kernel.git/drivers/char/vc_screen.c, branch linux-2.6.23.y

use mutex instead of semaphore in virtual console driver

2007-05-08T18:15:33Z

The virtual console driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API instead of the (binary) semaphore. Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used

2007-05-08T18:15:07Z

Remove includes of where it is not used/needed. Suggested by Al Viro. Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc, sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.h

2007-02-14T16:09:54Z

After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes. There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the course of cleaning it up. To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble. Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha, arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig, allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted by unnecessarily included header files). Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau Acked-by: Russell King Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] struct path: convert char-drivers

2006-12-08T16:28:44Z

Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Driver core: convert vc code to use struct device

2006-12-01T22:51:59Z

Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the /sys/class directory. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] There is no devfs, there has never been a devfs, we have always been at war with...

2006-09-29T16:18:10Z

Jon Smirl noted a couple of tty driver functions now are quite misleadingly named with the death of devfs. A quick grep found another case in the lp driver. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] make more file_operation structs static

2006-07-03T22:26:59Z

Mark the static struct file_operations in drivers/char as const. Making them const prevents accidental bugs, and moves them to the .rodata section so that they no longer do any false sharing; in addition with the proper debug option they are then protected against corruption.. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Remove obsolete #include

2006-06-30T17:25:36Z

Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree

2006-06-26T19:25:08Z

Also fixes up all files that #include it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel tree

2006-06-26T19:25:07Z

Removes the devfs_remove() function and all callers of it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman