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Greg Kroah-Hartman
d632eb1bf2 USB: convert drivers/net/* to use module_usb_driver()
This converts the drivers in drivers/net/* to use the
module_usb_driver() macro which makes the code smaller and a bit
simpler.

Added bonus is that it removes some unneeded kernel log messages about
drivers loading and/or unloading.

Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Cc: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Cc: Petko Manolov <petkan@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>
Cc: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Jussi Kivilinna <jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi>
Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Cc: Gertjan van Wingerde <gwingerde@gmail.com>
Cc: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@googlemail.com>
Cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@canonical.com>
Cc: Hin-Tak Leung <htl10@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Chaoming Li <chaoming_li@realsil.com.cn>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Yoann DI-RUZZA <y.diruzza@lim.eu>
Cc: George <george0505@realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-11-18 09:44:20 -08:00
Lucas De Marchi
25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Roel Kluin
3b06dbbead irda: Test index before read in stir421x_patch_device()
Test whether index exceeds fw->size before reading the element

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
2010-10-11 02:11:58 +02:00
Eric Dumazet
807540baae drivers/net: return operator cleanup
Change "return (EXPR);" to "return EXPR;"

return is not a function, parentheses are not required.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-09-26 18:34:29 -07:00
Frans Pop
19299b34b4 net/irda: remove trailing space in messages
Includes a minor consistency improvement between two related
debug messages.

Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-24 14:01:55 -07:00
Dan Carpenter
0e2b807234 irda-usb: add error handling and fix leak
If the call to kcalloc() fails then we should return -ENOMEM.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-03-07 15:25:51 -08:00
Joe Perches
8e95a2026f drivers/net: Move && and || to end of previous line
Only files where David Miller is the primary git-signer.
wireless, wimax, ixgbe, etc are not modified.

Compile tested x86 allyesconfig only
Not all files compiled (not x86 compatible)

Added a few > 80 column lines, which I ignored.
Existing checkpatch complaints ignored.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-12-03 13:18:01 -08:00
Julia Lawall
6cc93183ee drivers/net/irda: remove exceptional & on function name
In this file, function names are otherwise used as pointers without &.

A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@r@
identifier f;
@@

f(...) { ... }

@@
identifier r.f;
@@

- &f
+ f
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-18 10:48:40 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
6518bbb803 irda: convert to netdev_tx_t
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-01 01:13:38 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
6ed106549d net: use NETDEV_TX_OK instead of 0 in ndo_start_xmit() functions
This patch is the result of an automatic spatch transformation to convert
all ndo_start_xmit() return values of 0 to NETDEV_TX_OK.

Some occurences are missed by the automatic conversion, those will be
handled in a seperate patch.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-05 19:16:04 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
4bd73ae268 net: fix network drivers ndo_start_xmit() return values (part 2)
Fix up IRDA drivers that return an errno value to qdisc_restart(), causing
qdisc_restart() to print a warning an requeue/retransmit the skb.

- donauboe: intention appears to be to have the skb retransmitted without
            error message
- irda-usb: intention is to drop silently according to comment
- kingsub-sir: skb is freed: use after free
- ks959-sir: skb is freed: use after free
- ksdazzle-sir: skb is freed: use after free
- mcs7880: skb is freed: use after free

All but donauboe compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-13 01:18:34 -07:00
Tadashi Abe
e13f93188b irda-usb: suspend/resume support
This patch adds power management suspend/resume hooks for irda-usb.

Signed-off-by: Tadashi Abe <tabe@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-05-29 22:12:33 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
d36733afd9 irda: convert irda_usb to net_device_ops
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-21 19:19:16 -07:00
Jos-Vicente Gilabert
2950e95292 drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c: fix buffer overflow
Taken from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12397

We're doing an sprintf of an 11-char string into an 11-char buffer. 
Whoops.  It breaks firmware uploading.

Reported-by: Jos-Vicente Gilabert <josevteg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-14 20:55:00 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
af0490810c irda: convert to internal stats
Convert IRDA drivers to use already existing net_device_stats structure
in network device. This is a pre-cursor to conversion to net_device
ops. Compile tested only.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-01-06 10:40:43 -08:00
Wang Chen
4cf1653aa9 netdevice: safe convert to netdev_priv() #part-2
We have some reasons to kill netdev->priv:
1. netdev->priv is equal to netdev_priv().
2. netdev_priv() wraps the calculation of netdev->priv's offset, obviously
   netdev_priv() is more flexible than netdev->priv.
But we cann't kill netdev->priv, because so many drivers reference to it
directly.

This patch is a safe convert for netdev->priv to netdev_priv(netdev).
Since all of the netdev->priv is only for read.
But it is too big to be sent in one mail.
I split it to 4 parts and make every part smaller than 100,000 bytes,
which is max size allowed by vger.

Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-12 23:38:14 -08:00
David S. Miller
babcda74e9 drivers/net: Kill now superfluous ->last_rx stores.
The generic packet receive code takes care of setting
netdev->last_rx when necessary, for the sake of the
bonding ARP monitor.

Drivers need not do it any more.

Some cases had to be skipped over because the drivers
were making use of the ->last_rx value themselves.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-03 21:11:17 -08:00
Harvey Harrison
a97a6f1077 irda: replace __FUNCTION__ with __func__
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-30 17:20:18 -07:00
David Woodhouse
afd636e94d irda-usb: treat firmware data as const
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-07-10 14:26:25 +01:00
Al Viro
f6c2fb5ccf irda-usb endianness annotations and fixes
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-21 16:55:59 -07:00
Oliver Neukum
497ba7f4c8 [IRDA]: Race between open and disconnect in irda-usb.
It seems to me that irda_usb_net_open() must set self->netopen
under spinlock or disconnect() may fail to kill all URBs, if it is called
while an interface is opened.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-16 14:07:36 -08:00
Ralf Baechle
10d024c1b2 [NET]: Nuke SET_MODULE_OWNER macro.
It's been a useless no-op for long enough in 2.6 so I figured it's time to
remove it.  The number of people that could object because they're
maintaining unified 2.4 and 2.6 drivers is probably rather small.

[ Handled drivers added by netdev tree and some missed IRDA cases... -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:51:13 -07:00
Mariusz Kozlowski
48e3eeb1a1 [IRDA] irda-usb.c: mostly kmalloc + memset conversion to k[cz]alloc
drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c | 59694 -> 59541 (-153 bytes)
 drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.o | 170588 -> 169256 (-1332 bytes)

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:52:12 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
d626f62b11 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_copy_from_linear_data{_offset}
To clearly state the intent of copying from linear sk_buffs, _offset being a
overly long variant but interesting for the sake of saving some bytes.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2007-04-25 22:28:23 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
459a98ed88 [SK_BUFF]: Introduce skb_reset_mac_header(skb)
For the common, open coded 'skb->mac.raw = skb->data' operation, so that we can
later turn skb->mac.raw into a offset, reducing the size of struct sk_buff in
64bit land while possibly keeping it as a pointer on 32bit.

This one touches just the most simple case, next will handle the slightly more
"complex" cases.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-25 22:24:32 -07:00
Nigel Williams
2e360d81ea [IrDA]: Delay needed when uploading firmware chunks
With 42101001.sb firmwares, we need a 10 ms delay between firmware chunks
upload on irda-usb.

Patch from Nigel Williams <nigelw@elder-gods.net>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-03-20 00:09:40 -07:00
Samuel Ortiz
8f1adb5f27 [IrDA]: Removed incorrect IRDA_ASSERT()
With USB2.0 bulk out MTU can be 512 bytes, so checking it only for 64
bytes is incorrect.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-23 20:25:50 -08:00
Samuel Ortiz
3958fb34ef [IrDA]: irda-usb TX path optimization (was Re: IrDA spams logfiles - since 2.6.19)
Since we stop using dev_alloc_skb on the IrDA TX frame, we constantly run
into the case of the skb headroom being 0, and thus we call skb_cow for
every IrDA TX frame.
This patch uses a local buffer and memcpy the skb to it, saving us a
kmalloc for each of those IrDA TX frames.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-23 20:25:49 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day
5cbded585d [PATCH] getting rid of all casts of k[cmz]alloc() calls
Run this:

	#!/bin/sh
	for f in $(grep -Erl "\([^\)]*\) *k[cmz]alloc" *) ; do
	  echo "De-casting $f..."
	  perl -pi -e "s/ ?= ?\([^\)]*\) *(k[cmz]alloc) *\(/ = \1\(/" $f
	done

And then go through and reinstate those cases where code is casting pointers
to non-pointers.

And then drop a few hunks which conflicted with outstanding work.

Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>, Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:58 -08:00
Mariusz Kozlowski
8fd31e1d85 usb: irda-usb free urb cleanup
- usb_free_urb() cleanup

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01 14:23:33 -08:00
David Howells
7d12e780e0 IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers
Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
2006-10-05 15:10:12 +01:00
Pete Zaitcev
38e2bfc94e USB: Dealias -110 code (more complete)
The purpose of this patch is to split off the case when a device does
not reply on the lower level (which is reported by HC hardware), and
a case when the device accepted the request, but does not reply at
upper level. This redefinition allows to diagnose issues easier,
without asking the user if the -110 happened "immediately".

