This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sparc: Delete prom_*getchar().
to the 2.6.36-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
sparc-delete-prom_-getchar.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.36 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 771babb4c614ecc81ee901527fbbfe61d45d3570 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:53:05 -0800
Subject: sparc: Delete prom_*getchar().
From: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit 12c7a35ee6a1c605e740733f2cbd5b5079f09f0f ]
Completely unused.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/sparc/include/asm/oplib_32.h | 5 ----
arch/sparc/include/asm/oplib_64.h | 5 ----
arch/sparc/prom/console_32.c | 41 --------------------------------------
arch/sparc/prom/console_64.c | 32 -----------------------------
4 files changed, 83 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/oplib_32.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/oplib_32.h
@@ -102,11 +102,6 @@ extern int prom_getrev(void);
/* Get the prom firmware revision. */
extern int prom_getprev(void);
-/* Character operations to/from the console.... */
-
-/* Blocking get character from console. */
-extern void prom_getchar(char *buf);
-
/* Blocking put character to console. */
extern void prom_putchar(const char *buf);
--- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/oplib_64.h
+++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/oplib_64.h
@@ -94,11 +94,6 @@ extern void prom_halt_power_off(void) __
*/
extern unsigned char prom_get_idprom(char *idp_buffer, int idpbuf_size);
-/* Character operations to/from the console.... */
-
-/* Blocking get character from console. */
-extern void prom_getchar(char *buf);
-
/* Blocking put character to console. */
extern void prom_putchar(const char *buf);
--- a/arch/sparc/prom/console_32.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/prom/console_32.c
@@ -16,37 +16,6 @@
extern void restore_current(void);
-/* Non blocking get character from console input device, returns -1
- * if no input was taken. This can be used for polling.
- */
-static int prom_nbgetchar(char *buf)
-{
- unsigned long flags;
- int i = -1;
-
- spin_lock_irqsave(&prom_lock, flags);
- switch(prom_vers) {
- case PROM_V0:
- i = (*(romvec->pv_nbgetchar))();
- if (i != -1) {
- *buf = i;
- i = 0;
- }
- break;
- case PROM_V2:
- case PROM_V3:
- if
((*(romvec->pv_v2devops).v2_dev_read)(*romvec->pv_v2bootargs.fd_stdin,
- buf, 0x1) == 1)
- i = 0;
- break;
- default:
- break;
- };
- restore_current();
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&prom_lock, flags);
- return i; /* Ugh, we could spin forever on unsupported proms ;( */
-}
-
/* Non blocking put character to console device, returns -1 if
* unsuccessful.
*/
@@ -74,16 +43,6 @@ static int prom_nbputchar(const char *bu
return i; /* Ugh, we could spin forever on unsupported proms ;( */
}
-/* Blocking version of get character routine above. */
-void prom_getchar(char *buf)
-{
- while (1) {
- int err = prom_nbgetchar(buf);
- if (!err)
- break;
- }
-}
-
/* Blocking version of put character routine above. */
void prom_putchar(const char *buf)
{
--- a/arch/sparc/prom/console_64.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/prom/console_64.c
@@ -15,28 +15,6 @@
extern int prom_stdin, prom_stdout;
-/* Non blocking get character from console input device, returns -1
- * if no input was taken. This can be used for polling.
- */
-static int prom_nbgetchar(char *buf)
-{
- unsigned long args[7];
-
- args[0] = (unsigned long) "read";
- args[1] = 3;
- args[2] = 1;
- args[3] = (unsigned int) prom_stdin;
- args[4] = (unsigned long) buf;
- args[5] = 1;
- args[6] = (unsigned long) -1;
-
- p1275_cmd_direct(args);
-
- if (args[6] == 1)
- return 0;
- return -1;
-}
-
/* Non blocking put character to console device, returns -1 if
* unsuccessful.
*/
@@ -60,16 +38,6 @@ static int prom_nbputchar(const char *bu
return -1;
}
-/* Blocking version of get character routine above. */
-void prom_getchar(char *buf)
-{
- while (1) {
- int err = prom_nbgetchar(buf);
- if (!err)
- break;
- }
-}
-
/* Blocking version of put character routine above. */
void prom_putchar(const char *buf)
{
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.36/driver-net-benet-fix-be_cmd_multicast_set-memcpy-bug.patch
queue-2.6.36/sparc64-delete-prom_puts-unused.patch
queue-2.6.36/sparc-remove-prom_pathtoinode.patch
queue-2.6.36/bridge-fix-ipv6-queries-for-bridge-multicast-snooping.patch
queue-2.6.36/tcp-protect-sysctl_tcp_cookie_size-reads.patch
queue-2.6.36/tcp-don-t-change-unlocked-socket-state-in-tcp_v4_err.patch
queue-2.6.36/net-dst-dst_dev_event-called-after-other-notifiers.patch
queue-2.6.36/r8169-fix-sleeping-while-holding-spinlock.patch
queue-2.6.36/l2tp-fix-modalias-of-l2tp_ip.patch
queue-2.6.36/sparc64-delete-prom_setcallback.patch
queue-2.6.36/pppoe.c-fix-kernel-panic-caused-by-__pppoe_xmit.patch
queue-2.6.36/bonding-fix-slave-selection-bug.patch
queue-2.6.36/sparc-do-not-export-prom_nb-get-put-char.patch
queue-2.6.36/econet-do-the-correct-cleanup-after-an-unprivileged-siocsifaddr.patch
queue-2.6.36/sparc-write-to-prom-console-using-indirect-buffer.patch
queue-2.6.36/econet-fix-crash-in-aun_incoming.patch
queue-2.6.36/sparc-delete-prom_-getchar.patch
queue-2.6.36/net-fix-skb_defer_rx_timestamp.patch
queue-2.6.36/net-fix-header-size-check-for-gso-case-in-recvmsg-af_packet.patch
queue-2.6.36/net-ax25-fix-information-leak-to-userland.patch
queue-2.6.36/sparc-kill-prom-devops_-32-64-.c.patch
queue-2.6.36/filter-fix-sk_filter-rcu-handling.patch
queue-2.6.36/cls_cgroup-fix-crash-on-module-unload.patch
queue-2.6.36/sparc-pass-buffer-pointer-all-the-way-down-to-prom_-get-put-char.patch
queue-2.6.36/af_unix-limit-unix_tot_inflight.patch
queue-2.6.36/tcp-increase-tcp_maxseg-socket-option-minimum.patch
queue-2.6.36/ifb-goto-resched-directly-if-error-happens-and-dp-tq-isn-t-empty.patch
queue-2.6.36/tcp-make-tcp_maxseg-minimum-more-correct.patch
queue-2.6.36/x25-decrement-netdev-reference-counts-on-unload.patch
queue-2.6.36/llc-fix-a-device-refcount-imbalance.patch
queue-2.6.36/tcp-bug-fix-in-initialization-of-receive-window.patch
queue-2.6.36/tehuti-firmware-filename-is-tehuti-bdx.bin.patch
queue-2.6.36/af_unix-limit-recursion-level.patch
queue-2.6.36/net-packet-fix-information-leak-to-userland.patch
queue-2.6.36/tcp-avoid-a-possible-divide-by-zero.patch
queue-2.6.36/sparc64-unexport-prom_service_exists.patch
queue-2.6.36/sparc-leon-removed-constant-timer-initialization-as-if-hz-100-now-it-reflects-the-value-of-hz.patch
queue-2.6.36/8139cp-fix-checksum-broken.patch
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