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Author SHA1 Message Date
Matthew Garrett bbb706079a acer-wmi: Fix capitalisation of GUID
6AF4F258-B401-42fd-BE91-3D4AC2D7C0D3 needs to be
6AF4F258-B401-42FD-BE91-3D4AC2D7C0D3 to match the hardware alias.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
2011-02-21 17:06:18 -05:00
Vasiliy Kulikov b80b168f91 platform: x86: acer-wmi: world-writable sysfs threeg file
Don't allow everybody to write to hardware registers.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2011-02-21 17:06:15 -05:00
Jesper Juhl 9a756de129 X86, Acer, WMI: Do not double include linux/dmi.h in acer-wmi.c
Including linux/dmi.h once in drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c is enough.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-01-25 12:03:19 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 008d23e485 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits)
  Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send.
  writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time
  ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal
  drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
  wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  media: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
  remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
  remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
  Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
  Fix spelling mistakes in comments
  Revert conflicting V4L changes
  i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
  mm/rmap.c: fix comment
  sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
  hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
  init/Kconfig: fix typo
  anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment
  fix comment typos concerning "consistent"
  poll: fix a typo in comment
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts in:
 - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c)
 - fs/ext4/ext4.h

Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
2011-01-13 10:05:56 -08:00
From: Lee, Chun-Yi 59ccf2f3d5 acer-wmi: Enabled Acer Launch Manager mode
Enabled Acer Launch Manager mode to disable the EC raw behavior for
communication devices when WMID3 method available. And, we also add a
ec_raw_mode kernel module option for enable The EC raw behavior mode
when anyone what reset it back.
When Acer Launch Manager mode enabled, EC will stop to touch any
communication devices' RF state or power state that causes conflict
with rfkill_input or any userland daemon to charge the rfkill rules.

Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@novell.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2011-01-07 17:27:19 -05:00
Lee, Chun-Yi 466449cfe7 acer-wmi: Initialize wlan/bluetooth/wwan rfkill software block state
Initial wlan/bluetooth/wwan rfkill software block state when acer-wmi driver
probe. Acer notebook can save the devices state and this patch can use it to
initial the devices' rfkill state.

Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@novell.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2011-01-07 17:03:48 -05:00
Lee, Chun-Yi 6c3df88f19 acer-wmi: Detect the WiFi/Bluetooth/3G devices available
Check the Acer OEM-specific Type AA to detect the WiFi/Bluetooth/3G
devices available or not, and set the devices capability flag.

Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@novell.com>
Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Cc: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2011-01-07 17:03:48 -05:00
Lee, Chun-Yi b3c9092b2f acer-wmi: Add 3G rfkill sysfs file
Add 3G rfkill sysfs file for provide userland to control 3G device
on/off by using WMI method.

Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@novell.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbaho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2011-01-07 17:03:48 -05:00
Lee, Chun-Yi 3fdca87d10 acer-wmi: Add acer wmi hotkey events support
Add acer wmi hotkey event support. Install a wmi notify handler to
transfer wmi event key to key code, then send out keycode through acer
wmi input device to userland.

Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@novell.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2011-01-07 17:03:47 -05:00
Lionel Debroux acc2472ed3 backlight: constify backlight_ops
backlight_device_register has been expecting a const "ops" argument, and using
it as such, since 9905a43b2d. Let's make the
remaining backlight_ops instances const.

Inspired by hunks of the grsecurity patch, updated for newer kernels.

Signed-off-by: Lionel Debroux <lionel_debroux@yahoo.fr>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-11-16 14:14:02 +01:00
Pascal de Bruijn af9902e130 Don't show error if Acer WMI is not found
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2010-10-21 09:36:44 -04:00
Axel Lin ff2367d1d5 acer-wmi: remove non-used acer_quirks struct definition
Remove non-used acer_quirks struct definition.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Cc: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2010-08-03 09:49:04 -04:00
Axel Lin 7677fbdff1 acer-wmi: fix memory leaks in wmab_execute error path
When acpi_evaluate_object() is passed ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER, the caller
must kfree the returned buffer if AE_OK is returned.

Call Trace:
wmab_execute
  -> wmi_evaluate_method
    -> acpi_evaluate_object

Thus if callers of wmab_execute() pass ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER, the return
buffer must be kfreed if wmab_execute return AE_OK.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid multiple return points, remove unneeded cast, remove unneeded initialisation of `status']
Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2010-08-03 09:49:04 -04:00
Axel Lin 669048639c acer-wmi: fix memory leaks in WMID_set_capabilities and get_wmid_devices
When acpi_evaluate_object() is passed ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER, the caller
must kfree the returned buffer if AE_OK is returned.