The usbmon splits such cases already thanks to its timestamp, but
it's not always available.

I adjusted all drivers which I found affected (by searching for "urb").
Out of tree drivers may suffer a little bit, but I do not expect much
breakage. At worst they may print a few messages.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-27 11:59:00 -07:00
Andrew Morton
ed6a209024 [PATCH] irda-usb printk fix
drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c: In function 'stir421x_patch_device':
drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c:1108: warning: format '%u' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'size_t'

Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:24 -07:00
Nick Fedchik
8ef80aef11 [IRDA]: irda-usb.c: STIR421x cleanups
This cleans the STIR421x part of the irda-usb code. We also no longer
try to load all existing firmwares but only the matching one
(according to the USB id we get from the dongle).

Signed-off-by: Nick Fedchik <nfedchik@atlantic-link.com.ua>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-17 21:30:26 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
0eb1bd210d [IRDA] irda-usb: use NULL instead of 0
Use NULL instead of 0 for a null pointer value (sparse warning):

drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c:1781:30: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

Also, correct timeout argument to use milliseconds instead of jiffies.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-06 18:34:10 -07:00
Samuel Ortiz
269690ac16 [IRDA]: irda-usb, unregister netdev when patch upload fails
In the STIR421x case, when the firmware upload fails, we need to
unregister_netdev. Otherwise we hit a BUG on free_netdev(), if sysfs
is enabled.
 
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-14 16:02:07 -07:00
Samuel Ortiz
137dc0233f [IRDA]: Support for Sigmatel STIR421x chip
This patch enables support for the Sigmatel's STIR421x IrDA chip.
Once patched with Sigmatel's firmware, this chip "almost" follows the
USB-IrDA spec. Thus this patch is against irda-usb.[ch].

The code has been tested by Nick Fedchik on an STIR4210 chipset based
dongle.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:31 -07:00
Eugene Teo
da81817fbd [PATCH] USB: Fix irda-usb use after use
Don't read from free'd memory after calling netif_rx().  docopy is used as
a boolean (0 and 1) so unsigned int is sufficient.

Coverity bug #928

Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-03-20 14:50:03 -08:00
Jean Tourrilhes
669d32a293 [IRDA]: irda-usb bug fixes
This patch fixes 2 bugs in the USB-IrDA code.

The first one is a buffer overrun in the RX path. We are now using
IRDA_SKB_MAX_MTU when initializing the Rx URB.

The second one is a potential stack recursion when unplugging the USB
dongle.  It seems that first we get the Rx URB with a generic error
code, and after a while the Rx URB comes again with a "disconnect"
error code.  Since we are resubmitting the Rx URB immediately after
receiving the first error one, we might enter an endless loop.

When getting an error Rx URB, the patch defers the Rx URB resubmitting
so that it gives us a chance to catch the disconnect one, in case the
dongle has juts been unplugged.

Tested against 2.6.16-rc2.

Patch from Jean Tourrilhes

Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-02-19 22:28:25 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
75318d2d7c [PATCH] USB: remove .owner field from struct usb_driver
It is no longer needed, so let's remove it, saving a bit of memory.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 13:48:34 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
b4558ea93d drivers/net: Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() 2005-10-28 16:53:13 -04:00
Alan Stern
b375a0495f [PATCH] USB: URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag removed from the kernel
29 July 2005, Cambridge, MA:

This afternoon Alan Stern submitted a patch to remove the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK
flag from the Linux kernel.  Mr. Stern explained, "This flag is a relic
from an earlier, less-well-designed system.  For over a year it hasn't
been used for anything other than printing warning messages."

An anonymous spokesman for the Linux kernel development community
commented, "This is exactly the sort of thing we see happening all the
time.  As the kernel evolves, support for old techniques and old code can
be jettisoned and replaced by newer, better approaches.  Proprietary
operating systems do not have the freedom or flexibility to change so
quickly."

Mr. Stern, a staff member at Harvard University's Rowland Institute who
works on Linux only as a hobby, noted that the patch (labelled as548) did
not update two files, keyspan.c and option.c, in the USB drivers' "serial"
subdirectory.  "Those files need more extensive changes," he remarked.
"They examine the status field of several URBs at times when they're not
supposed to.  That will need to be fixed before the URB_ASYNC_UNLINK flag
is removed."

Greg Kroah-Hartman, the kernel maintainer responsible for overseeing all
of Linux's USB drivers, did not respond to our inquiries or return our
calls.  His only comment was "Applied, thanks."

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-08 16:23:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
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!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00