linux.git/drivers/char/ipmi, branch v2.6.21.7

[PATCH] IPMI: fix SI address space settings

2007-05-23T21:32:49+00:00

Fix a rather obvious error that Patrick found in the setup routines.  Need to
set the proper address space in the ACPI case.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard 
Cc: Patrick Schoeller 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

[PATCH] ipmi: check, if default ports are accessible on PPC

2007-03-05T15:57:53+00:00

ipmi_si_intf tries to access default ports, if no device could be found
elsewhere.  On PPC we have a function to check, if these legacy IO ports
are accessible.  This patch adds a check for these ports on PPC.  This
patch fixes a breakage of IPMI module on PPC machines without a BMC.

Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft 
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman 
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl

2007-02-14T16:09:59+00:00

The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name.  Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.

I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.

So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle 
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: "Luck, Tony" 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Corey Minyard 
Cc: Neil Brown 
Cc: "John W. Linville" 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Trond Myklebust 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: David Chinner 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Patrick McHardy 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] sysctl: ipmi: remove unnecessary insert_at_head flag

2007-02-14T16:09:56+00:00

With unique sysctl binary numbers setting insert_at_head is pointless.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Cc: Corey Minyard 
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h

2007-02-14T16:09:54+00:00

After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h
recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes.
There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need
anything defined in there.  Presumably these includes were once needed for
macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the
course of cleaning it up.

To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only
removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble.

Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha,
arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig,
allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all
configs in arch/arm/configs on arm.  I also checked that no new warnings were
introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted
by unnecessarily included header files).

Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] proc: remove useless (and buggy) ->nlink settings

2007-02-11T18:51:32+00:00

Bug: pnx8550 code creates directory but resets ->nlink to 1.

create_proc_entry() et al will correctly set ->nlink for you.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Jeff Dike 
Cc: Corey Minyard 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: Kyle McMartin 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] IPMI: Fix some RCU problems

2007-02-11T18:51:31+00:00

Fix some RCU problem pointed out by Paul McKenney of IBM.  These are:

The wholesale move of the command receivers list into a new list was not
safe because the list will point to the new tail during a traversal, so the
traversal will never end on a reader if this happens during a read.

Memory barriers were needed to handle proper ordering of the setting of the
IPMI interface as valid.  Readers might not see proper ordering of data
otherwise.

In ipmi_smi_watcher_register(), the use of the _rcu suffix on the list is
unnecessary.

This require the list_splice_init_rcu() patch previously posted.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ACPICA: Remove duplicate table definitions (non-conflicting), cont

2007-02-03T02:14:29+00:00

Signed-off-by: Len Brown

[PATCH] IPMI: fix timeout list handling

2007-01-31T00:01:36+00:00

Fix a dangling pointer bug in ipmi_timeout_handler.  A list of timedout
messages is not re-initialized before reuse, causing the head of the list
to point to freed memory.

Signed-off-by: David Barksdale 
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Fix IPMI watchdog set_param_str() using kstrdup

2006-12-30T18:55:54+00:00

set_param_str() cannot use kstrdup() to duplicate the parameter.  That's
fine when the driver is compiled as a module but it sure is not when built
into the kernel as the kernel parameters are parsed before the kmalloc
slabs are setup.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Dugué 
Acked-by: Corey Minyard 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds