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2008-01-28introduce WEXT scan capabilitiesDan Williams
Introduce scan capabilities to WEXT so that userspace can do intelligent things with scan behavior such as handling hidden SSIDs more gracefully. If the driver reports a specific scan capability, the driver must respect the options specified in the iw_scan_req structure when handling the SIOCSIWSCAN call, unless it's mode or state does not allow it to do so, in which case it must return an error. This version switches to Dave Kilroy's suggestion of claiming unused padding space for the scan_capa field. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-16hostap: section mismatch warningRandy Dunlap
Fix section mismatch by changing variable name to match one of the whitelisted (allowable) names for pointing into init data: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0xce618): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:prism2_plx_id_table (between 'prism2_plx_drv_id' and 'dev_info') Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-11-10hostap: fix section mismatch warningRandy Dunlap
Fix section mismatch warning: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.data+0x36fcc): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:prism2_pci_id_table (between 'prism2_pci_drv_id' and 'prism2_pci_funcs') Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-19Use helpers to obtain task pid in printksPavel Emelyanov
The task_struct->pid member is going to be deprecated, so start using the helpers (task_pid_nr/task_pid_vnr/task_pid_nr_ns) in the kernel. The first thing to start with is the pid, printed to dmesg - in this case we may safely use task_pid_nr(). Besides, printks produce more (much more) than a half of all the explicit pid usage. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: git-drm went and changed lots of stuff] Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19define global BIT macroJiri Slaby
define global BIT macro move all local BIT defines to the new globally define macro. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-14long vs. unsigned long - low-hanging fruits in driversAl Viro
deal with signedness of the stuff passed to set_bit() et.al. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-10[PATCH] Add Linksys card to HostAP driverMarcin Juszkiewicz
Socket 1: product info: "The Linksys Group, Inc.", "Wireless Network CF Card", "ISL37300P", "RevA" manfid: 0x0274, 0x3301 Signed-off-by: Marcin Juszkiewicz <openembedded@haerwu.biz> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[PATCH] hostap_cs: Add device ID for Telekom T-Sinus 111cardStefan Lippers-Hollmann
This adds the PCMCIA device ID for the Deutsche Telekom T-Sinus 111card to hostap_cs. $ /sbin/lspcmcia -v [...] Socket 0 Device 0: [hostap_cs] (bus ID: 0.0) Configuration: state: on Product Name: T-Sinus 111card 2.0.0 Identification: manf_id: 0x01bf card_id: 0x3301 function: 6 (network) prod_id(1): "T-Sinus" (0x8c389dc1) prod_id(2): "111card" (0x6a23ac17) prod_id(3): --- (---) prod_id(4): "2.0.0" (0x92b9effb) Signed-off-by: Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.l-h@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[HOSTAP]: set netdev type before registering AP interfaceDaniel Drake
As detailed at https://bugs.gentoo.org/159646 hostap with hostapd confuses udev by presenting 2 interfaces with the same MAC address. Also, at the time of detection, the 'type' attribute is 1, identical to other hostap interfaces. The AP interface is supposed to have type ARPHRD_IEEE80211 (801), but this is not set until after registration. Setting it before register_netdev() is called allows us to avoid this confusion. We can do this by propogating the HOSTAP_INTERFACE type through to hostap_setup_dev(). Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Move hardware header operations out of netdevice.Stephen Hemminger
Since hardware header operations are part of the protocol class not the device instance, make them into a separate object and save memory. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Introduce and use print_mac() and DECLARE_MAC_BUF()Joe Perches
This is nicer than the MAC_FMT stuff. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10drivers/net/: all drivers/net/ cleanup with ARRAY_SIZEDenis Cheng
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10[PATCH] dev->priv to netdev_priv(dev), for drivers/net/wirelessYoann Padioleau
Replacing accesses to dev->priv to netdev_priv(dev). The replacment is safe when netdev_priv is used to access a private structure that is right next to the net_device structure in memory. Cf http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.development.system/browse_thread/thread/de19321bcd94dbb8/0d74a4adcd6177bd This is the case when the net_device structure was allocated with a call to alloc_netdev or one of its derivative. Signed-off-by: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr> Cc: mcgrof@gmail.com Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[PATCH] Use mutex instead of semaphore in the Host AP driverMatthias Kaehlcke
The Host AP driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API instead of the (binary) semaphore. Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com> Acked-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make /proc/net per network namespaceEric W. Biederman
This patch makes /proc/net per network namespace. It modifies the global variables proc_net and proc_net_stat to be per network namespace. The proc_net file helpers are modified to take a network namespace argument, and all of their callers are fixed to pass &init_net for that argument. This ensures that all of the /proc/net files are only visible and usable in the initial network namespace until the code behind them has been updated to be handle multiple network namespaces. Making /proc/net per namespace is necessary as at least some files in /proc/net depend upon the set of network devices which is per network namespace, and even more files in /proc/net have contents that are relevant to a single network namespace. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-11PCI: remove useless pci driver methodDavid Brownell
Remove pointless and never-called enable_wake() hook from pci_driver and from documentation. Evidently this was introduced in the 2.4.6 kernel, but there's no evidence it was ever called; and it was rarely implemented. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-08[PATCH] hostap: Remove driver version numberJouni Malinen
The driver version number has not been updated since the driver was included in the main kernel tree and there is no plan on updating this in the future either. At this point, the only correct way to refer to the version is to use the kernel version. The 0.4.4 version is confusing since there are external version with higher version number even though they are not actually any newer than the in-tree version. Let's get rid of the version number in the kernel tree in order to avoid this kind of confusion. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-08[PATCH] hostap: Use list_for_each_entryMatthias Kaehlcke
Use list_for_each_entry() instead of manual iteration and substitute some list_for_each() loops with list_for_each_entry(). Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-08[PATCH] hostap: Suppress broadcast if no stations are associatedPavel Roskin
This may be useful in mesh setups when most stations act as repeaters only. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-05-29[PATCH] hostap: Allocate enough tailroom for TKIPBrandon Craig Rhodes
When hostap_tx_encrypt() tries to allocate enough headroom and tailroom for ieee80211 encryption, it only makes enough room for the "mpdu" phase of the operation, but forgets about the "msdu" phase. (For TKIP, these two phases require, respectively, 4 and 8 bytes of tailroom, per the "ieee80211_crypt_tkip" structure at the bottom of net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c.) Signed-off-by: Brandon Craig Rhodes <brandon@rhodesmill.org> Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-05-08header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not usedRandy Dunlap
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>
2007-04-28[PATCH] hostap_cs: support ADLINK 345 CFMarcin Juszkiewicz
Add ADLINK 345 CF card into hostap_cs product info: "ADLINK 345 CF" manfid 0xd601, 0x0005 Signed-off-by: Marcin Juszkiewicz <openembedded@hrw.one.pl> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-04-28[PATCH] Update my email address from jkmaline@cc.hut.fi to j@w1.fiJouni Malinen
After 13 years of use, it looks like my email address is finally going to disappear. While this is likely to drop the amount of incoming spam greatly ;-), it may also affect more appropriate messages, so let's update my email address in various places. In addition, Host AP mailing list is subscribers-only and linux-wireless can also be used for discussing issues related to this driver which is now shown in MAINTAINERS. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-04-28[PATCH] hostap: Add D-Link DWL-650 Rev. P1 product idJouni Malinen
It looks like some of the PC Card manfid/product strings were lost when Host AP driver was converted to use PCMCIA_DEVICE_* helpers. This patch adds back D-Link DWL-650 Rev. P1 using the same product ID string match as the pcmcia-cs/cardmgr configuration used before. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-04-28[PATCH] hostap: use offsetof() instead of own equivalentPavel Roskin
The original macros result in gcc 4.2 warning about "cast from pointer to integer of different size" on 64-bit systems. Use of offsetof() on fields in substructures is widespread throughout the kernel code and should work whether offsetof() is defined using __compiler_offsetof() or a cast. Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-04-25[WIRELESS]: Refactor wireless Kconfig.Johannes Berg
This patch refactors the wireless Kconfig all over and already introduces net/wireless/Kconfig with just the WEXT bit for now, the cfg80211 patch will add to that as well. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_from_linear_data{_offset}Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
To clearly state the intent of copying from linear sk_buffs, _offset being a overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->end to sk_buff_data_tArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Now to convert the last one, skb->data, that will allow many simplifications and removal of some of the offset helpers. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Convert skb->tail to sk_buff_data_tArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
So that it is also an offset from skb->head, reduces its size from 8 to 4 bytes on 64bit architectures, allowing us to combine the 4 bytes hole left by the layer headers conversion, reducing struct sk_buff size to 256 bytes, i.e. 4 64byte cachelines, and since the sk_buff slab cache is SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN... :-) Many calculations that previously required that skb->{transport,network, mac}_header be first converted to a pointer now can be done directly, being meaningful as offsets or pointers. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: unions of just one member don't get anything done, kill themArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Renaming skb->h to skb->transport_header, skb->nh to skb->network_header and skb->mac to skb->mac_header, to match the names of the associated helpers (skb[_[re]set]_{transport,network,mac}_header). Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_network_header(skb)Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
For the common, open coded 'skb->nh.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can later turn skb->nh.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in 64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit. This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more "complex" cases. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_mac_header()Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
For the places where we need a pointer to the mac header, it is still legal to touch skb->mac.raw directly if just adding to, subtracting from or setting it to another layer header. This one also converts some more cases to skb_reset_mac_header() that my regex missed as it had no spaces before nor after '=', ugh. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_mac_header(skb)Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
For the common, open coded 'skb->mac.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can later turn skb->mac.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in 64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit. This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more "complex" cases. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25[ETH]: Make eth_type_trans set skb->dev like the other *_type_transArnaldo Carvalho de Melo
One less thing for drivers writers to worry about. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-02-17Merge branch 'upstream' into upstream-jgarzikJohn W. Linville
Conflicts: net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_module.c net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c
2007-02-14[PATCH] hostap: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro when appropriateAhmed S. Darwish
A patch to use ARRAY_SIZE macro in the Host AP wireless driver. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-02-07Network: convert network devices to use struct device instead of class_deviceGreg Kroah-Hartman
This lets the network core have the ability to handle suspend/resume issues, if it wants to. Thanks to Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com> for the arm driver fixes. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-13[PATCH] getting rid of all casts of k[cmz]alloc() callsRobert P. J. Day
Run this: #!/bin/sh for f in $(grep -Erl "\([^\)]*\) *k[cmz]alloc" *) ; do echo "De-casting $f..." perl -pi -e "s/ ?= ?\([^\)]*\) *(k[cmz]alloc) *\(/ = \1\(/" $f done And then go through and reinstate those cases where code is casting pointers to non-pointers. And then drop a few hunks which conflicted with outstanding work. Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz> Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07Merge branch 'upstream' of ↵Jeff Garzik
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into upstream Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.h net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c
2006-12-06Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Howells
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/pcmcia/ds.c Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compile failures. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-05[PATCH] hostap: replace kmalloc+memset with kzallocYan Burman
Replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc Signed-off-by: Yan Burman <burman.yan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-12-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Howells
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c drivers/usb/core/hub.h drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c net/core/netpoll.c Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-04[PATCH] pcmcia: conf.ConfigBase and conf.Present consolidationDominik Brodowski
struct pcmcia_device *p_dev->conf.ConfigBase and .Present are set in almost all PCMICA driver right at the beginning, using the same calls but slightly different implementations. Unfiy this in the PCMCIA core. Includes a small bugfix ("drivers/net/pcmcia/xirc2ps_cs.c: remove unused label") from and Signed-off-by Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-12-04[PATCH] pcmcia: remove manf_id and card_id indirectionDominik Brodowski
As we read out the manufactor and card_id from the PCMCIA device in the PCMCIA core, and device drivers can access those reliably in struct pcmcia_device's fields manf_id and card_id, remove additional (and partly broken) manf_id and card_id detection logic from PCMCIA device drivers. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-12-02[PATCH] wireless: clean-up some "check return code" warningsJohn W. Linville
Clean-up some warnings from missing return code checks, mostly from calling pci_enable_device during a PCI resume. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-11-22WorkStruct: make allyesconfigDavid Howells
Fix up for make allyesconfig. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-10-31[PATCH] hostap_plx: fix CIS verificationPavel Roskin
The length of the manfid CIS should be at least 4, and it's normally 4. It's incorrect to require it to be at least 5. This breaks support for most (if not all) cards. The right place to ensure that we don't access beyond the CIS buffer is to strengthen another check. Make sure that the next tuple begins at least at the CIS buffer end (in which case we stop processing) or before that. Reported by ph35sm@free.fr Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2006-10-25[PATCH] pcmcia: add more IDs to hostap_cs.cDominik Brodowski
As a replacement for the broad manufactor/card ID match we commented out because of conflicts with pcnet_cs, add two product ID matches. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-10-05IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlersDavid Howells
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)
2006-09-25[PATCH] WE-21 for hostapJean Tourrilhes
Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>