The API and code have been through various bits of initial review by
serial driver people but they definitely need to live somewhere for a
while so the unconverted drivers can get knocked into shape, existing
drivers that have been updated can be better tuned and bugs whacked out.
This replaces the tty flip buffers with kmalloc objects in rings. In the
normal situation for an IRQ driven serial port at typical speeds the
behaviour is pretty much the same, two buffers end up allocated and the
kernel cycles between them as before.
When there are delays or at high speed we now behave far better as the
buffer pool can grow a bit rather than lose characters. This also means
that we can operate at higher speeds reliably.
For drivers that receive characters in blocks (DMA based, USB and
especially virtualisation) the layer allows a lot of driver specific
code that works around the tty layer with private secondary queues to be
removed. The IBM folks need this sort of layer, the smart serial port
people do, the virtualisers do (because a virtualised tty typically
operates at infinite speed rather than emulating 9600 baud).
Finally many drivers had invalid and unsafe attempts to avoid buffer
overflows by directly invoking tty methods extracted out of the innards
of work queue structs. These are no longer needed and all go away. That
fixes various random hangs with serial ports on overflow.
The other change in here is to optimise the receive_room path that is
used by some callers. It turns out that only one ldisc uses receive room
except asa constant and it updates it far far less than the value is
read. We thus make it a variable not a function call.
I expect the code to contain bugs due to the size alone but I'll be
watching and squashing them and feeding out new patches as it goes.
Because the buffers now dynamically expand you should only run out of
buffering when the kernel runs out of memory for real. That means a lot of
the horrible hacks high performance drivers used to do just aren't needed any
more.
Description:
tty_insert_flip_char is an old API and continues to work as before, as does
tty_flip_buffer_push() [this is why many drivers dont need modification]. It
does now also return the number of chars inserted
There are also
tty_buffer_request_room(tty, len)
which asks for a buffer block of the length requested and returns the space
found. This improves efficiency with hardware that knows how much to
transfer.
and tty_insert_flip_string_flags(tty, str, flags, len)
to insert a string of characters and flags
For a smart interface the usual code is
len = tty_request_buffer_room(tty, amount_hardware_says);
tty_insert_flip_string(tty, buffer_from_card, len);
More description!
At the moment tty buffers are attached directly to the tty. This is causing a
lot of the problems related to tty layer locking, also problems at high speed
and also with bursty data (such as occurs in virtualised environments)
I'm working on ripping out the flip buffers and replacing them with a pool of
dynamically allocated buffers. This allows both for old style "byte I/O"
devices and also helps virtualisation and smart devices where large blocks of
data suddenely materialise and need storing.
So far so good. Lots of drivers reference tty->flip.*. Several of them also
call directly and unsafely into function pointers it provides. This will all
break. Most drivers can use tty_insert_flip_char which can be kept as an API
but others need more.
At the moment I've added the following interfaces, if people think more will
be needed now is a good time to say
int tty_buffer_request_room(tty, size)
Try and ensure at least size bytes are available, returns actual room (may be
zero). At the moment it just uses the flipbuf space but that will change.
Repeated calls without characters being added are not cumulative. (ie if you
call it with 1, 1, 1, and then 4 you'll have four characters of space. The
other functions will also try and grow buffers in future but this will be a
more efficient way when you know block sizes.
int tty_insert_flip_char(tty, ch, flag)
As before insert a character if there is room. Now returns 1 for success, 0
for failure.
int tty_insert_flip_string(tty, str, len)
Insert a block of non error characters. Returns the number inserted.
int tty_prepare_flip_string(tty, strptr, len)
Adjust the buffer to allow len characters to be added. Returns a buffer
pointer in strptr and the length available. This allows for hardware that
needs to use functions like insl or mencpy_fromio.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds vendor and product IDs to the ftdi_sio driver's device
ID table for two devices from teratronik.de. The device IDs were
submitted by O. Wölfelschneider of Teratronik Elektronische Systeme
GmbH.
The charset of the patch is latin-1, same as the original files.
Please apply, thanks! (I've tried to avoid a clash with Andrew Morton's
patch to add support for Posiflex PP-7700 printer to the same driver.)
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This little patch adds recognition of Posiflex PP-7000 retail printer to
ftdo_sio module. The printer uses FT232BM bridge programmed with custom
VID/PID. The patch posted to lkml and sf.net was for 2.6.11.1 kernel,
here is one reworked for 2.6.12.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]) and remove
duplicates of ARRAY_SIZE. Some trailing whitespaces are also removed.
Patch is compile-tested on i386.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Minimum data length must be UART_STATE + 1, as data[UART_STATE] is being
accessed for the new line_state. Although PL-2303 hardware is not
expected to send data with exactly UART_STATE length, this keeps it on
the safe side.
Signed-off-by: Horst Schirmeier <horst@schirmeier.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
patch below marks various USB tables and variables as const so that they
end up in .rodata section and don't cacheline share with things that get
written to. For the non-array variables it also allows gcc to optimize
more.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
There is a race-condition in usb-serial driver that can be triggered if
a processes does 'port->tty->driver_data = NULL' in serial_close() while
other processes is in kernel-space about to call serial_ioctl() on the
same port.
This happens because a process can open the device while there is
another one closing it.
The patch below fixes that by adding a semaphore to ensure that no
process will open the device while another process is closing it.
Note that we can't use spinlocks here, since serial_open() and
serial_close() can sleep.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Checks if 'port' is NULL before using it in all tty operations, this
can avoid NULL pointer dereferences.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make needlessly global functions static
- every file should #include the headers containing the prototypes for
it's global functions
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This lets drivers, like the usb-serial ones, disable the ability to add
ids from sysfs.
The usb-serial drivers are "odd" in that they are really usb-serial bus
drivers, not usb bus drivers, so the dynamic id logic will have to go
into the usb-serial bus core for those drivers to get that ability.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
remove redundant include
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds two new devices to the ftdi_sio driver's device ID
table. The device IDs were supplied by Stefan Nies of KOBIL Systems for
two of their devices using the FTDI chip.
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
It was causing too many problems, and this is not the proper type of
driver for this device.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds two new Siemens mobiles IDs for the pl2303 driver.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
People are complaining about a .old file in the tree. So rename
drivers/usb/serial/ChangeLog.old to ChangeLog.history.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This driver comes from the gnokii project.
Was further cleaned up by me to match recent usb-serial core changes.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This is a patch to get the ELV FHZ1000 Home Automation control device to
work with Linux. The patch adds a new device ID to the ftdi_sio driver.
It is for kernel version 2.6.13.4.
Signed-off-by: Martin Hagelin <martin.hagelin@home.se>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This is a patch improving the set of vendor/product IDs used in the
"ipaq" USB serial device driver. The patch size is because I sorted the
ids this time, forgot about that last time.
Changes:
- Added vendor/product identifiers for Psion Teklogix devices
- Restored Microsoft's identifier pair 045e/00ce
- Sorted list of vendor/product identifiers
Signed-off-by: David Eriksson <twogood@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Ganesh Varadarajan <ganesh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
These numbers are pointless, as they have not been changed in _years_,
so we should just remove them to stop pretending there is an actual
"version number" for these drivers.
This should also help reduce confusion when people try to ask for
support of a specific driver version, as there has been no way to tell
what they are talking about.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This fixes up a lot of problems in sysfs with some of the usb serial
drivers, they had incorrect driver names. Also saves a tiny ammount
of memory.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
I'm tired of trying to explain why a "device_type" is really a driver.
This better describes exactly what this structure is.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We would like to add a PID for the Pyramid Appliance Display, which works
on USB via FTDI_SIO.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Riewe <thomasr@pyramid.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 1 +
drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.h | 3 +++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
This patch enables direct kernel support for the Artemis
and ATIK astronomical based USB CCD cameras.
Since all communications with this camera are done via an
FTDI 245BM chip, it was only needed to specify the
ProductID and VendorID of all three devices.
In what tests are concerned, data was transfered from and
to the FTDI at the chips Top speed (360KB/s).
Signed-off-by: Rui Santos <rsantos@grupopie.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 3 +++
drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.h | 13 +++++++++++++
2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
Kernel version 2.6.13 introduced a regression in the generic USB
serial converter driver (usbserial.o, drivers/usb/serial/generic.c).
The bug manifests, as far as I can tell, whenever you attempt to write
to the device -- the write will never complete (write() returns 0, or
blocks).
Signed-off-by: Randall Nortman <oss@wonderclown.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
USB: Add device id's for Novatel Wireless CDMA wireless PC card.
The Novatel CDMA card behaves the same as the AirPrime by providing
a USB serial port.
Signed-off-by: David Hollis <dhollis@davehollis.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The card sometimes sends >2000 bytes in one single chunk. Ouch.
Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I'm using a 2 port USB RS232 dongle to connect to a serial-IR cradle for
a bar code reader). Detecting the baudrate of the serial-IR involves
keeping DTR low while changing baudrate.
This works using normal 16550A serial ports as well as the FTDI driver
version 1.4.0 (Linux 2.6.8) but stopped working with the change to
"ensure RTS and DTR are raised when changing baudrate" introduced in
version 1.4.1 (Linux 2.6.9).
The attached patch fixes this, so RTS and DTR is only raised when
changing baudrate iff the previous baudrate was B0.
Signed-off-by: Peter Favrholdt <pfavr@how.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Added support for HUAWEI E600 and Audiovox AirCard
User reports say that these devices work without driver modification.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
ftdi_sio: I messed up the baud_base for custom baud rate support in
2.6.13. The attached one-liner patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch adds the product ID and vendor ID for a Nokia CA-42 USB cable
to the list of devices handled by the pl2303 driver. The patch is
against 2.6.13.
Signed-off-by: Robert Spanton <rds204@zepler.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Three new device IDs for CP2101 USB to UART Bridge
Signed-off-by: Craig Shelley <craig@microtron.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch for the ftdi_sio driver adds a bunch of new devices and fixes
an incorrect PID:
o Fix PID for ELV UO100 (the PID was in fact for ELV UR100).
o Add PID ELV UR100 (see above) and ELV ALC 8500 Expert.
o Add a whole bunch of other PIDs for ELV USB devices, commented out for
now as they may be used by other drivers eventually. (Christian Abt
of ELV.de submitted a full list of devices including an indication of
which set of drivers are used by default in the MS Windows world. We
decided to comment out the devices that use FTDI's D2XX Windows
drivers by default.)
o Add PIDs for eight devices from Xsens Technologies BV (submitted in a
patch against 2.6.12.2 by Patrick Riphagen).
o Add PID for Falcom Samba GPRS modem (submitted by Sebastian Schubert).
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
ftdi_sio: Support one user specified vendor and product ID via a couple
of new module parameters.
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This trivial patch makes pl2303 driver work correctly with pl2303HX chip.
Apparently some bug in HX version of pl2303 makes the chip loose some
transmitted bytes or stop working at all after reception of
USB_REQ_CLEAR_FEATURE mesage. Logs generated by UsbSnoop application reveal
that windows driver does not send this type of messages to the converter.
From: "Dariusz M." <D.Marcinkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The following patch removes unneeded casts for the following (void *) pointers:
- tty_struct->driver_data
- void *private argument of usb_serial_port_softint()
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Reading this driver I noticed some trailing whitespaces and tabs so I
removed them with some 80th column fitting and a few more similar
things.
From: Carlo Perassi <carlo@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Lonnie Mendez <dignome@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlo Perassi <carlo@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
