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Linus Torvalds
b1dbb67911 Merge branch 'ipi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'ipi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  s390: remove arch specific smp_send_stop()
  panic: clean up kernel/panic.c
  panic, smp: provide smp_send_stop() wrapper on UP too
  panic: decrease oops_in_progress only after having done the panic
  generic-ipi: eliminate WARN_ON()s during oops/panic
  generic-ipi: cleanups
  generic-ipi: remove CSD_FLAG_WAIT
  generic-ipi: remove kmalloc()
  generic IPI: simplify barriers and locking
2009-04-03 17:33:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
492f59f526 Merge branch 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  locking: rename trace_softirq_[enter|exit] => lockdep_softirq_[enter|exit]
  lockdep: remove duplicate CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP definitions
  lockdep: require framepointers for x86
  lockdep: remove extra "irq" string
  lockdep: fix incorrect state name
2009-04-03 17:29:53 -07:00
Suresh Siddha
786c221a37 ACPI: update x2apic comments
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-03 20:10:26 -04:00
Suresh Siddha
7237d3de78 x86, ACPI: add support for x2apic ACPI extensions
All logical processors with APIC ID values of 255 and greater will have their
APIC reported through Processor X2APIC structure (type-9 entry type) and all
logical processors with APIC ID less than 255 will have their APIC reported
through legacy Processor Local APIC (type-0 entry type) only. This is the
same case even for NMI structure reporting.
    
The Processor X2APIC Affinity structure provides the association between the
X2APIC ID of a logical processor and the proximity domain to which the logical
processor belongs.
    
For OSPM, Procssor IDs outside the 0-254 range are to be declared as Device()
objects in the ACPI namespace.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-03 20:08:12 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
c5c67c7cba x86, mtrr: remove debug message
The MTRR code grew a new debug message which triggers commonly:

[   40.142276]   get_mtrr: cpu0 reg00 base=0000000000 size=0000080000 write-back
[   40.142280]   get_mtrr: cpu0 reg01 base=0000080000 size=0000040000 write-back
[   40.142284]   get_mtrr: cpu0 reg02 base=0000100000 size=0000040000 write-back
[   40.142311]   get_mtrr: cpu0 reg00 base=0000000000 size=0000080000 write-back
[   40.142314]   get_mtrr: cpu0 reg01 base=0000080000 size=0000040000 write-back
[   40.142317]   get_mtrr: cpu0 reg02 base=0000100000 size=0000040000 write-back

Remove this annoyance.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-04-04 00:31:02 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
f945b7abcb Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
  fuse: allow private mappings of "direct_io" files
  fuse: allow kernel to access "direct_io" files
2009-04-03 15:27:58 -07:00
Alan Cox
04c860c188 LANANA: Change of management and resync
Bring the devices.txt back into some relationship with reality. Update the
documentation a bit.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-04-03 15:27:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5fba0925fd Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid:
  HID: remove compat stuff
  HID: constify arrays of struct apple_key_translation
  HID: add support for Kye/Genius Ergo 525V
  HID: Support Apple mini aluminum keyboard
  HID: support for Kensington slimblade device
  HID: DragonRise game controller force feedback driver
  HID: add support for another version of 0e8f:0003 device in hid-pl
  HID: fix race between usb_register_dev() and hiddev_open()
  HID: bring back possibility to specify vid/pid ignore on module load
  HID: make HID_DEBUG defaults consistent
  HID: autosuspend -- fix lockup of hid on reset
  HID: hid_reset_resume() needs to be defined only when CONFIG_PM is set
  HID: fix USB HID devices after STD with autosuspend
  HID: do not try to compile PM code with CONFIG_PM unset
  HID: autosuspend support for USB HID
2009-04-03 15:25:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
811158b147 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits)
  trivial: Update my email address
  trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c
  trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h
  trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius".
  trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file()
  trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment
  trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL
  trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier
  trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to
  trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example
  trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION
  trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation
  trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment
  trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts
  trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware
  trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections
  trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein
  trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register"
  ...
2009-04-03 15:24:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4e76c5ccd5 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/czankel/xtensa-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/czankel/xtensa-2.6: (21 commits)
  xtensa: we don't need to include asm/io.h
  xtensa: only build platform or variant if they contain a Makefile
  xtensa: make startup code discardable
  xtensa: ccount clocksource
  xtensa: remove platform rtc hooks
  xtensa: use generic sched_clock()
  xtensa: platform: s6105
  xtensa: let platform override KERNELOFFSET
  xtensa: s6000 variant
  xtensa: s6000 variant core definitions
  xtensa: variant irq set callbacks
  xtensa: variant-specific code
  xtensa: nommu support
  xtensa: add flat support
  xtensa: enforce slab alignment to maximum register width
  xtensa: cope with ram beginning at higher addresses
  xtensa: don't make bootmem bitmap larger than required
  xtensa: fix init_bootmem_node() argument order
  xtensa: use correct stack pointer for stack traces
  xtensa: beat Kconfig into shape
  ...
2009-04-03 15:15:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b983471794 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable:
  Btrfs: BUG to BUG_ON changes
  Btrfs: remove dead code
  Btrfs: remove dead code
  Btrfs: fix typos in comments
  Btrfs: remove unused ftrace include
  Btrfs: fix __ucmpdi2 compile bug on 32 bit builds
  Btrfs: free inode struct when btrfs_new_inode fails
  Btrfs: fix race in worker_loop
  Btrfs: add flushoncommit mount option
  Btrfs: notreelog mount option
  Btrfs: introduce btrfs_show_options
  Btrfs: rework allocation clustering
  Btrfs: Optimize locking in btrfs_next_leaf()
  Btrfs: break up btrfs_search_slot into smaller pieces
  Btrfs: kill the pinned_mutex
  Btrfs: kill the block group alloc mutex
  Btrfs: clean up find_free_extent
  Btrfs: free space cache cleanups
  Btrfs: unplug in the async bio submission threads
  Btrfs: keep processing bios for a given bdev if our proc is batching
2009-04-03 15:14:44 -07:00
Mithlesh Thukral
ba0e1ebb7e Staging: sxg: slicoss: Specify the license for Sahara SXG and Slicoss drivers
Specify a license for the Alacritech Sahara (10Gbe) and SLICOSS (1GBE)
firmware files.

Signed-off-by: Christopher Harrer <charrer@alacritech.com>
Signed-off-by: Mithlesh Thukral <mithlesh@linsyssoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:38 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
19be358212 Staging: serqt_usb: fix build due to proc tty changes
Just delete the proc tty usage in the driver as it's not needed and will
go away when it switches over to a usb-serial driver.  This fixes the
build error in the driver.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:27 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
c23ee6c30e Staging: serqt_usb: fix checkpatch errors
Clean up the code so it's at least readable now, fixing the
checkpatch errors.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:27 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
68bf9916d5 Staging: serqt_usb: add TODO file
Adds a TODO file


Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:27 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
a9ea226670 Staging: serqt_usb: Lindent the code
Run Lindent on the code to give us someplace to work from

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:27 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
5ca0121ff2 Staging: add USB serial Quatech driver
Add support for all Quatech usb to serial devices.

Based on an original driver from Quatech.

Cleaned up and forward ported by me.

It's a mess, uses it's own tty layer interface, and the coding style is
horrible.

Cc: Tim Gobeli <tgobeli@quatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:27 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
4e9bf410dc staging: document that the wifi staging drivers a bit better
The Linux wireless developers don't want to hear anything about the
staging wireless drivers, for a wide range of miopic reasons.

The following patch, based on a patch from Johannes Berg, tries to
document this issue a bit better.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:27 -07:00
Alexander Beregalov
dc57a3ea80 Staging: echo cleanup
before:
			errors	lines of code	errors/KLOC
drivers/staging/echo/	213		1701	125.2

after:
			errors	lines of code	errors/KLOC
drivers/staging/echo/	8		1685	4.7

Compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:27 -07:00
Stoyan Gaydarov
2961f24f78 Staging: BUG to BUG_ON changes
Signed-off-by: Stoyan Gaydarov <stoyboyker@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:26 -07:00
Wei Yongjun
0773a5c076 Staging: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb()
Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb().

Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:26 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
bbe364dded Staging: line6: fix build error, select SND_RAWMIDI
line6 needs to select SND_RAWMIDI, like many other drivers do.

ERROR: "snd_rawmidi_set_ops" [drivers/staging/line6/line6usb.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "snd_rawmidi_new" [drivers/staging/line6/line6usb.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "snd_rawmidi_transmit_peek" [drivers/staging/line6/line6usb.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "snd_rawmidi_transmit_ack" [drivers/staging/line6/line6usb.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "snd_rawmidi_receive" [drivers/staging/line6/line6usb.ko] undefined!

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:26 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
9cd57f7777 Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in variax.c
Lots of warnings also fixed up.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:26 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
6353773b52 Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in toneport.c
Lots of warnings also fixed up.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:26 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
68dc3dde02 Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in pcm.c
Lots of warnings also fixed up.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:26 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
ce9b490cbf Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in midibuf.c
Lots of warnings also fixed up.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:26 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
d7e3733619 Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in midi.c
Lots of warnings also fixed up.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:26 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
766f9d20a1 Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in dumprequest.c
Lots of warnings also fixed up.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:26 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
36445bc118 Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in driver.c
Lots of warnings also fixed up.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:26 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
dfc70567d7 Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in audio.c
Lots of warnings also fixed up.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:26 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
0fdef36aca Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in pod.c
2 errors left, but they are minor.
Lots of warnings also fixed up.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:26 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
010f378e8c Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in playback.c
2 errors left, but they are minor.
Lots of warnings also fixed up.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:25 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
9a92fadcc6 Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in control.c
1 error left, but it's minor.
Lots of warnings also fixed up.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:25 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
6efc5667ef Staging: line6: fix checkpatch errors in capture.c
2 errors left, but they are minor.
Lots of warnings also fixed up.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:25 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
a49e483835 Staging: line6: coding style cleanups for .h files.
Mostly all line length issues.
Skipped the control.h file as it makes sense to leave it alone.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:25 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
536165d8ef Staging: line6: fix up NULL assignment mistakes
Should use NULL for a pointer, not 0, otherwise sparse complains.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:25 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
b702ed253d Staging: line6: static function cleanups
This fixes all of the static function warnings that sparse complains
about.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:25 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
4cb8f30273 Staging: line6: remove KERNEL_VERSION checks
As the code is in the kernel tree, it's no longer needed.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:25 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
0c7ab1580f Staging: line6: remove PT_REGS
As the code is in the kernel tree, it's no longer needed.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:25 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
77491e524c Staging: line6: remove DEVICE_ATTRIBUTE
As the code is in the kernel tree, it's no longer needed.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:25 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
7e60fcb54f Staging: line6: depends on SND
line6 code has lots of dependencies on ALSA (and build errors),
so express that in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:25 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
4b5e781dc8 Staging: line6: add to the build
This adds the line6 driver to the build system.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:25 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
4717b03b56 Staging: line6: fix bus_id usage
bus_id is now gone in the linux-next tree, so replace it with dev_name()
so the code works properly.

Cc: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:24 -07:00
Markus Grabner
705ececd1c Staging: add line6 usb driver
This is an experimental Linux driver for the guitar amp, cab, and
effects modeller PODxt Pro by Line6 (and similar devices), supporting
the following features:

  - Reading/writing individual parameters
  - Reading/writing complete channel, effects setup, and amp setup data
  - Channel switching
  - Virtual MIDI interface
  - Tuner access
  - Playback/capture/mixer device for any  ALSA-compatible PCM audio
    application
  - Signal routing (record clean/processed  guitar signal, re-amping)

Moreover, preliminary support for the Variax Workbench is included.

From: Markus Grabner <grabner@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:24 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
e642f09951 Staging: add rt3070 wireless driver
This is the Ralink RT3070 driver from the company that does horrible
things like reading a config file from /etc.  However, the driver that
is currently under development from the wireless development community
is not working at all yet, so distros and users are using this version
instead (quite common hardware on a lot of netbook machines).

So here is this driver, for now, until the wireless developers get a
"clean" version into the main tree, or until this version is cleaned up
sufficiently to move out of the staging tree.

Ported to the Linux build system, fixed lots of build issues, forward
ported to the current kernel version, and other minor cleanups were all
done by me.

Cc: Linux wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:24 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
21a6a6e9f8 Staging: heci: add TODO file
List some of the remaining issues in the code.

Cc: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
Cc: Marcin Obara <marcin.obara@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:24 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
c4739ea63c Staging: heci: fix some sparse warnings
This resolves a lot of the more obvious sparse warnings in the code.

There still are some major problems in the ioctl handlers dealing with
user and kernel pointers that this patch does not resolve, that needs to
be addressed still.

Also, the locking seems to be a bit strange in places, which sparse
points out, that too need to be resolved.

Cc: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
Cc: Marcin Obara <marcin.obara@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:24 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
bc154a3862 Staging: heci: fix checkpatch warnings
This resolves the outstanding scripts/checkpatch.pl warnings

Cc: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
Cc: Marcin Obara <marcin.obara@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:24 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
441926795d Staging: heci: remove kcompat.h
It's not needed now that we are now in the main kernel tree.

Cc: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
Cc: Marcin Obara <marcin.obara@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:24 -07:00
Marcin Obara
d52b3d9c72 Staging: add heci driver
The Intel Management Engine Interface (aka HECI: Host Embedded
Controller Interface ) enables communication between the host OS and
the Management Engine firmware. MEI is bi-directional, and either the
host or Intel AMT firmware can initiate transactions.

The core hardware architecture of Intel Active Management Technology
(Intel AMT) is resident in firmware. The micro-controller within the
chipset's graphics and memory controller (GMCH) hub houses the
Management Engine (ME) firmware, which implements various services
on behalf of management applications.

Some of the ME subsystems that can be access via MEI driver:

- Intel(R) Quiet System Technology (QST) is implemented as a firmware
subsystem  that  runs in the ME.  Programs that wish to expose the
health monitoring and fan speed control capabilities of Intel(R) QST
will need to use the MEI driver to communicate with the ME sub-system.
- ASF is the "Alert Standard Format" which is an DMTF manageability
standard. It is implemented in the PC's hardware and firmware, and is
managed from a remote console.

Most recent Intel desktop chipsets have one or more of the above ME
services. The MEI driver will make it possible to support the above
features on Linux and provides applications access to the ME and it's
features.

Signed-off-by: Anas Nashif <anas.nashif@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcin Obara <marcin.obara@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-04-03 14:54:24 -07:00