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shemminger@osdl.org
bb507fe11f [PATCH] sky2: MSI test timing
The test for MSI IRQ could have timing issues. The PCI write needs to be
pushed out before waiting, and the wait queue should be initialized before
the IRQ.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-08-29 17:18:30 -04:00
shemminger@osdl.org
97bda706b4 [PATCH] sky2: dont use force status bit
Don't use force status bit. It was never implemented on all chips, or has
no impact.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-08-29 17:18:29 -04:00
shemminger@osdl.org
497d7c8681 [PATCH] sky2: use netdev_alloc_skb
Use netdev_alloc_skb for buffer allocation to allow for headroom.
This prevents bugs in code paths that assume extra space at the
front and makes sky2 behave like other drivers.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-08-29 17:18:29 -04:00
shemminger@osdl.org
fba5008cda [PATCH] sky2: remove cloned/pskb_expand_head check
The code to handle cloned skb overwriting is unnecessary in the
sky2 driver and is buggy. The bug is that pskb_expand_head can change the
skb but the driver has already mapped in the header.

Since the sky2 hardware doesn't need to overwrite memory, the buggy
code can just be removed; it was mistakenly copied from the tg3
driver.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-08-29 17:18:29 -04:00
Larry Finger
c576af4791 [PATCH] bcm43xx: Set floor of wireless signal and noise at -110 dBm
This patch sets the floor of wireless level (signal) and noise at
-110 dBm, which makes them be comatible with RCPI, as discussed by
Simon Barber. With this change, bcm43xx-softmac and bcm43xx-d80211
behave the same.

Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:34 -04:00
Larry Finger
653d5b55c0 [PATCH] bcm43xx - set correct value in mac_suspended for ifdown/ifup sequence
When bcm43xx-softmac is given an ifdown/ifup sequence, the value for
bcm->mac_suspended ends up wrong, which leads to a large number of
assert(bcm->mac_suspended>=0) messages. This one-line patch fixes
this problem.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:34 -04:00
Zhu Yi
efa7e0691f [PATCH] ipw2200: Fix compile error when CONFIG_IPW2200_DEBUG is not selected
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:34 -04:00
Zhu Yi
8b5f9171f6 [PATCH] ipw2200: Update version stamp to 1.1.4
Update version ipw2200 stamp to 1.1.4

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:34 -04:00
Zhu Yi
094c4d2df6 [PATCH] ipw2200: enable wireless extension passive scan
This patch enables the ipw2200 driver to support passive scanning as
offered by the wireless extensions. For this, I enhanced the ipw_wx_set_scan
function in such a way that it differentiates between a passive and an
active scan request. Additionally, I added a new function called
ipw_request_passive_scan that is similiar to the ipw_request_scan
function to perform passive scans. Last but not least, I added a field
(in fact it is a work_struct struct) called request_passive_scan to
the ipw_priv struct.

Signed-off-by: Thomas King <king@informatik.uni-mannheim.de>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:34 -04:00
Zhu Yi
efbd809829 [PATCH] ipw2100: Fix deadlock detected by lockdep
Fix by removing dependency between priv->action_sem and rtnl semaphore.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:33 -04:00
Zhu Yi
c8c22c942e [PATCH] ipw2200: Add pci .shutdown handler
If we don't disable the card in the pci .shutdown method, there might be
pending interrupts still in the interrupt line after a reboot on some
platform. This patch fixes the problem by disable the hardware in the pci
.shutdown method.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:33 -04:00
Zhu Yi
b9bec768c3 [PATCH] ipw2200: Fix kernel Oops if cmdlog debug is enabled
When command error log debug is enabled, we write every host command and
parameters into a buffer. But we didn't alloc the parameter buffer for this
case. The patch adds struct cmdlog_host_cmd so that the buffer is allocated
from the stack.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:33 -04:00
Zhu Yi
d5f7ac2039 [PATCH] ipw2200: mark "iwconfig retry 255" as invalid
The ipw2200 firmware/ucode only support values from 0 to 254. So mark 255
as invalid.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:33 -04:00
Zhu Yi
88a93df4cb [PATCH] ipw2200: remove the MAC timestamp present field from radiotap head
IEEE80211_RADIOTAP_TSFT is defined as the Value in microseconds of the
MAC's 64-bit 802.11 Time Synchronization Function timer when the first bit
of the MPDU arrived at the MAC. Since ipw2200 hardware doesn't provide this
value, we disable this feature from the radiotap header present flag.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:32 -04:00
Zhu Yi
851ca2687e [PATCH] ipw2200: Fix ipw2200 QOS parameters endian issue
Signed-off-by: Jackie Wu <jackie.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:32 -04:00
Zhu Yi
39be0aaf20 [PATCH] ipw2200: remove unused struct ipw_rx_buffer
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:32 -04:00
Zhu Yi
a9f0d42321 [PATCH] ipw2200: Reassociate even if set the same essid.
This patch traps the case when the essid is being set to its
current value. If the essid is being set again and we are already
associated, chances are some other parameters have also been altered.
I think it is safer to do the re-association for this case.

Signed-off-by: Bill Moss <bmoss@clemson.edu>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:32 -04:00
Zhu Yi
ab644b0b51 [PATCH] ipw2200: ipw_wx_set_essid fix
This patch cleanups the ipw_wx_set_essid code and forces a reassociation
when setting the essid to "any". I have tested this patch with iwconfig. It
makes ipw2200 compliant with all the cases mentioned in the iwconfig man
page. The commands

iwconfig iface essid any
iwconfig iface essid -- any
iwconfig iface essid off
iwconfig iface essid on

all seemed to work correctly. None of this worked before the patch.

Note, this patch treats

iwconfig iface essid
iwconfig iface essid ""

The same. It produces an error message: essid: Unknown host.
Since an essid of "" is not mentioned in the iwconfig man page.

Signed-off-by: Bill Moss <bmoss@clemson.edu>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:31 -04:00
Zhu Yi
c580f67fd7 [PATCH] ipw2200: SIOCGIWFREQ ioctl returns frequency rather than channel
The SIOCGIWFREQ ioctl fills the request structure's freq field by setting
the exponent to 0 and the mantissa to the current channel number. The
iwconfig tool works around this behaviour by looking up the frequency
from the channel table if a frequency below 1kHz is returned, other tools
(e.g. kwlaninfo) don't. According to the comment in the iwconfig source
the driver is supposed to return the frequency, not the channel number.

Signed-off-by: Ingo van Lil <inguin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:31 -04:00
Zhu Yi
01d478338f [PATCH] ipw2200: always enable frequently used debugging code
Moving part of the debugging code from IPW_DEBUG to IPW_LL_DEBUG (low level
debugging) and make IPW_DEBUG be always enabled. IPW_LL_DEBUG still needs
to be enabled by selecting CONFIG_IPW2200_DEBUG. But it is highly
deprecated for normal users since it adds higher debug verbosity in driver
hot paths.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:31 -04:00
Larry Finger
b6971c2191 [PATCH] bcm43xx: return correct hard_start_xmit error code
hard_start_xmit should return a NETIF_TX_FOO error code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:30 -04:00
Larry Finger
80b60fa848 [PATCH] bcm43xx: optimization of DMA bitfields
Convert the bitfields in the bcm43xx DMA code to properly
aligned u8 booleans. These flags are accessed in the DMA
hotpath, so it's a good idea to waste a few bytes of memory
for the sake of speed by not requiring masking (and probably
shifting) of the bitfields.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:29 -04:00
Pavel Roskin
9c974fb1a4 [PATCH] orinoco: include linux/if_arp.h directly
Don't rely on linux/if_arp.h being included by other headers

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:29 -04:00
Pavel Roskin
821fe6831c [PATCH] orinoco: Don't use "extern inline" on locking functions
SPARC architecture has been fixed, so it's no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:29 -04:00
Michael Buesch
7a9b8cdacf [PATCH] bcm43xx: re-add bcm43xx_rng_init() call
Calls to bcm43xx_rng_init() and bcm43xx_rng_exit() got
lost due to merge trouble. Re-add them.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:28 -04:00
Michael Buesch
9218e02bd4 [PATCH] bcm43xx: >1G and 64bit DMA support
This is a rewrite of the bcm43xx DMA engine. It adds support
for >1G of memory (for chips that support the extension bits)
and 64-bit DMA (for chips that support it).

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:28 -04:00
Sukadev Bhattiprolu
3b4c7d6403 [PATCH] kthread: airo.c
The airo driver is currently caching a pid for later use, but with the
implementation of containers, pids themselves do not uniquely identify a
task.  The driver is also using kernel_thread() which is deprecated in
drivers.

This patch essentially replaces the kernel_thread() with kthread_create().
It also stores the task_struct of the airo_thread rather than its pid.
Since this introduces a second task_struct in struct airo_info, the patch
renames airo_info.task to airo_info.list_bss_task.

As an extension of these changes, the patch further:

	 - replaces kill_proc() with kthread_stop()
	 - replaces signal_pending() with kthread_should_stop()
	 - removes thread completion synchronisation which is handled by
	   kthread_stop().

[akpm@osdl.org: fix races]
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Javier Achirica <achirica@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-08-29 17:06:28 -04:00
John W. Linville
e4ac2663ea Merge branch 'from-linus' into upstream 2006-08-29 16:17:25 -04:00
James Bottomley
2908d778ab [SCSI] aic94xx: new driver
This is the end point of the separate aic94xx driver based on the
original driver and transport class from Luben Tuikov
<ltuikov@yahoo.com>

The log of the separate development is:

Alexis Bruemmer:
  o aic94xx: fix hotplug/unplug for expanderless systems
  o aic94xx: disable split completion timer/setting by default
  o aic94xx: wide port off expander support
  o aic94xx: remove various inline functions
  o aic94xx: use bitops
  o aic94xx: remove queue comment
  o aic94xx: remove sas_common.c
  o aic94xx: sas remove depot's
  o aic94xx: use available list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse()
  o aic94xx: sas header file merge

James Bottomley:
  o aic94xx: fix TF_TMF_NO_CTX processing
  o aic94xx: convert to request_firmware interface
  o aic94xx: fix hotplug/unplug
  o aic94xx: add link error counts to the expander phys
  o aic94xx: add transport class phy reset capability
  o aic94xx: remove local_attached flag
  o Remove README
  o Fixup Makefile variable for libsas rename
  o Rename sas->libsas
  o aic94xx: correct return code for sas_discover_event
  o aic94xx: use parent backlink port
  o aic94xx: remove channel abstraction
  o aic94xx: fix routing algorithms
  o aic94xx: add backlink port
  o aic94xx: fix cascaded expander properties
  o aic94xx: fix sleep under lock
  o aic94xx: fix panic on module removal in complex topology
  o aic94xx: make use of the new sas_port
  o rename sas_port to asd_sas_port
  o Fix for eh_strategy_handler move
  o aic94xx: move entirely over to correct transport class formulation
  o remove last vestages of sas_rphy_alloc()
  o update for eh_timed_out move
  o Preliminary expander support for aic94xx
  o sas: remove event thread
  o minor warning cleanups
  o remove last vestiges of id mapping arrays
  o Further updates
  o Convert aic94xx over entirely to the transport class end device and
  o update aic94xx/sas to use the new sas transport class end device
  o [PATCH] aic94xx: attaching to the sas transport class
  o Add missing completion removal from prior patch
  o [PATCH] aic94xx: attaching to the sas transport class
  o Build fixes from akpm

Jeff Garzik:
  o [scsi aic94xx] Remove ->owner from PCI info table

Luben Tuikov:
  o initial aic94xx driver

Mike Anderson:
  o aic94xx: fix panic on module insertion
  o aic94xx: stub out SATA_DEV case
  o aic94xx: compile warning cleanups
  o aic94xx: sas_alloc_task
  o aic94xx: ref count update
  o aic94xx nexus loss time value
  o [PATCH] aic94xx: driver assertion in non-x86 BIOS env

Randy Dunlap:
  o libsas: externs not needed

Robert Tarte:
  o aic94xx: sequence patch - fixes SATA support

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-08-29 09:52:29 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
d96299537e Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial:
  [SERIAL] Support for Intashield 2 port PCI serial card
2006-08-28 20:19:55 -07:00
Auke Kok
1db2740d78 e1000: Use module param array code
Use module param array code to distinguish between defaults and user
specified values.

Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
2006-08-28 14:56:32 -07:00
Auke Kok
e7b4411704 e1000: remove unused part_num reading code
Remove the code that reads part_num from the EEPROM. This part number
is never displayed or queryable by the user.

Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
2006-08-28 14:56:30 -07:00
Auke Kok
3d1dd8cb23 e1000: error out if we cannot enable PCI device on resume
Do not ignore errors returned by pci_enable_device, instead error out.

Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
2006-08-28 14:56:27 -07:00
Vasily Averin
3fbbc72ef1 e1000: ring buffers resources cleanup
Memory leak was found in 2.6.18-rc4 and e1000 7.2.7 from sourceforge: We
should free resources allocated for previous rings if following allocation
fails.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
2006-08-28 14:56:24 -07:00
Vasily Averin
6dd62ab063 e1000: e1000_probe resources cleanup
Fix resources cleanup in e1000_probe()

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
2006-08-28 14:56:22 -07:00
Vasily Averin
401a552b8b e1000: IRQ resources cleanup
irq leak was found in 2.6.18-rc4 and e1000 7.2.7 from sourceforge: if
e1000_up fails in e1000_open() we do not free allocated irq

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
2006-08-28 14:56:19 -07:00
Auke Kok
8fc897b00a e1000: Whitespace cleanup, cosmetic changes
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
2006-08-28 14:56:16 -07:00
James Bottomley
f4ad7b5807 [SCSI] scsi_transport_sas: remove local_attached flag
This flag denotes local attachment of the phy.  There are two problems
with it:

1) It's actually redundant ... you can get the same information simply
by seeing whether a host is the phys parent
2) we condition a lot of phy parameters on it on the false assumption
that we can only control local phys.  I'm wiring up phy resets in the
aic94xx now, and it will be able to reset non-local phys as well.

I fixed 2) by moving the local check into the reset and stats function
of the mptsas, since that seems to be the only HBA that can't
(currently) control non-local phys.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-08-27 22:30:11 -05:00
James Bottomley
8ce7a9c159 Merge ../linux-2.6 2006-08-27 21:59:59 -05:00
Alan Cox
01da5fd83d [PATCH] Fix tty layer DoS and comment relevant code
Unlike the other tty comment patch this one has code changes.  Specifically
it limits the queue size for a tty to 64K characters (128Kbytes) worst case
even if the tty is ignoring tty->throttle.  This is because certain drivers
don't honour the throttle value correctly, although it is a useful
safeguard anyway.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:34 -07:00
Alan Cox
af9b897ee6 [PATCH] tty layer comment the locking assumptions and functions somewhat
Doesn't fix them but does show up some interesting areas that need review
and fixing.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:34 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
9c275a8391 [PATCH] cdrom/gdsc: fix printk format warning
Fix printk format warning:
drivers/cdrom/gscd.c:269: warning: format ‘%lu’ expects type ‘long unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘unsigned int’

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:33 -07:00
Andrew Morton
f5ef68da5f [PATCH] /proc/meminfo: don't put spaces in names
None of the other /proc/meminfo lines have a space in the identifier.  This
post-2.6.17 addition has the potential to break existing parsers, so use an
underscore instead (like Committed_AS).

Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:33 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
36e8e57832 [PATCH] lockdep: annotate idescsi_pc_intr()
idescsi_pc_intr() uses local_irq_enable() in IRQ context: annotate it.

(this has no effect on kernels with lockdep disabled.  On kernels with lockdep
enabled this means that we wont actually disable interrupts, and the warning
message will go away as well.)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:32 -07:00
NeilBrown
6394cca548 [PATCH] md: fix recent breakage of md/raid1 array checking
A recent patch broke the ability to do a user-request check of a raid1.
This patch fixes the breakage and also moves a comment that was dislocated
by the same patch.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:31 -07:00
NeilBrown
8469219596 [PATCH] md: avoid backward event updates in md superblock when degraded.
If we
  - shut down a clean array,
  - restart with one (or more) drive(s) missing
  - make some changes
  - pause, so that they array gets marked 'clean',
the event count on the superblock of included drives
will be the same as that of the removed drives.
So adding the removed drive back in will cause it
to be included with no resync.

To avoid this, we only update the eventcount backwards when the array
is not degraded.  In this case there can (should) be no non-connected
drives that we can get confused with, and this is the particular case
where updating-backwards is valuable.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:31 -07:00
Jonathan McDowell
fb8d81e477 [PATCH] MTD NAND: Fix ams-delta after core conversion
The recent hwctrl core conversion for MTD NAND devices broke the Amstrad
Delta driver.  This fixes it up and uses the existing control line defines
rather than unclear magic numbers.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:30 -07:00
Samuel Thibault
533475d3d4 [PATCH] vcsa attribute bits -> ioctl(VT_GETHIFONTMASK)
When reading /dev/vcsa while a font with more than 256 characters is
loaded, one of the attribute bits records the 9th bit of the character.
But depending on the console driver (vgacon or fbcon for instance), that's
bit 3 or bit 0.  And there is no way for userland to know that, thus no way
for userland to safely grab the screen content.  So here is a (tested)
patch:

Add a VT_GETHIFONTMASK ioctl for knowing which bit is the 9th bit for VC
text (vc_hi_font_mask field of the vc_data structure).

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:29 -07:00
Paul A. Clarke
b8cf368944 [PATCH] matroxfb: fix jittery display on non-ppc systems
I wish I was happier about this patch.  It'll serve as a placeholder for
the moment.  I'm still trying to get a G550 working in order to even
reproduce the problem this patch introduces.  I find that the G450 has
jitter even without this patch, so it won't show me what the patch changed.
 At this point, I'll continue trying to get the G550 to work, and in
parallel work with the G450 to work out the kinks.

The patch is below.

Set XDVICLKCTRL only on PPC, as doing this apparently introduces jitter on
the G550, at least on x86 architectures.

Signed-off-by: Paul A. Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:29 -07:00
Dirk Eibach
01cfaf0d12 [PATCH] char/moxa.c: fix endianess and multiple-card issues
While testing Moxa C218T/PCI on PowerPC 405EP I found that loading firmware
using the linux kernel driver fails because calculation of the checksum is
not endianess independent in the original code.

After I fixed this I found that uploading firmware in a system with
multiple cards causes a kernel oops.  I had a look in the recent moxa
sources and found that they do some kind of locking there.  Applying this
lock fixed the problem.

Alan sayeth:

  Checksum changes are clearly correct.  Other changes is an improvement but
  not I think enough to handle malicious firmware attacks.  That said such an
  attacker has CAP_SYS_RAWIO anyway so that part is irrelevant except for
  neatness.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Dirk Eibach <eibach@gdsys.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-08-27 11:01:29 -07:00