This merge changes the device switch tables from static array to
dynamically generated by config(8).
- All device switches is defined as a constant structure in device drivers.
- The new grammer ``device-major'' is introduced to ``files''.
device-major <prefix> char <num> [block <num>] [<rules>]
- All device major numbers must be listed up in port dependent majors.<arch>
by using this grammer.
- Added the new naming convention.
The name of the device switch must be <prefix>_[bc]devsw for auto-generation
of device switch tables.
- The backward compatibility of loading block/character device
switch by LKM framework is broken. This is necessary to convert
from block/character device major to device name in runtime and vice versa.
- The restriction to assign device major by LKM is completely removed.
We don't need to reserve LKM entries for dynamic loading of device switch.
- In compile time, device major numbers list is packed into the kernel and
the LKM framework will refer it to assign device major number dynamically.
- Do FIELD_SET correctly for scalar types.
- Add some basic table ops.
- Push error reporting back into iop.c.
- Add some field index and (yet more) LAN defs to i2o.h.
- More SCSI port defs.
- Nuke vtophys().
- Release resources in iop_init() upon failure.
- Don't use a message wrapper when initalising the outbound FIFO.
- A couple of field size/endian fixes.
- Just use iop_post() when we don't need special handling.
- IM_DISCARD is now pointless, since we don't queue at the driver level.
- Map data transfers from/to userspace directly.
- A few comment and stylistic changes.
- Adhere to the spec better in some places. Also, work around some quirks
noted in the Linux I2O code.
- Register event handlers for the executive and RBS devices.
- Fix a number of buglets and tidy a little.
- Implement a message pass-through interface and some other useful ioctls.
more testing with different configurations, and work in a number of areas
(which I'm not able to do for a little while), but is at least functional
and stable on i386 with DPT adapters.
thorpej