Well, first of all, I don't want to change so many files either.

What I do:
Adding a new parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in the
.read/.write methods for the sysfs binary attributes.

In fact, only the four lines change in fs/sysfs/bin.c and
include/linux/sysfs.h do the real work.
But I have to update all the files that use binary attributes
to make them compatible with the new .read and .write methods.
I'm not sure if I missed any. :(

Why I do this:
For a sysfs attribute, we can get a pointer pointing to the
struct attribute in the .show/.store method,
while we can't do this for the binary attributes.
I don't know why this is different, but this does make it not
so handy to use the binary attributes as the regular ones.
So I think this patch is reasonable. :)

Who benefits from it:
The patch that exposes ACPI tables in sysfs
requires such an improvement.
All the table binary attributes share the same .read method.
Parameter "struct bin_attribute *" is used to get
the table signature and instance number which are used to
distinguish different ACPI table binary attributes.

Without this parameter, we need to offer different .read methods
for different ACPI table binary attributes.
This is impossible as there are various ACPI tables on different
platforms, and we don't know what they are until they are loaded.
Signed-off-by: NZhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

sysfs is now completely out of driver/module lifetime game.  After
deletion, a sysfs node doesn't access anything outside sysfs proper,
so there's no reason to hold onto the attribute owners.  Note that
often the wrong modules were accounted for as owners leading to
accessing removed modules.

This patch kills now unnecessary attribute->owner.  Note that with
this change, userland holding a sysfs node does not prevent the
backing module from being unloaded.

For more info regarding lifetime rule cleanup, please read the
following message.

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/510293

(tweaked by Greg to not delete the field just yet, to make it easier to
merge things properly.)
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Description:

    1. Implement PCI-Express error recovery function and AER
       capability, especially thanks to Yanmin Zhang's openhanded help
       about AER

    2. Implement the selection of ARCMSR_MAX_XFER_SECTORS_B=4096 if
       firmware version is latter than 1.42

    3. Add arcmsr_done4_abort_postqueue in arcmsr_iop_reset function
       to improve the stability as hot-unplug/plug

    4. Modify the ISR, arcmsr_interrupt routine, to prevent the
       inconsistency with sg_mod driver if application directly calls
       the arcmsr driver w/o passing through scsi midlayer
Signed-off-by: NNick Cheng <nick.cheng@areca.com.tw>
[jejb: unused variable removal]
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

- remove the unnecessary map_single path.

- convert to use the new accessors for the sg lists and the
parameters.

Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> did the for_each_sg cleanup.
Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: NNick Cheng <nick.cheng@areca.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

I noticed that many source files include <linux/pci.h> while they do
not appear to need it. Here is an attempt to clean it all up.

In order to find all possibly affected files, I searched for all
files including <linux/pci.h> but without any other occurence of "pci"
or "PCI". I removed the include statement from all of these, then I
compiled an allmodconfig kernel on both i386 and x86_64 and fixed the
false positives manually.

My tests covered 66% of the affected files, so there could be false
positives remaining. Untested files are:

arch/alpha/kernel/err_common.c
arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev6.c
arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev7.c
arch/ia64/sn/kernel/huberror.c
arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpnet.c
arch/m68knommu/kernel/dma.c
arch/mips/lib/iomap.c
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c
arch/ppc/8260_io/enet.c
arch/ppc/8260_io/fcc_enet.c
arch/ppc/8xx_io/enet.c
arch/ppc/syslib/ppc4xx_sgdma.c
arch/sh64/mach-cayman/iomap.c
arch/xtensa/kernel/xtensa_ksyms.c
arch/xtensa/platform-iss/setup.c
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
drivers/media/video/saa711x.c
drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_cpustate.c
drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_nexus.c
drivers/net/au1000_eth.c
drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_main.c
drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_mii.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fcc.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fec.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-scc.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-fec.c
drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_core.c
drivers/net/lasi_82596.c
drivers/parisc/hppb.c
drivers/sbus/sbus.c
drivers/video/g364fb.c
drivers/video/platinumfb.c
drivers/video/stifb.c
drivers/video/valkyriefb.c
include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/dma.h
sound/oss/au1550_ac97.c

I would welcome test reports for these files. I am fine with removing
the untested files from the patch if the general opinion is that these
changes aren't safe. The tested part would still be nice to have.

Note that this patch depends on another header fixup patch I submitted
to LKML yesterday:
  [PATCH] scatterlist.h needs types.h
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/01/141Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The obsolete SA_xxx interrupt flags have been used despite the scheduled
removal.  Fixup the remaining users.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.

The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around.  On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).

Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable.  On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.

Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions.  Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller.  A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.

I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386.  I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.

This will affect all archs.  Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:

	struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);

And put the old one back at the end:

	set_irq_regs(old_regs);

Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().

In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:

	-	update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
	-	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
	+	update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
	+	profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);

I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().

Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:

 (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely.  The regs pointer is no longer stored in
     the input_dev struct.

 (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking.  It does
     something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
     pointer or not.

 (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
     irq_handler_t.
Signed-Off-By: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)

The sysfs files in arcmsr are non-standard in that they aren't simple
filename value pairs, the values actually contain preceeding text which
would have to be parsed.  The idea of sysfs files is that the file name
is the description and the contents is a simple value.

Fix up arcmsr to conform to this standard.
Acked-By: NErich Chen <erich@areca.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

Remove sysfs_remove_bin_file() return-value checking from the areca driver.

There's nothing a driver can do if sysfs file removal fails, so we'll soon be
changing sysfs_remove_bin_file() to internally print a diagnostic and to
return void.

Cc: Erich Chen <erich@areca.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>

arcmsr is a driver for the Areca Raid controller, a host based RAID
subsystem that speaks SCSI at the firmware level.

This patch is quite a clean up over the initial submission with
contributions from:

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NErich Chen <erich@areca.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>