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Linus Torvalds
61b7efddc5 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spi-2.6 2006-01-14 10:43:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
3e2b32b693 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6 2006-01-14 10:42:40 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
3824ba7df9 [PATCH] remove unused tmp_buf_sem's
tmp_buf_sem sems to be a common name for something completely unused...

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> ("usb portion")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 10:41:42 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
59af70385f Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2006-01-14 09:55:28 -08:00
Paul Mackerras
d5f079000b [PATCH] powerpc: Recognize /chaos bridge on old pmacs as PCI
The first generation of PCI powermacs had a host bridge called /chaos
which was for all intents and purposes a PCI host bridge, but has a
device_type of "vci" in the device tree (presumably it's not really
PCI at the hardware level or something).

The OF parsing stuff in arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_parse.c currently
doesn't recognize it as a PCI bridge, which means that controlfb.c
can't get its device addresses.

This makes prom_parse.c recognize a device_type of "vci" as indicating
a PCI host bridge.  With this, controlfb works again.

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-14 15:08:50 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
b4e7de0f35 powerpc: Avoid unaligned loads and stores in boot memcpy code
The 601 processor will generate an alignment exception for accesses
which cross a page boundary.  In the boot wrapper code, OF is still
handling all exceptions, and it doesn't have an alignment exception
handler that emulates the instruction and continues.

This changes the memcpy and memmove routines in the boot wrapper to
avoid doing unaligned accesses.  If the source and destination are
misaligned with respect to each other, we just copy one byte at a
time.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-14 15:06:51 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
66a45dd362 powerpc: Make COFF zImages for old 32-bit powermacs
This adds code to build zImage.coff and/or zImage.initrd.coff when
CONFIG_PPC32 and CONFIG_PPC_PMAC are defined.  It also restructures
the OF client code and adds some workarounds for OF quirks on the
older machines.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-14 15:04:06 +11:00
David Woodhouse
575e321606 [PATCH] powerpc: Make CHRP build again
This makes CHRP build again, although it's untested because my Pegasos
is currently in pieces.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-14 13:19:18 +11:00
Dave C Boutcher
91dc182ca6 [PATCH] powerpc: special-case ibm,suspend-me RTAS call
Handle the ibm,suspend-me RTAS call specially.  It needs
to be wrapped in a set of synchronization hypervisor calls
(H_Join).  When the H_Join calls are made on all CPUs, the
intent is that only one will return with H_Continue, meaning
that he is the "last man standing".  That CPU then issues the
ibm,suspend-me call.  What is interesting, of course, is that
the CPU running when the rtas syscall is made, may NOT be the
CPU that ultimately executes the ibm,suspend-me rtas call.

Signed-off-by: Dave Boutcher <sleddog@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-14 12:04:25 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
91f62a2491 ppc: Remove duplicate export of get_wchan
The arch/powerpc version of process.c exports get_wchan itself.  When
I moved ARCH=ppc over to using arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c the
get_wchan export in arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c became redundant, so
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
(cherry picked from 9871166ad692121d6b944159ef3f053570158ea8 commit)
2006-01-14 11:48:29 +11:00
David Brownell
8ae12a0d85 [PATCH] spi: simple SPI framework
This is the core of a small SPI framework, implementing the model of a
queue of messages which complete asynchronously (with thin synchronous
wrappers on top).

  - It's still less than 2KB of ".text" (ARM).  If there's got to be a
    mid-layer for something so simple, that's the right size budget.  :)

  - The guts use board-specific SPI device tables to build the driver
    model tree.  (Hardware probing is rarely an option.)

  - This version of Kconfig includes no drivers.  At this writing there
    are two known master controller drivers (PXA/SSP, OMAP MicroWire)
    and three protocol drivers (CS8415a, ADS7846, DataFlash) with LKML
    mentions of other drivers in development.

  - No userspace API.  There are several implementations to compare.
    Implement them like any other driver, and bind them with sysfs.

The changes from last version posted to LKML (on 11-Nov-2005) are minor,
and include:

  - One bugfix (removes a FIXME), with the visible effect of making device
    names be "spiB.C" where B is the bus number and C is the chipselect.

  - The "caller provides DMA mappings" mechanism now has kerneldoc, for
    DMA drivers that want to be fancy.

  - Hey, the framework init can be subsys_init.  Even though board init
    logic fires earlier, at arch_init ... since the framework init is
    for driver support, and the board init support uses static init.

  - Various additional spec/doc clarifications based on discussions
    with other folk.  It adds a brief "thank you" at the end, for folk
    who've helped nudge this framework into existence.

As I've said before, I think that "protocol tweaking" is the main support
that this driver framework will need to evolve.

From: Mark Underwood <basicmark@yahoo.com>

  Update the SPI framework to remove a potential priority inversion case by
  reverting to kmalloc if the pre-allocated DMA-safe buffer isn't available.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 16:29:54 -08:00
Marcelo Tosatti
8f069b1a90 [PATCH] powerpc/8xx: Use 8MB D-TLB's for kernel static mapping faults
The following implements support for instantiation of 8MB D-TLB
entries for the kernel direct virtual mapping on 8xx, thus reducing TLB
space consumed for the kernel.

Test used: writing 40MB from /dev/zero to file in ext2fs over 
RAMDISK.

$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=4k count=10000 

VANILLA			8MB kernel data pages

real    0m11.485s	real    0m11.267s
user    0m0.218s        user    0m0.250s
sys     0m8.939s	sys     0m9.108s

real    0m11.518s	real    0m10.978s
user    0m0.203s 	user    0m0.222s
sys     0m9.585s	sys     0m9.138s

real    0m11.554s	real    0m10.967s
user    0m0.228s    	user    0m0.222s
sys     0m9.497s	sys     0m9.127s

real    0m11.633s	real	0m11.286s
user    0m0.214s	user    0m0.196s
sys     0m9.529s	sys     0m9.134s

and averages for both:

real	11.54750	real 11.12450

Which is a 3.6% improvement in execution time. More improvement is
expected for loads with larger kernel data footprint (real workloads).

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-14 11:14:27 +11:00
Kumar Gala
7d13d21ae8 [PATCH] powerpc: Add MPC834x SYS board to arch/powerpc
Add the first MPC83xx board that uses a flat device tree to arch/powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-14 11:13:24 +11:00
Kumar Gala
eed3200108 [PATCH] powerpc: Add FSL SOC library and setup code
Parse the flat device tree for devices on Freescale SOC's that we know
about (gianfar, gianfar_mdio, i2c, mpc83xx_wdt).  We need to setup
platform devices and platform data for these devices to match arch/ppc
usage.

Also add a helper function (get_immrbase) that reports the base
address of the MMIO registers on the SOC.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-14 11:13:22 +11:00
Kumar Gala
b8e383d592 [PATCH] powerpc: Allow for ppc_md restart, power_off, and halt to be NULL
On a number of embedded reference boards there isn't always a
way to reset, power_off, or halt the board.  Rather than having
each board implement a spin loop just let the generic code do
it.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-14 11:12:23 +11:00
Andy Whitcroft
7a45fb19ce [PATCH] powerpc: oprofile cpu type names clash with other code
In 2.6.15-git6 a change was commited in the oprofile support in
the powerpc architecture.  It introduced the powerpc_oprofile_type
which contains the define G4.  This causes a name clash with the
existing wacom usb tablet driver.

