following my recent posts on libusb-devel and hidups, here's
a patch to disable hiddev support for MGE UPSs. It only
declares VID/PID as QUIRK_IGNORE in hid-core's blacklist.
This simply prevent hiddev to be loaded when plugging
an MGE UPS.

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I observed the following small problem in 2.6:
>
> - MII depends on NET_ETHERNET
> - USB_PEGASUS and USB_USBNET select MII, but they depend only on NET
>
> The patch below lets USB_PEGASUS and USB_USBNET depend on NET_ETHERNET
> instead of NET to fix this issue.

Actually how about this one instead?  The PEGASUS bit is the same.
The difference is that MII (and CRC32) are only attributed to the
driver code that needs those ... AX8817X needs both, ZAURUS just
needs CRC32.  The core (which should eventually become a separate
module) shouldn't depend on those modules at all.

Also both CDCETHER and AX8817X are marked as non-experimental;
I recall Dave Hollis submitted a patch to do that for AX8817X,
and CDCETHER now seems to have gotten enough success reports too.

This patch just adds TC86c001 (goku) UDC support to
the "ether.c" gadget driver.  This hardware supports
a full speed CDC Ethernet interface.

Small updates:

   - support TC86c001 (goku_udc) controller
   - simplify the per-controller configuration
   - add two vendor requests to test control-OUT
   - some minor fixes

As more people have been using this API, the need for some
clarifications has (no surprise!) came up.

Most significant is the halt processing, needed to make
Alan's "File Storage Gadget" (mass storage class, talks
to usb-storage and Windows) handle fault cases cleanly.
Gadget drivers can't halt IN endpoints until the FIFO is
emptied by the host ...  virtually no hardware tries to
sequence the DATA and STALL packets by itself.

hiddev is mistakenly returning empty hiddev_event structures for report
events. According to Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt, report events are
only sent when HIDDEV_FLAG_REPORT and HIDDEV_FLAG_UREF are both set.
Currently, report events from hid cause hiddev to generate empty
hiddev_event events when HIDDEV_FLAG_UREF is not set.

into kroah.com:/home/linux/BK/usb-new_drivers-2.6

Noted by Nick Piggin, fix based on a patch by Linus.

I've done some additional cleanups: fixed a compilation warning on UP
and cleaned up the goto pick_next_task code.  Moved the 'unlikely' to
the test as a whole.

I've tested this patch and the context-switch stats look OK.

The BIOS may have left the USB controller in some strange
state, and we want to fully initialize it before we are
ready to handle interrupts.

if an error happens.

already registered or not. The x86 PCI layer wants this for
its availability testing.

Doing a request_irq()/free_irq() pair to check this condition
like we used to do can lock the machine if the irq happens to
be screaming.

Brief Patch Description:

Fix a problem in the 'mct_u232' driver whereby output data gets held up in the
USB/RS-232 adapter for RS-232 devices which don't assert the 'CTS' signal.

Background:

The Belkin F5U109 is a 9-pin USB/RS-232 adapter that is supported by the
existing 'mct_u232' kernel module.  Recently, I've been testing it under the
2.4.22 (Slackware 9.1) kernel and the 2.6.0-test9 kernel.

I've connected a Garmin 'GPS35 TracPak' GPS receiver (RS-232 interface) and an
ordinary RS-232 external modem to my PC's USB port via the Belkin F5U109
adapter.

Problem:

Although _reads_ from either of the RS-232 devices mentioned above work fine
via the Belkin adapter, _writes_ to the GPS receiver are not being seen by
the GPS.  Writes to the modem, however, work perfectly.

Aside: The 'Linux USB Users' archives show that at least one other person
(circa May 2002) had the exact same problem I'm having, but it sounds like no
solution was ever determined because the person in question just bought a
different USB/RS-232 adapter.

Investigation:

Using the 'seyon' terminal emulator in Linux and a crude hardware RS-232
"breakout box" that I hacked together, I've determined that the problem is
related to the RTS/CTS RS-232 hardware handshaking.

After further investigation, I've concluded that RS-232 devices which do not
assert the 'Clear To Send' ('CTS') signal prevent the Belkin F5U109 adapter
from transmitting data to the RS-232 device when the current (version 1.1)
'mct_u232' module is used. The data gets "queued up" (up to a point -- 16
bytes, I think) in the adapter but never transmitted.

Since this GPS receiver works perfectly (reads and writes) when connected to a
PC running W98se using the same Belkin adapter and the Belkin-supplied
Windows driver, the Linux driver became suspect.

After some testing with SniffUSB, I found that the Windows driver sends a
couple of unique undocumented USB 'device requests' that the Linux driver
does not. As it turns out, the second of those 2 requests is critical in
making the adapter transmit data to a device which doesn't assert 'CTS'.

For completeness, the Windows driver in use was determined from the 'Device
Manager', 'Driver File Details' page:

   U2SPORT.VXD
   Provider: Magic Control Technology
   File version: 1.21P.0104 for Win98/Me

Solution:

My patch adds the 2 missing USB 'device request' commands right after a
baud-change command. This mimics the operation of the W98 driver.

Unfortunately, after much testing, I found no other operation (besides a
baud-change request) under Windows that triggers either of these 2 'device
request' commands. This makes it impossible to fully document the behavior of
these requests, but I've made entries for them alongside the others in the
'mct_u232.h' file.

Purely for clarity, the patch also modifies various comments in 'mct_u232.h',
mostly to reflect proper sizes of the various 'USB Device Request' fields per
the USB 1.1 specification.

The patch also updates the version number of the driver, corrects a minor
typographical error, and documents a difference in the length of the data in
a 'baud rate change' command for certain adapters which use a coded baud-rate
rather than the conventional RS-232 baud rate divisor.

I've provided (tested) patches for both the 2.4.22 and the 2.6.0-test9
kernels.

Please note that the changes to 'mct_u232.h' apply to both 2.4.22 and
2.6.0-test9 since that file has not changed between those kernel releases.
Nevertheless, I've included that (same) portion of the patch in both
attachments for simplicity.

Bill Marr

If Synaptics fails to activate or if disabled by psmouse_proto option try
other extended protocols as some touchpads may support them.

Remove Synaptics config option.  Since mousedev was fixed with regard to
touchpads generating absolute events there should no troubles for users
migrating from older kernel or different hardware so we can have it always
compiled in.

Add serio_[un]register_port_delayed to allow delayed execution of
register/unregister code (via kseriod) when it is not clear whether
serio_sem has been taken or not.  Use in i8042.c to avoid deadlock

- Remove psmouse_pm_callback since i8042 now has its own resume
  handler which will issue reconnect request
- Do not close/open serio port in psmouse_reconnect since i8042
  should restore ports to the proper state before calling reconnect

Add reconnect method to atkbd to restore keyboard state after suspend (to
be called from i8042 resume function)

- Implement resume methods using serio_reconnect facility
- Register i8042 with sysfs
- Register i8042 with older PM scheme to restore keyboard
  and mouse for APM users
- Convert parameter handling to the new style
- Unregister port not only when there is no free IRQ but
  also if the port fails to activate.

New parameter psmouse_proto to replace psmouse_noext.  Allows to specify
highest PS/2 protocol extension that kernel has permission to negotiate
(bare|imps|exps).  psmouse_noext marked as deprecated and emits a warning
when used.  parameter parsing converted to the new scheme.

Fix atkbd_softrepeat kernel command line parameter.

I have two patches I'd like to get tested by a wider audience before
sending them to Linus for the 2.6 tree.

The first one fixes an issue in current 2.6-test with AT keyboard repeat
rate setting, the second one makes setkeycodes/getkeycodes work the same
as 2.4, so that people can keep their setups. It also fixes japanese and
korean key handling.

I just want to share a little change that I've did to psmouse_pm_callback()
which without this, my synaptics touchpad would prevent my laptop (IBM
Thinkpad T30) from suspending.

I think that if we can't write to the control register it's not less critical
than not having a free IRQ so we better unregister port in this case as well.

Also logging moved a bit.

Made the packet checking code less strict, so that the driver works also for
touchpads that don't strictly follow the synaptics absolute protocol. 
Problem reported by Anders Kaseorg using a PowerPro C 3:16 laptop.

Input/Synaptics:
  1. Support for pass-through port moved from Synaptics driver to psmouse
     itself, it is cleaner and should allow using it in other drivers if
     needed.
  2. The driver makes use of new reconnect functionality in serio. It will
     try to keep the same input device after resume or when it resets itself.
  3. If mouse is disconnected or other mouse plugged in while sleeping the
     driver should correctly recognize that and create a new serio/input 
     device.

Input: serio_reconnect added. Similar to serio_rescan but gives driver
       a chance to re-initialize keeping the same input device.

Input: Synaptics code cleanup and credit update.

Input: Introduce an optional blacklist field in input_handler structure.
       When loading a new device or a new handler try to match device
       against handler's black list before doing match on required 
       attributes.
       This allows to get rid of "surprises" in connect functions, IMO
       connect should only fail when it physically can not connect, not
       because it decides it does not like device.

Input: There is a possibility that serio might get deleted while there
       are outstanding events involving that serio waiting for kseriod
       to process them. Invalidate them so kseriod thread will just
       drop dead events.

Input: rename serio_{register|unregister}_slave_port to 
       __serio_{register|unregister}_port to better follow
       locked/lockless naming convention

This fixes a bug in the qla1280 driver where it would leave a pointer to
an on the stack completion event in a command structure if
qla1280_mailbox_command fails.  The result is that the interrupt handler
later tries to complete() garbage on the stack.  The mailbox command can
fail if a device on the bus decides to lock up etc.

I just found Yet Another Bug in scsi_ioctl - CDROM_SEND_PACKET puts a
kernel pointer in hdr->cmdp, where sg_io() expects to find user address.
This worked up until recently because of the memcpy bug, but now it
doesn't because we do the proper copy_from_user(). 

This fix undoes the user copy code from sg_io, and instead makes the
SG_IO ioctl copy it locally.  This makes SG_IO and CDROM_SEND_PACKET
agree on the calling convention, and everybody is happy. 

I've tested that both

   cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc -inq

and

   cdrecord -dev=ATAPI:/dev/hdc -inq

works now.  The former will use SG_IO, the latter CDROM_SEND_PACKET (and
incidentally would work in both 2.4 and 2.6, if it wasn't for
CDROM_SEND_PACKET sucking badly in 2.4).

From Jon Burgess:

  There is a problems with blank DVD media using the ide-cd driver.

  When we attempt to read the blank disk, the drive responds to the read
  request by returning a "blank media" error.  The kernel doesn't have
  any special case handling for this sense value and retries the request
  a couple of times, then gives up and does a bus reset and disables DMA
  to the device.

  Which obviously doesn't help the situation.

  The sense key value of 8 isn't listed in ide-cd.h, but it is listed in
  scsi.h as a "BLANK_CHECK" error.

  This trivial patch treats this error condition as a reason to abort
  the request.  This behaviour is the same as what we do with a blank CD-R.

  It looks like the same fix might be desired for 2.4 as well, although
  is perhaps not so important since scsi-ide is normally used instead.

into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

 1/ make sure raid5 doesn't try to handle multiple overlaping
    requests at the same time as this would confuse things badly.
    Currently it justs BUGs if this is attempted.
 2/ Fix a possible data-loss-on-write problem.  If two or
    more bio's that write to the same page are processed at the
    same time, only the first was actually commited to storage.
 3/ Fix a use-after-free bug.  raid5 keeps the bio's it is given
    in linked lists when more than one bio touch a single page.
    In some cases the tail of this list can be freed, and
    the current test for 'are we at the end' isn't reliable.
    This patch strengths the test to make it reliable.

This patch adds definitions:

  - New "video" class, for video cameras and more complicated devices;

  - New "Interface association" descriptor type, used by video class,
    along with two other assigned desciptor type codes (OTG, "debug")
    listed in the same ECN to the USB 2.0 spec;

  - Type declarations for "Interface association" and OTG descriptors.

It also replaces three copies of USB_DT_CS_* declarations in audio
support with one in <linux/usb_ch9.h>, and uses the newly exposed
symbol in "usbnet".  (Near as I can tell, the convention for those
"class specific" descriptor types started with audio, and was then
adopted by several other class specifications.)

Petr Vandrovec noticed a problem where the thread group leader
would not be properly reaped if the parent of the thread group
was ignoring SIGCHLD, and the thread group leader had exited
before the last sub-thread.

Fixed by Ingo Molnar.

This time we have a SMP memory ordering issue in prepare_to_wait(),
where we really need to make sure that subsequent tests for the
event we are waiting for can not migrate up to before the wait
queue has been set up.