litmus2008.git/scripts/mod, branch master

Module autoprobing support for virtio drivers.

2007-10-23T05:49:55+00:00

This adds the logic to convert the virtio ids into module aliases, and
includes a modalias entry in sysfs and the env var to make probing work.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

kbuild: modpost problem when symbols move from one module to another

2007-10-18T11:35:49+00:00

When part of build an external module tree, modpost first reads in the
kernel's and then the external tree's Module.symvers files.  From these files
it establishes a symbol => module mapping.  When it later reads in each module
built and processes the symbols it finds, it discovers the symbol=>module
mapping from Module.symvers and leaves it as it is.

The problem comes with a module has been re-named or a symbol has moved from
one module to another, since the Module.symvers file was generated.  modpost
does not update the symbol=>module mapping when it finds the new location of
the symbol when scanning the newly built modules.  This results in the module
containing incorrect dependency information and the new Module.symvers file
written by modpost will also contain the incorrect mappings, perpetuating the
problem to the next build, and so on.

When building the out of kernel development tree for kernel subsystem, like
v4l-dvb or ALSA, deleting the external Module.symvers file before building
(which the kernel build system doesn't do and shouldn't be necessary anyway),
won't fix the problem.  modpost still reads the kernel's Module.symvers, and
since we a building a kernel subsystem, it will define the same symbols as the
external modules.

Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho 
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild

2007-10-16T18:23:06+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (40 commits)
  kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y
  kbuild: enable 'make CPPFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CPP
  kbuild: enable use of AFLAGS and CFLAGS on commandline
  kbuild: enable 'make AFLAGS=...' to add additional options to AS
  kbuild: fix AFLAGS use in h8300 and m68knommu
  kbuild: check for wrong use of CFLAGS
  kbuild: enable 'make CFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CC
  kbuild: fix up CFLAGS usage
  kbuild: make modpost detect unterminated device id lists
  kbuild: call export_report from the Makefile
  kbuild: move Kai Germaschewski to CREDITS
  kconfig/menuconfig: distinguish between selected-by-another options and comments
  kconfig: tristate choices with mixed tristate and boolean values
  include/linux/Kbuild: remove duplicate entries
  kbuild: kill backward compatibility checks
  kbuild: kill EXTRA_ARFLAGS
  kbuild: fix documentation in makefiles.txt
  kbuild: call make once for all targets when O=.. is used
  kbuild: pass -g to assembler under CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO
  kbuild: update _shipped files for kconfig syntax cleanup
  ...

Fix up conflicts in arch/um/sys-{x86_64,i386}/Makefile manually.

i2c: Kill struct i2c_device_id

2007-10-13T21:56:29+00:00

I2C devices do not have any form of ID as PCI or USB devices have.
No driver uses "MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(i2c, ...)" because it doesn't
make sense. So we can get rid of struct i2c_device_id and the
associated support code.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare 
Cc: Greg KH

kbuild: make modpost detect unterminated device id lists

2007-10-12T19:48:11+00:00

Cause modpost to fail if any device id lists are incorrectly terminated,
after reporting the offender.
Improved reporting by akpm

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Jeff Garzik 
Cc: Ben Collins 
Cc: Michael Wu 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

kbuild: fix segfault in modpost

2007-10-12T19:15:30+00:00

Fix modpost segfault.

Before:
-------
ynezz@ntbk:~/linux-2.6.git$ scripts/mod/modpost vmlinux ath_pci.o
Segmentation fault

After:
------
ynezz@ntbk:~/linux-2.6.git$ scripts/mod/modpost vmlinux ath_pci.o
FATAL: section header offset=815726848 in file 'ath_pci.o' is bigger then filesize=153968

Sam: This seems to warn for a binutils issue. Anyway modpost should not
segfault.

Signed-off-by: Petr Stetiar 
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

kbuild: Use Elfnn_Half as replacement for Elfnn_Section

2007-10-12T19:13:50+00:00

The Elfnn_Section is not available on all platforms,
noteworthy are cygwin.
Use the safe replacement _Half.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

2007-10-12T02:40:14+00:00

* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (867 commits)
  [SKY2]: status polling loop (post merge)
  [NET]: Fix NAPI completion handling in some drivers.
  [TCP]: Limit processing lost_retrans loop to work-to-do cases
  [TCP]: Fix lost_retrans loop vs fastpath problems
  [TCP]: No need to re-count fackets_out/sacked_out at RTO
  [TCP]: Extract tcp_match_queue_to_sack from sacktag code
  [TCP]: Kill almost unused variable pcount from sacktag
  [TCP]: Fix mark_head_lost to ignore R-bit when trying to mark L
  [TCP]: Add bytes_acked (ABC) clearing to FRTO too
  [IPv6]: Update setsockopt(IPV6_MULTICAST_IF) to support RFC 3493, try2
  [NETFILTER]: x_tables: add missing ip6t_modulename aliases
  [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_tcp: fix connection reopening
  [QETH]: fix qeth_main.c
  [NETLINK]: fib_frontend build fixes
  [IPv6]: Export userland ND options through netlink (RDNSS support)
  [9P]: build fix with !CONFIG_SYSCTL
  [NET]: Fix dev_put() and dev_hold() comments
  [NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious
  [NET]: unify netlink kernel socket recognition
  [NET]: cleanup 3rd argument in netlink_sendskb
  ...

Fix up conflicts manually in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
and my new least favourite crap, the "mod_devicetable" support in the
files include/linux/mod_devicetable.h and scripts/mod/file2alias.c.

(The latter files seem to be explicitly _designed_ to get conflicts when
different subsystems work with them - that have an absolutely horrid
lack of subsystem separation!)

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[NETNS]: Move some code into __init section when CONFIG_NET_NS=n

2007-10-10T23:54:58+00:00

With the net namespaces many code leaved the __init section,
thus making the kernel occupy more memory than it did before.
Since we have a config option that prohibits the namespace
creation, the functions that initialize/finalize some netns
stuff are simply not needed and can be freed after the boot.

Currently, this is almost not noticeable, since few calls
are no longer in __init, but when the namespaces will be
merged it will be possible to free more code. I propose to
use the __net_init, __net_exit and __net_initdata "attributes"
for functions/variables that are not used if the CONFIG_NET_NS
is not set to save more space in memory.

The exiting functions cannot just reside in the __exit section,
as noticed by David, since the init section will have
references on it and the compilation will fail due to modpost
checks. These references can exist, since the init namespace
never dies and the exit callbacks are never called. So I
introduce the __exit_refok attribute just like it is already
done with the __init_refok.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[SSB]: add Sonics Silicon Backplane bus support

2007-10-10T23:51:36+00:00

SSB is an SoC bus used in a number of embedded devices.  The most
well-known of these devices is probably the Linksys WRT54G, but there
are others as well.  The bus is also used internally on the BCM43xx
and BCM44xx devices from Broadcom.

This patch also includes support for SSB ID tables in modules, so
that SSB drivers can be loaded automatically.

Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch 
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller