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2013-06-03stallion: final cleanupPaul Bolle
Support for the Stallion multiport serial drivers was removed in v3.1. Clean up their last references in the tree: mainly an outdated Kconfig entry and unneeded documentation. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-15tty: Update serial core API documentationKevin Cernekee
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-01-15tty: serial core: decouple pm states from ACPILinus Walleij
The serial core is using power states lifted from ACPI for no good reason. Remove this reference from the documentation and alter all users to use an enum specific to the serial core instead, and define it in <linux/serial_core.h>. Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-08-16firmware: remove computone driver firmware and documentationTim Gardner
The only Computone support left in the kernel is in drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c. CONFIG_COMPUTONE is no longer a valid option. Therefore, remove firmware, documentation, and the last vestiges of this driver. Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-05-17serial: delete the MCA specific 8250 support.Paul Gortmaker
The support for CONFIG_MCA is being removed, since the 20 year old hardware simply isn't capable of meeting today's software demands on CPU and memory resources. This commit removes the MCA specific 8250 UART code. Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2012-03-30Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.confLucas De Marchi
Usage of /etc/modprobe.conf file was deprecated by module-init-tools and is no longer parsed by new kmod tool. References to this file are replaced in Documentation, comments and Kconfig according to the context. There are also some references to the old /etc/modules.conf from 2.4 kernels that are being removed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-04serial/documentation: fix documented name of DCD cpp symbolUwe Kleine-König
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-11-15RS485: fix inconsistencies in the meaning of some variablesClaudio Scordino
The crisv10.c and the atmel_serial.c serial drivers intepret the fields of the serial_rs485 structure in a different way. In particular, crisv10.c uses SER_RS485_RTS_AFTER_SEND and SER_RS485_RTS_ON_SEND for the voltage of the RTS pin; atmel_serial.c, instead, uses these values to know if a delay must be set before and after sending. This patch makes the usage of these variables consistent across all drivers and fixes the Documentation as well. From now on, SER_RS485_RTS_AFTER_SEND and SER_RS485_RTS_ON_SEND will be used to set the voltage of the RTS pin (as in the crisv10.c driver); the delay will be understood by looking only at the value of delay_rts_before_send and delay_rts_after_send. Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com> Signed-off-by: Darron Black <darron@griffin.net> Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-11-04Documentation: Computone ip2 is orphanedMarcos Paulo Souza
Removed the email for support and fixes for orphaned ip2 driver. Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.mage@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-18tty/serial: RS485 bindings for device treeNicolas Ferre
Generic bindings for RS485 feature included in some UARTs. Those bindings have to be used withing an UART device tree node. Documentation updated to link to the bindings definition. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-08-24atmel_serial: RS485: receiving enabled when sending dataBernhard Roth
By default the atmel_serial driver in RS485 mode disables receiving data until all data in the send buffer has been sent. This flag allows to receive data even whilst sending data. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Roth <br@pwrnet.de> Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-06-13doc: fix wrong arch/i386 referencesWanlong Gao
Change all "arch/i386" to "arch/x86" in Documentaion/, since the directory has changed. Also update the files which have changed their filename in the meantime accordingly. Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com> [jkosina@suse.cz: reword changelog] Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-09n_gsm: add a documentationEric Bénard
* this documentation gives some details on how to get the n_gsm line discipline to work with modems supporting 07.10 basic option. * it was tested on Telit and Simcom modems. Signed-off-by: Eric Bénard <eric@eukrea.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-01-13pps: timestamp is always passed to dcd_change()Alexander Gordeev
Remove the code that gatheres timestamp in pps_tty_dcd_change() in case passed ts parameter is NULL because it never happens in the current code. Fix comments as well. Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su> Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-30RS485 documentation: add 16C950 UART descriptionYegor Yefremov
Add a notion about 16C950 UART, that is using DTR signal for RS485 mode. Signed-off-by: Yegor Yefremov <yegorslists@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-11serial: add Documentation about RS485 serial communicationsClaudio Scordino
Documentation about RS485 serial communications Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-08-04Documentation: update broken web addresses.Justin P. Mattock
Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/* Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult, the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated. Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users. Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-03-12ldisc: new dcd_change() method for line disciplinesRodolfo Giometti
Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-11tty: docs: serial/tty, add to ldisc methodsTilman Schmidt
A small addition to the ldisc method descriptions. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-11tty: esp: remove broken driverAlan Cox
The ESP driver has been marked broken for years. It's an old ISA device that clearly nobody cares about any more. Remove it Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-11-14Create/use more directory structure in the Documentation/ tree.Randy Dunlap
Create Documentation/blockdev/ sub-directory and populate it. Populate the Documentation/serial/ sub-directory. Move MSI-HOWTO.txt to Documentation/PCI/. Move ioctl-number.txt to Documentation/ioctl/. Update all relevant 00-INDEX files. Update all relevant Kconfig files and source files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2008-07-20Subject: [PATCH 1/2] serial: Add flush_buffer() operation to uart_opsHaavard Skinnemoen
Serial drivers using DMA (like the atmel_serial driver) tend to get very confused when the xmit buffer is flushed and nobody told them. They also tend to spew a lot of garbage since the DMA engine keeps running after the buffer is flushed and possibly refilled with unrelated data. This patch adds a new flush_buffer operation to the uart_ops struct, along with a call to it from uart_flush_buffer() right after the xmit buffer has been cleared. The driver can implement this in order to syncronize its internal DMA state with the xmit buffer when the buffer is flushed. Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-06-02[SERIAL] Update parity handling documentationPeter Korsgaard
Update documentation to match reality. INPCK controls whether input parity checking is enabled. Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-04-15[SERIAL] Update serial driver documentationRussell King
Improve serial driver documentation: - Remove CVS id. - Update pointer to reference driver documentation. - Add comments about new uart_write_console function. - Add TIOCM_LOOP modem control bit description. - Add commentry about enable_ms method being called multiple times. - Add commentry about startup/shutdown method calling. - Mention that dereferencing port->info after shutdown is invalid. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-10-31[SERIAL] Update serial_core documentationRussell King
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-08-31[SERIAL] Clean up and fix tty transmission start/stopingRussell King
The start_tx and stop_tx methods were passed a flag to indicate whether the start/stop was from the tty start/stop callbacks, and some drivers used this flag to decide whether to ask the UART to immediately stop transmission (where the UART supports such a feature.) There are other cases when we wish this to occur - when CTS is lowered, or if we change from soft to hard flow control and CTS is inactive. In these cases, this flag was false, and we would allow the transmitter to drain before stopping. There is really only one case where we want to let the transmitter drain before disabling, and that's when we run out of characters to send. Hence, re-jig the start_tx and stop_tx methods to eliminate this flag, and introduce new functions for the special "disable and allow transmitter to drain" case. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-29[PATCH] Serial: Adjust serial lockingRussell King
This patch changes the way serial ports are locked when getting modem status. This change is necessary because we will need to atomically read the modem status and take action depending on the CTS status. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!