Merge tag 'driver-core-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big driver core merge for 3.11-rc1

  Lots of little things, and larger firmware subsystem updates, all
  described in the shortlog.  Nice thing here is that we finally get rid
  of CONFIG_HOTPLUG, after 10+ years, thanks to Stephen Rohtwell (it had
  been always on for a number of kernel releases, now it's just
  removed)"

* tag 'driver-core-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (27 commits)
  driver core: device.h: fix doc compilation warnings
  firmware loader: fix another compile warning with PM_SLEEP unset
  build some drivers only when compile-testing
  firmware loader: fix compile warning with PM_SLEEP set
  kobject: sanitize argument for format string
  sysfs_notify is only possible on file attributes
  firmware loader: simplify holding module for request_firmware
  firmware loader: don't export cache_firmware and uncache_firmware
  drivers/base: Use attribute groups to create sysfs memory files
  firmware loader: fix compile warning
  firmware loader: fix build failure with !CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
  Documentation: Updated broken link in HOWTO
  Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG
  driver core: firmware loader: kill FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG requests before suspend
  driver core: firmware loader: don't cache FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG firmware
  Documentation: Tidy up some drivers/base/core.c kerneldoc content.
  platform_device: use a macro instead of platform_driver_register
  firmware: move EXPORT_SYMBOL annotations
  firmware: Avoid deadlock of usermodehelper lock at shutdown
  dell_rbu: Select CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER explicitly
  ...

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci

@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ Description:
 		Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
 		force a rescan of all PCI buses in the system, and
 		re-discover previously removed devices.
-		Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
 
 What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../msi_irqs/
 Date:		September, 2011
@@ -90,7 +89,6 @@ Contact:	Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
 Description:
 		Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
 		hot-remove the PCI device and any of its children.
-		Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
 
 What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../pci_bus/.../rescan
 Date:		May 2011
@@ -99,7 +97,7 @@ Description:
 		Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
 		force a rescan of the bus and all child buses,
 		and re-discover devices removed earlier from this
-		part of the device tree.  Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
+		part of the device tree.
 
 What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../rescan
 Date:		January 2009
@@ -109,7 +107,6 @@ Description:
 		force a rescan of the device's parent bus and all
 		child buses, and re-discover devices removed earlier
 		from this part of the device tree.
-		Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
 
 What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../reset
 Date:		July 2009

Documentation/HOWTO

@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ required reading:
 
     Other excellent descriptions of how to create patches properly are:
 	"The Perfect Patch"
-		http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt
+		http://kerneltrap.org/node/3737
 	"Linux kernel patch submission format"
 		http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html
 

Documentation/SubmitChecklist

@@ -105,5 +105,5 @@ kernel patches.
     same time, just various/random combinations of them]:
 
     CONFIG_SMP, CONFIG_SYSFS, CONFIG_PROC_FS, CONFIG_INPUT, CONFIG_PCI,
-    CONFIG_BLOCK, CONFIG_PM, CONFIG_HOTPLUG, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ,
+    CONFIG_BLOCK, CONFIG_PM, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ,
     CONFIG_NET, CONFIG_INET=n (but latter with CONFIG_NET=y)

Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt

@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ A: When doing make defconfig, Enable CPU hotplug support
 
    "Processor type and Features" -> Support for Hotpluggable CPUs
 
-Make sure that you have CONFIG_HOTPLUG, and CONFIG_SMP turned on as well.
+Make sure that you have CONFIG_SMP turned on as well.
 
 You would need to enable CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU for SMP suspend/resume support
 as well.

Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches

@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ increase the chances of your change being accepted.
   explicitly below the patch header.
 
 * If your patch (or the driver) is affected by configuration options such as
-  CONFIG_SMP or CONFIG_HOTPLUG, make sure it compiles for all configuration
-  variants.
+  CONFIG_SMP, make sure it compiles for all configuration variants.
 
 
 2. Adding functionality to existing drivers

Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt

@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ Searching in menuconfig:
 	Example:
 		/hotplug
 		This lists all config symbols that contain "hotplug",
-		e.g., HOTPLUG, HOTPLUG_CPU, MEMORY_HOTPLUG.
+		e.g., HOTPLUG_CPU, MEMORY_HOTPLUG.
 
 	For search help, enter / followed TAB-TAB-TAB (to highlight
 	<Help>) and Enter.  This will tell you that you can also use

Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt

@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ you get the best hotplugging when you configure a highly modular system.
 
 KERNEL HOTPLUG HELPER (/sbin/hotplug)
 
-When you compile with CONFIG_HOTPLUG, you get a new kernel parameter:
-/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug, which normally holds the pathname "/sbin/hotplug".
-That parameter names a program which the kernel may invoke at various times.
+There is a kernel parameter: /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug, which normally
+holds the pathname "/sbin/hotplug".  That parameter names a program
+which the kernel may invoke at various times.
 
 The /sbin/hotplug program can be invoked by any subsystem as part of its
 reaction to a configuration change, from a thread in that subsystem.

arch/arm/Kconfig

@@ -1552,7 +1552,7 @@ config NR_CPUS
 
 config HOTPLUG_CPU
 	bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs"
-	depends on SMP && HOTPLUG
+	depends on SMP
 	help
 	  Say Y here to experiment with turning CPUs off and on.  CPUs
 	  can be controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu.

arch/arm/kernel/module.c

@@ -288,24 +288,16 @@ int module_finalize(const Elf32_Ehdr *hdr, const Elf_Shdr *sechdrs,
 
 		if (strcmp(".ARM.exidx.init.text", secname) == 0)
 			maps[ARM_SEC_INIT].unw_sec = s;
-		else if (strcmp(".ARM.exidx.devinit.text", secname) == 0)
-			maps[ARM_SEC_DEVINIT].unw_sec = s;
 		else if (strcmp(".ARM.exidx", secname) == 0)
 			maps[ARM_SEC_CORE].unw_sec = s;
 		else if (strcmp(".ARM.exidx.exit.text", secname) == 0)
 			maps[ARM_SEC_EXIT].unw_sec = s;
-		else if (strcmp(".ARM.exidx.devexit.text", secname) == 0)
-			maps[ARM_SEC_DEVEXIT].unw_sec = s;
 		else if (strcmp(".init.text", secname) == 0)
 			maps[ARM_SEC_INIT].txt_sec = s;
-		else if (strcmp(".devinit.text", secname) == 0)
-			maps[ARM_SEC_DEVINIT].txt_sec = s;
 		else if (strcmp(".text", secname) == 0)
 			maps[ARM_SEC_CORE].txt_sec = s;
 		else if (strcmp(".exit.text", secname) == 0)
 			maps[ARM_SEC_EXIT].txt_sec = s;
-		else if (strcmp(".devexit.text", secname) == 0)
-			maps[ARM_SEC_DEVEXIT].txt_sec = s;
 	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < ARM_SEC_MAX; i++)

arch/arm/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S

@@ -70,10 +70,6 @@ SECTIONS
 		ARM_EXIT_DISCARD(EXIT_TEXT)
 		ARM_EXIT_DISCARD(EXIT_DATA)
 		EXIT_CALL
-#ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG
-		*(.ARM.exidx.devexit.text)
-		*(.ARM.extab.devexit.text)
-#endif
 #ifndef CONFIG_MMU
 		*(.fixup)
 		*(__ex_table)

arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/Kconfig

@@ -235,7 +235,6 @@ config IXP4XX_QMGR
 config IXP4XX_NPE
 	tristate "IXP4xx Network Processor Engine support"
 	select FW_LOADER
-	select HOTPLUG
 	help
 	  This driver supports IXP4xx built-in network coprocessors
 	  and is automatically selected by Ethernet and HSS drivers.

arch/blackfin/Kconfig

@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ config NR_CPUS
 
 config HOTPLUG_CPU
 	bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs"
-	depends on SMP && HOTPLUG
+	depends on SMP
 	default y
 
 config BF_REV_MIN

arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/Kconfig

@@ -617,7 +617,6 @@ config ETRAX_PV_CHANGEABLE_BITS
 config ETRAX_CARDBUS
         bool "Cardbus support"
         depends on ETRAX_ARCH_V32
-        select HOTPLUG
         help
 	 Enabled the ETRAX Cardbus driver.
 

arch/ia64/Kconfig

@@ -376,7 +376,6 @@ config NR_CPUS
 config HOTPLUG_CPU
 	bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs"
 	depends on SMP
-	select HOTPLUG
 	default n
 	---help---
 	  Say Y here to experiment with turning CPUs off and on.  CPUs

arch/mips/Kconfig

@@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ config SYS_HAS_EARLY_PRINTK
 
 config HOTPLUG_CPU
 	bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs"
-	depends on SMP && HOTPLUG && SYS_SUPPORTS_HOTPLUG_CPU
+	depends on SMP && SYS_SUPPORTS_HOTPLUG_CPU
 	help
 	  Say Y here to allow turning CPUs off and on. CPUs can be
 	  controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu.

arch/parisc/Kconfig

@@ -254,7 +254,6 @@ config IRQSTACKS
 config HOTPLUG_CPU
 	bool
 	default y if SMP
-	select HOTPLUG
 
 config ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
 	def_bool y

arch/powerpc/Kconfig

@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ config SWIOTLB
 
 config HOTPLUG_CPU
 	bool "Support for enabling/disabling CPUs"
-	depends on SMP && HOTPLUG && (PPC_PSERIES || \
+	depends on SMP && (PPC_PSERIES || \
 	PPC_PMAC || PPC_POWERNV || (PPC_85xx && !PPC_E500MC))
 	---help---
 	  Say Y here to be able to disable and re-enable individual

arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_hash64.c

@@ -183,8 +183,8 @@ void tlb_flush(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
  * since 64K pages may overlap with other bridges when using 64K pages
  * with 4K HW pages on IO space.
  *
- * Because of that usage pattern, it's only available with CONFIG_HOTPLUG
- * and is implemented for small size rather than speed.
+ * Because of that usage pattern, it is implemented for small size rather
+ * than speed.
  */
 void __flush_hash_table_range(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
 			      unsigned long end)

arch/s390/Kconfig

@@ -301,7 +301,6 @@ config HOTPLUG_CPU
 	def_bool y
 	prompt "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs"
 	depends on SMP
-	select HOTPLUG
 	help
 	  Say Y here to be able to turn CPUs off and on. CPUs
 	  can be controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#.

arch/sh/Kconfig

@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ config NR_CPUS
 
 config HOTPLUG_CPU
 	bool "Support for hot-pluggable CPUs (EXPERIMENTAL)"
-	depends on SMP && HOTPLUG
+	depends on SMP
 	help
 	  Say Y here to experiment with turning CPUs off and on.  CPUs
 	  can be controlled through /sys/devices/system/cpu.