Adds documentation for the e1000e networking driver.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Updated the e1000 networking driver documentation.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Update the documentation for the ixgbevf (ixgbe virtual
function driver).
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
PCI: bus speed strings should be const
PCI hotplug: Fix build with CONFIG_ACPI unset
PCI: PCIe: Remove the port driver module exit routine
PCI: PCIe: Move PCIe PME code to the pcie directory
PCI: PCIe: Disable PCIe port services during port initialization
PCI: PCIe: Ask BIOS for control of all native services at once
ACPI/PCI: Negotiate _OSC control bits before requesting them
ACPI/PCI: Do not preserve _OSC control bits returned by a query
ACPI/PCI: Make acpi_pci_query_osc() return control bits
ACPI/PCI: Reorder checks in acpi_pci_osc_control_set()
PCI: PCIe: Introduce commad line switch for disabling port services
PCI: PCIe AER: Introduce pci_aer_available()
x86/PCI: only define pci_domain_nr if PCI and PCI_DOMAINS are set
PCI: provide stub pci_domain_nr function for !CONFIG_PCI configs
Add a workqueue chapter to the traceopint docbook.
Current book is at: http://www.kernel.org/doc/htmldocs/tracepoint/
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
These days the headers we use are in glibc. If those are too old, you can
add the -I lines to get the kernel headers.
In file included from ../../include/linux/if_tun.h:19,
from lguest.c:33:
../../include/linux/types.h:13:2: warning: #warning "Attempt to use kernel headers from user space, see http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelHeaders"
lguest.c: In function ‘setup_tun_net’:
lguest.c:1456: warning: dereferencing pointer ‘sin’ does break strict-aliasing rules
lguest.c:1457: warning: dereferencing pointer ‘sin’ does break strict-aliasing rules
lguest.c:1450: note: initialized from here
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
After commit 852972acff (ACPI: Disable
ASPM if the platform won't provide _OSC control for PCIe) control of
the PCIe Capability Structure is unconditionally requested by
acpi_pci_root_add(), which in principle may cause problems to
happen in two ways. First, the BIOS may refuse to give control of
the PCIe Capability Structure if it is not asked for any of the
_OSC features depending on it at the same time. Second, the BIOS may
assume that control of the _OSC features depending on the PCIe
Capability Structure will be requested in the future and may behave
incorrectly if that doesn't happen. For this reason, control of
the PCIe Capability Structure should always be requested along with
control of any other _OSC features that may depend on it (ie. PCIe
native PME, PCIe native hot-plug, PCIe AER).
Rework the PCIe port driver so that (1) it checks which native PCIe
port services can be enabled, according to the BIOS, and (2) it
requests control of all these services simultaneously. In
particular, this causes pcie_portdrv_probe() to fail if the BIOS
refuses to grant control of the PCIe Capability Structure, which
means that no native PCIe port services can be enabled for the PCIe
Root Complex the given port belongs to. If that happens, ASPM is
disabled to avoid problems with mishandling it by the part of the
PCIe hierarchy for which control of the PCIe Capability Structure
has not been received.
Make it possible to override this behavior using 'pcie_ports=native'
(use the PCIe native services regardless of the BIOS response to the
control request), or 'pcie_ports=compat' (do not use the PCIe native
services at all).
Accordingly, rework the existing PCIe port service drivers so that
they don't request control of the services directly.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Introduce kernel command line switch pcie_ports= allowing one to
disable all of the native PCIe port services, so that PCIe ports
are treated like PCI-to-PCI bridges.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
* 'for-upstream/pvhvm' of git://xenbits.xensource.com/people/ianc/linux-2.6:
xen: pvhvm: make it clearer that XEN_UNPLUG_* define bits in a bitfield
xen: pvhvm: rename xen_emul_unplug=ignore to =unnnecessary
xen: pvhvm: allow user to request no emulated device unplug
It is not immediately clear what this option causes to become
ignored. The actual meaning is that it is not necessary to unplug the
emulated devices to safely use the PV ones, even if the platform does
not support the unplug protocol. (pressumably the user will only add
this option if they have ensured that their domain configuration is
safe).
I think xen_emul_unplug=unnecessary better captures this.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
this allows the user to disable pvhvm and revert to emulated devices
in case of a system misconfiguration (e.g. initramfs with only
emulated drivers in it).
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
This list moved to lists.ozlabs.org quite some time ago.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Chapter 6 is right about mutex_trylock, but chapter 10 wasn't. This error
was introduced during semaphore-to-mutex conversion of the Unreliable
guide. :-)
If user context which performs mutex_lock() or mutex_trylock() is
preempted by interrupt context which performs mutex_trylock() on the same
mutex instance, a deadlock occurs. This is because these functions do not
disable local IRQs when they operate on mutex->wait_lock.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Revert commit 7721fea3d0 ("hwmon:
f71882fg: add support for the Fintek F71808E").
Hans said:
: A second review after I've received a data sheet for this device from
: Fintek has turned up a few bugs.
:
: Unfortunately Giel (nor I) have time to fix this in time for the 2.6.36
: cycle. Therefor I would like to see this patch reverted as not having any
: support for the hwmon function of this superio chip is better then having
: unreliable support.
Cc: Giel van Schijndel <me@mortis.eu>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'merge-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
spi.h: missing kernel-doc notation, please fix
of: fix missing headers for of_address_to_resource() in MTD and SysACE drivers
of: Fix missing includes
ata: update for of_device to platform_device replacement
microblaze: Fix of: eliminate of_device->node and dev_archdata->{of,prom}_node
microblaze: Fix of/address: Merge all of the bus translation code
booting-without-of: Remove nonexistent chapters from TOC, fix numbering
Marvell and GPIO bindings live in their own files, so the TOC should not
mention them.
Also fix chapters numbering.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
acpi_video_backlight_support() already tells us if ACPI is handling
backlight control through the generic ACPI handle. It is better to just
trust it.
While at it, adjust down a printk priority, and test earlier for
brightness_enable=0.
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
gcc-4.6: ACPI: fix unused but set variables in ACPI
ACPI thermal: make procfs I/F depend on CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS
ACPI video: make procfs I/F depend on CONFIG_ACPI_PROCFS
ACPI processor: remove deprecated ACPI procfs I/F
ACPI power_resource: remove unused procfs I/F
ACPI: remove deprecated ACPI procfs I/F
ACPI: introduce drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
ACPI: introduce module parameter acpi.aml_debug_output
ACPI: introduce drivers/acpi/debugfs.c
ACPI, APEI, ERST debug support
ACPI, APEI, Manage GHES as platform devices
ACPI, APEI, Rename CPER and GHES severity constants
ACPI, APEI, Fix a typo of error path of apei_resources_request
ACPI / ACPICA: Fix reference counting problems with GPE handlers
ACPI: Add the check of ADR flag in course of finding ACPI handle for PCI device
ACPI / Sleep: Drop acpi_suspend_finish()
ACPI / Sleep: Consolidate suspend and hibernation routines
ACPI / Wakeup: Simplify enabling of wakeup devices
ACPI / Sleep: Rework enabling wakeup devices
ACPI / Sleep: Free NVS copy if suspending of devices fails
Fixed up totally buggered "ACPI: fix unused but set variables in ACPI"
patch that doesn't even compile in the merge.
Thanks to Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com> for noticing the
breakage before I even pulled. And a big "Grrr.." at Len for not even
bothering to compile the tree before asking me to pull.
Introduce module parameter acpi.aml_debug_output.
With acpi.aml_debug_output set, we can get AML debug object output
(Store (AAA, Debug)), even with CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG cleared.
Together with the runtime custom method mechanism,
we can debug AML code problems without rebuilding the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/cleanup:
defconfig reduction
kbuild: drop unifdef-y support
archs: replace unifdef-y with header-y
include: replace unifdef-y with header-y
Move SCSI parameters from kernel-parameters.txt to their own text file.
This continues a trend of moving non-core parameters out of
kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging: (22 commits)
hwmon: (via-cputemp) Remove bogus "SHOW" global variable
hwmon: jc42 depends on I2C
hwmon: (pc87427) Add a maintainer
hwmon: (pc87427) Move sysfs file removal to a separate function
hwmon: (pc87427) Add temperature monitoring support
hwmon: (pc87427) Add support for the second logical device
hwmon: (pc87427) Add support for manual fan speed control
hwmon: (pc87427) Minor style cleanups
hwmon: (pc87427) Handle disabled fan inputs properly
hwmon: (w83627ehf) Add support for W83667HG-B
hwmon: (w83627ehf) Driver cleanup
hwmon: Add driver for SMSC EMC2103 temperature monitor and fan controller
hwmon: Remove in[0-*]_fault from sysfs-interface
hwmon: Add 4 current alarm/beep attributes to sysfs-interface
hwmon: Add 3 critical limit attributes to sysfs-interface
hwmon: (asc7621) Clean up and improve detect function
hwmon: (it87) Export labels for internal sensors
hwmon: (lm75) Add suspend/resume feature
hwmon: (emc1403) Add power support
hwmon: (ltc4245) Expose all GPIO pins as analog voltages
...
Add support for the 6 temperature monitoring channels of the PC87427.
Note that the sensors resolution can vary, and I couldn't find a way
to figure it out, so we might have to compensate in user-space.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Add initial support for PWM outputs of the PC87427 Super-I/O chip.
Only mode change and manual fan speed control are supported. Automatic
mode configuration isn't supported, and won't be until at least one
board is known, which makes uses of the PWM outputs.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Add support for W83667HG-B (very similar to the W83667HG).
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
SMSC's EMC2103 family of temperature/fan controllers have 1
onboard and up to 3 external temperature sensors, and allow
closed-loop control of one fan. This patch adds support for
them.
Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Fault files are for hardware failures that can be reported. So far
we've seen chips reporting such failures for temperature sensors and
fans, but not for voltages. Remove in[0-*]_fault for now. It can be
added back later if really needed, but I doubt it.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Add currX_alarm, currX_min_alarm, currX_max_alarm and currX_beep
attributes to the hwmon sysfs API.
currX_min_alarm and currX_max_alarm are already supported by the LTC4215
and LTC4245 drivers. currX_alarm is supported by the LTC4261 driver.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Added _lcrit and _crit to voltage attributes.
Added _lcrit to temperature attributes.
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Add support for exposing all GPIO pins as analog voltages. Though this is
not an ideal use of the chip, some hardware engineers may decide that the
LTC4245 meets their design requirements when studying the datasheet.
The GPIO pins are sampled in round-robin fashion, meaning that a slow
reader will see stale data. A userspace application can detect this,
because it will get -EAGAIN when reading from a sysfs file which contains
stale data.
Users can choose to use this feature on a per-chip basis by using either
platform data or the OF device tree (where applicable).
Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN was renamed to ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN (the commit
a6eb9fe105).
ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN must be defined instead of ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN to
ensure that kmalloc'ed buffer is DMA-safe.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The last user is gone, so we can safely remove this
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm: (33 commits)
dm mpath: support discard
dm stripe: support discards
dm: split discard requests on target boundaries
dm stripe: optimize sector division
dm stripe: move sector translation to a function
dm: error return error for discards
dm delay: support discard
dm: zero silently drop discards
dm: use dm_target_offset macro
dm: factor out max_io_len_target_boundary
dm: use common __issue_target_request for flush and discard support
dm: linear support discard
dm crypt: simplify crypt_ctr
dm crypt: simplify crypt_config destruction logic
dm: allow autoloading of dm mod
dm: rename map_info flush_request to target_request_nr
dm ioctl: refactor dm_table_complete
dm snapshot: implement merge
dm: do not initialise full request queue when bio based
dm ioctl: make bio or request based device type immutable
...
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging:
i2c: I2C bus multiplexer driver pca954x
i2c: Multiplexed I2C bus core support
i2c: Use a separate mutex for userspace client lists
i2c: Make i2c_default_probe self-sufficient
i2c: Drop dummy variable
i2c: Move adapter locking helpers to i2c-core
V4L/DVB: Use custom I2C probing function mechanism
i2c: Add support for custom probe function
i2c-dev: Use memdup_user
i2c-dev: Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts
* 'params' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (22 commits)
param: don't deref arg in __same_type() checks
param: update drivers/acpi/debug.c to new scheme
param: use module_param in drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
ide: use module_param_named rather than module_param_call
param: update drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c to new scheme
param: lock if_sdio's lbs_helper_name and lbs_fw_name against sysfs changes.
param: lock myri10ge_fw_name against sysfs changes.
param: simple locking for sysfs-writable charp parameters
param: remove unnecessary writable charp
param: add kerneldoc to moduleparam.h
param: locking for kernel parameters
param: make param sections const.
param: use free hook for charp (fix leak of charp parameters)
param: add a free hook to kernel_param_ops.
param: silence .init.text references from param ops
Add param ops struct for hvc_iucv driver.
nfs: update for module_param_named API change
AppArmor: update for module_param_named API change
param: use ops in struct kernel_param, rather than get and set fns directly
param: move the EXPORT_SYMBOL to after the definitions.
