_IDE.README b/Documentation/mips/AU1xxx_IDE.README
new file mode 100644
2005-10-29 19:32:20 +01:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo fc228a04a4 Merge branch 'master' of /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2005-10-29 03:10:35 -02:00
Akinobu Mita e83b860539 [TCP]: fix tcp_tso_win_divisor documentation
The default value for tcp_tso_win_divisor is 3.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-10-29 02:16:31 -02:00
Alan Stern 478a3bab8c [PATCH] USB: Always do usb-handoff
This revised patch (as586b) makes usb-handoff permanently true and no
longer a kernel boot parameter.  It also removes the piix3_usb quirk code;
that was nothing more than an early version of the USB handoff code
(written at a time when Intel's PIIX3 was about the only motherboard with
USB support).  And it adds identifiers for the three PCI USB controller
classes to pci_ids.h.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 16:47:49 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 1fcb4454cb [PATCH] usb doc: fix kernel-doc warning
usb/core/buffer.c doesn't export any symbols, so it should use
!I instead of !E to eliminate this warning message:

Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2614-rc4//drivers/usb/core/buffer.c): no structured comments found

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 16:47:44 -07:00
Henk af64a5ebb8 [PATCH] USB: Buffer overflow patch for Yealink driver
Just a small patch that fixes a small parameter validation bug.

  drivers/usb/input/map_to_7segment.h:
    This patch fixes the broken parameter validation in the char to seg7
    conversion. This could cause out-of-bounds memory references.

  MAINTAINERS:
    Yealink maintainer info now in sorted order.

  Documentation/input/yealink.txt:
    Added a Q&A section that answers some common questions.

Signed-off-by: Henk <Henk.Vergonet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

006491df1a13f85ad245d1039dfdf20e49c394fd
2005-10-28 16:47:44 -07:00
Randy Dunlap f05aab8ef6 [PATCH] kernel-doc: fix PCI hotplug
PCI hotplug.c: does not contain kernel-doc, so don't process it for now.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 15:37:01 -07:00
Jean Delvare b890a07f7b [PATCH] hwmon: smsc47m1 documentation update
The SMSC LPC47M997 Super-I/O chip seems to be compatible with the
LPC47M192, so it is supported by the smsc47m1 driver.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 14:02:14 -07:00
Jean Delvare 90209b42d0 [PATCH] hwmon: lm90 documentation update
Update the I2C addresses for the ADM1032 and ADT7461 chips.
Also update the links to the Analog Devices web site.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 14:02:14 -07:00
Jean Delvare c3df5806cd [PATCH] hwmon: Add PEC support to the lm90 driver
Add PEC support to the lm90 driver. Only the ADM1032 chip supports it,
and in a rather tricky way, which is why this patch comes with
documentation reinforcements. At least, this demonstrates that the new
PEC support logic in i2c-core can properly deal with chips with partial
PEC support.

As enabling PEC causes a significant performance drop, it can be
disabled through a sysfs file (unsurprisingly named "pec").

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 14:02:14 -07:00
Jean Delvare 142078f6f0 [PATCH] i2c: i2c-i810 documentation update
Update the documented list of devices supported by the i2c-i810
driver.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 14:02:13 -07:00
Jean Delvare 2445eb62e9 [PATCH] i2c: Documentation update
Update the i2c documentation: kzalloc should be used instead of
kmalloc.

I also fixed a couple other things nearby in writing-clients, as several
past changes had never been reported there.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 14:02:12 -07:00
Alessandro Zummo 4d4e5ce864 [PATCH] i2c: New Xicor X1205 RTC driver
New driver for the Xicor X1205 RTC chip.

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 14:02:12 -07:00
Mark M. Hoffman 7ab83a9137 [PATCH] hwmon: New device ID for the smsc47b397 driver
This patch adds a new ID to the SMSC LPC47B397-NC hardware
monitoring driver - for a chip that is claimed to be 100%
compatible otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Young (Utilitek Systems, Inc.)
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 14:02:11 -07:00
Jean Delvare 9174999628 [PATCH] hwmon: Drop legacy ISA address support from it87
Drop legacy ISA address support from the it87 driver. All supported
chips are Super-I/O chips, so the device ISA address can be safely read
from Super-I/O space rather than blindly assumed.

Two nearby inaccurate documentation statements have been fixed as well:
* The IT8705F doesn't have an SMBus interface.
* The SiS950 doesn't have a distinct prefix.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 14:02:09 -07:00
Jean Delvare 7865e24935 [PATCH] i2c: Documentation fixes
i2c documentation fixes.

>From Hideki Iwamoto:
* i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data is not deleted in 2.6.10. It still
  exists.
* The name which can be set to i2c_driver is up to 31 characters.

>From Jean Delvare:
* Reword the paragraph about i2c_driver.name, to reflect the "new"
  naming policy.
* Delete the out-of-date note about now gone inc_use and dec_use
  fields.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 14:02:09 -07:00
Jean Delvare aaf7f14776 [PATCH] i2c-viapro: Update supported devices list
Make it clearer which chips are supported by the i2c-viapro driver,
and which support I2C block transactions.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

 Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro |   12 ++++++------
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro.c     |   22 +++++++++++++---------
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
2005-10-28 14:02:08 -07:00
Jean Delvare f118301416 [PATCH] i2c-viapro: Implement I2C Block transactions
Implement the I2C block transactions on VIA chips which support them:
VT82C686B, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8235 and VT8237R. This speeds up EEPROM
accesses by a factor 10 or so.

I would like to thank Antonino A. Daplas, Hinko Kocevar, Salah Coronya
and Andreas Henriksson for their help in testing this new feature.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

 Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro |    7 +++++-
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro.c     |   39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
2005-10-28 14:02:08 -07:00
Jean Delvare 5f49ef8e8c [PATCH] i2c-viapro: Coding style fixes
Before I go on cleaning up and improving the i2c-viapro driver, let's
fix all the coding style issues: mostly trailing white space, and
spaces used where tabs should be.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

 Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro |   12 ++---
 drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro.c     |   76 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
2005-10-28 14:02:07 -07:00
Hideki Iwamoto d057c96cab [PATCH] i2c: Fix I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING documentation
Fix the description of I2C_FUNC_PROTOCOL_MANGLING.

From: Hideki Iwamoto <h-iwamoto@kit.hi-ho.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

 Documentation/i2c/functionality |    7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
2005-10-28 14:02:07 -07:00
Jean Delvare b918ecd242 [PATCH] hwmon: Do not forcibly enable via686a by default
Do not enable the VIA VT82C686A/B integrated sensors by default, as
disabled sensors usually means that this feature is not used so the
values won't make any sense. This has been confusing many users in the
past:

  http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=1786
  http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=1811
  http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/readticket.cgi?ticket=2052

It is still possible to forcibly enable the sensors by using the
force_addr module parameter.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

 Documentation/hwmon/via686a |   17 +++++++++++++++--
 drivers/hwmon/via686a.c     |   18 +++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
2005-10-28 14:02:06 -07:00
Greg KH 6fbfddcb52 Merge ../bleed-2.6 2005-10-28 10:13:16 -07:00
Takashi Iwai 1a222bca26 [PATCH] Fix documentation of driver suspend/resume callbacks
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:57 -07:00
Russell King 9480e307cd [PATCH] DRIVER MODEL: Get rid of the obsolete tri-level suspend/resume callbacks
In PM v1, all devices were called at SUSPEND_DISABLE level.  Then
all devices were called at SUSPEND_SAVE_STATE level, and finally
SUSPEND_POWER_DOWN level.  However, with PM v2, to maintain
compatibility for platform devices, I arranged for the PM v2
suspend/resume callbacks to call the old PM v1 suspend/resume
callbacks three times with each level in order so that existing
drivers continued to work.

Since this is obsolete infrastructure which is no longer necessary,
we can remove it.  Here's an (untested) patch to do exactly that.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:56 -07:00
Jesper Juhl a3a3395e48 [PATCH] Driver Core: Big kfree NULL check cleanup - Documentation
This is the Documentation/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.

Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in example code in Documentation/.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:55 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman ad7e14a55e [PATCH] update required version of udev
The 071 release is needed to handle the input changes.  Older versions
will work properly with module-based systems, but not for users that
build input stuff into the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:55 -07:00
Erik Hovland 2a7ff1feda [PATCH] changes device to driver in porting.txt
The document porting.txt in Documentation/driver-model says:
When a device is successfully bound to a device

I think it should say:
When a device is successfully bound to a driver

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-10-28 09:52:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5fadd053d9 Merge branch 'upstream' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev 2005-10-28 09:06:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e5dfa9282f Merge branch 'upstream' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2005-10-28 09:05:25 -07:00
Tejun Heo 4c9f783640 [PATCH] 05/05 update biodoc to match new generic dispatch api
Updates biodoc to reflect changes in elevator API

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-10-28 08:45:47 +02:00
Jeff Garzik ccd7bc2f67 Merge branch 'master' 2005-10-26 01:08:05 -04:00
Jeff Garzik 1f57389a38 Merge branch 'master' 2005-10-26 01:06:45 -04:00
Anton Altaparmakov 47c564e10f Merge branch 'master' of /usr/src/ntfs-2.6/ 2005-10-24 09:19:36 +01:00
Randy Dunlap a991304496 [PATCH] kernel-parameters cleanup
Fix typos & trailing whitespace.
Add blank lines in a few places.
Remove "AM53C974=" option:  driver does not exist.
Restrict to < 80 columns in most places (but don't split formatted
  command-line arguments).
Add a few option arguments for completeness.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-23 16:38:38 -07:00
John W. Linville 4cac018ae3 [PATCH] bonding: fix typos in bonding documentation
Fix some simple typos in the bonding.txt file.  The typos are in areas
relating to loading the bonding driver multiple times.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-10-18 22:26:01 -04:00
Anton Altaparmakov 7946ada30b Merge branch 'master' of /usr/src/ntfs-2.6/ 2005-10-17 15:00:34 +01:00
Jeff Garzik dd4efa44eb Merge branch 'master' 2005-10-13 21:23:44 -04:00
Evgeniy Polyakov eb0d604114 [CONNECTOR]: Update documentation to match reality.
Updated documentation to reflect 2.6.14 netlink changes
about socket options, multicasting and group number.
Please concider for 2.6.14.

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-13 14:42:04 -07:00
Abhay Salunke ad6ce87e5b [PATCH] dell_rbu: changes in packet update mechanism
In the current dell_rbu code ver 2.0 the packet update mechanism makes the
user app dump every individual packet in to the driver.

This adds in efficiency as every packet update makes the
/sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading and data files to disappear and reappear
again.  Thus the user app needs to wait for the files to reappear to dump
another packet.  This slows down the packet update tremendously in case of
large number of packets.  I am submitting a new patch for dell_rbu which will
change the way we do packet updates;

In the new method the user app will create a new single file which has already
packetized the rbu image and all the packets are now staged in this file.

This driver also creates a new entry in
/sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size ; the user needs to echo the packet
size here before downloading the packet file.

The user should do the following:

 create one single file which has all the packets stacked together.
 echo the packet size in to /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size.
 echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading
 cat the packetfile > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data
 echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading

The driver takes the file which came through /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data
and takes chunks of paket_size data from it and place in contiguous memory.

This makes packet update process very efficient and fast.  As all the packet
update happens in one single operation.  The user can still read back the
downloaded file from /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/data.

Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-11 09:46:53 -07:00
Anton Altaparmakov 98b270362b NTFS: The big ntfs write(2) rewrite has arrived. We now implement our own
file operations ->write(), ->aio_write(), and ->writev() for regular
      files.  This replaces the old use of generic_file_write(), et al and
      the address space operations ->prepare_write and ->commit_write.
      This means that both sparse and non-sparse (unencrypted and
      uncompressed) files can now be extended using the normal write(2)
      code path.  There are two limitations at present and these are that
      we never create sparse files and that we only have limited support
      for highly fragmented files, i.e. ones whose data attribute is split
      across multiple extents.   When such a case is encountered,
      EOPNOTSUPP is returned.

Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
2005-10-11 15:40:40 +01:00
Jeff Garzik 1a04392bd6 Merge branch 'master' 2005-10-11 01:48:37 -04:00