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Arnd Bergmann
f52ef24be2 rtc/alpha: remove legacy rtc driver
The old drivers/char/rtc.c driver was originally the implementation
for x86 PCs but got subsequently replaced by the rtc class driver
on all architectures except alpha.

Move alpha over to the portable driver and remove the old one
for good.

The CONFIG_JS_RTC option was only ever used on SPARC32 but
has not been available for many years, this was used to build
the same rtc driver with a different module name.

Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200226224322.187960-2-alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-03-19 07:41:02 +01:00
Arnd Bergmann
8067c0b0c6 rtc/ia64: remove legacy efirtc driver
There are two EFI RTC drivers, the original drivers/char/efirtc.c
driver and the more modern drivers/rtc/rtc-efi.c.

Both implement the same interface, but the new one does so
in a more portable way.

Move everything over to that one and remove the old one.

Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200226224322.187960-1-alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-03-19 07:41:02 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig
8334d1d415 char: remove the SGI tiocx/mbcs driver
The SGI SN2 support is about to be removed.  Remove this driver that
depends on the SN2 support.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-3-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2019-08-16 11:33:56 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
c116954b2c char: remove the SGI snsc driver
The SGI SN2 support is about to be removed.  Remove this driver that
depends on the SN2 support.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-2-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2019-08-16 11:33:56 -07:00
Finn Thain
537f3286ad char/generic_nvram: Remove as unused
Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-01-22 10:21:45 +01:00
Tom Hromatka
873c38a424 char: sparc64: Add privileged ADI driver
SPARC M7 and newer processors utilize ADI to version and
protect memory.  This driver is capable of reading/writing
ADI/MCD versions from privileged user space processes.
Addresses in the adi file are mapped linearly to physical
memory at a ratio of 1:adi_blksz.  Thus, a read (or write)
of offset K in the file operates upon the ADI version at
physical address K * adi_blksz.  The version information
is encoded as one version per byte.  Intended consumers
are makedumpfile and crash.

Signed-off-by: Tom Hromatka <tom.hromatka@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-06-05 11:24:55 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann
64f5fdd951 char: remove blackfin OTP driver
The blackfin architecture is getting removed, so we don't
need this driver any more.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Aaron Wu <aaron.wu@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2018-03-26 15:56:35 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann
315e80e7fb char: remove tile-srom.c
The tile architecture is being removed, so we no longer need this driver.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2018-03-26 15:56:34 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann
59fc07b3e9 char: remove obsolete ds1302 rtc driver
The m32r architecture was the only user of the old-style
rtc driver for ds1302. The architecture is getting removed
now, and we have a modern driver for the same hardware in
drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1302.c, so this one won't be missed.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2018-03-26 15:56:32 +02:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
b24413180f License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
 - file had no licensing information it it.
 - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
 - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
 - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
 - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
   lines of source
 - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
   lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

 - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
   considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
   COPYING file license applied.

   For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0                                              11139

   and resulted in the first patch in this series.

   If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
   Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|-------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930

   and resulted in the second patch in this series.

 - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
   of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
   any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
   it (per prior point).  Results summary:

   SPDX license identifier                            # files
   ---------------------------------------------------|------
   GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
   GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
   LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
   GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
   ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
   LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
   LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
   ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1

   and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

 - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
   the concluded license(s).

 - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
   license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
   licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

 - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
   resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
   which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

 - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
   confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

 - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
   the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
   in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
 - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
   license ids and scores
 - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
   files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
 - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
   was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
   SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Christoph Hellwig
07903ada96 mmtimer: Remove the SGI SN2 mmtimer driver
This driver supports direct system clock access on the ancient SGI SN2
IA64 systems, and implement the only non-builtin k_clock instance.
Remove it as any remaining IA64 altix user will be running just as old
distros anyway.

Dimitri Sivanich stated: "Since this is SN2 specific, this can be removed."

Note that this does not affect the never uv_mmtimer driver for x86-based
Altix systems.

[ tglx: Added comment to CLOCK_SGI_CYCLE ]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mike Travis <mike.travis@hpe.com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@hpe.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526090311.3377-2-hch@lst.de
2017-05-26 12:52:19 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
6c84239d59 Merge tag 'rtc-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux
Pull RTC updates from Alexandre Belloni:
 "RTC for 4.8

  Cleanups:
   - huge cleanup of rtc-generic and char/genrtc this allowed to cleanup
     rtc-cmos, rtc-sh, rtc-m68k, rtc-powerpc and rtc-parisc
   - move mn10300 to rtc-cmos

  Subsystem:
   - fix wakealarms after hibernate
   - multiples fixes for rctest
   - simplify implementations of .read_alarm

  New drivers:
   - Maxim MAX6916

  Drivers:
   - ds1307: fix weekday
   - m41t80: add wakeup support
   - pcf85063: add support for PCF85063A variant
   - rv8803: extend i2c fix and other fixes
   - s35390a: fix alarm reading, this fixes instant reboot after
     shutdown for QNAP TS-41x
   - s3c: clock fixes"

* tag 'rtc-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux: (65 commits)
  rtc: rv8803: Clear V1F when setting the time
  rtc: rv8803: Stop the clock while setting the time
  rtc: rv8803: Always apply the I²C workaround
  rtc: rv8803: Fix read day of week
  rtc: rv8803: Remove the check for valid time
  rtc: rv8803: Kconfig: Indicate rx8900 support
  rtc: asm9260: remove .owner field for driver
  rtc: at91sam9: Fix missing spin_lock_init()
  rtc: m41t80: add suspend handlers for alarm IRQ
  rtc: m41t80: make it a real error message
  rtc: pcf85063: Add support for the PCF85063A device
  rtc: pcf85063: fix year range
  rtc: hym8563: in .read_alarm set .tm_sec to 0 to signal minute accuracy
  rtc: explicitly set tm_sec = 0 for drivers with minute accurancy
  rtc: s3c: Add s3c_rtc_{enable/disable}_clk in s3c_rtc_setfreq()
  rtc: s3c: Remove unnecessary call to disable already disabled clock
  rtc: abx80x: use devm_add_action_or_reset()
  rtc: m41t80: use devm_add_action_or_reset()
  rtc: fix a typo and reduce three empty lines to one
  rtc: s35390a: improve two comments in .set_alarm
  ...
2016-08-05 09:48:22 -04:00
Suraj Jitindar Singh
43a1dd9b5f powerpc/powernv: Add driver for operator panel on FSP machines
Implement new character device driver to allow access from user space
to the operator panel display present on IBM Power Systems machines
with FSPs.

This will allow status information to be presented on the display which
is visible to a user.

The driver implements a character buffer which a user can read/write
by accessing the device (/dev/op_panel). This buffer is then displayed on
the operator panel display. Any attempt to write past the last character
position will have no effect and attempts to write more characters than
the size of the display will be truncated. The device may only be accessed
by a single process at a time.

Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-06-29 17:33:46 +10:00
Arnd Bergmann
6705fdb34c char/genrtc: remove the rest of the driver
No architecture uses the genrtc driver any more, so let's kill it off
for good. This now also includes asm-generic/rtc.h, which is otherwise
completely unused.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-06-04 00:23:36 +02:00
Arnd Bergmann
835ea93e9d char/genrtc: remove powerpc support
PowerPC is the last architecture using the GEN_RTC driver on some
machines, but we can migrate them all to using the RTC_DRV_GENERIC
driver instead now.

This moves over the CONFIG_GEN_RTC option from drivers/char into
arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig and makes it just select the
replacement driver instead, for the only reason of not breaking
existing defconfig and .config files that users may have.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
2016-06-04 00:23:35 +02:00
Pali Rohár
a5afba16c6 hwmon: Rename i8k driver to dell-smm-hwmon and move it to hwmon tree
This commit moves i8k driver to hwmon tree under name dell-smm-hwmon which is
better name then abbreviation i8k. For backward compatibility is added macro
MODULE_ALIAS("i8k") so modprobe will load driver also old name i8k. CONFIG_I8K
compile option was not changed.

This commit also adds me as maintainer of this new dell-smm-hwmon driver and
remove Guenter Roeck from list who is implicit maintainer all hwmon drivers.

Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-24 12:48:12 -07:00
Stephen Boyd
f0c7b47466 drivers/char: Remove msm_smd_pkt driver
This code is no longer used now that mach-msm has been removed.
Delete it.

Cc: David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Bryan Huntsman <bryanh@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-05-24 12:24:35 -07:00
Eli Billauer
7051924f77 xillybus: Move out of staging
This driver has been functional and stable throughout the year it has spent
in the staging area. It has been patched for minor bugs, coding style issues
and improvements during this period.

This is the second submission of this move-out, after making several style
improvements, as suggested by Dan Carpenter.

Signed-off-by: Eli Billauer <eli.billauer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-09-23 23:44:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9b0cd304f2 Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
 "Been a bit busy, first week of kids school, and waiting on other trees
  to go in before I could send this, so its a bit later than I'd
  normally like.

  Highlights:
   - core:
      timestamp fixes, lots of misc cleanups
   - new drivers:
      bochs virtual vga
   - vmwgfx:
      major overhaul for their nextgen virt gpu.
   - i915:
      runtime D3 on HSW, watermark fixes, power well work, fbc fixes,
      bdw is no longer prelim.
   - nouveau:
      gk110/208 acceleration, more pm groundwork, old overlay support
   - radeon:
      dpm rework and clockgating for CIK, pci config reset, big endian
      fixes
   - tegra:
      panel support and DSI support, build as module, prime.
   - armada, omap, gma500, rcar, exynos, mgag200, cirrus, ast:
      fixes
   - msm:
      hdmi support for mdp5"

* 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (595 commits)
  drm/nouveau: resume display if any later suspend bits fail
  drm/nouveau: fix lock unbalance in nouveau_crtc_page_flip
  drm/nouveau: implement hooks for needed for drm vblank timestamping support
  drm/nouveau/disp: add a method to fetch info needed by drm vblank timestamping
  drm/nv50: fill in crtc mode struct members from crtc_mode_fixup
  drm/radeon/dce8: workaround for atom BlankCrtc table
  drm/radeon/DCE4+: clear bios scratch dpms bit (v2)
  drm/radeon: set si_notify_smc_display_change properly
  drm/radeon: fix DAC interrupt handling on DCE5+
  drm/radeon: clean up active vram sizing
  drm/radeon: skip async dma init on r6xx
  drm/radeon/runpm: don't runtime suspend non-PX cards
  drm/radeon: add ring to fence trace functions
  drm/radeon: add missing trace point
  drm/radeon: fix VMID use tracking
  drm: ast,cirrus,mgag200: use drm_can_sleep
  drm/gma500: Lock struct_mutex around cursor updates
  drm/i915: Fix the offset issue for the stolen GEM objects
  DRM: armada: fix missing DRM_KMS_FB_HELPER select
  drm/i915: Decouple GPU error reporting from ring initialisation
  ...
2014-01-29 20:49:12 -08:00
Alan
6bbdc3984e vio: remove dangly makefile bits
The drivers are long gone but some config escaped the prune

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Resolves-bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57221
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-12-03 17:35:23 +01:00
Ville Syrjälä
00fe639a56 drm/i915: Make AGP support optional
We only depend on the intel-gtt module for GTT frobbign on older gens.
The intel_agp module is optional, except for UMS and some old XvMC
userland on gen3. So make AGP support optional. As before, we will
fail the i915 init for UMS and gen3 KMS the same as before if
intel_agp isn't around.

intel-gtt.c is left with a somewhat ugly ifdef mess, but I'm going
to save that for a later cleaning.

At least my gen2 still works with the patch and CONFIG_AGP=n.

v2: Make i915 depend on X86 and PCI, and intel-gtt depend on PCI

Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
2013-11-08 18:37:32 +01:00
Matthew Garrett
061475b65c IPMI: Change link order
IPMI must be initialised before ACPI in order to ensure that any IPMI
services are available before ACPI driver initialisation attempts to use
any IPMI operation regions.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-16 18:07:12 -07:00
Anton Vorontsov
1894a253db ramoops: Move to fs/pstore/ram.c
Since ramoops was converted to pstore, it has nothing to do with character
devices nowadays. Instead, today it is just a RAM backend for pstore.

The patch just moves things around. There are a few changes were needed
because of the move:

1. Kconfig and Makefiles fixups, of course.

2. In pstore/ram.c we have to play a bit with MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX, this
   is needed to keep user experience the same as with ramoops driver
   (i.e. so that ramoops.foo kernel command line arguments would still
   work).

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-05-16 08:06:37 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
0fb8379dab tty: delete briq_panel.c driver
This driver is broken, as reported by Jiri, and to quote Ben:
	Just remove the driver, I don't think anybody cares.
so I'm doing just that here.

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-03-08 10:45:55 -08:00
Chris Metcalf
dbcb4a1a3f arch/tile: add hypervisor-based character driver for SPI flash ROM
The first version of this patch proposed an arch/tile/drivers/ directory,
but the consensus was that this was probably a poor choice for a place to
group Tilera-specific drivers, and that in any case grouping by platform
was discouraged, and grouping by function was preferred.

This version of the patch addresses various issues raised in the
community, primarily the absence of sysfs integration.  The sysfs
integration now handles passing information on sector size, page size,
and total partition size to userspace as well.  In addition, we now
use a single "struct cdev" to manage all the partition minor devices,
and dynamically discover the correct number of partitions from the
hypervisor rather than using a module_param with a default value.

This driver has no particular "peer" drivers it can be grouped with.
It is sort of like an MTD driver for SPI ROM, but it doesn't group well
with the other MTD devices since it relies on hypervisor virtualization
to handle many of the irritating aspects of flash ROM management: sector
awareness, background read for sub-sector writes, bit examination to
determine whether a sector erase needs to be issued, etc.  It is in fact
more like an EEPROM driver, but the hypervisor virtualization does require
a "flush" command if you wish to commit a sector write prior to writing
to a different sector, and this is sufficiently different from generic
I2C/SPI EEPROMs that as a result it doesn't group well with them either.

The simple character device is already in use by a range of Tilera
SPI ROM management tools, as well as by customers.  In addition, using
the simple character device actually simplifies the userspace tools,
since they don't need to manage sector erase, background read, etc.
This both simplifies the code (since we can uniformly manage plain files
and the SPI ROM) as well as makes the user code portable to non-Linux
platforms that don't offer the same MTD ioctls.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2011-06-10 13:07:48 -04:00