kernel/linux.git/drivers/char/Makefile, branch v2.6.28

CHAR: Delete old and now unused M48T35 RTC driver for SGI IP27.

2008-10-30T14:44:35+00:00

It was only used by this one SGI platform which recently was converted to RTC_LIB and with RTC_LIB enabled the legacy drivers are no more selectable. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

CHAR: Delete old and now unused DS1286 driver.

2008-10-30T14:44:35+00:00

It was only used by two SGI platforms which recently were converted to RTC_LIB and with RTC_LIB enabled the legacy drivers are no more selectable. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa

tty: Split tty_port into its own file

2008-10-13T16:51:40+00:00

Not much in it yet but this will grow a lot Signed-off-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tty: split the buffering from tty_io

2008-10-13T16:51:40+00:00

The two are basically independent chunks of code so lets split them up for readability and sanity. It also makes the API boundaries much clearer. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

powerpc/iseries: remove the old viocons driver

2008-08-08T01:07:10+00:00

This driver was declared obsolete over 2 years ago, the alternative console driver for legacy iSeries (hvc_iseries) was made the default over 1 year ago and this driver has been build broken for over 3 months, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.infradead.org/embedded-2.6

2008-07-25T19:02:08+00:00

* git://git.infradead.org/embedded-2.6: Make console charset translation optional

remove some more tipar bits

2008-07-25T17:53:28+00:00

Some bits were missed when the tipar driver was removed. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

hvc_console: rework setup to replace irq functions with callbacks

2008-07-25T02:06:06+00:00

This patch tries to change hvc_console to not use request_irq/free_irq if the backend does not use irqs. This allows virtio_console to use hvc_console without having a linker reference to request_irq/free_irq. In addition, together with patch 2/3 it improves the performance for virtio console input. (an earlier version of this patch was tested by Yajin on lguest) The irq specific code is moved to hvc_irq.c and selected by the drivers that use irqs (System p, System i, XEN). I replaced "int irq" with the opaque "int data". The request_irq and free_irq calls are replaced with notifier_add and notifier_del. I have also changed the code a bit to call the notifier_add and notifier_del inside the spinlock area as the callbacks are found via hp->ops. Changes since last version: o remove ifdef o reintroduce "irq_requested" as "notified" o cleanups, sparse.. I did not move the timer based polling into a separate polling scheme. I played with several variants, but it seems we need to sleep/schedule in a thread even for irq based consoles, as there are throttleing and buffer size constraints. I also kept hvc_struct defined in hvc_console.h so that hvc_irq.c can access the irq_requested element. Feedback is appreciated. virtio_console is currently the only available console for kvm on s390. I plan to push this change as soon as all affected parties agree on it. I would love to get test results from System p, Xen etc. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

drivers/char: remove old broken Cobalt LCD driver

2008-07-24T17:47:40+00:00

Remove old broken Cobalt LCD driver. Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa Acked-by: Ralf Baechle Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tty: Split ldisc code into its own file

2008-07-22T20:03:27+00:00

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds