• Linux_2_6_37-DriversArch

1. Architecture-specific changes

1.1. ARM

• ftrace: enable dynamic ftrace (commit)

• U8500 PRCMU driver (commit)

• hw-breakpoint: add ARM backend for the hw-breakpoint framework (commit)

• hw-breakpoint: add new ptrace requests for hw-breakpoint interaction (commit)

• ux500: add CPU hotplug support (commit),

• AT91: Add flexibity board support (commit)

• U5500 mailbox communication (commit), (commit), (commit), (commit)

• Add board support for Telechips TCC8000-SDK board (commit), (commit), (commit), (commit), (commit)

• Allow SMP kernels to boot on UP systems (commit)

• Implement CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM by disabling access to RAM via /dev/mem (commit)

• imx: Add EPIT support (commit), add generic esdhc device (commit), add support for Vista Silicon Visstrim_m10 board (commit)

• davinci

  • Initial support for MityDSP-L138/MityARM-1808 (commit)

  • Initial support for Omapl138-Hawkboard (commit)

  • Introduce support for AM1x ARM9 microprocessors (commit)

• Introduce plat-tcc (commit), (commit)

• Kirkwood: add LaCie d2 Network v2 support (commit), support for Seagate DockStar (commit)

• OMAP3LOGIC: Adding LogicPD OMAP3 board support (commit)

• pxa168: added support for Teton BGA platform (commit)

• pxa: append tavorevb3 support (commit)

• S5PV210: Add Torbreck board support (commit)

• S5PV310: Add SMDKC210 board support file (commit)

• SECCOMP support (commit)

• tegra: Add cpufreq support (commit), add APB DMA support (commit), add PCI Express support (commit)

• MN10300: And Panasonic AM34 subarch and implement SMP (commit), ASB2364: Add support for SMSC911X and SMC911X (commit)

• msm: MSM8X60 RUMI3 board support (commit), MSM8X60 simulator board support (commit),

• Cpufreq for freescale mx51 (commit)

• mx51: add support for genesi efikamx nettop (commit), add cpuimx51sd module and its baseboard (commit)

1.2. POWERPC

• 85xx: add cache-sram support (commit)

• fsl-booke: Add p3041 DS board support (commit), add p5020 DS board support (commit), add support for FSL 64-bit e5500 core (commit)

• mpc83xx: Support for MPC8308 P1M board (commit)

• Optimise 64bit csum_partial_copy_generic and add csum_and_copy_from_user (commit)

• Optimise 64bit csum_partial (commit)

• pseries: Partition migration in the kernel (commit)

1.3. X86

• Remove CONFIG_4KSTACKS (x86-32) (commit)

• Always use irq stacks (x86-32) (commit)

• bios: By default, reserve the low 64K for all BIOSes (commit)

• intel_idle: add initial Sandy Bridge support (commit)

• IBM Real-Time "SMI Free" mode driver (commit)

• uv: Enable Westmere support on SGI UV (commit)

• earlyprintk: Add earlyprintk for Intel Moorestown platform (commit)

1.4. SH

• Add kprobe-based event tracer. (commit), (commit)

• oprofile: Use perf-events oprofile backend (commit)

• Add sh7757lcr board support (commit)

• SH-2007 board support. (commit)

• mach-systemh: Kill off dead board. (commit)

1.5. S390

• lockless get_user_pages_fast() (commit)

• topology: export cpu topology via proc/sysinfo (commit)

• cio: notify drivers of channel path events (commit)

• Add z11 cpu topology support (commit)

1.6. Blackfin

• ad7160eval: new board port (commit)

• tll6527m: new board port (commit)

1.7. IA64

• Add CONFIG_STACKTRACE_SUPPORT (commit)

1.8. XEN

• Add privcmd driver (commit)

• Add /proc/xen/xsd_{kva,port} to xenfs (commit)

• xen-pcifront: Xen PCI frontend driver (commit)

• xenbus: Xen paravirtualised PCI hotplug support (commit)

• Convert p2m to a 3 level tree (commit)

• Add support for the Xen PCI subsystem (commit)

1.9. MIPS

• Add device tree support to MIPS (commit)

• Add support for hardware performance events (commit), (commit)

• Add support for Titan (TNETV10xx) SoC variant (commit)

• IRQ: Add stackoverflow detection (commit)

1.10. TILE

• pci root complex: support for tile architecture (commit)

1.11. MICROBLAZE

• Add seccomp support (commit)

1.12. M68K

• Add basic mmu-less m548x support (commit)

2. Drivers

2.1. STAGING AREA

• Add ath6kl driver for AR6003 chip (commit)

• Add initial release of brcm80211 - Broadcom 802.11n wireless LAN driver. (commit), (commit)

• r8712u: Add new driver for RealTek RTL8712U (RTL8192SU) Wireless devices (commit)

• Add SBE 2T3E3 WAN driver (commit)

• Add speakup driver (commit)

• Add support for Flarion OFDM usb and pcmcia devices. (commit)

• Add USB ENE card reader driver (commit)

• Add West Bridge Astoria Driver (commit)

• Add Beeceem USB Wimax driver (commit)

• Add sst: Intel SST audio driver (commit)

• iio: ad7476 new SPI ADC driver (commit), enable driver support for ad799x AD converters (commit), Add ak8975 magnetometer sensor (commit), adding driver for ISL29018 ALS (commit),

• zram: Update zram documentation (commit)

• Remove the Atheros otus vendor driver (commit)

• dream: remove dream driver and arch from tree (commit)

2.2. VIDEO

• i915

  • Add support for GPU soft reset on Ironlake (commit)

  • Enable DisplayPort audio (commit)

  • Enable HDMI audio for monitor with audio support (commit)

  • Enable SandyBridge blitter ring, enables support for user execbuffers (commit)

• Nouveau

  • Implement KDB debug hooks for nouveau KMS. (commit)

  • Add support for I2C hardware monitoring devices (commit)

  • Add temperature support (vbios parsing, readings, hwmon) (commit)

• Radeon

  • Add drm blit support for evergreen. This allows the hw to move bos using the 3D engine and allows full use of vram beyond the pci aperture size (commit)

  • Implement KDB debug hooks for radeon KMS. (commit)

  • Enable writeback (commit)

• intel-gtt: introduce intel_gtt_driver (commit)

• Add Intel GMA500(Poulsbo) Stub Driver (not a real driver) (commit)

• VIAFB: Add initial VX900 support (commit), add interface for output device configuration (commit)

2.3. STORAGE

• libata

  • Support for > 512 byte sectors (e.g. 4K Native) (commit)

  • Add ATA transport class (commit)

  • Implement LPM support for port multipliers (commit)

• ata: Intel IDE-R support (commit)

• ata_piix: implement LPM support (commit)

2.4. USB

• Add Intel Langwell USB OTG Transceiver Driver (commit)

• Add UAS driver (commit)

• Add USB EHCI support for MPC5121 SoC (commit)

• musb: add musb support for AM35x (commit), introduce DA8xx/OMAP-L1x glue layer (commit)

• Add driver for Meywa-Denki & Kayac YUREX (commit)

• sam-ba: add driver for Atmel SAM Boot Assistant (SAM-BA) (commit)

• Add EHCI and OHCH glue for OCTEON II SOCs. (commit)

2.5. ALSA

• hda: Add input jack layer support to Realtek codec (commit),preliminary support for new Conexant audio codecs (commit)

• ice1712: Add support for Edirol DA-2496 (commit)

• Introduce the snd-aloop module for the PCM loopback (commit)

• ISA: New Aztech Sound Galaxy driver (commit), remove snd-sgalaxy (commit)

• snd-usb-caiaq: Add support for Traktor Kontrol S4 (commit)

• usb-audio: add BOSS ME-25 support (commit), add Novation Launchpad support (commit), add Roland A-PRO support (commit)

• usb: USB3 SuperSpeed sound support (commit)

• OSS: Remove sh_dac_audio (commit)

• OSS: Remove sh_dac_audio (commit)

• ASoC

  • Add 88pm860x codec driver (commit)

  • Add ep93xx AC97 audio driver (commit)

  • Add HP iPAQ RX1950 support (commit)

  • Add initial WM8962 CODEC driver (commit)

  • Add saarb machine driver for 88pm860x (commit)

  • Add support for the Freescale P1022 DS reference board (commit)

  • Add support for tlv320aic3007 to tlv320aic3x codec. (commit)

  • Add tavorevb3 machine driver for 88pm860x (commit)

  • ep93xx: add Simplemachines Sim.One AC97 audio support (commit)

  • fsi-codec: Add FSI - HDMI support (commit), simultaneous playback/recorde support (commit)

  • multi-component - Add Aquila sound driver (commit), add Goni sound driver (commit), ASoC Multi-Component Support (commit)

  • Restore MAX98088 CODEC driver (commit)

  • SAMSUNG: Add Machine driver for S/PDIF PCM audio (commit), add S/PDIF CPU driver (commit)

  • TI WL1273 FM Radio Codec. (commit)

  • WM8804: Initial driver (commit)

  • WM8985: Initial driver (commit)

  • Add board support for Pcontrol_G20 (commit)

2.6. V4L/DVB

• af9013: add support for MaxLinear MxL5007T tuner (commit)

• af9015: add support for TerraTec Cinergy T Stick Dual RC (commit)

• gspca_konica: New gspca subdriver for konica chipset using cams (commit)

• gspca_xirlink_cit: New gspca subdriver replacing v4l1 usbvideo/ibmcam.c (commit), (commit), (commit)

• IR/streamzap: functional in-kernel decoding (commit)

• NXP TDA18218 silicon tuner driver (commit)

• saa5246a/saa5249: Remove obsolete teletext drivers (commit)

• Support for Sharp IX2505V (marked B0017) DVB-S silicon tuner (commit)

• Support or LME2510(C) DM04/QQBOX USB DVB-S BOXES (commit)

2.7. NETWORK

• New driver: carl9170 for Atheros AR9170 802.11n devices (commit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

• Add Gigabit Ethernet driver of Topcliff PCH (commit)

• ibmveth: Add scatter-gather support (commit), enable IPv6 checksum offload (commit)

• enic: Add support for multiple hardware receive queues (commit)

• tg3: Add EEE support (commit)

• ath5k: Allow ath5k to support virtual STA and AP interfaces. (commit)

• tile: on-chip network drivers for the tile architecture (commit)

• caif-u5500: CAIF shared memory transport protocol driver (commit), (commit), (commit)

• ath9k_htc: Add support for bluetooth coexistence. (commit)

• be2net: add multiple RX queue support (commit)

• bna: Brocade 10Gb Ethernet device driver (commit)

• bnx2: Add PCI Advanced Error Reporting support. (commit), add 57712 support (commit)

• jme: Adding mii-tool support (commit)

• iwlagn: add temperature offset calib for 6000g2 (commit)

• iwlwifi: add bt full concurrency support (commit), enable experimental ucode support (commit)

• cx82310_eth: Conexant CX82310-based ADSL router USB ethernet driver (commit)

• igb: Add support for DH89xxCC (commit)

• qeth: NAPI support for l2 and l3 discipline (commit)

• qlcnic: support vlan rx accleration (commit), vlan gro support (commit), vlan lro support (commit), add eswitch statistics support (commit)

• rapidio: add support for IDT CPS Gen2 switches (commit)

• e1000: use GRO for receive (commit)

• r8169: add GRO support (commit)

• skge: add GRO support (commit)

• sky2: enable GRO by default (commit)

• xilinx_emaclite: netpoll support (commit)

• sundance: Add initial ethtool stats support (commit)

• wl1271: sdio: add suspend/resume support (commit)

• macvtap: Implement multiqueue for macvtap driver (commit)

• cnic: Add support for 57712 device (commit)

• can: Topcliff: Add PCH_CAN driver. (commit), tscan1: add driver for TS-CAN1 boards (commit)

• davinci_emac: separate out davinci mdio (commit)

• uwb: Remove the WLP subsystem and drivers (commit)

• Bluetooth: Add MacBookAir3,1(2) support (commit), add support Bluetooth controller of MacbookPro 6,2 (commit), add support Bluetooth controller of MacbookPro 7,1 (commit)

2.8. SCSI

• cxgb4i: Add Chelsio T4 iSCSI support (commit)

• lpfc: Add new WQE support (commit)

• qla2xxx: Added AER support for ISP82xx. (commit)

• qla4xxx: Add support for 8130/8131 AENs. (commit)

• megaraid_sas: Add Online Controller Reset to MegaRAID SAS drive (commit)

2.9. HID

• Add support for two Waltop tablets (commit)

• Add support for UC-Logic WP????U tablets (commit)

• magicmouse: enable Magic Trackpad support (commit)

• roccat: add driver for Roccat Pyra mouse (commit)

• waltop: add Media Tablet 14.1 inch support (commit), add support for Waltop Slim Tablet 12.1 inch (commit)

• 3m: Convert to MT slots (commit)

• Add support for Logitech Speed Force Wireless gaming wheel (commit)

• uclogic: add proper support for PF1209 (commit)

• usbhid: remove unused hiddev_driver (commit)

2.10. INPUT

• wacom: add support for Bamboo Pen (commit), add support for the Bamboo Touch trackpad (commit), wacom_w8001: add multitouch slot support (commit),

• Add support for Hanwang tablets (commit)

• Add driver for tnetv107x on-chip keypad controller (commit) and touchscreen controller (commit)

• Add LPC32xx touchscreen controller driver (commit)

• Add ROHM BU21013 touch panel controller support (commit)

• Add support for large scancodes (commit)

• Add support for Nomadik SKE keypad controller (commit)

• Add support for OMAP4 keyboard controller (commit)

• Add support for PowerOn button on the AB8500 MFD (commit)

• serio - add support for PS2Mult multiplexer protocol (commit)

2.11. HWMON

• LTC4261 Hardware monitoring driver (commit)

• New driver for the W83795G/ADG monitoring chips (commit)

• lm90: Add support for max6695 and max6696 (commit), add support for the W83L771W/G (commit)

• it87: Add support for the IT8721F/IT8758E (commit)

• Add generic GPIO fan driver (commit)

2.12. MFD

• Add basic tps6586x interrupt support (commit)

• Add MAX8998 interrupts support (commit)

• Add mc13892 support to mc13xxx (commit)

• Add VIA VX855 multi-function device support (commit)

• Add WM831x SPI support (commit)

2.13. MEDIA

• Add driver for Siliconfile SR030PC30 VGA camera (commit)

• Add the via framebuffer camera controller driver (commit)

• cx231xx: Added support for Carraera, Shelby, RDx_253S and VIDEO_GRABBER (commit), add initial support for Hauppauge USB-Live2 (commit), add support for Hauppauge EXETER (commit)

• dvb: remove obsolete lgdt3304 driver (commit)

• IR: add driver for Nuvoton w836x7hg integrated CIR (commit)

• lmedm04: driver for DM04/QQBOX updated to version 1.60 (commit)

• s5h1432: Add new s5h1432 driver (commit)

• s5p-fimc: Add camera capture support (commit), add driver for OMAP1 camera interface (commit),

• SoC Camera: add driver for OV6650 sensor (commit)

• Twinhan 1027 + IR Port support (commit)

2.14. WATCHDOG

• Add support for Broadcom BCM63xx built-in watchdog (commit)

• f71808e_wdt: add support for the F71889FG (commit)

• it87_wdt: Add support for IT8720F watchdog (commit), add support for watchdogs with 8b timers (commit)

2.15. VARIOUS

• vcs: add poll/fasync support (commit)

• RTC

  • Add MAX8998 rtc driver (commit)

  • rtc-lpc32xx: introduce RTC driver for the LPC32XX SoC (commit)

  • rtc-ds3232: add alarm function (commit)

• power_supply

  • Add driver for TI BQ20Z75 gas gauge IC (commit)

  • Add driver for TWL4030/TPS65950 BCI charger (commit)

  • Add isp1704 charger detection driver (commit)

• pcmcia

  • introduce autoconfiguration feature (commit), (commit)

• OMAP

  • OMAP2/3: PRM: add module hard reset support (commit)

  • omap3: Add minimal OMAP3 IGEP module support (commit), introduce CompuLab CM-T3517 module (commit)

  • OMAP4: hwmod: Add initial data for OMAP4430 ES1 & ES2 (commit), add module hard reset support (commit)

• misc: Add ab8500 pwm driver (commit)

• mtd: generic FSMC NAND MTD driver (commit)

• mmc

  • Add new sdhci-pxa driver for Marvell SoCs (commit)

  • MMC 4.4 DDR support (commit)

  • sdhci-pltfm: add -pltfm driver for imx35/51 (commit)

  • USB SD Host Controller (USHC) driver (commit)

• Regulator: MAX8952 PMIC Driver Initial Release (commit)

• Leds

  • Add LED driver for Big Network series LEDs (commit)

  • Driver for National Semiconductor LP5521 chip (commit)

  • Driver for National Semiconductors LP5523 chip (commit)

• ieee1394: remove the old IEEE 1394 driver stack (commit)

• i2c: Driver for PCA9541 I2C Master Selector (commit)

• gpio

  • Add driver for basic memory-mapped GPIO controllers (commit)

  • Add support for 74x164 serial-in/parallel-out 8-bit shift register (commit)

  • Add Topcliff PCH GPIO driver (commit)

  • Add VIA VX855 GPIO driver (commit)

• dmaengine

  • Add Freescale i.MX1/21/27 DMA driver (commit)

  • Add Freescale i.MX SDMA support (commit)

  • Driver for the ARM PL080/PL081 PrimeCells v5 (commit)

• misc

  • apds9802als: ALS drivers for the apds9802als (commit)

  • Driver for APDS990X ALS and proximity sensors (commit)

  • Driver for bh1770glc / sfh7770 ALS and proximity sensor (commit)

  • isl29020.c: ambient light sensor (commit)

  • Add Packet hub driver for Topcliff Platform controller hub (commit)

• Add OLPC XO-1 rfkill driver (commit)

• Add ttyprintk driver (commit)

• serial: Add OMAP high-speed UART driver (commit)

• sfc

  • Add filter table management (commit)

  • Add support for SFE4003 board and TXC43128 PHY (commit)

  • Remove support for SFN4111T, SFT9001 and Falcon GMAC (commit)

• spi

  • add spi_tegra driver (commit)

  • fsl_spi: add eSPI controller support (commit)

  • topcliff: Add topcliff platform controller hub (PCH) spi bus driver (commit)

• i7300_edac: start a driver for i7300 chipset (Clarksboro) (commit)

• ACPI

  • fan: remove deprecated procfs I/F (commit)

  • thermal: remove deprecated procfs I/F (commit)

  • video: remove deprecated procfs I/F (commit)

• Regulator: LP3972 PMIC regulator driver (commit)