no_llseek had been defined to NULL two years ago, in commit 868941b144
("fs: remove no_llseek")
To quote that commit,
At -rc1 we'll need do a mechanical removal of no_llseek -
git grep -l -w no_llseek | grep -v porting.rst | while read i; do
sed -i '/\<no_llseek\>/d' $i
done
would do it.
Unfortunately, that hadn't been done. Linus, could you do that now, so
that we could finally put that thing to rest? All instances are of the
form
.llseek = no_llseek,
so it's obviously safe.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
receive_buf() is called from ttyport_receive_buf() that expects values
">= 0" from serdev_controller_receive_buf(), change its return type from
ssize_t to size_t.
The need for this clean-up was noticed while fixing a warning, see
commit 94d0539425 ("Bluetooth: btnxpuart: fix recv_buf() return value").
Changing the callback prototype to return an unsigned seems the best way
to document the API and ensure that is properly used.
GNSS drivers implementation of serdev receive_buf() callback return
directly the return value of gnss_insert_raw(). gnss_insert_raw()
returns a signed int, however this is not an issue since the value
returned is always positive, because of the kfifo_in() implementation.
gnss_insert_raw() could be changed to return also an unsigned, however
this is not implemented here as request by the GNSS maintainer Johan
Hovold.
Suggested-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/087be419-ec6b-47ad-851a-5e1e3ea5cfcc@kernel.org/
Signed-off-by: Francesco Dolcini <francesco.dolcini@toradex.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> #for-iio
Reviewed-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <elder@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com> # for platform/surface
Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122180551.34429-1-francesco@dolcini.it
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Here is the big set of tty and serial driver changes for 6.8-rc1.
As usual, Jiri has a bunch of refactoring and cleanups for the tty core
and drivers in here, along with the usual set of rs485 updates (someday
this might work properly...) Along with those, in here are changes for:
- sc16is7xx serial driver updates
- platform driver removal api updates
- amba-pl011 driver updates
- tty driver binding updates
- other small tty/serial driver updates and changes
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'tty-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull tty / serial updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of tty and serial driver changes for 6.8-rc1.
As usual, Jiri has a bunch of refactoring and cleanups for the tty
core and drivers in here, along with the usual set of rs485 updates
(someday this might work properly...)
Along with those, in here are changes for:
- sc16is7xx serial driver updates
- platform driver removal api updates
- amba-pl011 driver updates
- tty driver binding updates
- other small tty/serial driver updates and changes
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'tty-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (197 commits)
serial: sc16is7xx: refactor EFR lock
serial: sc16is7xx: reorder code to remove prototype declarations
serial: sc16is7xx: refactor FIFO access functions to increase commonality
serial: sc16is7xx: drop unneeded MODULE_ALIAS
serial: sc16is7xx: replace hardcoded divisor value with BIT() macro
serial: sc16is7xx: add explicit return for some switch default cases
serial: sc16is7xx: add macro for max number of UART ports
serial: sc16is7xx: add driver name to struct uart_driver
serial: sc16is7xx: use i2c_get_match_data()
serial: sc16is7xx: use spi_get_device_match_data()
serial: sc16is7xx: use DECLARE_BITMAP for sc16is7xx_lines bitfield
serial: sc16is7xx: improve do/while loop in sc16is7xx_irq()
serial: sc16is7xx: remove obsolete loop in sc16is7xx_port_irq()
serial: sc16is7xx: set safe default SPI clock frequency
serial: sc16is7xx: add check for unsupported SPI modes during probe
serial: sc16is7xx: fix invalid sc16is7xx_lines bitfield in case of probe error
serial: 8250_exar: Set missing rs485_supported flag
serial: omap: do not override settings for RS485 support
serial: core, imx: do not set RS485 enabled if it is not supported
serial: core: make sure RS485 cannot be enabled when it is not supported
...
The Renesas KingFisher board includes a U-Blox Neo-M8 chip. This chip
has a reset pin which is also wired on the board. When Linux starts,
reset is asserted by the firmware. Deassert the reset pin when probing
this driver.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
[ johan: rename gpio descriptor variable ]
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
v_bckp shall always be enabled as long as the device exists. We now have
a regulator helper for that, use it.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Switch character types to u8 and sizes to size_t. To conform to
characters/sizes in the rest of the tty layer.
This patch converts struct serdev_device_ops hooks and its
instantiations.
Signed-off-by: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231206073712.17776-24-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The module pointer in class_create() never actually did anything, and it
shouldn't have been requred to be set as a parameter even if it did
something. So just remove it and fix up all callers of the function in
the kernel tree at the same time.
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313181843.1207845-4-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The dev_uevent() in struct class should not be modifying the device that
is passed into it, so mark it as a const * and propagate the function
signature changes out into all relevant subsystems that use this
callback.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Russ Weight <russell.h.weight@intel.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Cc: Raed Salem <raeds@nvidia.com>
Cc: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@huawei.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Avihai Horon <avihaih@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: Jakob Koschel <jakobkoschel@gmail.com>
Cc: Antoine Tenart <atenart@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Yufen <wangyufen@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123122523.1332370-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Use ida_alloc_xxx()/ida_free() instead of
ida_simple_get()/ida_simple_remove(), which has been deprecated.
Note that the upper bound is now inclusive.
Signed-off-by: Bo Liu <liubo03@inspur.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220616044733.3605-1-liubo03@inspur.com
Reviewed-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
[ johan: amend commit message ]
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Add a generic driver for GNSS receivers with a USB interface with two
bulk endpoints.
The driver currently assumes that the device protocol is NMEA (only) but
this can be generalised later as needed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211220111901.23206-2-johan@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tested-by: Marc Ferland <ferlandm@amotus.ca>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Since commit 84af7a6194 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.
This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
I also fixed the indentation.
There are a variety of indentation styles found.
a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
e) 1 tab + '---help---' (correct indentation)
f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'
In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
following commend:
$ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array
member[1][2], introduced in C99:
struct foo {
int stuff;
struct boo array[];
};
By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning in
case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which will
help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.
Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:
"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]
sizeof(flexible-array-member) triggers a warning because flexible array
members have incomplete type[1]. There are some instances of code in
which the sizeof operator is being incorrectly/erroneously applied to
zero-length arrays and the result is zero. Such instances may be hiding
some bugs. So, this work (flexible-array member conversions) will also
help to get completely rid of those sorts of issues.
This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.
[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 7649773293 ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Fix to return a negative error code from the error handling
case instead of 0, as done elsewhere in this function.
This avoids a use-after-free in case the driver is later unbound.
Fixes: d2efbbd18b ("gnss: add driver for sirfstar-based receivers")
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
[ johan: amend commit message; mention potential use-after-free ]
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.19
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:
- Have no license information of any form
These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:
GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Here is the "real" big set of char/misc driver patches for 5.2-rc1
Loads of different driver subsystem stuff in here, all over the places:
- thunderbolt driver updates
- habanalabs driver updates
- nvmem driver updates
- extcon driver updates
- intel_th driver updates
- mei driver updates
- coresight driver updates
- soundwire driver cleanups and updates
- fastrpc driver updates
- other minor driver updates
- chardev minor fixups
Feels like this tree is getting to be a dumping ground of "small driver
subsystems" these days. Which is fine with me, if it makes things
easier for those subsystem maintainers.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'char-misc-5.2-rc1-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc update part 2 from Greg KH:
"Here is the "real" big set of char/misc driver patches for 5.2-rc1
Loads of different driver subsystem stuff in here, all over the places:
- thunderbolt driver updates
- habanalabs driver updates
- nvmem driver updates
- extcon driver updates
- intel_th driver updates
- mei driver updates
- coresight driver updates
- soundwire driver cleanups and updates
- fastrpc driver updates
- other minor driver updates
- chardev minor fixups
Feels like this tree is getting to be a dumping ground of "small
driver subsystems" these days. Which is fine with me, if it makes
things easier for those subsystem maintainers.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-5.2-rc1-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (255 commits)
intel_th: msu: Add current window tracking
intel_th: msu: Add a sysfs attribute to trigger window switch
intel_th: msu: Correct the block wrap detection
intel_th: Add switch triggering support
intel_th: gth: Factor out trace start/stop
intel_th: msu: Factor out pipeline draining
intel_th: msu: Switch over to scatterlist
intel_th: msu: Replace open-coded list_{first,last,next}_entry variants
intel_th: Only report useful IRQs to subdevices
intel_th: msu: Start handling IRQs
intel_th: pci: Use MSI interrupt signalling
intel_th: Communicate IRQ via resource
intel_th: Add "rtit" source device
intel_th: Skip subdevices if their MMIO is missing
intel_th: Rework resource passing between glue layers and core
intel_th: SPDX-ify the documentation
intel_th: msu: Fix single mode with IOMMU
coresight: funnel: Support static funnel
dt-bindings: arm: coresight: Unify funnel DT binding
coresight: replicator: Add new device id for static replicator
...
Using scripts/coccinelle/api/stream_open.cocci added in 10dce8af34
("fs: stream_open - opener for stream-like files so that read and write
can run simultaneously without deadlock"), search and convert to
stream_open all in-kernel nonseekable_open users for which read and
write actually do not depend on ppos and where there is no other methods
in file_operations which assume @offset access.
I've verified each generated change manually - that it is correct to convert -
and each other nonseekable_open instance left - that it is either not correct
to convert there, or that it is not converted due to current stream_open.cocci
limitations. The script also does not convert files that should be valid to
convert, but that currently have .llseek = noop_llseek or generic_file_llseek
for unknown reason despite file being opened with nonseekable_open (e.g.
drivers/input/mousedev.c)
Among cases converted 14 were potentially vulnerable to read vs write deadlock
(see details in 10dce8af34):
drivers/char/pcmcia/cm4000_cs.c:1685:7-23: ERROR: cm4000_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
drivers/gnss/core.c:45:1-17: ERROR: gnss_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
drivers/hid/uhid.c:635:1-17: ERROR: uhid_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c:988:1-17: ERROR: umad_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
drivers/input/evdev.c:527:1-17: ERROR: evdev_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
drivers/input/misc/uinput.c:401:1-17: ERROR: uinput_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c:963:8-24: ERROR: capi_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
drivers/leds/uleds.c:77:1-17: ERROR: uleds_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c:198:1-17: ERROR: lirc_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
drivers/s390/char/fs3270.c:488:1-17: ERROR: fs3270_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c:310:1-17: ERROR: ld_usb_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
drivers/xen/evtchn.c:667:8-24: ERROR: evtchn_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
net/batman-adv/icmp_socket.c:80:1-17: ERROR: batadv_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
net/rfkill/core.c:1146:8-24: ERROR: rfkill_fops: .read() can deadlock .write(); change nonseekable_open -> stream_open to fix.
and the rest were just safe to convert to stream_open because their read and
write do not use ppos at all and corresponding file_operations do not
have methods that assume @offset file access(*):
arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c:631:8-24: WARNING: mpc52xx_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c:591:8-24: WARNING: spufs_ibox_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c:591:8-24: WARNING: spufs_ibox_stat_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c:591:8-24: WARNING: spufs_mbox_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c:591:8-24: WARNING: spufs_mbox_stat_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c:591:8-24: WARNING: spufs_wbox_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c:591:8-24: WARNING: spufs_wbox_stat_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
arch/um/drivers/harddog_kern.c:88:8-24: WARNING: harddog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/core.c:430:33-49: WARNING: microcode_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/char/ds1620.c:215:8-24: WARNING: ds1620_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/char/dtlk.c:301:1-17: WARNING: dtlk_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c:840:9-25: WARNING: ipmi_wdog_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/char/pcmcia/scr24x_cs.c:95:8-24: WARNING: scr24x_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/char/tb0219.c:246:9-25: WARNING: tb0219_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/firewire/nosy.c:306:8-24: WARNING: nosy_ops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c:840:8-24: WARNING: watchdog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/hwmon/w83793.c:1344:8-24: WARNING: watchdog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c:1747:8-24: WARNING: ucma_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c:1178:8-24: WARNING: ucm_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c:1086:8-24: WARNING: uverbs_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/input/joydev.c:282:1-17: WARNING: joydev_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/pci/switch/switchtec.c:393:1-17: WARNING: switchtec_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/platform/chrome/cros_ec_debugfs.c:135:8-24: WARNING: cros_ec_console_log_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1374.c:470:9-25: WARNING: ds1374_wdt_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c:805:9-25: WARNING: wdt_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/s390/char/tape_char.c:293:2-18: WARNING: tape_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/s390/char/zcore.c:194:8-24: WARNING: zcore_reipl_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_api.c:528:8-24: WARNING: zcrypt_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/spi/spidev.c:594:1-17: WARNING: spidev_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/staging/pi433/pi433_if.c:974:1-17: WARNING: pi433_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/acquirewdt.c:203:8-24: WARNING: acq_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/advantechwdt.c:202:8-24: WARNING: advwdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/alim1535_wdt.c:252:8-24: WARNING: ali_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/alim7101_wdt.c:217:8-24: WARNING: wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/ar7_wdt.c:166:8-24: WARNING: ar7_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/at91rm9200_wdt.c:113:8-24: WARNING: at91wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/ath79_wdt.c:135:8-24: WARNING: ath79_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/bcm63xx_wdt.c:119:8-24: WARNING: bcm63xx_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/cpu5wdt.c:143:8-24: WARNING: cpu5wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/cpwd.c:397:8-24: WARNING: cpwd_fops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/eurotechwdt.c:319:8-24: WARNING: eurwdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/f71808e_wdt.c:528:8-24: WARNING: watchdog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/gef_wdt.c:232:8-24: WARNING: gef_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/geodewdt.c:95:8-24: WARNING: geodewdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/ib700wdt.c:241:8-24: WARNING: ibwdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/ibmasr.c:326:8-24: WARNING: asr_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/indydog.c:80:8-24: WARNING: indydog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/intel_scu_watchdog.c:307:8-24: WARNING: intel_scu_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/iop_wdt.c:104:8-24: WARNING: iop_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/it8712f_wdt.c:330:8-24: WARNING: it8712f_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/ixp4xx_wdt.c:68:8-24: WARNING: ixp4xx_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/ks8695_wdt.c:145:8-24: WARNING: ks8695wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/m54xx_wdt.c:88:8-24: WARNING: m54xx_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/machzwd.c:336:8-24: WARNING: zf_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/mixcomwd.c:153:8-24: WARNING: mixcomwd_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/mtx-1_wdt.c:121:8-24: WARNING: mtx1_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/mv64x60_wdt.c:136:8-24: WARNING: mv64x60_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/nuc900_wdt.c:134:8-24: WARNING: nuc900wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/nv_tco.c:164:8-24: WARNING: nv_tco_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/pc87413_wdt.c:289:8-24: WARNING: pc87413_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/pcwd.c:698:8-24: WARNING: pcwd_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/pcwd.c:737:8-24: WARNING: pcwd_temp_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/pcwd_pci.c:581:8-24: WARNING: pcipcwd_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/pcwd_pci.c:623:8-24: WARNING: pcipcwd_temp_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c:488:8-24: WARNING: usb_pcwd_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/pcwd_usb.c:527:8-24: WARNING: usb_pcwd_temperature_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/pika_wdt.c:121:8-24: WARNING: pikawdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/pnx833x_wdt.c:119:8-24: WARNING: pnx833x_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/rc32434_wdt.c:153:8-24: WARNING: rc32434_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/rdc321x_wdt.c:145:8-24: WARNING: rdc321x_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/riowd.c:79:1-17: WARNING: riowd_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/sa1100_wdt.c:62:8-24: WARNING: sa1100dog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/sbc60xxwdt.c:211:8-24: WARNING: wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/sbc7240_wdt.c:139:8-24: WARNING: wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/sbc8360.c:274:8-24: WARNING: sbc8360_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/sbc_epx_c3.c:81:8-24: WARNING: epx_c3_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/sbc_fitpc2_wdt.c:78:8-24: WARNING: fitpc2_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/sb_wdog.c:108:1-17: WARNING: sbwdog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/sc1200wdt.c:181:8-24: WARNING: sc1200wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/sc520_wdt.c:261:8-24: WARNING: wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/sch311x_wdt.c:319:8-24: WARNING: sch311x_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/scx200_wdt.c:105:8-24: WARNING: scx200_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/smsc37b787_wdt.c:369:8-24: WARNING: wb_smsc_wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/w83877f_wdt.c:227:8-24: WARNING: wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/w83977f_wdt.c:301:8-24: WARNING: wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/wafer5823wdt.c:200:8-24: WARNING: wafwdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/watchdog_dev.c:828:8-24: WARNING: watchdog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/wdrtas.c:379:8-24: WARNING: wdrtas_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/wdrtas.c:445:8-24: WARNING: wdrtas_temp_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/wdt285.c:104:1-17: WARNING: watchdog_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/wdt977.c:276:8-24: WARNING: wdt977_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/wdt.c:424:8-24: WARNING: wdt_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/wdt.c:484:8-24: WARNING: wdt_temp_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/wdt_pci.c:464:8-24: WARNING: wdtpci_fops: .write() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
drivers/watchdog/wdt_pci.c:527:8-24: WARNING: wdtpci_temp_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
net/batman-adv/log.c:105:1-17: WARNING: batadv_log_fops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
sound/core/control.c:57:7-23: WARNING: snd_ctl_f_ops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
sound/core/rawmidi.c:385:7-23: WARNING: snd_rawmidi_f_ops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c:310:7-23: WARNING: snd_seq_f_ops: .read() and .write() have stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
sound/core/timer.c:1428:7-23: WARNING: snd_timer_f_ops: .read() has stream semantic; safe to change nonseekable_open -> stream_open.
One can also recheck/review the patch via generating it with explanation comments included via
$ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=scripts/coccinelle/api/stream_open.cocci SPFLAGS="-D explain"
(*) This second group also contains cases with read/write deadlocks that
stream_open.cocci don't yet detect, but which are still valid to convert to
stream_open since ppos is not used. For example drivers/pci/switch/switchtec.c
calls wait_for_completion_interruptible() in its .read, but stream_open.cocci
currently detects only "wait_event*" as blocking.
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Yongzhi Pan <panyongzhi@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org>
Cc: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Cc: Anatolij Gustschin <agust@denx.de>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Acked-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk> [scr24x_cs]
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> [watchdog/* hwmon/*]
Cc: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de>
Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Kurt Schwemmer <kurt.schwemmer@microsemi.com>
Acked-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com> [drivers/pci/switch/switchtec]
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> [drivers/pci/switch/switchtec]
Cc: Benson Leung <bleung@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com> [platform/chrome]
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> [rtc/*]
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com
Cc: Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@gmail.com>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwanem@gmail.com>
Cc: Marek Lindner <mareklindner@neomailbox.ch>
Cc: Simon Wunderlich <sw@simonwunderlich.de>
Cc: Antonio Quartulli <a@unstable.cc>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com>
Add driver for serial-connected Mediatek-based GNSS receivers.
These devices typically boot transmitting vendor specific NMEA output
sequences. The serial port bit rate is read from the device tree
"current-speed".
Note that the driver uses the generic GNSS serial implementation and
therefore essentially only manages power abstracted into three power
states: ACTIVE, STANDBY, and OFF.
For mediatek receivers with a main supply and no enable-gpios, this simply
means that the main supply is disabled in STANDBY and OFF (the optional
backup supply is kept enabled while the driver is bound).
Note that the timepulse-support is left unimplemented.
Signed-off-by: Loys Ollivier <lollivier@baylibre.com>
[ johan: rename backup supply ]
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Add an MTK (Mediatek) type to the "GNSS_TYPE" attribute.
Note that MTK receivers support a subset of NMEA 0183 with vendor
extensions.
Signed-off-by: Loys Ollivier <lollivier@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Devices might have a separate lna between antenna input of the gps
chip and the antenna which might have a separate supply.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Some Wi2Wi devices do not have a wakeup output, so device state can
only be indirectly detected by looking whether there is communication
over the serial lines.
This approach requires a report cycle set to a value less than 2 seconds
to be reliable.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>
[ johan: simplify sirf_set_active(), style changes ]
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
The api forbids writing data there otherwise. Prepare for the
serdev_open()/close() being a part of sirf_set_active.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Make sure to put the receiver in hibernate mode in case it is already
active during probe in order to avoid wasting power until first open or
suspend.
This can happen, for example, after a reset or non-clean shutdown, and
possibly also due to glitches during power-on.
Reported-by: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Make sure the receiver is powered (and booted) before enabling the
wakeup interrupt to avoid spurious interrupts due to a floating input.
Similarly, disable the interrupt before powering off on probe errors and
on unbind.
Fixes: d2efbbd18b ("gnss: add driver for sirfstar-based receivers")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.19
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Fix activation helper which would return -ETIMEDOUT even if the last
retry attempt was successful.
Also change the semantics of the retries variable so that it actually
holds the number of retries (rather than tries).
Fixes: d2efbbd18b ("gnss: add driver for sirfstar-based receivers")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.19
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Make the synchronous serdev_device_write() helper behave analogous to
the asynchronous serdev_device_write_buf() by returning the number of
bytes written (or rather buffered) also on timeout.
This will allow drivers to distinguish the case where data was partially
written from the case where no data was written.
Also update the only two users that checked the return value.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Passing a timeout of zero to the synchronous serdev_device_write()
helper does currently not imply to wait forever (unlike passing zero to
serdev_device_wait_until_sent()). Instead, if there's insufficient
room in the write buffer, we'd end up with an incomplete write.
Fixes: d2efbbd18b ("gnss: add driver for sirfstar-based receivers")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.19
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Passing a timeout of zero to the synchronous serdev_device_write()
helper does currently not imply to wait forever (unlike passing zero to
serdev_device_wait_until_sent()). Instead, if there's insufficient
room in the write buffer, we'd end up with an incomplete write.
Fixes: 37768b054f ("gnss: add generic serial driver")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.19
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
The gnss_allocate_device() function returns a mix of NULL and error
pointers on error. It should only return one or the other. Since the
callers both check for NULL, I've modified it to return NULL on error.
Fixes: 2b6a440351 ("gnss: add GNSS receiver subsystem")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The structure ubx_gserial_ops is local to the source and does not need
to be in global scope, so make it static.
Cleans up sparse warning:
symbol 'ubx_gserial_ops' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add a "type" device attribute and a "GNSS_TYPE" uevent variable which
can be used to determine the type of a GNSS receiver. The currently
identified types reflect the protocol(s) supported by a receiver:
"NMEA" NMEA 0183
"SiRF" SiRF Binary
"UBX" UBX
Note that both SiRF and UBX type receivers typically support a subset of
NMEA 0183 with vendor extensions (e.g. to allow switching to the vendor
protocol).
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add driver for serial-connected SiRFstar-based GNSS receivers.
These devices typically boot into hibernate mode from which they can be
woken using a pulse on the ON_OFF input pin. Once active, a pulse on the
same ON_OFF pin is used to put the device back into hibernate mode. The
current state can be determined by sampling the WAKEUP output.
Hardware configurations where WAKEUP has been connected to ON_OFF (and
where an initial WAKEUP pulse during boot is sufficient to have the
device boot into active mode) are also supported. In this case, device
power is managed using the main-supply regulator only.
Note that configurations where WAKEUP is left not connected, so that the
device power state can only indirectly be determined using the I/O
interface, is currently not supported. It should be fairly
straight-forward to extend the current implementation with such support
however (and this this is the main reason for not using the generic
serial implementation for this driver).
Note that timepulse-support is left unimplemented.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add driver for serial-connected u-blox GNSS receivers.
Note that the driver uses the generic GNSS serial implementation and
therefore essentially only manages power abstracted into three power
states: ACTIVE, STANDBY, and OFF.
For u-blox receivers with a main supply and no enable-gpios, this simply
means that the main supply is disabled in STANDBY and OFF (the optional
backup supply is kept enabled while the driver is bound).
Note that timepulse-support is not yet implemented.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add a generic serial GNSS driver (library) which provides a common
implementation for the gnss interface and power management (runtime and
system suspend). This allows GNSS drivers for specific chip to be
implemented by simply providing a set_power() callback to handle three
states: ACTIVE, STANDBY and OFF.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add a new subsystem for GNSS (e.g. GPS) receivers.
While GNSS receivers are typically accessed using a UART interface they
often also support other I/O interfaces such as I2C, SPI and USB, while
yet other devices use iomem or even some form of remote-processor
messaging (rpmsg).
The new GNSS subsystem abstracts the underlying interface and provides a
new "gnss" class type, which exposes a character-device interface (e.g.
/dev/gnss0) to user space. This allows GNSS receivers to have a
representation in the Linux device model, something which is important
not least for power management purposes.
Note that the character-device interface provides raw access to whatever
protocol the receiver is (currently) using, such as NMEA 0183, UBX or
SiRF Binary. These protocols are expected to be continued to be handled
by user space for the time being, even if some hybrid solutions are also
conceivable (e.g. to have kernel drivers issue management commands).
This will still allow for better platform integration by allowing GNSS
devices and their resources (e.g. regulators and enable-gpios) to be
described by firmware and managed by kernel drivers rather than
platform-specific scripts and services.
While the current interface is kept minimal, it could be extended using
IOCTLs, sysfs or uevents as needs and proper abstraction levels are
identified and determined (e.g. for device and feature identification).
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
