linux/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl, branch v6.14

Merge tag 'driver-core-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2025-01-28T20:25:12Z

Pull driver core and debugfs updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of driver core and debugfs updates for 6.14-rc1. Included in here is a bunch of driver core, PCI, OF, and platform rust bindings (all acked by the different subsystem maintainers), hence the merge conflict with the rust tree, and some driver core api updates to mark things as const, which will also require some fixups due to new stuff coming in through other trees in this merge window. There are also a bunch of debugfs updates from Al, and there is at least one user that does have a regression with these, but Al is working on tracking down the fix for it. In my use (and everyone else's linux-next use), it does not seem like a big issue at the moment. Here's a short list of the things in here: - driver core rust bindings for PCI, platform, OF, and some i/o functions. We are almost at the "write a real driver in rust" stage now, depending on what you want to do. - misc device rust bindings and a sample driver to show how to use them - debugfs cleanups in the fs as well as the users of the fs api for places where drivers got it wrong or were unnecessarily doing things in complex ways. - driver core const work, making more of the api take const * for different parameters to make the rust bindings easier overall. - other small fixes and updates All of these have been in linux-next with all of the aforementioned merge conflicts, and the one debugfs issue, which looks to be resolved "soon"" * tag 'driver-core-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (95 commits) rust: device: Use as_char_ptr() to avoid explicit cast rust: device: Replace CString with CStr in property_present() devcoredump: Constify 'struct bin_attribute' devcoredump: Define 'struct bin_attribute' through macro rust: device: Add property_present() saner replacement for debugfs_rename() orangefs-debugfs: don't mess with ->d_name octeontx2: don't mess with ->d_parent or ->d_parent->d_name arm_scmi: don't mess with ->d_parent->d_name slub: don't mess with ->d_name sof-client-ipc-flood-test: don't mess with ->d_name qat: don't mess with ->d_name xhci: don't mess with ->d_iname mtu3: don't mess wiht ->d_iname greybus/camera - stop messing with ->d_iname mediatek: stop messing with ->d_iname netdevsim: don't embed file_operations into your structs b43legacy: make use of debugfs_get_aux() b43: stop embedding struct file_operations into their objects carl9170: stop embedding file_operations into their objects ...

pps: adjust references to actual name of uapi header file

2025-01-10T15:13:09Z

Commit 86b525bed275 ("drivers pps: add PPS generators support") adds a file entry in MAINTAINERS and a reference in the ioctl-number documentation referring to the file pps-gen.h, whereas the file added in this commit is named pps_gen.h. Adjust the two references to the actual name of the uapi header file. While at it, put the entry in MAINTAINERS at the right place for alphabetical ordering. Fixes: 86b525bed275 ("drivers pps: add PPS generators support") Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250110105000.56228-1-lukas.bulwahn@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers pps: add PPS generators support

2025-01-08T12:18:09Z

Sometimes one needs to be able not only to catch PPS signals but to produce them also. For example, running a distributed simulation, which requires computers' clock to be synchronized very tightly. This patch adds PPS generators class in order to have a well-defined interface for these devices. Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241108073115.759039-2-giometti@enneenne.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: ioctl-number: Carve out some identifiers for use by sample drivers

2024-12-16T15:12:44Z

32 IDs should be plenty (at yet, not too greedy) since a lot of sample drivers will use their own subsystem allocations. Sample drivers predominately reside in /samples, but there should be no issue with in-place example drivers using them. Signed-off-by: Lee Jones Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241213134715.601415-2-lee@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

reiserfs: The last commit

2024-10-21T14:29:38Z

Deprecation period of reiserfs ends with the end of this year so it is time to remove it from the kernel. Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong Acked-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

Documentation: add ublk driver ioctl numbers

2024-08-26T21:34:14Z

ublk driver takes the following ioctl numbers: 'u' 00-2F linux/ublk_cmd.h So document it in ioctl-number.rst Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240823134339.1496916-1-ming.lei@redhat.com

Documentation: ioctl: document 0x07 ioctl code

2024-07-29T21:25:03Z

It looks like this was supposed to be documented when VSOCK was added[1], but it got lost in later submissions. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20130109000024.3719.71468.stgit@promb-2n-dhcp175.eng.vmware.com/#Z31Documentation:ioctl:ioctl-number.txt [1] Fixes: d021c344051a ("VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets") Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240725171120.12226-2-hi@alyssa.is

Merge tag 'char-misc-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2024-07-19T22:55:08Z

Pull char / misc and other driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the "big" set of char/misc and other driver subsystem changes for 6.11-rc1. Nothing major in here, just loads of new drivers and updates. Included in here are: - IIO api updates and new drivers added - wait_interruptable_timeout() api cleanups for some drivers - MODULE_DESCRIPTION() additions for loads of drivers - parport out-of-bounds fix - interconnect driver updates and additions - mhi driver updates and additions - w1 driver fixes - binder speedups and fixes - eeprom driver updates - coresight driver updates - counter driver update - new misc driver additions - other minor api updates All of these, EXCEPT for the final Kconfig build fix for 32bit systems, have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues. The Kconfig fixup went in 29 hours ago, so might have missed the latest linux-next, but was acked by everyone involved" * tag 'char-misc-6.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (330 commits) misc: Kconfig: exclude mrvl-cn10k-dpi compilation for 32-bit systems misc: delete Makefile.rej binder: fix hang of unregistered readers misc: Kconfig: add a new dependency for MARVELL_CN10K_DPI virtio: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro agp: uninorth: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro spmi: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros dev/parport: fix the array out-of-bounds risk samples: configfs: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro misc: mrvl-cn10k-dpi: add Octeon CN10K DPI administrative driver misc: keba: Fix missing AUXILIARY_BUS dependency slimbus: Fix struct and documentation alignment in stream.c MAINTAINERS: CC dri-devel list on Qualcomm FastRPC patches misc: fastrpc: use coherent pool for untranslated Compute Banks misc: fastrpc: support complete DMA pool access to the DSP misc: fastrpc: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro misc: fastrpc: Add missing dev_err newlines misc: fastrpc: Use memdup_user() nvmem: core: Implement force_ro sysfs attribute nvmem: Use sysfs_emit() for type attribute ...

Merge tag 'docs-6.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2024-07-18T22:54:16Z

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Nothing hugely exciting happening in the documentation tree this time around, mostly more of the usual: - More Spanish, Italian, and Chinese translations - A new script, scripts/checktransupdate.py, can be used to see which commits have touched an (English) document since a given translation was last updated. - A couple of "best practices" suggestions (on Link: tags and off-list discussions) that were not entirely at consensus level, but I concluded they were close enough to accept. - Some nice cleanups removing documentation for kernel parameters that have not been recognized for ... a long time. ...along with the usual updates, typo fixes, and such" * tag 'docs-6.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (57 commits) Documentation: Document user_events ioctl code docs/pinctrl: fix typo in mapping example docs: maintainer: discourage taking conversations off-list docs: driver-model: platform: update the definition of platform_driver docs/sp_SP: Add translation for scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst writing_musb_glue_layer.rst: Fix broken URL zh_CN/admin-guide: one typo fix docs/zh_CN/virt: Update the translation of guest-halt-polling.rst Documentation: add reference from dynamic debug to loglevel kernel params Documentation: best practices for using Link trailers Documentation: fix links to mailing list services Documentation: exception-tables.rst: Fix the wrong steps referenced docs/zh_CN: add process/researcher-guidelines Chinese translation Documentation/tools/rv: fix document header docs/sp_SP: Add translation of process/maintainer-kvm-x86.rst docs/admin-guide/mm: correct typo 'quired' to 'queried' Add libps2 to the input section of driver-api Docs/mm/index: move allocation profiling document to unsorted documents chapter Docs/mm/index: rename 'Legacy Documentation' to 'Unsorted Documentation' Docs/mm/index: Remove 'Memory Management Guide' chapter marker ...

Documentation: Document user_events ioctl code

2024-07-16T17:15:02Z

The user events trace subsystem uses the 0x2A/'*' code for ioctls. These are published via the uapi/linux/user_events.h header file. Add a line indicating user events as the owner of the 0x2A/'*' code and reserve the first 32 sequence numbers. Signed-off-by: Beau Belgrave Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240715181413.1157-1-beaub@linux.microsoft.com