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Author SHA1 Message Date
Matthew Garrett bb7ca747f8 backlight: add backlight type
There may be multiple ways of controlling the backlight on a given
machine.  Allow drivers to expose the type of interface they are
providing, making it possible for userspace to make appropriate policy
decisions.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-22 17:43:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 52cfd503ad Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (59 commits)
  ACPI / PM: Fix build problems for !CONFIG_ACPI related to NVS rework
  ACPI: fix resource check message
  ACPI / Battery: Update information on info notification and resume
  ACPI: Drop device flag wake_capable
  ACPI: Always check if _PRW is present before trying to evaluate it
  ACPI / PM: Check status of power resources under mutexes
  ACPI / PM: Rename acpi_power_off_device()
  ACPI / PM: Drop acpi_power_nocheck
  ACPI / PM: Drop acpi_bus_get_power()
  Platform / x86: Make fujitsu_laptop use acpi_bus_update_power()
  ACPI / Fan: Rework the handling of power resources
  ACPI / PM: Register power resource devices as soon as they are needed
  ACPI / PM: Register acpi_power_driver early
  ACPI / PM: Add function for updating device power state consistently
  ACPI / PM: Add function for device power state initialization
  ACPI / PM: Introduce __acpi_bus_get_power()
  ACPI / PM: Introduce function for refcounting device power resources
  ACPI / PM: Add functions for manipulating lists of power resources
  ACPI / PM: Prevent acpi_power_get_inferred_state() from making changes
  ACPICA: Update version to 20101209
  ...
2011-01-13 20:15:35 -08:00
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
Rafael J. Wysocki 40b7397579 Platform / x86: Make fujitsu_laptop use acpi_bus_update_power()
Use the new function acpi_bus_update_power(), which is safer than
acpi_bus_get_power(), for getting device power state in
acpi_fujitsu_add() and acpi_fujitsu_hotkey_add().

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Reported-and-Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2011-01-12 04:48:45 -05:00
Namhyung Kim 9c23225006 fujitsu-laptop: fix compiler warning on pnp_ids
Annotate pnp_ids as '__used' to fix following warning:

  CC      drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.o
drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c:1243: warning: ‘pnp_ids’ defined but not used

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2011-01-07 17:03:45 -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
Axel Lin 67af711168 fujitsu-laptop: make needlessly global symbols static
The following symbols are needlessly defined global:

logolamp_led
kblamps_led

This patch makes the symbols static.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2010-08-03 09:49:00 -04:00
Axel Lin 80183a4b63 compal-laptop/fujitsu-laptop/msi-laptop: make dmi_check_cb 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_check_cb to return 1 so dmi_check_system() return
immediately when a match is found.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>a
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2010-08-03 09:48:57 -04:00
Axel Lin 8e4e2efdfa fujitsu-laptop: remove unnecessary input_free_device calls
input_free_device() should only be used if input_register_device() was not
called yet or if it failed.  This patch removes unnecessary
input_free_device calls.

Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>a
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
2010-08-03 09:48:56 -04:00
Julia Lawall 6c75dd0f96 drivers/platform/x86: Use kzalloc
Use kzalloc rather than the combination of kmalloc and memset.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression x,size,flags;
statement S;
@@

-x = kmalloc(size,flags);
+x = kzalloc(size,flags);
 if (x == NULL) S
-memset(x, 0, size);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
2010-05-20 09:26:13 -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
Len Brown fcb11235d3 Merge branch 'misc-2.6.33' into release 2009-12-24 01:19:00 -05:00
Jonathan Woithe 3b1c37cab3 fujitu-laptop: fix tests of acpi_evaluate_integer() return value
Fix tests on return value from acpi_evaluate_integer().  Based on a patch by
Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> and incorporating suggestions from Len
Brown <lenb@kernel.org>.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-12-23 02:24:32 -05:00
Stefani Seibold 7acd72eb85 kfifo: rename kfifo_put... into kfifo_in... and kfifo_get... into kfifo_out...
rename kfifo_put...  into kfifo_in...  to prevent miss use of old non in
kernel-tree drivers

ditto for kfifo_get...  -> kfifo_out...

