kernel/linux.git/drivers/base/firmware_class.c, branch linux-2.6.22.y

firmware: remove orphaned Email

2007-06-08T19:41:08+00:00

Manuel Estrada Sainz passed away on May 9th 2004, his email account got deactivated. He was in charge of the firmware_class code, and still got CC'ed in recent discussions about it. Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver core: switch firmware_class to uevent_suppress.

2007-04-27T17:57:29+00:00

Use uevent_suppress instead of returning an error code in firmware_uevent(). Get rid of the now unneeded FW_STATUS_READY and FW_STATUS_READY_NOHOTPLUG. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Driver Core: Increase the default timeout value of the firmware subsystem

2007-02-07T18:37:14+00:00

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174589 The ipw driver sometimes takes a long time to load its firmware. Whilst the ipw driver should be using the async interface of the firmware loader to make this a non-issue, this is a minimal fix. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] fix kernel-doc warnings in 2.6.20-rc1

2006-12-22T16:55:47+00:00

Fix kernel-doc warnings in 2.6.20-rc1. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Driver core: convert firmware code to use struct device

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

Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the /sys/class directory. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] kthread: drivers/base/firmware_class.c

2006-09-29T16:18:08+00:00

Replace kernel_thread() call in drivers/base/firmware_class.c with kthread_create() since kernel_thread() is deprecated in drivers. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Cc: Cedric Le Goater Cc: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Manuel Estrada Sainz Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] x86 microcode: using request_firmware to pull microcode

2006-09-27T15:26:18+00:00

Using request_firmware to pull ucode from userspace, so we don't need the application 'microcode_ctl' to assist. We name each ucode file according to CPU's info as intel-ucode/family-model-stepping. In this way we could split ucode file as small one. This has a lot of advantages such as selectively update and validate microcode for specific models, better manage microcode file, easily write tools for administerators and so on. with the changes, we should put all intel-ucode/xx-xx-xx microcode files into the firmware dir (I had a tool to split previous big data file into small one and later we will release new style data file). The init script should be changed to just loading the driver without unloading Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Acked-by: Tigran Aivazian Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] firmware_class: s/semaphores/mutexes

2006-06-21T19:40:49+00:00

Hi, this patch converts semaphores to mutexes for Randy's firmware_class. Signed-off-by: Laura Garcia Liebana Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] drivers/base/firmware_class.c: cleanups

2006-05-21T19:59:19+00:00

- remove the following global function that is both unused and unimplemented: - register_firmware() - make the following needlessly global function static: - firmware_class_uevent() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] firmware: fix BUG: in fw_realloc_buffer

2006-03-20T21:42:58+00:00

The fw_realloc_buffer routine does not handle an increase in buffer size of more than 4k. It's not clear to me why it expects that it will only get an extra 4k of data. The attached patch modifies fw_realloc_buffer to vmalloc as much memory as is requested, instead of what we previously had + 4k. I've tested this on my laptop, which would crash occaisionally on boot without the patch. With the patch, it hasn't crashed, but I can't be certain that this code path is exercised. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman