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Dipankar Sarma
0b175a7e68 [PATCH] Fix the fdtable freeing in the case of vmalloced fdset/arrays
Noted by David Miller:

  "The bug is that free_fd_array() takes a "num" argument, but when
   calling it from __free_fdtable() we're instead passing in the size in
   bytes (ie.  "num * sizeof(struct file *)")."

Yes it is a bug. I think I messed it up while merging newer
changes with an older version where I was using size in bytes
to optimize.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-14 12:38:26 -07:00
Alok Kataria
c7e43c78ae [PATCH] Fix slab BUG_ON() triggered by change in array cache size
With the new changes that we made in the initialization of the slab
allocator, we first setup the cache from which array caches are allocated,
and then the cache, from which kmem_list3's are allocated.

Now if the array cache comes from a cache in which objsize > 32, (in this
instance size-64) then, first size-64 cache will be allocated and then the
size-128 (if this is the cache from which kmem_list3's are going to be
allocated).

So with these new changes, we are not guaranteed that we will be
initializing the malloc_sizes array in a serialized order. Thus there is
a bug in __find_general_cachep, as we are checking whether the first
cache_sizes ptr is NULL.

This is replaced by checking whether the array-cache cache is initialized.
Attached is a patch which does that.  Boots fine on a x86-64, with
DEBUG_SPIN, DEBUG_SLAB, and preempt.

Attached is a patch which does that.  Boots fine on a x86-64, with
DEBUG_SPIN, DEBUG_SLAB, and preempt.Thanks & Regards, Alok

Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <alokk@calsoftinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Shobhit Dayal <shobhitdayal.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-14 12:31:45 -07:00
Ivan Kokshaysky
c7fb0b35ad [PATCH] yenta oops fix
In some cases, especially on modern laptops with a lot of PCI and
cardbus bridges, we're unable to assign correct secondary/subordinate
bus numbers to all cardbus bridges due to BIOS limitations unless
we are using "pci=assign-busses" boot option.
So some cardbus controllers may not have attached subordinate pci_bus
structure, and yenta driver must cope with it - just ignore such cardbus
bridges.

For example, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=113778

Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-14 12:28:15 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
2fd4ef85e0 [PATCH] error path in setup_arg_pages() misses vm_unacct_memory()
Pavel Emelianov and Kirill Korotaev observe that fs and arch users of
security_vm_enough_memory tend to forget to vm_unacct_memory when a
failure occurs further down (typically in setup_arg_pages variants).

These are all users of insert_vm_struct, and that reservation will only
be unaccounted on exit if the vma is marked VM_ACCOUNT: which in some
cases it is (hidden inside VM_STACK_FLAGS) and in some cases it isn't.

So x86_64 32-bit and ppc64 vDSO ELFs have been leaking memory into
Committed_AS each time they're run.  But don't add VM_ACCOUNT to them,
it's inappropriate to reserve against the very unlikely case that gdb
be used to COW a vDSO page - we ought to do something about that in
do_wp_page, but there are yet other inconsistencies to be resolved.

The safe and economical way to fix this is to let insert_vm_struct do
the security_vm_enough_memory check when it finds VM_ACCOUNT is set.

And the MIPS irix_brk has been calling security_vm_enough_memory before
calling do_brk which repeats it, doubly accounting and so also leaking.
Remove that, and all the fs and arch calls to security_vm_enough_memory:
give it a less misleading name later on.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-14 11:18:13 -07:00
Alexander Nyberg
fb085cf1d4 [PATCH] Fix fs/exec.c:788 (de_thread()) BUG_ON
It turns out that the BUG_ON() in fs/exec.c: de_thread() is unreliable
and can trigger due to the test itself being racy.

de_thread() does
 	while (atomic_read(&sig->count) > count) {
	}
	.....
	.....
	BUG_ON(!thread_group_empty(current));

but release_task does
	write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock)
	__exit_signal
		(this is where atomic_dec(&sig->count) is run)
	__exit_sighand
	__unhash_process
		takes write lock on tasklist_lock
		remove itself out of PIDTYPE_TGID list
	write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock)

so there's a clear (although small) window between the
atomic_dec(&sig->count) and the actual PIDTYPE_TGID unhashing of the
thread.

And actually there is no need for all threads to have exited at this
point, so we simply kill the BUG_ON.

Big thanks to Marc Lehmann who provided the test-case.

Fixes Bug 5170 (http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5170)

Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-14 10:26:34 -07:00
John W. Linville
32a3658533 [PATCH] pci: only call pci_restore_bars at boot
Certain (SGI?) ia64 boxes object to having their PCI BARs
restored unless absolutely necessary. This patch restricts calling
pci_restore_bars from pci_set_power_state unless the current state
is PCI_UNKNOWN, the actual (i.e. physical) state of the device is
PCI_D3hot, and the device indicates that it will lose its configuration
when transitioning to PCI_D0.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-14 09:37:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
186051d704 Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2005-09-14 09:35:34 -07:00
Frank Pavlic
e172577da0 [PATCH] s390: ctc driver fixes
Jeff,
sorry if I have flooded your inbox, I had some problems with the
mail server here yesterday, but it seems to be fixed ...
Ok patch 3-4 have no dependencies on patch 2 since only qeth driver is
affected.Thus I have made a new patch 2 for ctc driver.
Thank you .

[patch 2/4] s390: ctc driver fixes

From: Peter Tiedemann <ptiedem@de.ibm.com>
	- race condition fixed
	- minor cleanup

Signed-off-by: Peter Tiedemann <ptiedem@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com>

diffstat:
 ctcmain.c |   41 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-14 08:41:14 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger
46a60f2d71 [PATCH] skge: gmac register access errors in dual port
Merge of four previous patches and the Kconfig fix
 * Remove debug printk's
 * whitespace cleanup and version number change
 * clear interrupts, reset phy, and reset hardware on shutdown
 * ignore 64bit counter overflow interrupts
 * fix a couple of places where second port could clobber state
   of first port.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-14 08:32:07 -04:00
John W. Linville
c535a9dd26 [PATCH] ixgb: correct rx_dropped counting
Do not count frames dropped by the hardware as part of rx_dropped.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-14 08:26:16 -04:00
John W. Linville
ecf7130b08 [PATCH] e100: correct rx_dropped and add rx_missed_errors
Do not count non-error frames dropped by the hardware as
part of rx_dropped. Instead, count those frames dropped as
rx_missed_errors. Also, do not count other error frames as part of
rx_dropped. Finally, do not count oversized frames in rx_dropped
(since they are counted as part of rx_length_errors).

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-14 08:26:16 -04:00
John W. Linville
bd061bf1ff [PATCH] e1000: correct rx_dropped counting
Do not count frames dropped by the hardware as part of rx_dropped.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-14 08:26:16 -04:00
matthieu castet
1141455d5e [PATCH] airo : fix channel number in scan
this patch display the correct channel number with iwlist scan

Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-14 08:24:22 -04:00
Uwe Koziolek
668e4bc722 [PATCH] sata_sis: uninitialized variable
There is an uninitialized variable issue in sata_sis.c
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-14 08:22:44 -04:00
Arnaud Patard
39eb936c7e [PATCH] sata_sis: Fix typo in sata port2 initialisation
This patch fixes a nasty typo I introduced in my previous patch (commit
f2c853bca5). The right offset of the
second port in pure sata mode is 64 and not 0x64.
Thanks to Martin Schuster for pointing this to me

Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <apatard@mandriva.com>
 ---
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-14 08:21:34 -04:00
Keith Owens
3be034b68a [PATCH] Correct xircom_cb use of CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
xircom_cb.c does #if CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER instead of #ifdef,
resulting in drivers/net/tulip/xircom_cb.c:120:5: warning:
"CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER" is not defined.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-14 08:04:02 -04:00
Andrew Morton
6b4d617d15 [PATCH] s2io warning fixes
drivers/net/s2io.c: In function `init_shared_mem':
drivers/net/s2io.c:431: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
drivers/net/s2io.c: In function `free_shared_mem':
drivers/net/s2io.c:662: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-14 08:03:34 -04:00
Stephen Hemminger
9734c3fc89 [PATCH] sk98lin: remove PCI id info for cards for conflicting devices
Fix PCI device id issues with sk98lin driver.
1. DLINK 530-T card has no Vital Product Data (VPD) area so the sk98lin
   driver won't work. (skge does however)
2. Remove commented out Yukon2 stuff
3. Restrict Linksys card to revisions that don't conflict with r8169 version.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-14 08:02:41 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
d8ac10639b Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-09-13 17:07:20 -07:00
David S. Miller
033d974405 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/net-2.6 2005-09-13 16:32:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b24fd48a0b Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2005-09-13 15:19:14 -07:00
Cal Peake
0a305d2e1b [PATCH] Even more fallout from ATI Xpress timer workaround
disable_timer_pin_1 needs IO-APIC, not just local APIC.

Signed-off-by: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 15:07:06 -07:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2b80230a7f [DCCP]: Handle SYNC packets in dccp_rcv_state_process
Eliciting a SYNCACK in response, we were handling SYNC packets
only in the DCCP_OPEN state, in dccp_rcv_established.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-09-13 19:05:08 -03:00
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
811265b8e8 [DCCP]: Check if already in the CLOSING state in dccp_rcv_closereq
It is possible to receive more than one CLOSEREQ packet if the
CLOSE packet sent in response is somehow lost, change the state
to DCCP_CLOSING only on the first CLOSEREQ packet received.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2005-09-13 19:03:15 -03:00
George G. Davis
34f521fd55 [ARM] 2896/1: Add sys_ipc_wrapper to pass 'fifth' argument on stack
Patch from George G. Davis

As pointed out be Matthew Klahn <MKLAHN@motorola.com>, some sys_ipc()
call options require six args, e.g. SEMTIMEDOP. This patch adds an ARM sys_ipc_wrapper to save the sys_ipc() 'fifth' arg on the stack.

Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com>
 arch/arm/kernel/calls.S        |    2 +-
 arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S |    5 +++++
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-09-13 22:55:00 +01:00
David S. Miller
ae01d2798d Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-2.6 2005-09-13 14:03:09 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
adcb5ad1e5 [NETFILTER]: Fix DHCP + MASQUERADE problem
In 2.6.13-rcX the MASQUERADE target was changed not to exclude local
packets for better source address consistency. This breaks DHCP clients
using UDP sockets when the DHCP requests are caught by a MASQUERADE rule
because the MASQUERADE target drops packets when no address is configured
on the outgoing interface. This patch makes it ignore packets with a
source address of 0.

Thanks to Rusty for this suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-13 13:49:15 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
cd0bf2d796 [NETFILTER]: Fix rcu race in ipt_REDIRECT
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-13 13:48:58 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
e7fa1bd93f [NETFILTER]: Simplify netbios helper
Don't parse the packet, the data is already available in the conntrack
structure.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-13 13:48:34 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
5cb30640ce [NETFILTER]: Use correct type for "ports" module parameter
With large port numbers the helper_names buffer can overflow.
Noticed by Samir Bellabes <sbellabes@mandriva.com>

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-13 13:48:00 -07:00
Andi Kleen
f3591fff04 [PATCH] x86_64: Export end_pfn
Fixes

> if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F
> System.map  2. 6.14-rc1; fi
> WARNING: /lib/modules/2.6.14-rc1/kernel/drivers/char/agp/amd64-agp.ko
> needs unknown symbol end_pfn

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 09:59:04 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
da04c03503 [PATCH] Fix spinlock owner debugging
fix up the runqueue lock owner only if we truly did a context-switch
with the runqueue lock held. Impacts ia64, mips, sparc64 and arm.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 09:59:04 -07:00
Chuck Ebbert
33333373c4 [PATCH] i386: Ignore masked FPU exceptions
Masked FPU exceptions should obviously not happen in the first place,
but if they do, ignoring them seems to be the right thing to do.

Although there is no documentation available for Cyrix MII, I did find
erratum F-7 for Winchip C6, "FPU instruction may result in spurious
exception under certain conditions" which seems to indicate that this
can happen.

That would also explain the behaviour Ondrej Zary reported on the MII.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 09:59:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ddbf9ef385 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chrisw/lsm-2.6 2005-09-13 09:48:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5d54e69c68 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/audit-2.6 2005-09-13 09:47:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
63f3d1df1a Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa-current 2005-09-13 09:46:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a8cd2e5045 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog 2005-09-13 09:45:20 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
0160f53e42 [PATCH] ppc64: Make eeh_init function again
My patch "Separate pci bits out of struct device_node" (commit
1635317fac) had the unfortunate
side-effect that it stopped eeh_init() from working correctly.

It needs the pointers set up by find_and_init_phbs(), but it was being
called just before find_and_init_phbs().  That meant that we didn't
enable EEH (pSeries PCI error recovery) on any devices, and that meant
that on POWER5 systems, the hypervisor wouldn't let us enable memory or
I/O space access to any devices, and their drivers got somewhat
confused.

This fixes it by moving the eeh_init call after find_and_init_phbs.
Tested on a POWER5 partition.

Signed-of-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-of-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:26:15 -07:00
Jan Beulich
42ac8ff2ce [PATCH] x86_64: NMI watchdog frequency calculation adjustments
Like previously done for i386, get the x86_64 watchdog tick calculation
into a state where it can also be used on CPUs with frequencies beyond
4GHz.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:33 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
33bf56106d [PATCH] feature removal of io_remap_page_range()
As written in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt, remove the
io_remap_page_range() kernel API.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:33 -07:00
Tobias Klauser
82006d0841 [PATCH] drivers/video: Replace custom macro with isdigit()
Replace the custom CHAR_IS_NUM() macro with isdigit() from <linux/ctype.h>

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Acked-by: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:33 -07:00
Tobias Klauser
6f673d83ca [PATCH] arch/i386: Replace custom macro with isdigit()
Replace the custom is_digit() macro with isdigit() from <linux/ctype.h>

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:33 -07:00
Vivek Goyal
64ccd0cfa1 [PATCH] More documentation, minor cleanup in kdump.txt
Added clarification on the root device format to be used for second kernel,
as well as specifying initrd if drivers are built as modules.

Signed-off-by: Kishore Sampathkumar <kishore.sampathkumar@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:33 -07:00
Pavel Machek
f4f9eb0ea1 [PATCH] Tell people not to use pm_register()
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:33 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
1cc5753f86 [PATCH] Doc: update oops-tracing.txt (Tainted flags)
Update Documentation/oops-tracing.txt:

- add descriptions of 3 more "Tainted" flags;
- fix some typos;

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:32 -07:00
Jan Beulich
438e5c5e2d [PATCH] matroxfb adjustments
Some adjustments to the matroxfb code, for one part preventing the display
to be disabled for longer than necessary, and for the other part to make
information about the frame buffer position available so that a kernel
debugger might obtain that before the initial mode change.

Finally, some return code corrections to fit the generic fb code.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Acked-by: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:32 -07:00
Jan Beulich
2f4516dbd0 [PATCH] fbcon: constify font data
const-ify the font control structures and data, to make somewhat better
guarantees that these are not modified anywhere in the kernel.
Specifically for a kernel debugger to share this information from the
normal kernel code, such a guarantee seems rather desirable.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:32 -07:00
Jan Beulich
e703ecc3bf [PATCH] minor fbcon_scroll adjustment
An adjustment to the SM_DOWN case of fbcon_scroll to match the behavior of
SM_UP.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:32 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
93352f5cf1 [PATCH] v4l: fixup on cx88_dvb for Dvico HDTV5 Gold
- Bug fix for DViCO FusionHDTV5 Gold to avoid noise after frontend init.

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:32 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
9db455064d [PATCH] v4l: experimental Sliced VBI API support
Adds all defines, ioctls and structs needed for the sliced VBI API

VBI = Vertical Blank Interval.

It is related with the way TV signals work.  It sends a line, then, it has a
retrace time to allow the tube to move electrons to the beginning of the next
line.  This was the main reason at the beginning of analog B&W TV.

There is a lot of bandwidth lost on VBI.  So, lots of TV systems use it to
send other information such as Closed Captions and Teletext.  Also,
broadcasters uses this as a channel to exchange information from the content
producer to their subsidiaries at each city.

There's already a raw VBI interface on V4L2 api, used for Closed Captions and
Teletext.  The decoding is doing at userlevel space and it is mostly for
analog TV signals, non encoded.

Encoded signals (MPEG, for example), may need also to transmit other
information (like, for example, display aspect, i.e.  4x3, widescreen...).
Sliced VBI interface is a method to allow the video stream to transmit this
kind of information.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:32 -07:00