kernel/linux.git/Documentation/process/magic-number.rst, branch v6.6.131

char: pcmcia: remove all the drivers

2023-03-09T16:30:27+00:00

These char PCMCIA drivers are buggy[1] and receive only minimal care. It was concluded[2], that we should try to remove most pcmcia drivers completely. Let's start with these char broken one. Note that I also removed a UAPI header: include/uapi/linux/cm4000_cs.h. I found only coccinelle tests mentioning some ioctl constants from that file. But they are not actually used. Anyway, should someone complain, we may reintroduce the header (or its parts). [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/f41c2765-80e0-48bc-b1e4-8cfd3230fd4a@www.fastmail.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/c5b39544-a4fb-4796-a046-0b9be9853787@app.fastmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) Cc: "Hyunwoo Kim" Cc: Harald Welte Cc: Lubomir Rintel Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Dominik Brodowski Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230222092302.6348-2-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'driver-core-6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2022-10-08T00:04:10+00:00

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of driver core and debug printk changes for 6.1-rc1. Included in here is: - dynamic debug updates for the core and the drm subsystem. The drm changes have all been acked by the relevant maintainers - kernfs fixes for syzbot reported problems - kernfs refactors and updates for cgroup requirements - magic number cleanups and removals from the kernel tree (they were not being used and they really did not actually do anything) - other tiny cleanups All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'driver-core-6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (74 commits) docs: filesystems: sysfs: Make text and code for ->show() consistent Documentation: NBD_REQUEST_MAGIC isn't a magic number a.out: restore CMAGIC device property: Add const qualifier to device_get_match_data() parameter drm_print: add _ddebug descriptor to drm_*dbg prototypes drm_print: prefer bare printk KERN_DEBUG on generic fn drm_print: optimize drm_debug_enabled for jump-label drm-print: add drm_dbg_driver to improve namespace symmetry drm-print.h: include dyndbg header drm_print: wrap drm_*_dbg in dyndbg descriptor factory macro drm_print: interpose drm_*dbg with forwarding macros drm: POC drm on dyndbg - use in core, 2 helpers, 3 drivers. drm_print: condense enum drm_debug_category debugfs: use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE to define debugfs_regset32_fops driver core: use IS_ERR_OR_NULL() helper in device_create_groups_vargs() Documentation: ENI155_MAGIC isn't a magic number Documentation: NBD_REPLY_MAGIC isn't a magic number nbd: remove define-only NBD_MAGIC, previously magic number Documentation: FW_HEADER_MAGIC isn't a magic number Documentation: EEPROM_MAGIC_VALUE isn't a magic number ...

Documentation: NBD_REQUEST_MAGIC isn't a magic number

2022-09-27T07:20:28+00:00

It's part of the line protocol, same as in commit 82805818898d ("Documentation: NBD_REPLY_MAGIC isn't a magic number") Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220927003727.slf4ofb7dgum6apt@tarta.nabijaczleweli.xyz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: ENI155_MAGIC isn't a magic number

2022-09-24T12:17:19+00:00

It's part of the EEPROM format Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5f1dfa09150be7f23fb275d170c9019b5197a79f.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: NBD_REPLY_MAGIC isn't a magic number

2022-09-24T12:17:19+00:00

It's part of the line protocol Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a8afed8fb4d7df2c8fb95c3fa758240b2e46cdc8.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

nbd: remove define-only NBD_MAGIC, previously magic number

2022-09-24T12:17:19+00:00

commit f4507164e779 ("nbd: rename the nbd_device variable from lo to nbd") renamed LO_MAGIC to NBD_MAGIC; commit 5ea8d10802ec ("nbd: separate out the config information") removed the last users of that Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/10a80681c5966fed1a1afc696e3db114f481514c.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: FW_HEADER_MAGIC isn't a magic number

2022-09-24T12:17:19+00:00

It's a file format identifier Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1b21808fb399931eb44f0dc26fda20a632ecc196.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: EEPROM_MAGIC_VALUE isn't a magic number

2022-09-24T12:17:19+00:00

It's an EEPROM checksum, not a magic number per magic-number.rst Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8881090c8bf1850e1d3597cb352a8dd1757c94f1.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: COW_MAGIC isn't a magic number

2022-09-24T12:17:19+00:00

At least not in the magic-number.rst sense: it's part of a file format Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/f24a428d82713821ca571bf477a099252d06ae14.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: SAVEKMSG_MAGIC[12] aren't magic numbers

2022-09-24T12:17:19+00:00

At least not in the magic-number.rst sense: they're used as part of delineating messages dumping dmesg into Chip RAM on the Amiga with debug=ram Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c0fe3aadb700621eeee736f0ce6d73aa9d2cf856.1663280877.git.nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman