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Author SHA1 Message Date
Joe Perches dc0d5c1e5c USB: Spelling fixes
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-01 14:34:57 -08:00
Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao 63bfb1f18a USB: sis FB driver: *_ioctl32_conversion functions do not exist in recent kernels
Remove dead code while at it.

Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-02-01 14:34:47 -08:00
Antonino A. Daplas e400b6ec4e vt/vgacon: Check if screen resize request comes from userspace
Various console drivers are able to resize the screen via the con_resize()
hook.  This hook is also visible in userspace via the TIOCWINSZ, VT_RESIZE and
VT_RESIZEX ioctl's.  One particular utility, SVGATextMode, expects that
con_resize() of the VGA console will always return success even if the
resulting screen is not compatible with the hardware.  However, this
particular behavior of the VGA console, as reported in Kernel Bugzilla Bug
7513, can cause undefined behavior if the user starts with a console size
larger than 80x25.

To work around this problem, add an extra parameter to con_resize().  This
parameter is ignored by drivers except for vgacon.  If this parameter is
non-zero, then the resize request came from a VT_RESIZE or VT_RESIZEX ioctl
and vgacon will always return success.  If this parameter is zero, vgacon will
return -EINVAL if the requested size is not compatible with the hardware.  The
latter is the more correct behavior.

With this change, SVGATextMode should still work correctly while in-kernel and
stty resize calls can expect correct behavior from vgacon.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-16 09:43:20 -07:00
WANG Cong a59048d463 USB: drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c: kill two unused variables
Kill two unused variables in drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:55:30 -07:00
Andrew Morton 9dcfbd97a6 USB: fix gregkh-usb-usb-sisusb2vga-convert-printk-to-dev_-macros
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c: In function 'sisusb_open':
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c:2444: warning: 'sisusb' is used uninitialized in this function

I can tell that'll oops just by looking at it.

How come this code assume a 7,000 column xterm? :(

Cc: Felipe Balbi <felipe.lima@indt.org.br>
Cc: Thomas <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:55:29 -07:00
Satyam Sharma e6d42f0e96 USB: sisusbvga: Fix bug
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c: In function sisusb_open
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c:2444: warning: sisusb is used uninitialized in this function

is a genuine bug (which will cause oops). We cannot use "sisusb" in
error path for (!interface), because sisusb will itself be derived
from "interface" later.

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:55:25 -07:00
Felipe Balbi 7b5cd5fefb USB: SisUSB2VGA: Convert printk to dev_* macros
This patch convert printk entries to dev_* macros, this provide better
debugging and better readability to the code.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.lima@indt.org.br>
Cc: Thomas <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:55:13 -07:00
Felipe Balbi ecb8b190bc USB: SisUSB2VGA: Lindent drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_struct.h
Better indentation

Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.lima@indt.org.br>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:55:13 -07:00
Felipe Balbi 7c59901421 USB: SisUSB2VGA: Lindent drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_init.h
Better indentation

Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.lima@indt.org.br>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:55:12 -07:00
Felipe Balbi 22b2c526e7 USB: SisUSB2VGA: Lindent drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_init.c
Better indentation

Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.lima@indt.org.br>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:55:11 -07:00
Felipe Balbi 1c1772a260 USB: SisUSB2VGA: Lindent drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.h
Better indentation

Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.lima@indt.org.br>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:55:11 -07:00
Felipe Balbi 2acbd64731 USB: SisUSB2VGA: Mis-spelled word
Trivial fix

Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.lima@indt.org.br>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:55:11 -07:00
Felipe Balbi 9dedd36778 USB: SisUSB2VGA: Remove if 0'ed code
Unused code should be removed. We don't need to increase
the size of the file with dead code inside if 0 statements.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.lima@indt.org.br>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:55:11 -07:00
Felipe Balbi ed86d97068 USB: SisUSB2VGA: Whitespace Cleanups
This patches clean some trailing whitespaces in sisusb2vga
driver.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.lima@indt.org.br>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-12 14:55:10 -07:00
samson yeung ca9024eb6c usb/misc/sisusbvga: add product ID of TARGUS/MCT device
Device is Targus ACP50US which includes a Magic Control Technologies
usb vga device using the SiS315(E) or compatible.

Signed-off-by: Samson Yeung <fragmede@onepatchdown.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-09-11 07:48:14 -07:00
Alan Stern d4ead16f50 USB: prevent char device open/deregister race
This patch (as908) adds central protection in usbcore for the
prototypical race between opening and unregistering a char device.
The spinlock used to protect the minor-numbers array is replaced with
an rwsem, which can remain locked across a call to a driver's open()
method.  This guarantees that open() and deregister() will be mutually
exclusive.

The private locks currently used in several individual drivers for
this purpose are no longer necessary, and the patch removes them.  The
following USB drivers are affected: usblcd, idmouse, auerswald,
legousbtower, sisusbvga/sisusb, ldusb, adutux, iowarrior, and
usb-skeleton.

As a side effect of this change, usb_deregister_dev() must not be
called while holding a lock that is acquired by open().  Unfortunately
a number of drivers do this, but luckily the solution is simple: call
usb_deregister_dev() before acquiring the lock.

In addition to these changes (and their consequent code
simplifications), the patch fixes a use-after-free bug in adutux and a
race between open() and release() in iowarrior.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-12 16:29:48 -07:00
WANG Cong 31990a9d2e SIS USB2VGA Warning fix
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_con.c:1436: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:27 -07:00
Randy Dunlap e63340ae6b header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.

Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Tim Schmielau cd354f1ae7 [PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.

To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:54 -08:00
Andrew Morton c067dfc650 sisusb_con warning fixes
x86_64:

drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_con.c: In function 'sisusbcon_putc':
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_con.c:405: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_con.c: In function 'sisusbcon_putcs':
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_con.c:440: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_con.c: In function 'sisusbcon_clear':
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_con.c:494: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_con.c: In function 'sisusbcon_bmove':
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_con.c:566: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_con.c: In function 'sisusbcon_switch':
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_con.c:614: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_con.c: In function 'sisusbcon_scroll_area':
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_con.c:941: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size

Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-01-05 12:19:10 -08:00
Josef Sipek 33cb899400 [PATCH] struct path: convert usb
Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:50 -08:00
David Howells 7d12e780e0 IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
Dave Jones 038b0a6d8d Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h>
kbuild explicitly includes this at build time.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-10-04 03:38:54 -04:00
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino 066202dd48 USB: Make file operations structs in drivers/usb const.
Making structs const prevents accidental bugs and with the proper debug
options they're protected against corruption.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-27 11:58:52 -07:00
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu 3003b9f789 USB: Support for USB20SVGA-WH & USB20SVGA-DG
This patch is support USB20SVGA-WH & USB20SVGA-DG of the sisusb device.
As for this device, Device ID is different according to the color of the
product.  A blue device is supported. However, a green, white device is
not supported.

http://www.lubic.jp/uv_method.html ( Japanese only ) .

Green, white USB20SVGA comes to work by applying the patch .
And, it  be able to use three USB20SVGA( Blue , Green , White ).

Signed-off-by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <hemamu@t-base.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-07 15:23:04 -07:00
Jörn Engel 6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Adrian Bunk df47e5330b [PATCH] USB: sisusbvga: possible cleanups
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make needlessly global functions static
- function and struct declarations belong into header files
- make SiS_VCLKData const
- #if 0 the following unused global functions:
  - sisusb.c: sisusb_writew()
  - sisusb.c: sisusb_readw()
  - sisusb_init.c: SiSUSB_GetModeID()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-21 15:04:08 -07:00
Arjan van de Ven 2682d27c58 [PATCH] USB: convert the semaphores in the sisusb driver to mutexes
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>

Convert the semaphores-used-as-mutex to mutexes in the sisusb video driver;
this required manual checking due to the "return as locked" stuff in this
driver, but the ->lock semaphore is still used as mutex in the end.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <winischhofer.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-21 15:04:08 -07:00
Pekka Enberg 35cce732d9 [PATCH] USB: remove LINUX_VERSION_CODE macro usage
This patch removes unnecessary LINUX_VERSION_CODE macro usage from
drivers/usb/.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20 14:49:54 -08:00
Oliver Neukum 9ee884cc89 [PATCH] USB: kzalloc in sisusbvga
this does two things:
- use kzalloc where appropriate
- correct error return codes in ioctl

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20 14:49:54 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven 4c4c9432a6 [PATCH] USB: mark various usb tables const
patch below marks various USB tables and variables as const so that they
end up in .rodata section and don't cacheline share with things that get
written to. For the non-array variables it also allows gcc to optimize
more.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 13:51:40 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 9fe6fcd8cc [PATCH] USB: drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c: remove dead code
The Coverity checker found this dead code.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 13:51:40 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 75318d2d7c [PATCH] USB: remove .owner field from struct usb_driver
It is no longer needed, so let's remove it, saving a bit of memory.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 13:48:34 -08:00
Olaf Hering 733482e445 [PATCH] changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no good reason
This patch removes almost all inclusions of linux/version.h.  The 3
#defines are unused in most of the touched files.

A few drivers use the simple KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) macro, which is
unfortunatly in linux/version.h.

There are also lots of #ifdef for long obsolete kernels, this was not
touched.  In a few places, the linux/version.h include was move to where
the LINUX_VERSION_CODE was used.

quilt vi `find * -type f -name "*.[ch]"|xargs grep -El '(UTS_RELEASE|LINUX_VERSION_CODE|KERNEL_VERSION|linux/version.h)'|grep -Ev '(/(boot|coda|drm)/|~$)'`

search pattern:
/UTS_RELEASE\|LINUX_VERSION_CODE\|KERNEL_VERSION\|linux\/\(utsname\|version\).h

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-09 07:55:57 -08:00
Andrew Morton dabb592816 [PATCH] USB: sisusb warning fix
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c: In function `sisusb_reset_text_mode':
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c:2461: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

 drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
2005-10-28 16:47:41 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman d6e5bcf4a7 [PATCH] devfs: Remove the mode field from usb_class_driver as it's no longer needed
Also fixes all drivers that set this field, and removes some other devfs
specfic USB logic.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

 drivers/usb/class/usblp.c           |    3 +--
 drivers/usb/core/file.c             |   19 ++++---------------
 drivers/usb/image/mdc800.c          |    3 +--
 drivers/usb/input/aiptek.c          |    2 +-
 drivers/usb/input/hiddev.c          |    3 +--
 drivers/usb/media/dabusb.c          |    3 +--
 drivers/usb/misc/auerswald.c        |    3 +--
 drivers/usb/misc/idmouse.c          |    5 ++---
 drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c     |    5 ++---
 drivers/usb/misc/rio500.c           |    3 +--
 drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c |    5 -----
 drivers/usb/misc/usblcd.c           |    9 ++++-----
 drivers/usb/usb-skeleton.c          |    3 +--
 include/linux/usb.h                 |    7 ++-----
 14 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
2005-10-28 16:47:37 -07:00
Thomas Winischhofer 1bbb4f2035 [PATCH] USB: sisusb[vga] update
here is a new and extended version of the sisusbvga (previously: sisusb)
driver. The patch is against 2.6.13 and updates the driver to version 0.0.8.

Additions include complete VGA/EGA text console support and a build-in
display mode infrastructure for userland applications that don't know
 about the graphics internals.

Fixes include some BE/LE issues and a get/put_dev bug in the previous
version.

Other changes include a change of the module name from "sisusb" to
"sisusbvga". The previous one was too generic IMHO.

Please note that the patch also affects the Makefile in
drivers/video/console as the driver requires the VGA 8x16 font in case
the text console part is selected.

Heavily tested, as usual. Please apply.

One thing though: I already prepared for removal of the "mode" field and
the changed "name" field in the usb_class_driver structure. This will
perhaps need some refinement depending on whether you/Linus merge the
respective core changes before or after 2.6.14.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-12 12:23:38 -07:00
Alan Stern b375a0495f [PATCH] USB: URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag removed from the kernel
29 July 2005, Cambridge, MA:

This afternoon Alan Stern submitted a patch to remove the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK
flag from the Linux kernel.  Mr. Stern explained, "This flag is a relic
from an earlier, less-well-designed system.  For over a year it hasn't
been used for anything other than printing warning messages."

An anonymous spokesman for the Linux kernel development community
commented, "This is exactly the sort of thing we see happening all the
time.  As the kernel evolves, support for old techniques and old code can
be jettisoned and replaced by newer, better approaches.  Proprietary
operating systems do not have the freedom or flexibility to change so
quickly."

Mr. Stern, a staff member at Harvard University's Rowland Institute who
works on Linux only as a hobby, noted that the patch (labelled as548) did
not update two files, keyspan.c and option.c, in the USB drivers' "serial"
subdirectory.  "Those files need more extensive changes," he remarked.
"They examine the status field of several URBs at times when they're not
supposed to.  That will need to be fixed before the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag
is removed."

Greg Kroah-Hartman, the kernel maintainer responsible for overseeing all
of Linux's USB drivers, did not respond to our inquiries or return our
calls.  His only comment was "Applied, thanks."

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-08 16:23:04 -07:00
Al Viro 5330e9273e [PATCH] size_t portability fixes - drivers/usb
size_t is zu, ssize_t is zd...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-26 11:26:53 -07:00
Thomas Winischhofer cef11127ea [PATCH] USB: new SiS device id
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-22 15:06:59 -07:00
Thomas Winischhofer 7ab7c34c90 [PATCH] USB: new SIS device id
the attached patch adds another USB device ID to the list. Seems the
device is known under multiple IDs.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18 17:39:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00