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Matt Porter
3e9e7c1d0b [PATCH] ppc32: cleanup AMCC PPC40x eval boards to support U-Boot
Cleanup PPC40x eval boards (bubinga, walnut and sycamore) to support U-Boot
as bootloader.  The OpenBIOS bd_info struct is not used in the kernel
anymore (only U-Boot now).

uImage (U-Boot) tested on walnut, sycamore and bubinga
zImage (OpenBIOS) tested on sycamore, bubinga and ebony

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:26 -08:00
Roland Dreier
90eb266584 [PATCH] ppc32: Add Yucca (440SPe eval board) platform
Add support for AMCC PowerPC 440SPe "Yucca" eval board platform.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:26 -08:00
Roland Dreier
b0f7b8bc57 [PATCH] ppc32: Add 440SPe support
Add support for the AMCC PowerPC 440SPe SoC, including PCI Express in root
port mode.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:26 -08:00
Roland Dreier
41aace4fe8 [PATCH] ppc32: Dump error status for both PLB segments on 440SP
The PowerPC 440SP SoC has two Processor Local Bus (PLB) segments (a
high-throughput segment and a low-latency segment).  Fix our PLB register
definitions to cope with this, and add code to dump the status of both
segments when a machine check occurs.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:26 -08:00
Roland Dreier
fcc188e7fd [PATCH] ppc32: Allow ERPN for early serial to depend on CPU type
The PowerPC 440SPe supports up to 16 GB of RAM, and therefore its IO registers
are at 0x4_xxxx_xxxx instead of being at 0x1_xxxx_xxxx like most other PPC 440
chips.  To allow for this, this patch moves the definition of the ERPN used
for mapping UART0 from being hard-coded in the head_44x.S assembly code to
being defined in ibm44x.h.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:26 -08:00
Lee Nicks
2104da90a9 [PATCH] ppc32: add watchdog & RTC support for Marvell EV64360BP board
This patch adds watchdog, RTC support for Marvell EV64360BP board.

Signed-off-by: Lee Nicks <allinux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:26 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
d311b0d3d8 [PATCH] 3c59x: don't enable scatter/gather w/o checksum support
It is not valid to enable scatter/gather without hardware checksum support
of some kind. (akpm: applies only to the old boomerang cards).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:25 -08:00
John W. Linville
900fd17dd0 [PATCH] 3c59x: enable use of memory-mapped PCI I/O
Add capability for 3c59x driver to use memory-mapped PCI I/O resources.
This may improve performance for those devices so equipped.  This will be
the default behaviour for IS_CYCLONE and IS_TORNADO devices.  Additionally,
it can be enabled/disabled individually for up to MAX_UNITS number of
devices via the use_mmio module option or for all units via the
global_use_mmio option.  The use_mmio option overrides the global_use_mmio
option for those devices specified.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:25 -08:00
John W. Linville
35b306743d [PATCH] 3c59x: correct rx_dropped counting
Only increment rx_dropped in case of lack of resources (i.e. not for
frames with errors).

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:25 -08:00
John W. Linville
bb531fc071 [PATCH] 3c59x: support ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR
Add support for ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR to 3c59x.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:25 -08:00
John W. Linville
46e5e4a897 [PATCH] 3c59x: fix some grammar in module parameter descriptions
Correct several (apparently cut & paste) grammatical typos in module
parameter descriptions.  They seem to have originated as copies of the
description for "global_options".

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:25 -08:00
John W. Linville
9954ab7fd5 [PATCH] 3c59x: cleanup init of module parameter arrays
Beautify the array initilizations for the module parameters.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:25 -08:00
John W. Linville
32fb5f06db [PATCH] 3c59x: bounds checking for hw_checksums
Add bounds checking to usage of hw_checksums module parameter array.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:25 -08:00
Tommy Christensen
d9e46de34e [PATCH] 3c59x: avoid blindly reading link status twice
In order to spare some I/O operations, be more intelligent about when to
read from the PHY.

Pointed out by Bogdan Costescu.

Signed-off-by: Tommy S. Christensen <tommy.christensen@tpack.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:25 -08:00
Neil Horman
106427e65d [PATCH] 3c59x: cleanup of mdio_read routines to use MII_* macros
Clean up mdio_read routines in 3c59x.c to use the MII_* macros defined in
include/linux/mii.h

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:24 -08:00
John W. Linville
62afe595de [PATCH] 3c59x: convert to use of pci_iomap API
Convert 3c59x driver to use pci_iomap API.  This makes it easier to enable
the use of memory-mapped PCI I/O resources.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:24 -08:00
Manfred Spraul
cd61ef6268 [PATCH] slab: Use same schedule timeout for all cpus in cache_reap
Chen noticed that cache_reap uses REAPTIMEOUT_CPUC+smp_processor_id() as
the timeout for rescheduling.

The "+smp_processor_id()" part is wrong, the timeout should be identical
for all cpus: start_cpu_timer already adds a cpu dependant offset to avoid
any clustering.

The attached patch removes smp_processor_id().

Signed-Off-By: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:24 -08:00
Pekka J Enberg
2109a2d1b1 [PATCH] mm: rename kmem_cache_s to kmem_cache
This patch renames struct kmem_cache_s to kmem_cache so we can start using
it instead of kmem_cache_t typedef.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:24 -08:00
Andrew Morton
4f12bb4f77 [PATCH] slab: don't BUG on duplicated cache
slab presently goes BUG if someone tries to register an already-registered
cache.

But this can happen if the user accidentally loads a module which is already
statically linked into the kernel.  Nuking the kernel is rather a harsh
reaction.

Change it into a warning, and just fail the kmem_cache_alloc() attempt.  If
the module is well-behaved, the modprobe will fail and all is well.

Notes:

- Swaps the ranking of cache_chain_sem and lock_cpu_hotplug().  Doesn't seem
  important.

Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:24 -08:00
Andrew Morton
7fd93cf30c [PATCH] posix-timers `unlikely' rejig
!unlikely(expr) hurts my brain.   likely(!expr) is more straightforward.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:24 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
863c84b97c [PATCH] ppc: Fix ppc32 build after 64K pages
Oops, some last minute changes caused the 64K pages patch to break ppc32
build, this fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:23 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
c8e3c8b21b [PATCH] ppc64: Fix zImage boot
The zImage wrapper has a bug where it doesn't claim() the memory for the
kernel properly, it forgets to take into account the offset between the ELF
header and the kernel itself.  This results on some machines, like G5s,
into a kernel that crashes at boot when clearing the BSS.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:23 -08:00
Hugh Dickins
2d4b95f060 [PATCH] Suppress split ptlock on arches which may use one page for multiple page tables
Suppress split ptlock on arches which may use one page for multiple page
tables.  Reconsider what better to do (particularly on ppc64) later on.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:23 -08:00
Olof Johansson
732ee21f28 [PATCH] POWERPC/PPC64: Fix CONFIG_SMP=n build for ppc64
Two CONFIG_SMP=n build fixes due to missing <asm/smp.h> includes.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:23 -08:00
John W. Linville
e1531b4218 [PATCH] ia64: re-implement dma_get_cache_alignment to avoid EXPORT_SYMBOL
The current ia64 implementation of dma_get_cache_alignment does not work
for modules because it relies on a symbol which is not exported.  Direct
access to a global is a little ugly anyway, so this patch re-implements
dma_get_cache_alignment in a manner similar to what is currently used for
x86_64.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:23 -08:00
Yuri Vasilevski
4ecc65e423 [PATCH] typo correction for fix-build-on-nls-free-systems
A typo fix for fix-build-on-nls-free-systems.patch that caused all systems
to be detected as not having NLS.

Signed-off-by: Yuri Vasilevski <yvasilev@duke.math.cinvestav.mx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:23 -08:00
David Gibson
7d24f0b8a5 [PATCH] ppc64: Fix bug in SLB miss handler for hugepages
This patch, however, should be applied on top of the 64k-page-size patch to
fix some problems with hugepage (some pre-existing, another introduced by
this patch).

The patch fixes a bug in the SLB miss handler for hugepages on ppc64
introduced by the dynamic hugepage patch (commit id
c594adad56) due to a misunderstanding of the
srd instruction's behaviour (mea culpa).  The problem arises when a 64-bit
process maps some hugepages in the low 4GB of the address space (unusual).
In this case, as well as the 256M segment in question being marked for
hugepages, other segments at 32G intervals will be incorrectly marked for
hugepages.

In the process, this patch tweaks the semantics of the hugepage bitmaps to
be more sensible.  Previously, an address below 4G was marked for hugepages
if the appropriate segment bit in the "low areas" bitmask was set *or* if
the low bit in the "high areas" bitmap was set (which would mark all
addresses below 1TB for hugepage).  With this patch, any given address is
governed by a single bitmap.  Addresses below 4GB are marked for hugepage
if and only if their bit is set in the "low areas" bitmap (256M
granularity).  Addresses between 4GB and 1TB are marked for hugepage iff
the low bit in the "high areas" bitmap is set.  Higher addresses are marked
for hugepage iff their bit in the "high areas" bitmap is set (1TB
granularity).

To avoid conflicts, this patch must be applied on top of BenH's pending
patch for 64k base page size [0].  As such, this patch also addresses a
hugepage problem introduced by that patch.  That patch allows hugepages of
1MB in size on hardware which supports it, however, that won't work when
using 4k pages (4 level pagetable), because in that case hugepage PTEs are
stored at the PMD level, and each PMD entry maps 2MB.  This patch simply
disallows hugepages in that case (we can do something cleverer to re-enable
them some other day).

Built, booted, and a handful of hugepage related tests passed on POWER5
LPAR (both ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc64).

[0] http://gate.crashing.org/~benh/ppc64-64k-pages.diff

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:23 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
0b154bb7d0 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2005-11-06 16:59:14 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6adfd34e85 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-drvmodel 2005-11-06 16:58:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b54a063df4 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2005-11-06 16:58:11 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
085f20e481 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2005-11-06 16:57:34 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
3c726f8dee [PATCH] ppc64: support 64k pages
Adds a new CONFIG_PPC_64K_PAGES which, when enabled, changes the kernel
base page size to 64K.  The resulting kernel still boots on any
hardware.  On current machines with 4K pages support only, the kernel
will maintain 16 "subpages" for each 64K page transparently.

Note that while real 64K capable HW has been tested, the current patch
will not enable it yet as such hardware is not released yet, and I'm
still verifying with the firmware architects the proper to get the
information from the newer hypervisors.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-06 16:56:47 -08:00
Russell King
1555972231 [ARM] Fix /proc/cpuinfo format for ARM SMP
glibc expects to count lines beginning with "processor" to determine
the number of processors, not lines beginning with "Processor".  So,
give glibc the format it expects.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-06 21:41:08 +00:00
Russell King
32f8b97ca3 [ARM] Don't call dump_cpu_info unless we're booting
We don't want to call dump_cpu_info() from cpu_init() after boot since
it produces a lot of unnecessary noise - since cpu_init() gets called
on resume and hotplug cpu insertion events.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-06 19:49:21 +00:00
Russell King
4fe15ba08f [ARM] Fix second missing declaration of cache_is_vivt()
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-06 19:47:04 +00:00
Russell King
4299051ebe [ARM] Fix missing declaration of cache_is_vivt()
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-06 15:46:57 +00:00
Russell King
d3997abf69 [ARM] Fix another use of // as a comment
// disagrees with ld's script parsing ability.  Don't use it.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-06 15:45:00 +00:00
Richard Purdie
756c7b7489 [ARM] 3113/1: PXA: Allow machines to override (and also reuse) pxa pm functions
Patch from Richard Purdie

Update the PXA pm.c file to allow machines (such as the Sharp
Zaurus) to override the standard pm functions but reuse/wrap them
where needed.

The init call is made slightly earlier to give machine code an init
level to override them in removing any race.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-06 15:03:23 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre
b7ec479553 [ARM] 3115/1: small optimizations to exception vector entry code
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

Since we know the value of cpsr on entry, we can replace the bic+orr with
a single eor.  Also remove a possible result delay (at least on XScale).

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-06 14:42:37 +00:00
Lennert Buytenhek
7240f1f183 [ARM] 3114/1: use ixp2000_reg_wrb in ixp2000 uengine loader
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek

Make the uengine loader use ixp2000_reg_wrb in the right places.

Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-06 14:34:13 +00:00
Alessandro Zummo
84613387cb [ARM] 3089/1: ixp4xx AHB/PCI endianness fix
Patch from Alessandro Zummo

  This patch fixes AHB/PCI endianness problems when the
 processor is in little-endian mode.

 The patch configures the CSR register closely following the directives
 in [1], paragraph 4.1, page 19.

 According to the considerations in [1], page 11, while the AHB bus
 supports both endian modes, on the IXP4XX it always uses big-endian.

 The PCI bus is connected to the South AHB. A wrong setting in the CSR
 register will thus cause a malfunctional PCI bus.