Improve the prototypes of kfifo_in and kfifo_out to make the kerneldoc
annotations more readable.

Add mini "howto porting to the new API" in kfifo.h

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22 14:17:56 -08:00
Stefani Seibold c1e13f2567 kfifo: move out spinlock
Move the pointer to the spinlock out of struct kfifo.  Most users in
tree do not actually use a spinlock, so the few exceptions now have to
call kfifo_{get,put}_locked, which takes an extra argument to a
spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22 14:17:56 -08:00
Stefani Seibold 4546548789 kfifo: move struct kfifo in place
This is a new generic kernel FIFO implementation.

The current kernel fifo API is not very widely used, because it has to
many constrains.  Only 17 files in the current 2.6.31-rc5 used it.
FIFO's are like list's a very basic thing and a kfifo API which handles
the most use case would save a lot of development time and memory
resources.

I think this are the reasons why kfifo is not in use:

 - The API is to simple, important functions are missing
 - A fifo can be only allocated dynamically
 - There is a requirement of a spinlock whether you need it or not
 - There is no support for data records inside a fifo

So I decided to extend the kfifo in a more generic way without blowing up
the API to much.  The new API has the following benefits:

 - Generic usage: For kernel internal use and/or device driver.
 - Provide an API for the most use case.
 - Slim API: The whole API provides 25 functions.
 - Linux style habit.
 - DECLARE_KFIFO, DEFINE_KFIFO and INIT_KFIFO Macros
 - Direct copy_to_user from the fifo and copy_from_user into the fifo.
 - The kfifo itself is an in place member of the using data structure, this save an
   indirection access and does not waste the kernel allocator.
 - Lockless access: if only one reader and one writer is active on the fifo,
   which is the common use case, no additional locking is necessary.
 - Remove spinlock - give the user the freedom of choice what kind of locking to use if
   one is required.
 - Ability to handle records. Three type of records are supported:
   - Variable length records between 0-255 bytes, with a record size
     field of 1 bytes.
   - Variable length records between 0-65535 bytes, with a record size
     field of 2 bytes.
   - Fixed size records, which no record size field.
 - Preserve memory resource.
 - Performance!
 - Easy to use!

This patch:

Since most users want to have the kfifo as part of another object,
reorganize the code to allow including struct kfifo in another data
structure.  This requires changing the kfifo_alloc and kfifo_init
prototypes so that we pass an existing kfifo pointer into them.  This
patch changes the implementation and all existing users.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-22 14:17:55 -08:00
Jonathan Woithe 2906206350 fujitsu-laptop: address missed led-class ifdef fixup
A follow-up 2.6.32-rc1's

1e384cb0f9
"fujitsu-laptop: support led-class as module"

It's a trivial fix for one of the CONFIG_LEDS_CLASS ifdefs
which was somehow missed in the original patch.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-10-09 16:49:57 -04:00
Len Brown 89ae400e3f Merge branch 'fujitsu' into release 2009-09-19 02:09:50 -04:00
Len Brown a192a9580b ACPI: Move definition of PREFIX from acpi_bus.h to internal..h
Linux/ACPI core files using internal.h all PREFIX "ACPI: ",
however, not all ACPI drivers use/want it -- and they
should not have to #undef PREFIX to define their own.

Add GPL commment to internal.h while we are there.

This does not change any actual console output,
asside from a whitespace fix.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-08-28 19:57:27 -04:00
Jonathan Woithe 84a6ce2672 fujitsu-laptop: increment driver version
Increment driver version to reflect the changes from this patch series.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-08-28 15:17:08 -04:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 72afeeafe5 fujitsu-laptop: driver [un]registration fixes
* Move led_classdev_unregister() calls from fujitsu_cleanup() to
  acpi_fujitsu_hotkey_remove().

* Fix ordering in fujitsu_cleanup().

* Fix backlight_device_register() failure handling in fujitsu_init().

* Add missing sysfs group removal on failure to fujitsu_init().

* Add input device unregistering on failure to acpi_fujitsu_add()
  and acpi_fujitsu_hotkey_add().

* Add input device unregistering/freeing to acpi_fujitsu_remove()
  and acpi_fujitsu_hotkey_remove() (also remove superfluous 'device'
  and 'acpi_driver_data(device)' checks while at it).

* Do few minor cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-08-28 15:17:08 -04:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz 6705940621 fujitsu-laptop: remove superfluous NULL pointer checks
This takes care of the following entries from Dan's list:

drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c +327 set_lcd_level(13) warning:
variable derefenced before check 'fujitsu'
drivers/platform/x86/fujitsu-laptop.c +358 set_lcd_level_alt(13) warning:
variable derefenced before check 'fujitsu'

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: eteo@redhat.com
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-08-28 15:17:08 -04:00
Julia Lawall 14485c5727 fujitsu-laptop: Correct redundant test
device and acpi_driver_data(device) were tested just a few lines above.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)

// <smpl>
@r exists@
local idexpression x;
expression E;
@@

if (x == NULL || ...) { ... when forall
   return ...; }
.. when != \(x=E\|x--\|x++\|--x\|++x\|x-=E\|x+=E\|x|=E\|x&=E\|&x\)
(
*x == NULL
|
*x != NULL
)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-08-28 15:17:08 -04:00
Stephen Gildea 1e384cb0f9 fujitsu-laptop: support led-class as module
Support fujitsu-laptop with led-class built as a module instead of
being compiled in.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Gildea <stepheng+linux@gildea.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-08-28 15:17:08 -04:00
Bjorn Helgaas b4ec027546 fujitsu-laptop: use .notify method instead of installing hotkey handler directly
This patch adds a .notify() method.  The presence of .notify() causes
Linux/ACPI to manage event handlers and notify handlers on our behalf,
so we don't have to install and remove them ourselves.

Tested by Tony on Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S6420 [FJNB1E6] with
BIOS 1.18 (01/09/2009).  Tested by Jonathan on Fujitsu S7020.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-By: Tony Vroon <tony@linx.net>
Tested-By: Tony Vroon <tony@linx.net>
Acked-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Tested-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-07 16:26:58 -04:00
Bjorn Helgaas 700b6721cd fujitsu-laptop: use .notify method instead of installing handler directly
This patch adds a .notify() method.  The presence of .notify() causes
Linux/ACPI to manage event handlers and notify handlers on our behalf,
so we don't have to install and remove them ourselves.

Tested by Tony on Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S6420 [FJNB1E6] with
BIOS 1.18 (01/09/2009).  Tested by Jonathan on Fujitsu S7020.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-By: Tony Vroon <tony@linx.net>
Tested-By: Tony Vroon <tony@linx.net>
Acked-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Tested-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-04-07 16:26:58 -04:00
Tony Vroon 4898c2b2f0 fujitsu-laptop: Use RFKILL support bitmask from firmware
Up until now, we polled the rfkill status for every incoming FUJ02E3 ACPI event.
It turns out that the firmware has a bitmask which indicates what rfkill-related
state it can report.
The rfkill_supported bitmask is now used to avoid polling for rfkill at all in
the notification handler if there is no support. Also, it is used in the platform
device callbacks. As before we register all callbacks and report "unknown" if the
firmware does not give us status updates for that particular bit.

This was fed through checkpatch.pl and tested on the S6420, S7020 and P8010
platforms.

Signed-off-by: Tony Vroon <tony@linx.net>
Tested-by: Stephen Gildea <stepheng+linux@gildea.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-02-21 21:59:55 -05:00
Len Brown d97c0defba Merge branch 'drivers-platform' into release
Conflicts:
	drivers/misc/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-01-09 04:56:56 -05:00
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