kernel/linux.git/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl, branch v6.1.168

Remove DECnet support from kernel

2022-08-22T13:26:30+00:00

DECnet is an obsolete network protocol that receives more attention from kernel janitors than users. It belongs in computer protocol history museum not in Linux kernel. It has been "Orphaned" in kernel since 2010. The iproute2 support for DECnet was dropped in 5.0 release. The documentation link on Sourceforge says it is abandoned there as well. Leave the UAPI alone to keep userspace programs compiling. This means that there is still an empty neighbour table for AF_DECNET. The table of /proc/sys/net entries was updated to match current directories and reformatted to be alphabetical. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: David Ahern Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

scsi: dpt_i2o: Remove obsolete driver

2022-06-28T02:56:21+00:00

The dpt_i2o driver was fixed to stop using virt_to_bus() in 2008, but it still has a stale reference in an error handling code path that could never work. I submitted a patch to fix this reference earlier, but Hannes Reinecke suggested that removing the driver may be just as good here. The i2o driver layer was removed in 2015 with commit 4a72a7af462d ("staging: remove i2o subsystem"), but the even older dpt_i2o scsi driver stayed around. The last non-cleanup patches I could find were from Miquel van Smoorenburg and Mark Salyzyn back in 2008, they might know if there is any chance of the hardware still being used anywhere. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/CAK8P3a1XfwkTOV7qOs1fTxf4vthNBRXKNu8A5V7TWnHT081NGA@mail.gmail.com/T/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220624155226.2889613-3-arnd@kernel.org Cc: Miquel van Smoorenburg Cc: Mark Salyzyn Cc: Hannes Reinecke Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen

cdrom: mark CDROMGETSPINDOWN/CDROMSETSPINDOWN obsolete

2022-05-16T00:31:28+00:00

These were only implemented by the IDE CD driver, which has since been removed. Given that nobody is likely to create new CD/DVD hardware (and associated drivers) we can mark these appropriately. Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Phillip Potter Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220427132436.12795-3-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com Signed-off-by: Phillip Potter Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220515205833.944139-4-phil@philpotter.co.uk Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v5.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86

2022-03-25T19:14:39+00:00

Pull x86 platform driver updates from Hans de Goede: "New drivers: - AMD Host System Management Port (HSMP) - Intel Software Defined Silicon Removed drivers (functionality folded into other drivers): - intel_cht_int33fe_microb - surface3_button amd-pmc: - s2idle bug-fixes - Support for AMD Spill to DRAM STB feature hp-wmi: - Fix SW_TABLET_MODE detection method (and other fixes) - Support omen thermal profile policy v1 serial-multi-instantiate: - Add SPI device support - Add support for CS35L41 amplifiers used in new laptops think-lmi: - syfs-class-firmware-attributes Certificate authentication support thinkpad_acpi: - Fixes + quirks - Add platform_profile support on AMD based ThinkPads x86-android-tablets: - Improve Asus ME176C / TF103C support - Support Nextbook Ares 8, Lenovo Tab 2 830 and 1050 tablets Lots of various other small fixes and hardware-id additions" * tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v5.18-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: (60 commits) platform/x86: think-lmi: Certificate authentication support Documentation: syfs-class-firmware-attributes: Lenovo Certificate support platform/x86: amd-pmc: Only report STB errors when STB enabled platform/x86: amd-pmc: Drop CPU QoS workaround platform/x86: amd-pmc: Output error codes in messages platform/x86: amd-pmc: Move to later in the suspend process ACPI / x86: Add support for LPS0 callback handler platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: consistently check fan_get_status return. platform/x86: hp-wmi: support omen thermal profile policy v1 platform/x86: hp-wmi: Changing bios_args.data to be dynamically allocated platform/x86: hp-wmi: Fix 0x05 error code reported by several WMI calls platform/x86: hp-wmi: Fix SW_TABLET_MODE detection method platform/x86: hp-wmi: Fix hp_wmi_read_int() reporting error (0x05) platform/x86: amd-pmc: Validate entry into the deepest state on resume platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Don't use test_bit on an integer platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: Fix compiler warning about uninitialized err variable platform/x86: thinkpad_acpi: clean up dytc profile convert platform/x86: x86-android-tablets: Depend on EFI and SPI platform/x86: amd-pmc: uninitialized variable in amd_pmc_s2d_init() platform/x86: intel-uncore-freq: fix uncore_freq_common_init() error codes ...

