linux/drivers/misc/Makefile, branch v2.6.34

VMware Balloon driver

2010-04-24T18:31:26Z

This is a standalone version of VMware Balloon driver. Ballooning is a technique that allows hypervisor dynamically limit the amount of memory available to the guest (with guest cooperation). In the overcommit scenario, when hypervisor set detects that it needs to shuffle some memory, it instructs the driver to allocate certain number of pages, and the underlying memory gets returned to the hypervisor. Later hypervisor may return memory to the guest by reattaching memory to the pageframes and instructing the driver to "deflate" balloon. We are submitting a standalone driver because KVM maintainer (Avi Kivity) expressed opinion (rightly) that our transport does not fit well into virtqueue paradigm and thus it does not make much sense to integrate with virtio. There were also some concerns whether current ballooning technique is the right thing. If there appears a better framework to achieve this we are prepared to evaluate and switch to using it, but in the meantime we'd like to get this driver upstream. We want to get the driver accepted in distributions so that users do not have to deal with an out-of-tree module and many distributions have "upstream first" requirement. The driver has been shipping for a number of years and users running on VMware platform will have it installed as part of VMware Tools even if it will not come from a distribution, thus there should not be additional risk in pulling the driver into mainline. The driver will only activate if host is VMware so everyone else should not be affected at all. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

tsl2550: Move from i2c/chips to misc

2010-03-13T19:56:54Z

Move the last remaining driver from i2c/chips to misc. Good ridance! Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Acked-by: Wolfram Sang Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron

cs5535: add a generic MFGPT driver

2009-12-15T16:53:28Z

This is based on the old code on arch/x86/kernel/mfgpt_32.c, except it's not x86 specific, it's modular, and it makes use of a PCI BAR rather than a random MSR. Currently module unloading is not supported; it's uncertain whether or not it can be made work with the hardware. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add X86 dependency] Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon Cc: Jordan Crouse Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: john stultz Cc: Chris Ball Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

drivers/misc: add driver for Texas Instruments DAC7512

2009-12-15T16:53:25Z

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack Cc: "H Hartley Sweeten" Cc: David Brownell Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

ad525x_dpot: new driver for AD525x digital potentiometers

2009-12-15T16:53:25Z

This driver supports the non-volatile digital potentiometers via I2C: AD5258, AD5259, AD5251, AD5252, AD5253, AD5254, and AD5255 It provides a sysfs interface to each device for reading/writing which is documented in Documentation/misc-devices/ad525x_dpot.txt. Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich Signed-off-by: Chris Verges Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger Cc: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging

2009-12-08T16:12:16Z

* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging: i2c-stub: Documentation update i2c-stub: Allow user to disable some commands i2c-stub: Implement I2C block support i2c: Refactor for_each callbacks i2c-i801: Retry on lost arbitration i2c: Remove big kernel lock from i2cdev_open ics932s401: Clean up detect function i2c: Simplify i2c_detect_address i2c: Drop probe, ignore and force module parameters i2c: Add missing __devinit markers to old i2c adapter drivers i2c: Bus drivers don't have to support I2C_M_REV_DIR_ADDR i2c: Prevent priority inversion on top of bus lock i2c-voodoo3: Delete i2c-powermac: Drop temporary name buffer i2c-powermac: Include the i2c_adapter in struct pmac_i2c_bus i2c-powermac: Log errors i2c-powermac: Refactor i2c_powermac_smbus_xfer i2c-powermac: Reject unsupported I2C transactions i2c/chips: Move ds1682 to drivers/misc

i2c/chips: Move ds1682 to drivers/misc

2009-12-06T16:06:16Z

As i2c/chips is deprecated, move ds1682 to a more apropriate location. Build tested. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang Acked-by: Grant Likely Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare

iwmc3200top: Add Intel Wireless MultiCom 3200 top driver.

2009-10-20T06:22:50Z

This patch adds Intel Wireless MultiCom 3200 top driver. IWMC3200 is 4Wireless Com CHIP (GPS/BT/WiFi/WiMAX). Top driver is responsible for device initialization and firmware download. Firmware handled by top is responsible for top itself and as well as bluetooth and GPS coms. (Wifi and WiMax provide their own firmware) In addition top driver is used to retrieve firmware logs and supports other debugging features Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ARM: 5628/1: ep93xx: Introduce Pulse Width Modulator (PWM) driver

2009-07-30T16:45:43Z

The EP93xx features two PWMs (one on the EP9307) with the following features: * Configurable dual output * Separate input clocks for each PWM output * 16-bit resolution * Programmable pulse width (duty cycle), interval (frequency), and polarity This adds the necessary core support as well as the driver. A sysfs interface is provided to control the PWM outputs. Signed-off-by: Matthieu Crapet Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten Acked-by: Ryan Mallon Signed-off-by: Russell King

mmc: Driver for CB710/720 memory card reader (MMC part)

2009-06-13T20:42:58Z

The code is divided in two parts. There is a virtual 'bus' driver that handles PCI device and registers three new devices one per card reader type. The other driver handles SD/MMC part of the reader. Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman