kernel.git/drivers/acpi/event.c, branch linux-2.6.31.y

netlink: change return-value logic of netlink_broadcast()

2009-02-06T07:56:36Z

Currently, netlink_broadcast() reports errors to the caller if no messages at all were delivered: 1) If, at least, one message has been delivered correctly, returns 0. 2) Otherwise, if no messages at all were delivered due to skb_clone() failure, return -ENOBUFS. 3) Otherwise, if there are no listeners, return -ESRCH. With this patch, the caller knows if the delivery of any of the messages to the listeners have failed: 1) If it fails to deliver any message (for whatever reason), return -ENOBUFS. 2) Otherwise, if all messages were delivered OK, returns 0. 3) Otherwise, if no listeners, return -ESRCH. In the current ctnetlink code and in Netfilter in general, we can add reliable logging and connection tracking event delivery by dropping the packets whose events were not successfully delivered over Netlink. Of course, this option would be settable via /proc as this approach reduces performance (in terms of filtered connections per seconds by a stateful firewall) but providing reliable logging and event delivery (for conntrackd) in return. This patch also changes some clients of netlink_broadcast() that may report ENOBUFS errors via printk. This error handling is not of any help. Instead, the userspace daemons that are listening to those netlink messages should resync themselves with the kernel-side if they hit ENOBUFS. BTW, netlink_broadcast() clients include those that call cn_netlink_send(), nlmsg_multicast() and genlmsg_multicast() since they internally call netlink_broadcast() and return its error value. Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

acpi: use non-racy method for proc entries creation

2008-04-29T15:06:22Z

Use proc_create()/proc_create_data() to make sure that ->proc_fops and ->data be setup before gluing PDE to main tree. Add correct ->owner to proc_fops to fix reading/module unloading race. Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev Cc: Len Brown Cc: Alexey Dobriyan Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ACPI: static acpi_chain_head

2008-02-14T06:04:18Z

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Len Brown

ACPI: create notifier chain to get hotkey events to graphics driver

2008-02-07T08:22:57Z

Kernel mode graphics drivers need this ACPI notifier chaine so that they can get notified upon hotkey events. Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui Signed-off-by: Len Brown

ACPI: fix CONFIG_NET=n acpi_bus_generate_netlink_event build failure

2007-09-03T15:15:11Z

drivers/acpi/event.c:243: error: 'acpi_generate_netlink_event' undeclared here (not in a function) Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh Signed-off-by: Len Brown

ACPI: fix ia64 allnoconfig build

2007-08-24T07:06:33Z

drivers/acpi/event.c:238: error: conflicting types for ‘acpi_bus_generate_netlink_event’ include/acpi/acpi_bus.h:324: error: previous declaration of ‘acpi_bus_generate_netlink_event’ was here Signed-off-by: Len Brown

ACPI: Schedule /proc/acpi/event for removal

2007-08-23T19:20:26Z

Schedule /proc/acpi/event for removal in 6 months. Re-name acpi_bus_generate_event() to acpi_bus_generate_proc_event() to make sure there is no confusion that it is for /proc/acpi/event only. Add CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT to allow removal of /proc/acpi/event. There is no functional change if CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT=y Signed-off-by: Len Brown

ACPI: don't duplicate input events on netlink

2007-08-23T18:27:23Z

The previous events patch added a netlink event for every user of the legacy /proc/acpi/event interface. However, some users of /proc/acpi/event are really input events, and they already report their events via the input layer. Introduce a new interface, acpi_bus_generate_netlink_event(), which is explicitly called by devices that want to repoprt events via netlink. This allows the input-like events to opt-out of generating netlink events. In summary: events that are sent via netlink: ac/battery/sbs thermal processor thinkpad_acpi dock/bay events that are sent via input layer: button video hotkey thinkpad_acpi hotkey asus_acpi/asus-laptop hotkey sonypi/sonylaptop Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui Signed-off-by: Len Brown

ACPI: static

2007-08-12T02:28:34Z

Make the needlessly global "acpi_event_seqnum" static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Len Brown

ACPI: export ACPI events via acpi_mc_group multicast group

2007-07-22T05:05:16Z

This is an incremental patch for the recent genetlink multicast changes. Now ACPI events are exported via generic netlink multicast group. Thanks for Johannes' help on developing this patch Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui Signed-off-by: Len Brown