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
ASoC: add AD1980 obsolete information
ASoC: register cache should be 1 byte aligned for 1 byte long register
ALSA: hda - Adding support for new IDT 92HD87XX codecs
ASoC: Fix inverted mute controls for WM8580
ALSA: HDA: Use model=auto for LG R510
ALSA: hda - Update model entries in HD-Audio-Models.txt
ALSA: hda: document VIA models
ALSA: hda - patch_nvhdmi.c: Add missing codec IDs, unify names
ALSA: hda - add support for Conexant CX20584
ALSA: hda - New snd-hda-intel model/pin config for hp dv7-4000
ALSA: hda - Fix missing stream for second ADC on Realtek ALC260 HDA codec
ALSA: hda - Make converter setups sticky
ALSA: hda - Add support for Acer ZGA ALC271 (1025:047c)
sound/oss: Adjust confusing if indentation
sound: oss: au1550_ac97.c removed duplicated #include
ASoC: Fix for changed Eureka Kconfig symbol names
SD/MMC cards tend to support an erase operation. In addition, eMMC v4.4
cards can support secure erase, trim and secure trim operations that are
all variants of the basic erase command.
SD/MMC device attributes "erase_size" and "preferred_erase_size" have been
added.
"erase_size" is the minimum size, in bytes, of an erase operation. For
MMC, "erase_size" is the erase group size reported by the card. Note that
"erase_size" does not apply to trim or secure trim operations where the
minimum size is always one 512 byte sector. For SD, "erase_size" is 512
if the card is block-addressed, 0 otherwise.
SD/MMC cards can erase an arbitrarily large area up to and
including the whole card. When erasing a large area it may
be desirable to do it in smaller chunks for three reasons:
1. A single erase command will make all other I/O on the card
wait. This is not a problem if the whole card is being erased, but
erasing one partition will make I/O for another partition on the
same card wait for the duration of the erase - which could be a
several minutes.
2. To be able to inform the user of erase progress.
3. The erase timeout becomes too large to be very useful.
Because the erase timeout contains a margin which is multiplied by
the size of the erase area, the value can end up being several
minutes for large areas.
"erase_size" is not the most efficient unit to erase (especially for SD
where it is just one sector), hence "preferred_erase_size" provides a good
chunk size for erasing large areas.
For MMC, "preferred_erase_size" is the high-capacity erase size if a card
specifies one, otherwise it is based on the capacity of the card.
For SD, "preferred_erase_size" is the allocation unit size specified by
the card.
"preferred_erase_size" is in bytes.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kmpark@infradead.org>
Cc: Madhusudhan Chikkature <madhu.cr@ti.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ben Gardiner <bengardiner@nanometrics.ca>
Cc: <linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add devname:mapper/control and MAPPER_CTRL_MINOR module alias
to support dm-mod module autoloading.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
The probe method used by i2c_new_probed_device() may not be suitable
for all cases. Let the caller provide its own, optional probe
function.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pkl/squashfs-linus:
Squashfs: fix checkpatch.pl warnings
Squashfs: fix filename typo
Squashfs: update Kconfig and documentation for LZO
Squashfs: fix block size use in LZO decompressor
Squashfs: Add LZO compression support
squashfs: fix filename in header comment
Squashfs: Make XATTR config name consistent with other file systems
squashfs: fix compiler inline warning
Simply replace the whole kfifo.c and kfifo.h files with the new generic
version and fix the kerneldoc API template file.
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To keep panic_timeout accuracy when running under a hypervisor, the
current implementation only spins on long time (1 second) calls to mdelay.
That brings a good effect, but the problem is the keyboard LEDs don't
blink at all on that situation.
This patch changes to call to panic_blink_enter() between every mdelay and
keeps blinking in spite of long spin timer mode.
The time to call to mdelay is now 100ms. Even this change will keep
panic_timeout accuracy enough when running under a hypervisor.
Signed-off-by: TAMUKI Shoichi <tamuki@linet.gr.jp>
Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
DMA_xxBIT_MASK macros were marked as deprecated in June 2009. One more
year is long enough, I think.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It was replaced with the DMA unamp state API (which can be used for
any bus).
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Architectures implement dma_is_consistent() in different ways (some
misinterpret the definition of API in DMA-API.txt). So it hasn't been so
useful for drivers. We have only one user of the API in tree. Unlikely
out-of-tree drivers use the API.
Even if we fix dma_is_consistent() in some architectures, it doesn't look
useful at all. It was invented long ago for some old systems that can't
allocate coherent memory at all. It's better to export only APIs that are
definitely necessary for drivers.
Let's remove this API.
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