      CC [M]  drivers/usb/input/wacom.o
    drivers/usb/input/wacom.c:98: error: conflicting types for `G4'
    include/asm/cputable.h:37: error: previous declaration of `G4'
      CC [M]  drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.o
    make[3]: *** [drivers/usb/input/wacom.o] Error 1
    make[2]: *** [drivers/usb/input] Error 2

The elements of an enum declared in global scope are effectivly
global identifiers themselves.  As such we need to ensure the names
are unique.  This patch updates the later oprofile support to use
unique names.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-14 11:12:16 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
80f15dc703 powerpc: Provide a suitable AT_PLATFORM value
The glibc folks want to use AT_PLATFORM to select between possible
alternative versions of shared libraries.  This commit makes the kernel
supply an AT_PLATFORM string that indicates what class of processor
we are running on.  Processors with the same set of user-level
instructions and roughly the same instruction scheduling characteristics
are given the same AT_PLATFORM value; for example, 821, 823 and 860
are all reported as "ppc823", and 7447, 7447A, 7448, 7450, 7451, 7455
are all called "ppc7450".

The intention is that the AT_PLATFORM values match the values that
gcc accepts for the -mcpu= option.  For values which are numeric
(e.g. -mcpu=750), "ppc" has been prepended.

This also adds a PPC_FEATURE_BOOKE bit to the AT_HWCAP value and sets
it for the 440 family and the Freescale 85xx family.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-14 10:11:39 +11:00
Andreas Schwab
d50f5c5ca0 [IA64] build broken for ia64 simserial.c
TTY layer buffering revamp broke ia64 in commit
 33f0f88f1c

  CC      arch/ia64/hp/sim/simserial.o
arch/ia64/hp/sim/simserial.c: In function `receive_chars':
arch/ia64/hp/sim/simserial.c:170: error: structure has no member named `flip'
 ... and so on ...
make[1]: *** [arch/ia64/hp/sim/simserial.o] Error 1

Patch from Andreas Schwab.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-13 15:02:33 -08:00
Zhang Yanmin
d3ef1f5aaf [IA64] prevent accidental modification of args in jprobe handler
When jprobe is hit, the function parameters of the original function
should be saved before jprobe handler is executed, and restored it after
jprobe handler is executed, because jprobe handler might change the
register values due to tail call optimization by the gcc.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-13 14:45:21 -08:00
Keith Owens
e026cca0f2 [IA64] Add hotplug cpu to salinfo.c, replace semaphore with mutex
Add hotplug cpu support to salinfo.c.

The cpu_event field is a cpumask so use the cpu_* macros consistently,
replacing the existing mixture of cpu_* and *_bit macros.

Instead of counting the number of outstanding events in a semaphore and
trying to track that count over user space context, interrupt context,
non-maskable interrupt context and cpu hotplug, replace the semaphore
with a test for "any bits set" combined with a mutex.

Modify the locking to make the test for "work to do" an atomic
operation.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-13 14:22:35 -08:00
Jason Uhlenkott
15029285dc [IA64] Handle debug traps in fsys mode
We need to handle debug traps in fsys mode non-fatally.  They can
happen now that we have fsyscalls which contain probe instructions.

Signed-off-by: Jason Uhlenkott <jasonuhl@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-13 14:16:08 -08:00
Prarit Bhargava
6d6e420005 [IA64-SGI] Fix sn_flush_device_kernel & spinlock initialization
This patch separates the sn_flush_device_list struct into kernel and
common (both kernel and PROM accessible) structures.  As it was, if the
size of a spinlock_t changed (due to additional CONFIG options, etc.) the
sal call which populated the sn_flush_device_list structs would erroneously
write data (and cause memory corruption and/or a panic).

This patch does the following:

1.  Removes sn_flush_device_list and adds sn_flush_device_common and
sn_flush_device_kernel.

2.  Adds a new SAL call to populate a sn_flush_device_common struct per
device, not per widget as previously done.

3.  Correctly initializes each device's sn_flush_device_kernel spinlock_t
struct (before it was only doing each widget's first device).

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-13 14:13:08 -08:00
Jack Steiner
cfbb1426bd [IA64] Hole in IA64 TLB flushing from system threads
I originally thought this was an bug only in the SN code, but I think I
also see a hole in the generic IA64 tlb code. (Separate patch was sent
for the SN problem).

It looks like there is a bug in the TLB flushing code. During context switch,
kernel threads (kswapd, for example) inherit the mm of the task that was
previously running on the cpu. Normally, this is ok because the previous context
is still loaded into the RR registers. However, if the owner of the mm
migrates to another cpu, changes it's context number, and references a
page before kswapd issues a tlb_purge for that same page, the purge will be
done with a stale context number (& RR registers).

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-13 14:10:06 -08:00
Russ Anderson
17e8ce0e94 [IA64-SGI] Altix BTE error handling fixes
Altix (shub2) pushes the BTE clean-up into SAL.
This patch correctly interfaces with the now implemented SAL call.
It also fixes a bug when delaying clean-up to allow busy BTEs to
complete (or error out).

Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-13 14:06:53 -08:00
Francois Wellenrieter
8a4b7b6f18 [IA64] Fix conversion of pal_min_state physical address
On return from INIT handler we must convert the address of the
minstate area from a kernel virtual uncached address (0xC...)
to physical uncached (0x8...).  A typo (or thinko?) in the code
converted to physical cached.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-13 14:01:01 -08:00
Russell King
2f53a80fc0 [PATCH] Add vio_bus_type probe and remove methods
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 11:26:07 -08:00
Russell King
79f9fb8886 [PATCH] Add of_platform_bus_type probe and remove methods
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 11:26:06 -08:00
Russell King
c6a09196ba [PATCH] Add sh_bus_type probe and remove methods
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 11:26:06 -08:00
Russell King
91fb53866d [PATCH] Add ocp_bus_type probe and remove methods
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 11:26:06 -08:00
Russell King
ad3ed31c68 [PATCH] Add parisc_bus_type probe and remove methods
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 11:26:06 -08:00
Russell King
83dfb8b675 [PATCH] Add tiocx bus_type probe/remove methods
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 11:26:05 -08:00
Russell King
5c0784c350 [PATCH] Add logic module bus_type probe/remove methods
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 11:26:05 -08:00
Russell King
306955be37 [PATCH] Add locomo bus_type probe/remove methods
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 11:26:05 -08:00
Russell King
2876ba4321 [PATCH] Add SA1111 bus_type probe/remove methods
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 11:26:05 -08:00
Russell King
e08b754161 [PATCH] Add ecard_bus_type probe/remove/shutdown methods
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-13 11:26:05 -08:00
Dean Nelson
9335d48e10 [IA64-SGI] move xpc.h to include/asm-ia64/sn (cleanup)
Cleanup a few items after moving xpc.h from arch/ia64/sn/kernel to
include/asm-ia64/sn.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-13 10:40:23 -08:00
Dean Nelson
87a149d6bb [IA64-SGI] move xpc.h to include/asm-ia64/sn
Move xpc.h from arch/ia64/sn/kernel to include/asm-ia64/sn without change.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-13 10:39:34 -08:00
Dean Nelson
d6ad033a88 [IA64-SGI] move xpc_system_reboot()
Move xpc_system_reboot() to be closer to the file it calls for readability
reasons (which are indeed subjective).

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-13 10:36:27 -08:00
Dean Nelson
1f4674b2d5 [IA64-SGI] ignoring loss of heartbeat while XPC is in kdebug
Allow for the loss of heartbeat while in kdebug to be ignored by remote
partitions.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-13 10:35:02 -08:00
Dean Nelson
0752c670d8 [IA64-SGI] XPC and unregistering from notifier lists
Only unregister from notifier lists if XPC is unloading.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-13 10:33:44 -08:00
Dean Nelson
1ecaded80f [IA64-SGI] cleanup XPC disengage related messages
Cleanup the XPC disengage related messages that are printed to the log.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-13 10:19:14 -08:00
Dean Nelson
246c7e33d5 [IA64-SGI] ensure XPC disengage request is processed
This patch fixes a problem in XPC disengage processing whereby it was not
seeing the request to disengage from a remote partition, so the disengage
wasn't happening. The disengagement is suppose to transpire during the time
a XPC channel is disconnecting, and should be completed before the channel
is declared to be disconnected.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-13 10:16:36 -08:00
Tony Luck
7ae69d2aa4 [IA64] Add stub entry to fsys.S for sys_migrate_pages
When this new syscall was added to ia64 in commit

