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2010-11-05TTY: create drivers/tty/vt and move the vt code thereGreg Kroah-Hartman
The vt and other related code is moved into the drivers/tty/vt directory. Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-22vcs: invoke the vt update callback when /dev/vcs* is written toNicolas Pitre
A notifier chain is called whenever the vt code modifies a terminal content, except for one case which is when the modification comes through writes to /dev/vcs* devices. Let's add the missing notifier invocation at the end of vcs_write() for that case too. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@canonical.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-10-22vcs: add poll/fasync supportNicolas Pitre
The /dev/vcs* devices are used, amongst other things, by accessibility applications such as BRLTTY to display the screen content onto refreshable braille displays. Currently this is performed by constantly reading from /dev/vcsa0 whether or not the screen content has changed. Given the default braille refresh rate of 25 times per second, this easily qualifies as the biggest source of wake-up events preventing laptops from entering deeper power saving states. To avoid this periodic polling, let's add support for select()/poll() and SIGIO with the /dev/vcs* devices. The implemented semantic is to report data availability whenever the corresponding vt has seen some update after the last read() operation. The application still has to lseek() back as usual in order to read() the new data. Not to create unwanted overhead, the needed data structure is allocated and the vt notification callback is registered only when the poll or fasync method is invoked for the first time per file instance. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@canonical.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-10tty: replace BKL with a new tty_lockArnd Bergmann
As a preparation for replacing the big kernel lock in the TTY layer, wrap all the callers in new macros tty_lock, tty_lock_nested and tty_unlock. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-07-20vc: create vcs(a) devices for consolesKay Sievers
The buffer for the consoles are unconditionally allocated at con_init() time, which miss the creation of the vcs(a) devices. Since 2.6.30 (commit 4995f8ef9d3aac72745e12419d7fbaa8d01b1d81, 'vcs: hook sysfs devices into object lifetime instead of "binding"' to be exact) these devices are no longer created at open() and removed on close(), but controlled by the lifetime of the buffers. Reported-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> Tested-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-24vcs: hook sysfs devices into object lifetime instead of "binding"Kay Sievers
During bootup performance tracing I noticed many occurrences of vca* device creation and removal, leading to the usual userspace uevent processing, which are, in this case, rather pointless. A simple test showing the kernel timing (not including all the work userspace has to do), gives us these numbers: $ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done real 0m1.142s user 0m0.015s sys 0m0.540s If we move the hook for the vcs* driver core devices from the tty "binding" to the vc allocation/deallocation, which is what the vcs* devices represent, we get the following numbers: $ time for i in `seq 1000`; do echo a > /dev/tty2; done real 0m0.152s user 0m0.030s sys 0m0.072s Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16device create: char: convert device_create_drvdata to device_createGreg Kroah-Hartman
Now that device_create() has been audited, rename things back to the original call to be sane. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21device create: char: convert device_create to device_create_drvdataGreg Kroah-Hartman
device_create() is race-prone, so use the race-free device_create_drvdata() instead as device_create() is going away. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-06-20vcs: BKL pushdownJonathan Corbet
Add explicit BKL to vcs_open(). Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2007-05-08use mutex instead of semaphore in virtual console driverMatthias Kaehlcke
The virtual console driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API instead of the (binary) semaphore. Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not usedRandy Dunlap
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed. Suggested by Al Viro. Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc, sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.hTim Schmielau
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes. There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the course of cleaning it up. To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble. Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha, arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig, allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted by unnecessarily included header files). Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] struct path: convert char-driversJosef Sipek
Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-01Driver core: convert vc code to use struct deviceGreg Kroah-Hartman
Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the /sys/class directory. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-29[PATCH] There is no devfs, there has never been a devfs, we have always been ↵Alan Cox
at war with... Jon Smirl noted a couple of tty driver functions now are quite misleadingly named with the death of devfs. A quick grep found another case in the lp driver. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03[PATCH] make more file_operation structs staticArjan van de Ven
Mark the static struct file_operations in drivers/char as const. Making them const prevents accidental bugs, and moves them to the .rodata section so that they no longer do any false sharing; in addition with the proper debug option they are then protected against corruption.. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-26[PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the treeGreg Kroah-Hartman
Also fixes up all files that #include it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel treeGreg Kroah-Hartman
Removes the devfs_remove() function and all callers of it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-26[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel treeGreg Kroah-Hartman
Removes the devfs_mk_cdev() function and all callers of it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-12-29[PATCH] fix ia64 compile failure with gcc4.1Dave Jones
__get_unaligned creates a typeof the var its passed, and writes to it, which on gcc4.1, spits out the following error: drivers/char/vc_screen.c: In function 'vcs_write': drivers/char/vc_screen.c:422: error: assignment of read-only variable 'val' Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> [ The "right" fix would be to try to fix <asm-generic/unaligned.h> but that's hard to do with the tools gcc gives us. So this simpler patch is preferable -- Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-28[PATCH] Driver Core: fix up all callers of class_device_create()Greg Kroah-Hartman
The previous patch adding the ability to nest struct class_device changed the paramaters to the call class_device_create(). This patch fixes up all in-kernel users of the function. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20[PATCH] class: convert drivers/char/* to use the new class api instead of ↵gregkh@suse.de
class_simple Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!