Merge tag 'docs-5.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2022-03-21T21:13:25+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a moderately busy cycle for documentation; some of the highlights are: - Numerous PDF-generation improvements - Kees's new document with guidelines for researchers studying the development community. - The ongoing stream of Chinese translations - Thorsten's new document on regression handling - A major reworking of the internal documentation for the kernel-doc script. Plus the usual stream of typo fixes and such" * tag 'docs-5.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (80 commits) docs/kernel-parameters: update description of mem= docs/zh_CN: Add sched-nice-design Chinese translation docs: scheduler: Convert schedutil.txt to ReST Docs: ktap: add code-block type docs: serial: fix a reference file name in driver.rst docs: UML: Mention telnetd for port channel docs/zh_CN: add damon reclaim translation docs/zh_CN: add damon usage translation docs/zh_CN: add admin-guide damon start translation docs/zh_CN: add admin-guide damon index translation docs/zh_CN: Refactoring the admin-guide directory index zh_CN: Add translation for admin-guide/mm/index.rst zh_CN: Add translations for admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst Add Chinese translation for vm/ksm.rst docs/zh_CN: Add sched-stats Chinese translation docs/zh_CN: add devicetree of_unittest translation docs/zh_CN: add devicetree usage-model translation docs/zh_CN: add devicetree index translation Documentation: describe how to apply incremental stable patches docs/zh_CN: add peci subsystem translation ...

platform/x86: Add AMD system management interface

2022-03-02T10:42:36+00:00

Recent Fam19h EPYC server line of processors from AMD support system management functionality via HSMP (Host System Management Port) interface. The Host System Management Port (HSMP) is an interface to provide OS-level software with access to system management functions via a set of mailbox registers. More details on the interface can be found in chapter "7 Host System Management Port (HSMP)" of the following PPR https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/55898_B1_pub_0.50.zip This patch adds new amd_hsmp module under the drivers/platforms/x86/ which creates miscdevice with an IOCTL interface to the user space. /dev/hsmp is for running the hsmp mailbox commands. Signed-off-by: Suma Hegde Signed-off-by: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi Reviewed-by: Carlos Bilbao Acked-by: Song Liu Reviewed-by: Nathan Fontenot Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220222050501.18789-1-nchatrad@amd.com Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede

Documentation: Fix links for udftools project and pktcdvd tool

2022-02-15T23:15:33+00:00

Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220210192200.30828-1-pali@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

xen: update missing ioctl magic numers documentation

2022-02-03T07:24:34+00:00

Add missing ioctl "magic numbers" for various Xen interfaces (xenbus_dev.h, gntalloc.h, gntdev.h, and privcmd.h). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross Cc: Boris Ostrovsky Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Stefano Stabellini Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220131161959.16509-1-rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross

ACPI: Introduce Platform Firmware Runtime Update device driver

2021-12-27T16:12:58+00:00

Introduce the pfr_update driver which can be used for Platform Firmware Runtime code injection and driver update [1]. The user is expected to provide the EFI capsule, and pass it to the driver by writing the capsule to a device special file. The capsule is transferred by the driver to the platform firmware with the help of an ACPI _DSM method under the special ACPI Platform Firmware Runtime Update device (INTC1080), and the actual firmware update is carried out by the low-level Management Mode code in the platform firmware. This change allows certain pieces of the platform firmware to be updated on the fly while the system is running (runtime) without the need to restart it, which is key in the cases when the system needs to be available 100% of the time and it cannot afford the downtime related to restarting it, or when the work carried out by the system is particularly important, so it cannot be interrupted, and it is not practical to wait until it is complete. Link: https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/Intel_MM_OS_Interface_Spec_Rev100.pdf # [1] Tested-by: Hongyu Ning Signed-off-by: Chen Yu [ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

Merge tag 'char-misc-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2021-11-04T15:21:47+00:00

Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of char and misc and other tiny driver subsystem updates for 5.16-rc1. Loads of things in here, all of which have been in linux-next for a while with no reported problems (except for one called out below.) Included are: - habanana labs driver updates, including dma_buf usage, reviewed and acked by the dma_buf maintainers - iio driver update (going through this tree not staging as they really do not belong going through that tree anymore) - counter driver updates - hwmon driver updates that the counter drivers needed, acked by the hwmon maintainer - xillybus driver updates - binder driver updates - extcon driver updates - dma_buf module namespaces added (will cause a build error in arm64 for allmodconfig, but that change is on its way through the drm tree) - lkdtm driver updates - pvpanic driver updates - phy driver updates - virt acrn and nitr_enclaves driver updates - smaller char and misc driver updates" * tag 'char-misc-5.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (386 commits) comedi: dt9812: fix DMA buffers on stack comedi: ni_usb6501: fix NULL-deref in command paths arm64: errata: Enable TRBE workaround for write to out-of-range address arm64: errata: Enable workaround for TRBE overwrite in FILL mode coresight: trbe: Work around write to out of range coresight: trbe: Make sure we have enough space coresight: trbe: Add a helper to determine the minimum buffer size coresight: trbe: Workaround TRBE errata overwrite in FILL mode coresight: trbe: Add infrastructure for Errata handling coresight: trbe: Allow driver to choose a different alignment coresight: trbe: Decouple buffer base from the hardware base coresight: trbe: Add a helper to pad a given buffer area coresight: trbe: Add a helper to calculate the trace generated coresight: trbe: Defer the probe on offline CPUs coresight: trbe: Fix incorrect access of the sink specific data coresight: etm4x: Add ETM PID for Kryo-5XX coresight: trbe: Prohibit trace before disabling TRBE coresight: trbe: End the AUX handle on truncation coresight: trbe: Do not truncate buffer on IRQ coresight: trbe: Fix handling of spurious interrupts ...