  39743889aa

fsys.S was forgotten.  Add a ".data8 0" there to keep
it in step.  [Reported by Stephane Eranian]

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-13 10:03:58 -08:00
David Gibson
3356bb9f7b [PATCH] powerpc: Remove lppaca structure from the PACA
At present the lppaca - the structure shared with the iSeries
hypervisor and phyp - is contained within the PACA, our own low-level
per-cpu structure.  This doesn't have to be so, the patch below
removes it, making a separate array of lppaca structures.

This saves approximately 500*NR_CPUS bytes of image size and kernel
memory, because we don't need aligning gap between the Linux and
hypervisor portions of every PACA.  On the other hand it means an
extra level of dereference in many accesses to the lppaca.

The patch also gets rid of several places where we assign the paca
address to a local variable for no particular reason.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-13 21:17:39 +11:00
David Gibson
e58c3495e6 [PATCH] powerpc: Cleanup LOADADDR etc. asm macros
This patch consolidates the variety of macros used for loading 32 or
64-bit constants in assembler (LOADADDR, LOADBASE, SET_REG_TO_*).  The
idea is to make the set of macros consistent across 32 and 64 bit and
to make it more obvious which is the appropriate one to use in a given
situation.  The new macros and their semantics are described in the
comments in ppc_asm.h.

In the process, we change several places that were unnecessarily using
immediate loads on ppc64 to use the GOT/TOC.  Likewise we cleanup a
couple of places where we were clumsily subtracting PAGE_OFFSET with
asm instructions to use assemble-time arithmetic or the toreal() macro
instead.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-13 21:16:23 +11:00
Kumar Gala
7e78e5e502 [PATCH] powerpc: Updated platforms that use gianfar to match driver
The gianfar driver changed how it required MDIO bus and phy id's
to be passed to it.  Also, it no longer passes the physical address
of the MDIO bus.  Instead we have a proper platform device.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-13 21:16:18 +11:00
Tom Rini
135f0b17a7 [PATCH] powerpc/boot: Better use of defaultimage-
The following reworks how defaultimage- is used.  We default to zImage
here and then override it on platforms that need something more (uImage
in the future) or less (vmlinux on iSeries).

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-13 21:14:28 +11:00
Dave C Boutcher
610d91511f [PATCH] powerpc: Add support for changing properties from userspace
Add support to reconfigure the device tree through the existing
proc filesystem interface.  Add "add_property", "remove_property",
and "update_property" commands to the existing interface.

Signed-off-by: Dave Boutcher <sleddog@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-13 21:12:41 +11:00
Dave C Boutcher
ecaa8b0ff3 [PATCH] powerpc: Add of_find_property function
Add an of_find_property function that returns a struct property
given a property name.  Then change the get_property function to
use that routine internally.

Signed-off-by: Dave Boutcher <sleddog@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-13 21:11:57 +11:00
Dave C Boutcher
088186ded4 [PATCH] powerpc: Add/remove/update properties in firmware device tree
Add support for updating and removing device tree
properties.  Since we hand out pointers to properties with gay
abandon, we can't just free the property storage.  Instead we
move deleted, or the old copy of an updated property, to a
"dead properties" list.

Also note, its not feasable to kref device tree properties.
we call get_property() all over the kernel in a wild variety
of contexts.

One consequence of this change is that we now take a
read_lock(&devtree_lock) when doing get_property().

Signed-off-by: Dave Boutcher <sleddog@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-13 21:02:50 +11:00