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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-24 11:54:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-24 11:54:29 -0700
commit28f3d717618156c0dcd2f497d791b578a7931d87 (patch)
tree37b11581b51929b5473541e53bd242b3e1a9f666 /Documentation
parent654443e20dfc0617231f28a07c96a979ee1a0239 (diff)
parent1ca7ee30630e1022dbcf1b51be20580815ffab73 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Pull more networking updates from David Miller: "Ok, everything from here on out will be bug fixes." 1) One final sync of wireless and bluetooth stuff from John Linville. These changes have all been in his tree for more than a week, and therefore have had the necessary -next exposure. John was just away on a trip and didn't have a change to send the pull request until a day or two ago. 2) Put back some defines in user exposed header file areas that were removed during the tokenring purge. From Stephen Hemminger and Paul Gortmaker. 3) A bug fix for UDP hash table allocation got lost in the pile due to one of those "you got it.. no I've got it.." situations. :-) From Tim Bird. 4) SKB coalescing in TCP needs to have stricter checks, otherwise we'll try to coalesce overlapping frags and crash. Fix from Eric Dumazet. 5) RCU routing table lookups can race with free_fib_info(), causing crashes when we deref the device pointers in the route. Fix by releasing the net device in the RCU callback. From Yanmin Zhang. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (293 commits) tcp: take care of overlaps in tcp_try_coalesce() ipv4: fix the rcu race between free_fib_info and ip_route_output_slow mm: add a low limit to alloc_large_system_hash ipx: restore token ring define to include/linux/ipx.h if: restore token ring ARP type to header xen: do not disable netfront in dom0 phy/micrel: Fix ID of KSZ9021 mISDN: Add X-Tensions USB ISDN TA XC-525 gianfar:don't add FCB length to hard_header_len Bluetooth: Report proper error number in disconnection Bluetooth: Create flags for bt_sk() Bluetooth: report the right security level in getsockopt Bluetooth: Lock the L2CAP channel when sending Bluetooth: Restore locking semantics when looking up L2CAP channels Bluetooth: Fix a redundant and problematic incoming MTU check Bluetooth: Add support for Foxconn/Hon Hai AR5BBU22 0489:E03C Bluetooth: Fix EIR data generation for mgmt_device_found Bluetooth: Fix Inquiry with RSSI event mask Bluetooth: improve readability of l2cap_seq_list code Bluetooth: Fix skb length calculation ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/nfc/nfc-hci.txt45
2 files changed, 47 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index c59f6e59fc1..50d82ae09e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -541,6 +541,18 @@ Who: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
----------------------------
+What: Removing the pn544 raw driver.
+When: 3.6
+Why: With the introduction of the NFC HCI and SHDL kernel layers, pn544.c
+ is being replaced by pn544_hci.c which is accessible through the netlink
+ and socket NFC APIs. Moreover, pn544.c is outdated and does not seem to
+ work properly with the latest Android stacks.
+ Having 2 drivers for the same hardware is confusing and as such we
+ should only keep the one following the kernel NFC APIs.
+Who: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
+
+----------------------------
+
What: setitimer accepts user NULL pointer (value)
When: 3.6
Why: setitimer is not returning -EFAULT if user pointer is NULL. This
diff --git a/Documentation/nfc/nfc-hci.txt b/Documentation/nfc/nfc-hci.txt
index 216b7254fcc..320f9336c78 100644
--- a/Documentation/nfc/nfc-hci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/nfc/nfc-hci.txt
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ response to arrive.
HCI events can also be received from the host controller. They will be handled
and a translation will be forwarded to NFC Core as needed.
HCI uses 2 execution contexts:
-- one if for executing commands : nfc_hci_msg_tx_work(). Only one command
+- one for executing commands : nfc_hci_msg_tx_work(). Only one command
can be executing at any given moment.
-- one if for dispatching received events and responses : nfc_hci_msg_rx_work()
+- one for dispatching received events and commands : nfc_hci_msg_rx_work().
HCI Session initialization:
---------------------------
@@ -52,18 +52,42 @@ entry points:
struct nfc_hci_ops {
int (*open)(struct nfc_hci_dev *hdev);
void (*close)(struct nfc_hci_dev *hdev);
+ int (*hci_ready) (struct nfc_hci_dev *hdev);
int (*xmit)(struct nfc_hci_dev *hdev, struct sk_buff *skb);
int (*start_poll)(struct nfc_hci_dev *hdev, u32 protocols);
int (*target_from_gate)(struct nfc_hci_dev *hdev, u8 gate,
struct nfc_target *target);
+ int (*complete_target_discovered) (struct nfc_hci_dev *hdev, u8 gate,
+ struct nfc_target *target);
+ int (*data_exchange) (struct nfc_hci_dev *hdev,
+ struct nfc_target *target,
+ struct sk_buff *skb, struct sk_buff **res_skb);
+ int (*check_presence)(struct nfc_hci_dev *hdev,
+ struct nfc_target *target);
};
-open() and close() shall turn the hardware on and off. xmit() shall simply
-write a frame to the chip. start_poll() is an optional entrypoint that shall
-set the hardware in polling mode. This must be implemented only if the hardware
-uses proprietary gates or a mechanism slightly different from the HCI standard.
-target_from_gate() is another optional entrypoint to return the protocols
+- open() and close() shall turn the hardware on and off.
+- hci_ready() is an optional entry point that is called right after the hci
+session has been set up. The driver can use it to do additional initialization
+that must be performed using HCI commands.
+- xmit() shall simply write a frame to the chip.
+- start_poll() is an optional entrypoint that shall set the hardware in polling
+mode. This must be implemented only if the hardware uses proprietary gates or a
+mechanism slightly different from the HCI standard.
+- target_from_gate() is an optional entrypoint to return the nfc protocols
corresponding to a proprietary gate.
+- complete_target_discovered() is an optional entry point to let the driver
+perform additional proprietary processing necessary to auto activate the
+discovered target.
+- data_exchange() must be implemented by the driver if proprietary HCI commands
+are required to send data to the tag. Some tag types will require custom
+commands, others can be written to using the standard HCI commands. The driver
+can check the tag type and either do proprietary processing, or return 1 to ask
+for standard processing.
+- check_presence() is an optional entry point that will be called regularly
+by the core to check that an activated tag is still in the field. If this is
+not implemented, the core will not be able to push tag_lost events to the user
+space
On the rx path, the driver is responsible to push incoming HCP frames to HCI
using nfc_hci_recv_frame(). HCI will take care of re-aggregation and handling
@@ -99,7 +123,8 @@ fast, cannot sleep. stores incoming frames into an shdlc rx queue
handles shdlc rx & tx queues. Dispatches HCI cmd responses.
- HCI Tx Cmd worker (MSGTXWQ)
-Serialize execution of HCI commands. Complete execution in case of resp timeout.
+Serializes execution of HCI commands. Completes execution in case of response
+timeout.
- HCI Rx worker (MSGRXWQ)
Dispatches incoming HCI commands or events.
@@ -133,11 +158,11 @@ able to complete the command with a timeout error if no response arrive.
SMW context gets scheduled and invokes nfc_shdlc_sm_work(). This function
handles shdlc framing in and out. It uses the driver xmit to send frames and
receives incoming frames in an skb queue filled from the driver IRQ handler.
-SHDLC I(nformation) frames payload are HCP fragments. They are agregated to
+SHDLC I(nformation) frames payload are HCP fragments. They are aggregated to
form complete HCI frames, which can be a response, command, or event.
HCI Responses are dispatched immediately from this context to unblock
-waiting command execution. Reponse processing involves invoking the completion
+waiting command execution. Response processing involves invoking the completion
callback that was provided by nfc_hci_msg_tx_work() when it sent the command.
The completion callback will then wake the syscall context.