 A schematic diagram of the bus interconnections on the IXP4XX
 can be found in [1], page 18.

 The patch has been verified to work on the NSLU2 in
 both LE and BE modes.

 The author is Peter Korsgaard.

 [1] Intel® IXP4XX Product Line of Network Processors and IXC1100
 Control Plane Processor:
 Understanding Big Endian and Little Endian Modes

 http://www.intel.com/design/network/applnots/25423701.pdf

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-06 14:34:12 +00:00
Dirk Opfer
8459c159f7 [ARM] 3088/1: PXA: Add machine support for the Sharp SL-6000x series of PDAs
Patch from Dirk Opfer

This patch adds basic machine support for the Sharp SL-6000x (Tosa) PDAs.

Signed-off-by: Dirk Opfer
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-06 14:27:52 +00:00
Sam Ravnborg
ab919c0614 kconfig: fix xconfig on fedora 2 & 3 (x86_64)
From: Than Ngo <than@redhat.com>
qt as installed on fedora core (2 and 3) does not work with vanilla
kernel. The linker fails to locate the qt lib:

Actual Results:  # make xconfig
  HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/qconf
  /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lqt
  collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Than Ngo has provided following fix for the bug.

Cc: Than Ngo <than@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-11-06 11:05:21 +01:00
Russell King
2dd34b488a [PATCH] kbuild: permanently fix kernel configuration include mess
Include autoconf.h into every kernel compilation via the gcc command line
using -imacros.  This ensures that we have the kernel configuration
included from the start, rather than relying on each file having #include
<linux/config.h> as appropriate.  History has shown that this is something
which is difficult to get right.

Since we now include the kernel configuration automatically, make
configcheck becomes meaningless, so remove it.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-11-06 10:22:04 +01:00
Pantelis Antoniou
21c614a789 [SERIAL] Support Au1x00 8250 UARTs using the generic 8250 driver.
The offsets of the registers are in a different place, and
some parts cannot handle a full set of modem control signals.

Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou <pantelis@embeddedalley.ocm>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-06 09:07:03 +00:00
Bart Oldeman
f912696ab3 [PATCH] reset tss->io_bitmap_owner in sys_ioperm()
my patch "x86: initialise tss->io_bitmap_owner to something" (commit ID
d5cd4aadd3) introduced a problem with a
program (DOSEMU) that called ioperm after already doing some port i/o.

The problem is that a process switch return causes tss->io_bitmap_base
to be set to IO_BITMAP_OFFSET so that the fault (that *really* sets the
io bitmap) never triggers.

This fixes that regression.

Signed-off-by: Bart Oldeman <bartoldeman@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-05 16:31:36 -08:00
Samuel Thibault
88dcb6c411 [PATCH] Set the vga cursor even when hidden
Some visually impaired people use hardware devices which directly read
the vga screen. When newt for instance asks to hide the cursor for
better visual aspect, the kernel puts the vga cursor out of the screen,
so that the cursor position can't be read by the hardware device. This
is a great loss for such people.

Here is a patch which uses the same technique as CUR_NONE for hiding the
cursor while still moving it.

Mario, you should apply it to the speakup kernel for access floppies
asap. I'll submit a 2.4 patch too.

Signed-off-by: samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-05 13:30:03 -08:00
Russell King
2c119aa809 [DRIVER MODEL] Fix sgivwfb
Statically allocated devices in module data is a potential cause
of oopsen.  The device may be in use by a userspace process, which
will keep a reference to the device.  If the module is unloaded,
the module data will be freed.  Subsequent use of the platform
device will cause a kernel oops.

Use generic platform device allocation/release code in modules.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-05 21:22:39 +00:00
Russell King
abbf268ae8 [DRIVER MODEL] Fix gbefb
Statically allocated devices in module data is a potential cause
of oopsen.  The device may be in use by a userspace process, which
will keep a reference to the device.  If the module is unloaded,
the module data will be freed.  Subsequent use of the platform
device will cause a kernel oops.

Use generic platform device allocation/release code in modules.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-05 21:22:13 +00:00
Russell King
8d972a9621 [DRIVER MODEL] Fix arcfb
Release code in driver modules is a potential cause of oopsen.
The device may be in use by a userspace process, which will keep
a reference to the device.  If the module is unloaded, the module
text will be freed.  Subsequently, when the last reference is
dropped, the release code will be called, which no longer exists.

Use generic platform device allocation/release code in modules.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-05 21:21:38 +00:00