Revision 810198bc9c109489dfadc57131c5183ce6ad2d7d authored by Rajashekhara, Sudhakar on 12 July 2011, 10:28:53 UTC, committed by Sekhar Nori on 07 September 2011, 08:53:01 UTC
DA850/OMAP-L138 EMAC driver uses random mac address instead of a fixed one because the mac address is not stuffed into EMAC platform data. This patch provides a function which reads the mac address stored in SPI flash (registered as MTD device) and populates the EMAC platform data. The function which reads the mac address is registered as a callback which gets called upon addition of MTD device. NOTE: In case the MAC address stored in SPI flash is erased, follow the instructions at [1] to restore it. [1] http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/GSG:_OMAP-L138_DVEVM_Additional_Procedures#Restoring_MAC_address_on_SPI_Flash Modifications in v2: Guarded registering the mtd_notifier only when MTD is enabled. Earlier this was handled using mtd_has_partitions() call, but this has been removed in Linux v3.0. Modifications in v3: a. Guarded da850_evm_m25p80_notify_add() function and da850evm_spi_notifier structure with CONFIG_MTD macros. b. Renamed da850_evm_register_mtd_user() function to da850_evm_setup_mac_addr() and removed the struct mtd_notifier argument to this function. c. Passed the da850evm_spi_notifier structure to register_mtd_user() function. Modifications in v4: Moved the da850_evm_setup_mac_addr() function within the first CONFIG_MTD ifdef construct. Signed-off-by: Rajashekhara, Sudhakar <sudhakar.raj@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@ti.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
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highuid.txt
Notes on the change from 16-bit UIDs to 32-bit UIDs:
- kernel code MUST take into account __kernel_uid_t and __kernel_uid32_t
when communicating between user and kernel space in an ioctl or data
structure.
- kernel code should use uid_t and gid_t in kernel-private structures and
code.
What's left to be done for 32-bit UIDs on all Linux architectures:
- Disk quotas have an interesting limitation that is not related to the
maximum UID/GID. They are limited by the maximum file size on the
underlying filesystem, because quota records are written at offsets
corresponding to the UID in question.
Further investigation is needed to see if the quota system can cope
properly with huge UIDs. If it can deal with 64-bit file offsets on all
architectures, this should not be a problem.
- Decide whether or not to keep backwards compatibility with the system
accounting file, or if we should break it as the comments suggest
(currently, the old 16-bit UID and GID are still written to disk, and
part of the former pad space is used to store separate 32-bit UID and
GID)
- Need to validate that OS emulation calls the 16-bit UID
compatibility syscalls, if the OS being emulated used 16-bit UIDs, or
uses the 32-bit UID system calls properly otherwise.
This affects at least:
iBCS on Intel
sparc32 emulation on sparc64
(need to support whatever new 32-bit UID system calls are added to
sparc32)
- Validate that all filesystems behave properly.
At present, 32-bit UIDs _should_ work for:
ext2
ufs
isofs
nfs
coda
udf
Ioctl() fixups have been made for:
ncpfs
smbfs
Filesystems with simple fixups to prevent 16-bit UID wraparound:
minix
sysv
qnx4
Other filesystems have not been checked yet.
- The ncpfs and smpfs filesystems cannot presently use 32-bit UIDs in
all ioctl()s. Some new ioctl()s have been added with 32-bit UIDs, but
more are needed. (as well as new user<->kernel data structures)
- The ELF core dump format only supports 16-bit UIDs on arm, i386, m68k,
sh, and sparc32. Fixing this is probably not that important, but would
require adding a new ELF section.
- The ioctl()s used to control the in-kernel NFS server only support
16-bit UIDs on arm, i386, m68k, sh, and sparc32.
- make sure that the UID mapping feature of AX25 networking works properly
(it should be safe because it's always used a 32-bit integer to
communicate between user and kernel)
Chris Wing
wingc@umich.edu
last updated: January 11, 2000
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