The callers of wmi_query_block() pass ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER, and thus must
check its return value before accessing or kfree() on the buffer.

This patch adds a missing kfree(out.pointer) before exit
WMID_set_capabilities() and get_wmid_devices().

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2010-08-03 09:49:03 -04:00
Axel Lin d53bf0f324 acer-wmi: make dmi_matched to return 1 instead of 0
dmi_check_system() walks the table running matching functions until someone
returns non zero or we hit the end.

This patch makes dmi_matched to return 1 so dmi_check_system() return
immediately when a match is found.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2010-08-03 09:48:52 -04:00
Axel Lin 370525df9d acer-wmi: set permissions on interface file to S_IRUGO
The interface file is not writable, thus set permissions to S_IRUGO.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2010-08-03 09:48:52 -04:00
Axel Lin 97ba0af097 acer-wmi/hp-wmi: use platform_device_unregister instead of platform_device_del in module_exit
platform_device_unregister will also call platform_device_put() to drop reference count.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2010-08-03 09:48:49 -04:00
Axel Lin 1c79632bd0 acer-wmi: fix resource reclaim in acer_wmi_init error path
This patch fixes the resource reclaim in acer_wmi_init error path.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2010-08-03 09:48:48 -04:00
Tejun Heo 5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Matthew Garrett a19a6ee6ca backlight: Allow properties to be passed at registration
Values such as max_brightness should be set before backlights are
registered, but the current API doesn't allow that. Add a parameter to
backlight_device_register and update drivers to ensure that they
set this correctly.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
2010-03-16 19:47:54 +00:00
Carlos Corbacho 6f6ef82cc9 acer-wmi: Respect current backlight level when loading
Set the backlight to use the current brightness when loaded, rather than
always resetting the backlight to maximum brightness.

Fixes kernel bugzilla #14207

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Reported-by: Denis Mukhin <denis_mukhin@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-02-19 00:19:26 -05:00
Thomas Renninger 4d5f177caf acer-wmi, msi-wmi: Remove needless DMI MODULE_ALIAS
Now that we have WMI autoloading
the DMI matching is not needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Acked-by: Anisse Astier <anisse@astier.eu>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-12-24 00:50:28 -05:00
Dmitry Torokhov 181d683d75 Input: libps2 - additional locking for i8042 ports
The serio ports on i8042 are not completely isolated; while we provide
enough locking to ensure proper serialization when accessing control
and data registers AUX and KBD ports can still have an effect on each
other on PS/2 protocol level. The most prominent effect is that
issuing a command for the device connected to one port may cause
abort of the command currently executing by the device connected to
another port.

Since i8042 nor serio subsystem are not aware of the details of the
PS/2 protocol (length of the commands and their replies and so on) the
locking should be done on libps2 level by adding special handling when
we see that we are dealing with serio port on i8042.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2009-09-17 23:23:45 -07:00
Alan Jenkins ed5c8ef3bb acer-wmi: fix rfkill conversion
Fix another polarity error introduced by the rfkill rewrite,
this time in acer_rfkill_set().

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-21 15:58:54 -04:00
Troy Moure a878417cc5 acer-wmi: fix rfkill conversion
"rfkill: rewrite" incorrectly reversed
the meaning of 'state' in acer_rfkill_update() when it changed
rfkill_force_state() to rfkill_set_sw_state().  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Troy Moure <twmoure@szypr.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-19 11:50:18 -04:00
Alan Jenkins b3fa1329ea rfkill: remove set_global_sw_state
rfkill_set_global_sw_state() (previously rfkill_set_default()) will no
longer be exported by the rewritten rfkill core.

Instead, platform drivers which can provide persistent soft-rfkill state
across power-down/reboot should indicate their initial state by calling
rfkill_set_sw_state() before registration.  Otherwise, they will be
initialized to a default value during registration by a set_block call.

We remove existing calls to rfkill_set_sw_state() which happen before
registration, since these had no effect in the old model.  If these
drivers do have persistent state, the calls can be put back (subject
to testing :-).  This affects hp-wmi and acer-wmi.

Drivers with persistent state will affect the global state only if
rfkill-input is enabled.  This is required, otherwise booting with
wireless soft-blocked and pressing the wireless-toggle key once would
have no apparent effect.  This special case will be removed in future
along with rfkill-input, in favour of a more flexible userspace daemon
(see Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt).

