Here's the big driver core / sysfs update for 3.15-rc1.
Lots of kernfs updates to make it useful for other subsystems, and a few
other tiny driver core patches.
All have been in linux-next for a while.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-3.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core and sysfs updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the big driver core / sysfs update for 3.15-rc1.
Lots of kernfs updates to make it useful for other subsystems, and a
few other tiny driver core patches.
All have been in linux-next for a while"
* tag 'driver-core-3.15-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (42 commits)
Revert "sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()"
kernfs: cache atomic_write_len in kernfs_open_file
numa: fix NULL pointer access and memory leak in unregister_one_node()
Revert "driver core: synchronize device shutdown"
kernfs: fix off by one error.
kernfs: remove duplicate dir.c at the top dir
x86: align x86 arch with generic CPU modalias handling
cpu: add generic support for CPU feature based module autoloading
sysfs: create bin_attributes under the requested group
driver core: unexport static function create_syslog_header
firmware: use power efficient workqueue for unloading and aborting fw load
firmware: give a protection when map page failed
firmware: google memconsole driver fixes
firmware: fix google/gsmi duplicate efivars_sysfs_init()
drivers/base: delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h>
kernfs: fix kernfs_node_from_dentry()
ACPI / platform: drop redundant ACPI_HANDLE check
kernfs: fix hash calculation in kernfs_rename_ns()
kernfs: add CONFIG_KERNFS
sysfs, kobject: add sysfs wrapper for kernfs_enable_ns()
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* For the very latest on DRI development, please see: *
* http://dri.freedesktop.org/ *
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The Direct Rendering Manager (drm) is a device-independent kernel-level
device driver that provides support for the XFree86 Direct Rendering
Infrastructure (DRI).
The DRM supports the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) in four major
ways:
1. The DRM provides synchronized access to the graphics hardware via
the use of an optimized two-tiered lock.
2. The DRM enforces the DRI security policy for access to the graphics
hardware by only allowing authenticated X11 clients access to
restricted regions of memory.
3. The DRM provides a generic DMA engine, complete with multiple
queues and the ability to detect the need for an OpenGL context
switch.
4. The DRM is extensible via the use of small device-specific modules
that rely extensively on the API exported by the DRM module.
Documentation on the DRI is available from:
http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Documentation
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=387
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/
For specific information about kernel-level support, see:
The Direct Rendering Manager, Kernel Support for the Direct Rendering
Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/drm_low_level.html
Hardware Locking for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/hardware_locking_low_level.html
A Security Analysis of the Direct Rendering Infrastructure
http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/security_low_level.html
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