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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-07 12:03:30 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-07 12:03:30 -0800
commit7affca3537d74365128e477b40c529d6f2fe86c8 (patch)
tree20be92bd240029182fc89c2c4f25401b7715dcae /Documentation
parent356b95424cfb456e14a59eaa579422ce014c424b (diff)
parentff4b8a57f0aaa2882d444ca44b2b9b333d22a4df (diff)
Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
* 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (73 commits) arm: fix up some samsung merge sysdev conversion problems firmware: Fix an oops on reading fw_priv->fw in sysfs loading file Drivers:hv: Fix a bug in vmbus_driver_unregister() driver core: remove __must_check from device_create_file debugfs: add missing #ifdef HAS_IOMEM arm: time.h: remove device.h #include driver-core: remove sysdev.h usage. clockevents: remove sysdev.h arm: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem arm: leds: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem kobject: remove kset_find_obj_hinted() m86k: gpio - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem mips: txx9_sram - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem mips: 7segled - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem sh: dma - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem sh: intc - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem power: suspend - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem power: qe_ic - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem power: cmm - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem s390: time - convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem ... Fix up conflicts with 'struct sysdev' removal from various platform drivers that got changed: - arch/arm/mach-exynos/cpu.c - arch/arm/mach-exynos/irq-eint.c - arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/common.c - arch/arm/mach-s3c64xx/cpu.c - arch/arm/mach-s5p64x0/cpu.c - arch/arm/mach-s5pv210/common.c - arch/arm/plat-samsung/include/plat/cpu.h - arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c and fix up cpu_is_hotpluggable() as per Greg in include/linux/cpu.h
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/HOWTO4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/development-process/5.Posting8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt32
4 files changed, 38 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO
index 81bc1a9ab9d..f7ade3b3b40 100644
--- a/Documentation/HOWTO
+++ b/Documentation/HOWTO
@@ -275,8 +275,8 @@ versions.
If no 2.6.x.y kernel is available, then the highest numbered 2.6.x
kernel is the current stable kernel.
-2.6.x.y are maintained by the "stable" team <stable@kernel.org>, and are
-released as needs dictate. The normal release period is approximately
+2.6.x.y are maintained by the "stable" team <stable@vger.kernel.org>, and
+are released as needs dictate. The normal release period is approximately
two weeks, but it can be longer if there are no pressing problems. A
security-related problem, instead, can cause a release to happen almost
instantly.
diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/5.Posting b/Documentation/development-process/5.Posting
index 903a2546f13..8a48c9b6286 100644
--- a/Documentation/development-process/5.Posting
+++ b/Documentation/development-process/5.Posting
@@ -271,10 +271,10 @@ copies should go to:
the linux-kernel list.
- If you are fixing a bug, think about whether the fix should go into the
- next stable update. If so, stable@kernel.org should get a copy of the
- patch. Also add a "Cc: stable@kernel.org" to the tags within the patch
- itself; that will cause the stable team to get a notification when your
- fix goes into the mainline.
+ next stable update. If so, stable@vger.kernel.org should get a copy of
+ the patch. Also add a "Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org" to the tags within
+ the patch itself; that will cause the stable team to get a notification
+ when your fix goes into the mainline.
When selecting recipients for a patch, it is good to have an idea of who
you think will eventually accept the patch and get it merged. While it
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt
index d79aead9418..10c64c8a13d 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt
+++ b/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt
@@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ IOMAP
devm_ioremap()
devm_ioremap_nocache()
devm_iounmap()
+ devm_request_and_ioremap() : checks resource, requests region, ioremaps
pcim_iomap()
pcim_iounmap()
pcim_iomap_table() : array of mapped addresses indexed by BAR
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
index 742cc06e138..f04066a37f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
@@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ A read on the resulting file will yield either Y (for non-zero values) or
N, followed by a newline. If written to, it will accept either upper- or
lower-case values, or 1 or 0. Any other input will be silently ignored.
-Finally, a block of arbitrary binary data can be exported with:
+Another option is exporting a block of arbitrary binary data, with
+this structure and function:
struct debugfs_blob_wrapper {
void *data;
@@ -115,6 +116,35 @@ can be used to export binary information, but there does not appear to be
any code which does so in the mainline. Note that all files created with
debugfs_create_blob() are read-only.
+If you want to dump a block of registers (something that happens quite
+often during development, even if little such code reaches mainline.
+Debugfs offers two functions: one to make a registers-only file, and
+another to insert a register block in the middle of another sequential
+file.
+
+ struct debugfs_reg32 {
+ char *name;
+ unsigned long offset;
+ };
+
+ struct debugfs_regset32 {
+ struct debugfs_reg32 *regs;
+ int nregs;
+ void __iomem *base;
+ };
+
+ struct dentry *debugfs_create_regset32(const char *name, mode_t mode,
+ struct dentry *parent,
+ struct debugfs_regset32 *regset);
+
+ int debugfs_print_regs32(struct seq_file *s, struct debugfs_reg32 *regs,
+ int nregs, void __iomem *base, char *prefix);
+
+The "base" argument may be 0, but you may want to build the reg32 array
+using __stringify, and a number of register names (macros) are actually
+byte offsets over a base for the register block.
+
+
There are a couple of other directory-oriented helper functions:
struct dentry *debugfs_rename(struct dentry *old_dir,