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Author SHA1 Message Date
Evgeniy Polyakov
7672d0b544 [NET]: Add netlink connector.
Kernel connector - new userspace <-> kernel space easy to use
communication module which implements easy to use bidirectional
message bus using netlink as it's backend.  Connector was created to
eliminate complex skb handling both in send and receive message bus
direction.

Connector driver adds possibility to connect various agents using as
one of it's backends netlink based network.  One must register
callback and identifier. When driver receives special netlink message
with appropriate identifier, appropriate callback will be called.

From the userspace point of view it's quite straightforward:

	socket();
	bind();
	send();
	recv();

But if kernelspace want to use full power of such connections, driver
writer must create special sockets, must know about struct sk_buff
handling...  Connector allows any kernelspace agents to use netlink
based networking for inter-process communication in a significantly
easier way:

int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (void *));
void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask);

struct cb_id
{
	__u32			idx;
	__u32			val;
};

idx and val are unique identifiers which must be registered in
connector.h for in-kernel usage.  void (*callback) (void *) - is a
callback function which will be called when message with above idx.val
will be received by connector core.

Using connector completely hides low-level transport layer from it's
users.

Connector uses new netlink ability to have many groups in one socket.

[ Incorporating many cleanups and fixes by myself and
  Andrew Morton -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-11 19:15:07 -07:00
Len Brown
27a639a92d Auto-update from upstream 2005-08-29 17:02:17 -04:00
Len Brown
888ba6c62b [ACPI] delete CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT
it has been a synonym for CONFIG_ACPI since 2.6.12

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-08-24 12:08:54 -04:00
Russell King
a4e137ab14 [MFD] Add multimedia communication port core support
Add support for the core of the multimedia communication port
framework.  This is a port used to communicate with devices
with two DMA paths and a control path.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-08-18 10:06:59 +01:00
Jean Delvare
ad2f931dcb [PATCH] I2C: Move hwmon drivers (1/3)
Part 1: Configuration files and Makefiles.

From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-07-11 14:14:31 -07:00
Brent Casavant
e5d310b349 [PATCH] ioc4: CONFIG split
The SGI IOC4 I/O controller chip drivers are currently all configured by
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SGIIOC4.  This is undesirable as not all IOC4 hardware features
are needed by all systems.

This patch adds two configuration variables, CONFIG_SGI_IOC4 for core IOC4
driver support (see patch 1/3 in this series for further explanation) and
CONFIG_SERIAL_SGI_IOC4 to independently enable serial port support.

Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 18:46:32 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00