Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of...

Merge branch 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6

* 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6:
  updated Documentation/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches
  debugfs: add documentation for debugfs_create_x64
  uio: uio_pdrv_genirq: Add OF support
  firmware: gsmi: remove sysfs entries when unload the module
  Documentation/zh_CN: Fix messy code file email-clients.txt
  driver core: add more help description for "path to uevent helper"
  driver-core: modify FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL help message
  driver-core: Kconfig grammar corrections in firmware configuration
  DOCUMENTATION: Replace create_device() with device_create().
  DOCUMENTATION: Update overview.txt in Doc/driver-model.
  pti: pti_tty_install documentation mispelling.

Documentation/driver-model/device.txt

@@ -104,4 +104,4 @@ Then in the module init function is would do:
 
 And assuming 'dev' is the struct device passed into the probe hook, the driver
 probe function would do something like:
-	create_device(&mydriver_class, dev, chrdev, &private_data, "my_name");
+	device_create(&mydriver_class, dev, chrdev, &private_data, "my_name");

Documentation/driver-model/overview.txt

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ management, and hot plug. In particular, the model dictated by Intel and
 Microsoft (namely ACPI) ensures that almost every device on almost any bus
 on an x86-compatible system can work within this paradigm.  Of course,
 not every bus is able to support all such operations, although most
-buses support a most of those operations.
+buses support most of those operations.
 
 
 Downstream Access
@@ -46,25 +46,29 @@ struct pci_dev now looks like this:
 struct pci_dev {
 	...
 
-	struct device dev;
+	struct device dev;     /* Generic device interface */
+	...
 };
 
-Note first that it is statically allocated. This means only one allocation on
-device discovery. Note also that it is at the _end_ of struct pci_dev. This is
-to make people think about what they're doing when switching between the bus
-driver and the global driver; and to prevent against mindless casts between
-the two.
+Note first that the struct device dev within the struct pci_dev is
+statically allocated. This means only one allocation on device discovery.
+
+Note also that that struct device dev is not necessarily defined at the
+front of the pci_dev structure.  This is to make people think about what
+they're doing when switching between the bus driver and the global driver,
+and to discourage meaningless and incorrect casts between the two.
 
 The PCI bus layer freely accesses the fields of struct device. It knows about
 the structure of struct pci_dev, and it should know the structure of struct
 device. Individual PCI device drivers that have been converted to the current
 driver model generally do not and should not touch the fields of struct device,
-unless there is a strong compelling reason to do so.
+unless there is a compelling reason to do so.
 
-This abstraction is prevention of unnecessary pain during transitional phases.
-If the name of the field changes or is removed, then every downstream driver
-will break. On the other hand, if only the bus layer (and not the device
-layer) accesses struct device, it is only that layer that needs to change.
+The above abstraction prevents unnecessary pain during transitional phases.
+If it were not done this way, then when a field was renamed or removed, every
+downstream driver would break.  On the other hand, if only the bus layer
+(and not the device layer) accesses the struct device, it is only the bus
+layer that needs to change.
 
 
 User Interface
@@ -73,15 +77,27 @@ User Interface
 By virtue of having a complete hierarchical view of all the devices in the
 system, exporting a complete hierarchical view to userspace becomes relatively
 easy. This has been accomplished by implementing a special purpose virtual
-file system named sysfs. It is hence possible for the user to mount the
-whole sysfs filesystem anywhere in userspace.
+file system named sysfs.
+
+Almost all mainstream Linux distros mount this filesystem automatically; you
+can see some variation of the following in the output of the "mount" command:
+
+$ mount
+...
+none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
+...
+$
+
+The auto-mounting of sysfs is typically accomplished by an entry similar to
+the following in the /etc/fstab file:
+
+none     	/sys	sysfs    defaults	  	0 0
 
-This can be done permanently by providing the following entry into the
-/etc/fstab (under the provision that the mount point does exist, of course):
+or something similar in the /lib/init/fstab file on Debian-based systems:
 
-none     	/sys	sysfs    defaults		0	0
+none            /sys    sysfs    nodev,noexec,nosuid    0 0
 
-Or by hand on the command line:
+If sysfs is not automatically mounted, you can always do it manually with:
 
 # mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
 

Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt

@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ the following functions can be used instead:
 				      struct dentry *parent, u16 *value);
     struct dentry *debugfs_create_x32(const char *name, mode_t mode,
 				      struct dentry *parent, u32 *value);
-
-Note that there is no debugfs_create_x64().
+    struct dentry *debugfs_create_x64(const char *name, mode_t mode,
+				      struct dentry *parent, u64 *value);
 
 These functions are useful as long as the developer knows the size of the
 value to be exported.  Some types can have different widths on different

drivers/base/Kconfig

@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ config UEVENT_HELPER_PATH
 	  that it creates a high system load, or on smaller systems
 	  it is known to create out-of-memory situations during bootup.
 
+	  To disable user space helper program execution at early boot
+	  time specify an empty string here. This setting can be altered
+	  via /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug or via /sys/kernel/uevent_helper
+	  later at runtime.
+
 config DEVTMPFS
 	bool "Maintain a devtmpfs filesystem to mount at /dev"
 	depends on HOTPLUG
@@ -65,17 +70,17 @@ config PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD
 	default y
 	help
 	  Say yes to avoid building firmware. Firmware is usually shipped
-	  with the driver, and only when updating the firmware a rebuild
-	  should be made.
-	  If unsure say Y here.
+	  with the driver and only when updating the firmware should a
+	  rebuild be made.
+	  If unsure, say Y here.
 
 config FW_LOADER
 	tristate "Userspace firmware loading support" if EXPERT
 	default y
 	---help---
-	  This option is provided for the case where no in-kernel-tree modules
-	  require userspace firmware loading support, but a module built outside
-	  the kernel tree does.
+	  This option is provided for the case where none of the in-tree modules
+	  require userspace firmware loading support, but a module built
+	  out-of-tree does.
 
 config FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
 	bool "Include in-kernel firmware blobs in kernel binary"
@@ -83,22 +88,22 @@ config FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL
 	default y
 	help
 	  The kernel source tree includes a number of firmware 'blobs'
-	  which are used by various drivers. The recommended way to
-	  use these is to run "make firmware_install" and to copy the
-	  resulting binary files created in usr/lib/firmware directory
-	  of the kernel tree to the /lib/firmware on your system so
+	  that are used by various drivers. The recommended way to
+	  use these is to run "make firmware_install", which, after
+	  converting ihex files to binary, copies all of the needed
+	  binary files in firmware/ to /lib/firmware/ on your system so
 	  that they can be loaded by userspace helpers on request.
 
 	  Enabling this option will build each required firmware blob
 	  into the kernel directly, where request_firmware() will find
 	  them without having to call out to userspace. This may be
-	  useful if your root file system requires a device which uses
-	  such firmware, and do not wish to use an initrd.
+	  useful if your root file system requires a device that uses
+	  such firmware and do not wish to use an initrd.
 
 	  This single option controls the inclusion of firmware for
-	  every driver which uses request_firmware() and ships its
-	  firmware in the kernel source tree, to avoid a proliferation
-	  of 'Include firmware for xxx device' options.
+	  every driver that uses request_firmware() and ships its
+	  firmware in the kernel source tree, which avoids a
+	  proliferation of 'Include firmware for xxx device' options.
 
 	  Say 'N' and let firmware be loaded from userspace.
 
@@ -106,27 +111,27 @@ config EXTRA_FIRMWARE
 	string "External firmware blobs to build into the kernel binary"
 	depends on FW_LOADER
 	help
-	  This option allows firmware to be built into the kernel, for the
-	  cases where the user either cannot or doesn't want to provide it from
+	  This option allows firmware to be built into the kernel for the case
+	  where the user either cannot or doesn't want to provide it from
 	  userspace at runtime (for example, when the firmware in question is
 	  required for accessing the boot device, and the user doesn't want to
 	  use an initrd).
 
-	  This option is a string, and takes the (space-separated) names of the
-	  firmware files -- the same names which appear in MODULE_FIRMWARE()
+	  This option is a string and takes the (space-separated) names of the
+	  firmware files -- the same names that appear in MODULE_FIRMWARE()
 	  and request_firmware() in the source. These files should exist under
 	  the directory specified by the EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR option, which is
-	  by default the firmware/ subdirectory of the kernel source tree.
+	  by default the firmware subdirectory of the kernel source tree.
 
-	  So, for example, you might set CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="usb8388.bin",
-	  copy the usb8388.bin file into the firmware/ directory, and build the
-	  kernel. Then any request_firmware("usb8388.bin") will be
-	  satisfied internally without needing to call out to userspace.
+	  For example, you might set CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="usb8388.bin", copy
+	  the usb8388.bin file into the firmware directory, and build the kernel.
+	  Then any request_firmware("usb8388.bin") will be satisfied internally
+	  without needing to call out to userspace.
 
 	  WARNING: If you include additional firmware files into your binary
-	  kernel image which are not available under the terms of the GPL,
+	  kernel image that are not available under the terms of the GPL,
 	  then it may be a violation of the GPL to distribute the resulting
-	  image -- since it combines both GPL and non-GPL work. You should
+	  image since it combines both GPL and non-GPL work. You should
 	  consult a lawyer of your own before distributing such an image.
 
 config EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR
@@ -136,10 +141,9 @@ config EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR
 	help
 	  This option controls the directory in which the kernel build system
 	  looks for the firmware files listed in the EXTRA_FIRMWARE option.
-	  The default is the firmware/ directory in the kernel source tree,
-	  but by changing this option you can point it elsewhere, such as
-	  the /lib/firmware/ directory or another separate directory
-	  containing firmware files.
+	  The default is firmware/ in the kernel source tree, but by changing
+	  this option you can point it elsewhere, such as /lib/firmware/ or
+	  some other directory containing the firmware files.
 
 config DEBUG_DRIVER
 	bool "Driver Core verbose debug messages"

drivers/firmware/google/gsmi.c

@@ -869,8 +869,6 @@ static __init int gsmi_init(void)
 		goto out_err;
 	}
 
-	printk(KERN_INFO "gsmi version " DRIVER_VERSION " loaded\n");
-
 	/* Register in the firmware directory */
 	ret = -ENOMEM;
 	gsmi_kobj = kobject_create_and_add("gsmi", firmware_kobj);
@@ -890,12 +888,13 @@ static __init int gsmi_init(void)
 	ret = sysfs_create_files(gsmi_kobj, gsmi_attrs);
 	if (ret) {
 		printk(KERN_INFO "gsmi: Failed to add attrs");
-		goto out_err;
+		goto out_remove_bin_file;
 	}
 
-	if (register_efivars(&efivars, &efivar_ops, gsmi_kobj)) {
+	ret = register_efivars(&efivars, &efivar_ops, gsmi_kobj);
+	if (ret) {
 		printk(KERN_INFO "gsmi: Failed to register efivars\n");
-		goto out_err;
+		goto out_remove_sysfs_files;
 	}
 
 	register_reboot_notifier(&gsmi_reboot_notifier);
@@ -903,9 +902,15 @@ static __init int gsmi_init(void)
 	atomic_notifier_chain_register(&panic_notifier_list,
 				       &gsmi_panic_notifier);
 
+	printk(KERN_INFO "gsmi version " DRIVER_VERSION " loaded\n");
+
 	return 0;
 
- out_err:
+out_remove_sysfs_files:
+	sysfs_remove_files(gsmi_kobj, gsmi_attrs);
+out_remove_bin_file:
+	sysfs_remove_bin_file(gsmi_kobj, &eventlog_bin_attr);
+out_err:
 	kobject_put(gsmi_kobj);
 	gsmi_buf_free(gsmi_dev.param_buf);
 	gsmi_buf_free(gsmi_dev.data_buf);
@@ -925,6 +930,8 @@ static void __exit gsmi_exit(void)
 					 &gsmi_panic_notifier);
 	unregister_efivars(&efivars);
 
+	sysfs_remove_files(gsmi_kobj, gsmi_attrs);
+	sysfs_remove_bin_file(gsmi_kobj, &eventlog_bin_attr);
 	kobject_put(gsmi_kobj);
 	gsmi_buf_free(gsmi_dev.param_buf);
 	gsmi_buf_free(gsmi_dev.data_buf);

drivers/misc/pti.c

@@ -445,9 +445,9 @@ static void pti_tty_driver_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp)
 }
 
 /**
- * pti_tty_intstall()- Used to set up specific master-channels
- *		       to tty ports for organizational purposes when
- *		       tracing viewed from debuging tools.
+ * pti_tty_install()- Used to set up specific master-channels
+ *		      to tty ports for organizational purposes when
+ *		      tracing viewed from debuging tools.
  *
  * @driver: tty driver information.
  * @tty: tty struct containing pti information.

drivers/uio/uio_pdrv_genirq.c

@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
 #include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 
+#include <linux/of.h>
+#include <linux/of_platform.h>
+#include <linux/of_address.h>
+
 #define DRIVER_NAME "uio_pdrv_genirq"
 
 struct uio_pdrv_genirq_platdata {
@@ -97,6 +101,27 @@ static int uio_pdrv_genirq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	int ret = -EINVAL;
 	int i;
 
+	if (!uioinfo) {
+		int irq;
+
+		/* alloc uioinfo for one device */
+		uioinfo = kzalloc(sizeof(*uioinfo), GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (!uioinfo) {
+			ret = -ENOMEM;
+			dev_err(&pdev->dev, "unable to kmalloc\n");
+			goto bad2;
+		}
+		uioinfo->name = pdev->dev.of_node->name;
+		uioinfo->version = "devicetree";
+
+		/* Multiple IRQs are not supported */
+		irq = platform_get_irq(pdev, 0);
+		if (irq == -ENXIO)
+			uioinfo->irq = UIO_IRQ_NONE;
+		else
+			uioinfo->irq = irq;
+	}
+
 	if (!uioinfo || !uioinfo->name || !uioinfo->version) {
 		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "missing platform_data\n");
 		goto bad0;
@@ -180,6 +205,10 @@ static int uio_pdrv_genirq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	kfree(priv);
 	pm_runtime_disable(&pdev->dev);
  bad0:
+	/* kfree uioinfo for OF */
+	if (pdev->dev.of_node)
+		kfree(uioinfo);
+ bad2:
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -193,6 +222,10 @@ static int uio_pdrv_genirq_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	priv->uioinfo->handler = NULL;
 	priv->uioinfo->irqcontrol = NULL;
 
+	/* kfree uioinfo for OF */
+	if (pdev->dev.of_node)
+		kfree(priv->uioinfo);
+
 	kfree(priv);
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -219,6 +252,15 @@ static const struct dev_pm_ops uio_pdrv_genirq_dev_pm_ops = {
 	.runtime_resume = uio_pdrv_genirq_runtime_nop,
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_OF
+static const struct of_device_id __devinitconst uio_of_genirq_match[] = {
+	{ /* empty for now */ },
+};
+MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, uio_of_genirq_match);
+#else
+# define uio_of_genirq_match NULL
+#endif
+
 static struct platform_driver uio_pdrv_genirq = {
 	.probe = uio_pdrv_genirq_probe,
 	.remove = uio_pdrv_genirq_remove,
@@ -226,6 +268,7 @@ static struct platform_driver uio_pdrv_genirq = {
 		.name = DRIVER_NAME,
 		.owner = THIS_MODULE,
 		.pm = &uio_pdrv_genirq_dev_pm_ops,
+		.of_match_table = uio_of_genirq_match,
 	},
 };