linux.git/Documentation/driver-model, branch v2.6.21.7

trivial documentation patch for platform.txt

2007-02-17T18:29:21+00:00

Found a couple of typos in the Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
file. This patch fixes both of them.

Signed-off-by: Erik Hovland 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

devres: device resource management

2007-02-09T22:39:36+00:00

Implement device resource management, in short, devres.  A device
driver can allocate arbirary size of devres data which is associated
with a release function.  On driver detach, release function is
invoked on the devres data, then, devres data is freed.

devreses are typed by associated release functions.  Some devreses are
better represented by single instance of the type while others need
multiple instances sharing the same release function.  Both usages are
supported.

devreses can be grouped using devres group such that a device driver
can easily release acquired resources halfway through initialization
or selectively release resources (e.g. resources for port 1 out of 4
ports).

This patch adds devres core including documentation and the following
managed interfaces.

* alloc/free	: devm_kzalloc(), devm_kzfree()
* IO region	: devm_request_region(), devm_release_region()
* IRQ		: devm_request_irq(), devm_free_irq()
* DMA		: dmam_alloc_coherent(), dmam_free_coherent(),
		  dmam_declare_coherent_memory(), dmam_pool_create(),
		  dmam_pool_destroy()
* PCI		: pcim_enable_device(), pcim_pin_device(), pci_is_managed()
* iomap		: devm_ioport_map(), devm_ioport_unmap(), devm_ioremap(),
		  devm_ioremap_nocache(), devm_iounmap(), pcim_iomap_table(),
		  pcim_iomap(), pcim_iounmap()

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6

2006-12-02T00:41:07+00:00

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (36 commits)
  Driver core: show drivers in /sys/module/
  Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt update/rewrite
  Driver core: platform_driver_probe(), can save codespace
  driver core: Use klist_remove() in device_move()
  driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.
  Driver core: make drivers/base/core.c:setup_parent() static
  driver core: Introduce device_find_child().
  sysfs: sysfs_write_file() writes zero terminated data
  cpu topology: consider sysfs_create_group return value
  Driver core: Call platform_notify_remove later
  ACPI: Change ACPI to use dev_archdata instead of firmware_data
  Driver core: add dev_archdata to struct device
  Driver core: convert sound core to use struct device
  Driver core: change mem class_devices to be real devices
  Driver core: convert fb code to use struct device
  Driver core: convert firmware code to use struct device
  Driver core: convert mmc code to use struct device
  Driver core: convert ppdev code to use struct device
  Driver core: convert PPP code to use struct device
  Driver core: convert cpuid code to use struct device
  ...

Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt update/rewrite

2006-12-01T22:52:02+00:00

This is almost a rewrite of the driver-model/platform.txt documentation;
the previous text was obsolete (for several years), evidently it never
got updated to match the change from being a PC "legacy_bus" to the more
widely used core bus for most embedded systems.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Fix typos in /Documentation : Misc

2006-11-30T04:21:10+00:00

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
misc words.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

Documentation: remove duplicated words

2006-10-03T20:57:56+00:00

Remove many duplicated words under Documentation/ and do other small
cleanups.

Examples:
        "and and" --> "and"
        "in in" --> "in"
        "the the" --> "the"
        "the the" --> "to the"
        ...

Signed-off-by: Paolo Ornati 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

Fix typos in Documentation/: 'Q'-'R'

2006-10-03T20:54:15+00:00

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'Q'-'R'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

Fix typos in Documentation/: 'H'-'M'

2006-10-03T20:50:39+00:00

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'H'-'M'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

typo fixes

2006-06-26T17:05:40+00:00

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[PATCH] Clean up Documentation/driver-model/overview.txt

2006-02-03T16:31:59+00:00

Edits to the driver-model documentation for grammar, clarity and content.

These docs haven't been updated in years, and some of the technical content
and discussion has become stale; this patch updates these.  In addition,
some of the language is awkward.  Fix this.

(I'm trying to cleanup the other files in this directory also,
patches for these will come a bit later).

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas 
Acked-by: Patrick Mochel 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds