With the combination of PNPACPI and 8250_pnp, we no longer need 8250_acpi.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The icom driver uses request_firmware()
and thus needs to select FW_LOADER.
Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (21 commits)
BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/video/
BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/parisc/
BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/block/
BUG_ON() Conversion in sound/sparc/cs4231.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in lib/swiotlb.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/cpu.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in ipc/msg.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in block/elevator.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/coda/
BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in input/serio/hil_mlc.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in md/dm-hw-handler.c
BUG_ON() Conversion in md/bitmap.c
The comment describing how MS_ASYNC works in msync.c is confusing
rcu: undeclared variable used in documentation
fix typos "wich" -> "which"
typo patch for fs/ufs/super.c
Fix simple typos
tabify drivers/char/Makefile
...
Merge mpsc.h into mpsc.c because its the only file that #include's mpsc.h.
Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The definition of SUPPORT_SYSRQ must come before #include of serial_core.h.
This patch moves the definition of SUPPORT_SYSRQ to be just after the #include
of config.h to make it consistent with 8250.c.
Reported-by: Stephane Chazelas <Stephane@artesyncp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The devname passed to request_irq() contained a '/' which is wrong. At
a minimum, the '/' prevented the devname from showing up in
/proc/irq/<irq>/<devname>. This patch replaces the '/' with a '-' to
fixes that problem.
Reported-by: Stephane Chazelas <Stephane@artesyncp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add rs422 support to the Altix ioc4 serial driver.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove the assumption that driver_register() returns the number of devices
bound to the driver. In fact, it returns zero for success or a negative
error value.
dio_module_init() used the device count to automatically unregister and
unload drivers that found no devices. That might have worked at one time,
but has been broken for some time because dio_register_driver() returned
either a negative error or a positive count (never zero). So it could only
unregister on failure, when it's not needed anyway.
This functionality could be resurrected in individual drivers by counting
devices in their .probe() methods.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
Cc: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch removes all occurances of _INLINE_ in the kernel.
With the exception of tty_flip.h, I've simply removed the inline's since
gcc should know best which functions to be inlined.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial:
[SERIAL] Merge avlab serial board entries in parport_serial
[SERIAL] kernel console should send CRLF not LFCR
The patch does the following for v441xx seris drivers:
- stop using platform_device_register_simple() as it is going away
- mark ->probe() and ->remove() methods as __devinit and __devexit
respectively
- initialize "owner" field in driver structure so there is a link
from /sys/modules to the driver
- mark *_init() and *_exit() functions as __init and __exit
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Update the serial_txx9 driver.
* More strict check in verify_port. Cleanup.
* Do not insert a char caused previous overrun.
* Fix some spin_locks.
* Do not call uart_add_one_port for absent ports.
Also, this patch removes a BROKEN tag from Kconfig. This driver has been
marked as BROKEN by removal of uart_register_port, but it has been solved
already on Sep 2005.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
platform_get_irq*() now returns on -ENXIO when the resource cannot be
found. Ensure all users of platform_get_irq*() handle this error
appropriately.
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Glen Turner reported that writing LFCR rather than the more
traditional CRLF causes issues with some terminals.
Since this aflicts many serial drivers, extract the common code
to a library function (uart_console_write) and arrange for each
driver to supply a "putchar" function.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Because we play this trick where we use ttyS? in increasing minor
numbers for different sunfoo.c drivers, we have to inform the TTY
layer of this.
Do so by setting the tty->name_base appropriately.
Probably there should be a generic way to do this in the serial core,
but for now...
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Caller takes the lock already.
Also, fixup the poll loop in sunhv_break_ctl(). Just
like in console write, we udelay(2) and use a loop
limit of 1000000 iterations.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
So that it will show up as /dev/ttyS0. Otherwise things like
installers will try to run on whatever serial port gets probed
first.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
By calling uart_handle_break(). We'll still do the
"sun_do_break()" handling if the user gives two
breaks in a row.
We should probably do this in the other Sparc serial
drivers too.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Until the uart is openned, port->info is NULL.
Also, init the port->irq properly and give a non-zero
port->membase so that the uart device reporting is done.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add udelay to polling console write loop, and increment
the loop limit.
Name the device "ttyHV" and pass that to add_preferred_console()
when we're using hypervisor console.
Kill sunhv_console_setup(), it's empty.
Handle the case where we don't want to use hypervisor console.
(ie. we have a head attached to a sun4v machine)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Since it can do things like BREAK and HUP, we implement
this as a serial uart driver.
This still needs interrupt probing code, as I haven't figured
out how interrupts will work or be probed for on SUN4V yet.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Get rid of the local 'flip' variable and no need to 'trim' the buffer.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We're presently getting oopses because Bluetooth (and possibly other) drivers
are calling core functions after things have been shut down.
So rather than oopsing, let's drop a warning then take avoiding action, so the
machine survives. Once all the sub-drivers are fixed up we can remove the
take-avoiding-action part.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] mca recovery return value when no bus check
[IA64] SGI SN drivers: don't report !sn2 hardware as an error
[IA64] don't report !sn2 or !summit hardware as an error
[IA64] gensparse_defconfig: turn on PNPACPI
[IA64] Increase severity of MCA recovery messages
This stuff is all in the generic ia64 kernel, and the new initcall error
reporting complains about them.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Incorrect uart_write_wakeup() calls cause reference to a NULL tty
pointer. This has been fixed in the sunsab and sunzilog serial drivers
in October 2005. Update the ip22zilog, which is based on sunzilog,
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk
early_serial_setup() must not be called after console initialisation.
Add a comment prior to the function explicitly stating this.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
In kernel bugzilla #5176 (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5176)
Harry R\374ter <h.rueter@gmx.de> points out Documentation/jsm.txt is missing.
No one at Digi seems to care, so just remove the stale reference.
Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <apgo@patchbomb.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Serial drivers in general should not write uart_info->flags - they're
private to serial_core. Serial drivers have no need to fiddle with
tty->alt_speed, nor manipulate TTY_IO_ERROR in tty->flags. Fix the
ioc4 serial driver for both these points by simply removing the
offending code.
Acked-by: pfg@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch adds new PCI serial card support.
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This replaces old direct usage of tty->flip stuff with relative flip API
calls.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The DB1550 actually doesn't have a UART2. Remove it from the list.
Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
On some embedded PowerPC (MPC834x) systems an extra byte would some
times be required to flush data out of the fifo.
serial8250_console_write() was updating the IER in hardware without
also updating the copy in uart_8250_port. This causes issues functions
like serial8250_start_tx() and __stop_tx() to misbehave.
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Lucas Correia Villa Real
This patch defines the number of serial ports on the S3C2400.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Correia Villa Real <lucasvr@gobolinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Use the new tty_schedule_flip() instead of the original direct
schedule_work of the flip buffer.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use the new tty_schedule_flip() instead of the original direct
schedule_work of the flip buffer.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Re-organize the default CONSOLE baud rate define setting so that
it is only set once.
Use the new tty_schedule_flip() instead of the original direct
schedule_work of the flip buffer.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- jsm_driver.c: remove the now unused jsm_rawreadok module_param
- jsm_tty.c: remove a now unused variable
Is there any problem with removing the now useless jsm_rawreadok
module_param?
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: V. Ananda Krishnan <mansarov@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Breakage reported by Adrian Bunk
Untested (no hardware)
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
It seems serial_core intend to initialize port->lock just once for each
ports. This is done in uart_set_options() for console, and in
uart_add_one_port() for other ports. But there is a case the port->lock is
not initialized by serial_core. If the setup function for the console was
failed, it will not call uart_set_options() but the port is marked as
console (uart_console(port) returns 1). It can happen if console was PCI
port which can not detected at the time of register_console.
This patch is to initialize port->lock for such console port. With this
change, most of spin_lock_init() (some of them are labeled "Temporary
fix.") in low-level serial drivers can be omitted.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch adds support for SIIG 8-port boards. These boards have 4 ports in
separate bars and another 4 ports in the single bar. Because of this strange
port arrangement these cards need special setup function. Fortunately no other
SIIG cards have more than 4 port, so this setup function could be used for them
too.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
A couple of updates for the sh-sci serial driver:
- Update for clock framework on sh.
- Fix a compile error introduced by some h8300 changes.
- Add SH7770/SH7780 subtype support.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Scott Kilau <Scott_Kilau@digi.com>
Digi serial port console doesn't work when baud rates are set higher than
38400. So the lookup table and code in jsm_neo.c has been modified and
tested. Please let me have the feed-back.
Signed-off-by: V.Ananda Krishnan <mansarov@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch from Lucas Correia Villa Real
This patch defines S3C2400 memory map and adds a S3C24XX macro for
common resources between S3C2400, S3C2410 and S3C2440 cpus.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Correia Villa Real <lucasvr@gobolinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This fixes the documentation error for 'SERIAL_8250' in
drivers/serial/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Timothy Charles McGrath <tmHikaru@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Same reasoning as commit 747c8a5594
but this time we're making uart_port flags a bitwise type - not
all of these flags correspond with the old ASYNC_ flags, so there
is the possibility for bugs if the wrong ASYNC_* constants are
used. Always use UPF_* constants for uart_port->flags.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The functionality UPF_BOOT_ONLYMCA provided has been replaced by
the 8250_mca module, which only registers MCA ports if MCA is
present.
UPF_AUTOPROBE has no functional effect - in fact, it's never
tested. Only ibmasm set the flag.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch resolves most of the problems with an SMP serial console race
with output via the tty path. At the end of the serial console print we
force enable the tx int in case we clobbered the tx interrupt status
racing between the console and tty output. That way the extra tx
interrupt causes the transmit path to restart not hang.
It also makes the serial console printk use the FIFO. This is neccessary
because some remote management devices fake serial console with FIFO and
are confused into sending one packet per character over ethernet when we
stall rather than filling the FIFO.
In order to preserve existing reliability semantics the function waits
for the serial queue to completely empty before returning.
Both of these problems were identified by a Red Hat partner.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
There's no need to have request_irq followed by set_irq_type.
Just use request_irq with the appropriate SA_TRIGGER flags.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
From: Eddie C. Dost <ecd@brainaid.de>
I have the following patch for serial console over the RSC
(remote system controller) on my E250 machine. It basically adds
support for input-device=rsc and output-device=rsc from OBP, and
allows 115200,8,n,1,- serial mode setting.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Patch from Andrew Victor
This patch fixes two small issues with 2.6.15-git12.
1) Corrected major/minor numbers for ttyAT devices in the KConfig help.
(Patch from Karl Olsen)
2) tty->flip.count has been removed.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
There is a new device which is look like:
Serial controller: Decision Computer International Co. PCCOM2 (rev 02) (prog-if 02 [16550])
0700: 6666:0004 (rev 02) (prog-if 02)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 177
Memory at fe000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
I/O ports at e880 [size=128]
I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
It has two 16550A, and is not listed in kernel, although the
manufacturer clams that it is supported...
I've created the following patch, it only add the new PCI id and the
card to the repository, it seems to work.
Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Commit 7493a314cb changed the ordering
of the registration of the platform device driver vs the 8250 drivers
internal initialisation. This led to the probe function being called
before the driver had finished its internal initialisation, causing
mayhem. Revert the ordering change.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Fix printk level and remove unnecessary CONFIG_SMP|CONFIG_PREEMPT tests
as this is taken care through the spinlock macros anyway.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Add driver support for a 2 port PCI IOC3-based serial card on Altix boxes:
This is a re-submission. On the original submission I was asked to
organize the code so that the MIPS ioc3 ethernet and serial parts could be
used with this driver. Stanislaw Skowronek was kind enough to provide the
shim layer for this - thanks Stanislaw. This patch includes the shim layer
and the Altix PCI ioc3 serial driver. The MIPS merged ioc3 ethernet and
serial support is forthcoming.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
tmp_buf_sem sems to be a common name for something completely unused...
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> ("usb portion")
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Do not use platform_device_register_simple() as it is going away.
Also set up driver's owner to create link driver->module in sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch fixes a typo in the dependencies reported by
Jean-Luc Leger <reiga@dspnet.fr.eu.org>.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
semaphore to mutex conversion.
the conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
build and boot tested.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Matt Reimer
IMX serial parity generation doesn't work because of a simple logic error. This patch fixes it and now Bluetooth works on R1000.
Signed-off-by: Matt Reimer <mreimer@vpop.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Turn several drivers/serial/ semaphores-used-as-mutex into mutexes
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Add IDs for Sierra Aircard 55 CDMA 1xrtt Modem -- a CIS update is required
for this card.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Set the hardware interrupt priority to a different value for each
attached ColdFire serial port. According to the CPU documentation you
should not use the same combination of level/priority on more than one
device. People have reported odd serial port behavior with them set the
same.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch from Andrew Victor
This patch adds support to the 2.6 kernel series for the Atmel
AT91RM9200 processor.
This patch is the Serial driver.
This version uses the newly re-written GPL'ed hardware headers.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
The API and code have been through various bits of initial review by
serial driver people but they definitely need to live somewhere for a
while so the unconverted drivers can get knocked into shape, existing
drivers that have been updated can be better tuned and bugs whacked out.
This replaces the tty flip buffers with kmalloc objects in rings. In the
normal situation for an IRQ driven serial port at typical speeds the
behaviour is pretty much the same, two buffers end up allocated and the
kernel cycles between them as before.
When there are delays or at high speed we now behave far better as the
buffer pool can grow a bit rather than lose characters. This also means
that we can operate at higher speeds reliably.
For drivers that receive characters in blocks (DMA based, USB and
especially virtualisation) the layer allows a lot of driver specific
code that works around the tty layer with private secondary queues to be
removed. The IBM folks need this sort of layer, the smart serial port
people do, the virtualisers do (because a virtualised tty typically
operates at infinite speed rather than emulating 9600 baud).
Finally many drivers had invalid and unsafe attempts to avoid buffer
overflows by directly invoking tty methods extracted out of the innards
of work queue structs. These are no longer needed and all go away. That
fixes various random hangs with serial ports on overflow.
The other change in here is to optimise the receive_room path that is
used by some callers. It turns out that only one ldisc uses receive room
except asa constant and it updates it far far less than the value is
read. We thus make it a variable not a function call.
I expect the code to contain bugs due to the size alone but I'll be
watching and squashing them and feeding out new patches as it goes.
Because the buffers now dynamically expand you should only run out of
buffering when the kernel runs out of memory for real. That means a lot of
the horrible hacks high performance drivers used to do just aren't needed any
more.
Description:
tty_insert_flip_char is an old API and continues to work as before, as does
tty_flip_buffer_push() [this is why many drivers dont need modification]. It
does now also return the number of chars inserted
There are also
tty_buffer_request_room(tty, len)
which asks for a buffer block of the length requested and returns the space
found. This improves efficiency with hardware that knows how much to
transfer.
and tty_insert_flip_string_flags(tty, str, flags, len)
to insert a string of characters and flags
For a smart interface the usual code is
len = tty_request_buffer_room(tty, amount_hardware_says);
tty_insert_flip_string(tty, buffer_from_card, len);
More description!
At the moment tty buffers are attached directly to the tty. This is causing a
lot of the problems related to tty layer locking, also problems at high speed
and also with bursty data (such as occurs in virtualised environments)
I'm working on ripping out the flip buffers and replacing them with a pool of
dynamically allocated buffers. This allows both for old style "byte I/O"
devices and also helps virtualisation and smart devices where large blocks of
data suddenely materialise and need storing.
So far so good. Lots of drivers reference tty->flip.*. Several of them also
call directly and unsafely into function pointers it provides. This will all
break. Most drivers can use tty_insert_flip_char which can be kept as an API
but others need more.
At the moment I've added the following interfaces, if people think more will
be needed now is a good time to say
int tty_buffer_request_room(tty, size)
Try and ensure at least size bytes are available, returns actual room (may be
zero). At the moment it just uses the flipbuf space but that will change.
Repeated calls without characters being added are not cumulative. (ie if you
call it with 1, 1, 1, and then 4 you'll have four characters of space. The
other functions will also try and grow buffers in future but this will be a
more efficient way when you know block sizes.
int tty_insert_flip_char(tty, ch, flag)
As before insert a character if there is room. Now returns 1 for success, 0
for failure.
int tty_insert_flip_string(tty, str, len)
Insert a block of non error characters. Returns the number inserted.
int tty_prepare_flip_string(tty, strptr, len)
Adjust the buffer to allow len characters to be added. Returns a buffer
pointer in strptr and the length available. This allows for hardware that
needs to use functions like insl or mencpy_fromio.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Looks like JSM will be uncompilable after the TTY layer rework is merged into
Linus's post-2.6.15 tree.
It was complex to fix - the maintainers were notified in September.
Cc: Wendy Xiong <wendyx@us.ltcfwd.linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