Now rfkill_global_states[n].def is only used to preserve global states
over EPO, it is renamed to ".sav".

Signed-off-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-10 13:28:37 -04:00
Johannes Berg 19d337dff9 rfkill: rewrite
This patch completely rewrites the rfkill core to address
the following deficiencies:

 * all rfkill drivers need to implement polling where necessary
   rather than having one central implementation

 * updating the rfkill state cannot be done from arbitrary
   contexts, forcing drivers to use schedule_work and requiring
   lots of code

 * rfkill drivers need to keep track of soft/hard blocked
   internally -- the core should do this

 * the rfkill API has many unexpected quirks, for example being
   asymmetric wrt. alloc/free and register/unregister

 * rfkill can call back into a driver from within a function the
   driver called -- this is prone to deadlocks and generally
   should be avoided

 * rfkill-input pointlessly is a separate module

 * drivers need to #ifdef rfkill functions (unless they want to
   depend on or select RFKILL) -- rfkill should provide inlines
   that do nothing if it isn't compiled in

 * the rfkill structure is not opaque -- drivers need to initialise
   it correctly (lots of sanity checking code required) -- instead
   force drivers to pass the right variables to rfkill_alloc()

 * the documentation is hard to read because it always assumes the
   reader is completely clueless and contains way TOO MANY CAPS

 * the rfkill code needlessly uses a lot of locks and atomic
   operations in locked sections

 * fix LED trigger to actually change the LED when the radio state
   changes -- this wasn't done before

Tested-by: Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@tuffmail.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> [thinkpad]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-06-03 14:06:13 -04:00
Johannes Berg 621cac8529 rfkill: remove user_claim stuff
Almost all drivers do not support user_claim, so remove it
completely and always report -EOPNOTSUPP to userspace. Since
userspace cannot really drive rfkill _anyway_ (due to the
odd restrictions imposed by the documentation) having this
code is just pointless.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-04-22 16:54:27 -04:00
Carlos Corbacho 4f0175dc13 acer-wmi: Update copyright notice & documentation
Explicitly note in the documentation that the Acer Aspire One is not
supported.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-04 12:36:31 -04:00
Andy Whitcroft 350e32907c acer-wmi: Cleanup the failure cleanup handling
Cleanup the failure cleanup handling for brightness and email led.

[cc: Split out from another patch]

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-04 12:36:21 -04:00
Carlos Corbacho a74dd5fdab acer-wmi: Blacklist Acer Aspire One
The Aspire One's ACPI-WMI interface is a placeholder that does nothing,
and the invalid results that we get from it are now causing userspace
problems as acer-wmi always returns that the rfkill is enabled (i.e. the
radio is off, when it isn't). As it's hardware controlled, acer-wmi
isn't needed on the Aspire One either.

Thanks to Andy Whitcroft at Canonical for tracking down Ubuntu's userspace
issues to this.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Reported-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-04 12:36:06 -04:00
Dan Carpenter 013d67fd4f acer-wmi: double free in acer_rfkill_exit()
This is acer_rfkill_exit() from drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c.

The code frees wireless_rfkill->data again instead of
bluetooth_rfkill->data.

This was found using a code checker (http://repo.or.cz/w/smatch.git/).

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-16 00:37:33 -04:00
Michael Spang 1ba869ec58 acer-wmi: fix regression in backlight detection
Currently we disable the Acer WMI backlight device if there is no ACPI
backlight device.  As a result, we end up with no backlight device at all.
 We should instead disable it if there is an ACPI device, as the other
laptop drivers do.  This regression was introduced in febf2d9 ("Acer-WMI:
fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality").

Each laptop driver with backlight support got a similar change around
febf2d9.  The changes to the other drivers look correct; see e.g.
a598c82f for a similar but correct change.  The regression is also in
2.6.28.

Signed-off-by: Michael Spang <mspang@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Acked-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>		[2.6.28.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-12 16:20:24 -07:00
Len Brown 41b16dce39 create drivers/platform/x86/ from drivers/misc/
Move x86 platform specific drivers from drivers/misc/
to a new home under drivers/platform/x86/.

The community has been maintaining x86 vendor-specific
platform specific drivers under /drivers/misc/ for a few years.
The oldest ones started life under drivers/acpi.
They moved out of drivers/acpi/ because they don't actually
implement the ACPI specification, but either simply
use ACPI, or implement vendor-specific ACPI extensions.

In the future we anticipate...
drivers/misc/ will go away.
other architectures will create drivers/platform/<arch>

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-19 04:42:32 -05:00