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Author SHA1 Message Date
Randy Dunlap 31c00fc15e Create/use more directory structure in the Documentation/ tree.
Create Documentation/blockdev/ sub-directory and populate it.
Populate the Documentation/serial/ sub-directory.
Move MSI-HOWTO.txt to Documentation/PCI/.
Move ioctl-number.txt to Documentation/ioctl/.
Update all relevant 00-INDEX files.
Update all relevant Kconfig files and source files.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2008-11-14 17:28:53 +00:00
Adrian Bunk f327c1c33f update the BLK_DEV_HD help text
Many people will see this option the first time now that it is in
drivers/block/

Make it clear that virtually noone needs it.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-07-16 20:33:47 +02:00
Adrian Bunk 453ea3ed0b move ide/legacy/hd.c to drivers/block/
This patch moves hd.c to drivers/block/

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-07-16 20:33:47 +02:00
Adrian Bunk 2af3e6017e The ps2esdi driver was marked as BROKEN more than two years ago due to being
no longer working for some time.

A driver that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seems to be
unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.

But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still present in
the older kernel releases.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-03-17 09:03:05 +01:00
Nick Piggin 75acb9cd2e rd: support XIP
Support direct_access XIP method with brd.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:30 -08:00
Nick Piggin 9db5579be4 rewrite rd
This is a rewrite of the ramdisk block device driver.

The old one is really difficult because it effectively implements a block
device which serves data out of its own buffer cache.  It relies on the dirty
bit being set, to pin its backing store in cache, however there are non
trivial paths which can clear the dirty bit (eg.  try_to_free_buffers()),
which had recently lead to data corruption.  And in general it is completely
wrong for a block device driver to do this.

The new one is more like a regular block device driver.  It has no idea about
vm/vfs stuff.  It's backing store is similar to the buffer cache (a simple
radix-tree of pages), but it doesn't know anything about page cache (the pages
in the radix tree are not pagecache pages).

There is one slight downside -- direct block device access and filesystem
metadata access goes through an extra copy and gets stored in RAM twice.
However, this downside is only slight, because the real buffercache of the
device is now reclaimable (because we're not playing crazy games with it), so
under memory intensive situations, footprint should effectively be the same --
maybe even a slight advantage to the new driver because it can also reclaim
buffer heads.

The fact that it now goes through all the regular vm/fs paths makes it
much more useful for testing, too.

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   2837     849     384    4070     fe6 drivers/block/rd.o
   3528     371      12    3911     f47 drivers/block/brd.o

Text is larger, but data and bss are smaller, making total size smaller.

A few other nice things about it:
- Similar structure and layout to the new loop device handlinag.
- Dynamic ramdisk creation.
- Runtime flexible buffer head size (because it is no longer part of the
  ramdisk code).
- Boot / load time flexible ramdisk size, which could easily be extended
  to a per-ramdisk runtime changeable size (eg. with an ioctl).
- Can use highmem for the backing store.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[byron.bbradley@gmail.com: make rd_size non-static]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-08 09:22:30 -08:00
Anthony Liguori 0ad07ec1fd virtio: Put the virtio under the virtualization menu
This patch moves virtio under the virtualization menu and changes virtio
devices to not claim to only be for lguest.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-02-04 23:50:05 +11:00
Adrian McMenamin 74ee1a7590 cdrom: Add support for Sega Dreamcast GD-ROM.
This patch adds support for the GD-Rom drive, SEGA's proprietary
implementation of an IDE CD Rom for the SEGA Dreamcast. This driver
implements Sega's Packet Interface (SPI) - at least partially. It will
also read disks in SEGA's propreitary GD format.

Unlike previous drivers (which were never in mainline) this uses DMA and
not PIO to read disks. It is a new driver, not a refactoring of old
drivers.

Signed-off by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2008-01-28 13:19:04 +09:00
Rusty Russell e467cde238 Block driver using virtio.
The block driver uses scatter-gather lists with sg[0] being the
request information (struct virtio_blk_outhdr) with the type, sector
and inbuf id.  The next N sg entries are the bio itself, then the last
sg is the status byte.  Whether the N entries are in or out depends on
whether it's a read or a write.

We accept the normal (SCSI) ioctls: they get handed through to the other
side which can then handle it or reply that it's unsupported.  It's
not clear that this actually works in general, since I don't know
if blk_pc_request() requests have an accurate rq_data_dir().

Although we try to reply -ENOTTY on unsupported commands, ioctl(fd,
CDROMEJECT) returns success to userspace.  This needs a separate
patch.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-23 15:49:54 +10:00
Adrian Bunk d96267ae46 remove duplicate MMAPPER Kconfig option
This option is already in arch/um/Kconfig.char

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
2007-10-20 01:01:08 +02:00
Patrick Ringl 2e977c85d7 fix typos in drivers/block/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-19 23:05:02 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day cebe0fe70f [S390] Remove obsolete recommendation for 8M ramdisk size.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-10-12 16:13:09 +02:00
Geert Uytterhoeven 928923c76b Introduce CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE
Introduce CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE to control inclusion of check_signature()
and avoid problems on platforms that don't have readb().

Let the few legacy (ISA || PCI || X86) drivers that need check_signature()
select CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-22 19:52:45 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt 06bfb7eb15 Add some help texts to recently-introduced kconfig items
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (edited MACINTOSH_DRIVERS per Geert Uytterhoeven's remark)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-18 09:52:50 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge 9f27ee5950 xen: add virtual block device driver.
The block device frontend driver allows the kernel to access block
devices exported exported by a virtual machine containing a physical
block device driver.

Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2007-07-18 08:47:45 -07:00
Grant Likely 74489a91dd Add support for Xilinx SystemACE CompactFlash interface
Tested on Xilinx Virtex ppc405, Katmai 440SPe, and Microblaze

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: John William <jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 14dc524972 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
  splice: direct splicing updates ppos twice
  more ACSI removal
  umem: Fix match of pci_ids in umem driver
  umem: Remove references to dead CONFIG_MM_MAP_MEMORY variable
  remove the documentation for the legacy CDROM drivers
2007-07-16 10:48:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 02b2318e07 Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: (26 commits)
  [SPARC64]: Fix UP build.
  [SPARC64]: dr-cpu unconfigure support.
  [SERIAL]: Fix console write locking in sparc drivers.
  [SPARC64]: Give more accurate errors in dr_cpu_configure().
  [SPARC64]: Clear cpu_{core,sibling}_map[] in smp_fill_in_sib_core_maps()
  [SPARC64]: Fix leak when DR added cpu does not bootup.
  [SPARC64]: Add ->set_affinity IRQ handlers.
  [SPARC64]: Process dr-cpu events in a kthread instead of workqueue.
  [SPARC64]: More sensible udelay implementation.
  [SPARC64]: SMP build fixes.
  [SPARC64]: mdesc.c needs linux/mm.h
  [SPARC64]: Fix build regressions added by dr-cpu changes.
  [SPARC64]: Unconditionally register vio_bus_type.
  [SPARC64]: Initial LDOM cpu hotplug support.
  [SPARC64]: Fix setting of variables in LDOM guest.
  [SPARC64]: Fix MD property lifetime bugs.
  [SPARC64]: Abstract out mdesc accesses for better MD update handling.
  [SPARC64]: Use more mearningful names for IRQ registry.
  [SPARC64]: Initial domain-services driver.
  [SPARC64]: Export powerd facilities for external entities.
  ...
2007-07-16 10:45:23 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell f057eac0d7 Introduce CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS
Make some offending drivers depend on it and set CONFIG_ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
for ppc64 so that we don't build those drivers.

This gets PowerPC allmodconfig and allyesconfig much closer to building.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:42 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 56a68a500f more ACSI removal
This patch removes some code that became dead code after the ATARI_ACSI
removal.

It also indirectly fixes the following bug introduced by
commit c2bcf3b8978c291e1b7f6499475c8403a259d4d6:

 config ATARI_SLM
        tristate "Atari SLM laser printer support"
-       depends on ATARI && ATARI_ACSI!=n
+       depends on ATARI

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-16 15:02:47 +02:00
David S. Miller 667ef3c396 [SPARC64]: Add Sun LDOM virtual disk driver.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-16 04:03:56 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt fd11d171e5 Make a "menuconfig" out of the Kconfig objects "menu, ..., endmenu",
so that the user can disable all the options in that menu at once
instead of having to disable each option separately.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 13:43:30 +02:00
Jens Axboe c2bcf3b897 [PATCH] Remove acsi.c
Originally from Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>

It hasn't been working in 2.5 or 2.6 ever, since it's still buffer_head
based.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-10 08:03:33 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky 61d48c2c31 [S390] Kconfig: use common Kconfig files for s390.
Disband drivers/s390/Kconfig, use the common Kconfig files. The s390
specific config options from drivers/s390/Kconfig are moved to the
respective common Kconfig files.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-05-10 15:46:08 +02:00
Dimitri Gorokhovik f991633de6 [PATCH] initramfs should not depend on CONFIG_BLOCK
initramfs ended up depending on BLOCK:

  INITRAMFS_SOURCE <-- BLK_DEV_INITRD <-- BLOCK

This inhibits use of customized-initramfs-over-ramfs without block layer
(ramfs would still be enabled), useful in embedded applications.

Move BLK_DEV_INITRD out of 'drivers/block/Kconfig' and into 'init/Kconfig',
make it unconditional.

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Gorokhovik <dimitri.gorokhovik@free.fr>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-06 09:30:25 -08:00
Jean-Paul Saman c33df4eaaf [PATCH] disable init/initramfs.c
The file init/initramfs.c is always compiled and linked in the kernel
vmlinux even when BLK_DEV_RAM and BLK_DEV_INITRD are disabled and the
system isn't using any form of an initramfs or initrd.  In this situation
the code is only used to unpack a (static) default initial rootfilesystem.
The current init/initramfs.c code.  usr/initramfs_data.o compiles to a size
of ~15 kbytes.  Disabling BLK_DEV_RAM and BLK_DEV_INTRD shrinks the kernel
code size with ~60 Kbytes.

This patch avoids compiling in the code and data for initramfs support if
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not defined.  Instead of the initramfs code and
data it uses a small routine in init/noinitramfs.c to setup an initial
static default environment for mounting a rootfilesystem later on in the
kernel initialisation process.  The new code is: 164 bytes of size.

The patch is separated in two parts:
1) doesn't compile initramfs code when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set
2) changing all plaforms vmlinux.lds.S files to not reserve an area of
PAGE_SIZE when CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is not set.

[deweerdt@free.fr: warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman@nxp.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11 10:51:25 -08:00
Adrian Bunk b21a323710 [PATCH] remove the broken BLK_DEV_SWIM_IOP driver
The BLK_DEV_SWIM_IOP driver has:
- already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
- is still marked as BROKEN.

Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be
unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.

But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still
present in the older kernel releases.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:53 -08:00
Thomas Maier 2d4eeec563 [PATCH] pktcdvd: make procfs interface optional
pktcdvd: Update Kconfig help text.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 2685b267bc Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (48 commits)
  [NETFILTER]: Fix non-ANSI func. decl.
  [TG3]: Identify Serdes devices more clearly.
  [TG3]: Use msleep.
  [TG3]: Use netif_msg_*.
  [TG3]: Allow partial speed advertisement.
  [TG3]: Add TG3_FLG2_IS_NIC flag.
  [TG3]: Add 5787F device ID.
  [TG3]: Fix Phy loopback.
  [WANROUTER]: Kill kmalloc debugging code.
  [TCP] inet_twdr_hangman: Delete unnecessary memory barrier().
  [NET]: Memory barrier cleanups
  [IPSEC]: Fix inetpeer leak in ipv4 xfrm dst entries.
  audit: disable ipsec auditing when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n
  audit: Add auditing to ipsec
  [IRDA] irlan: Fix compile warning when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n
  [IrDA]: Incorrect TTP header reservation
  [IrDA]: PXA FIR code device model conversion
  [GENETLINK]: Fix misplaced command flags.
  [NETLIK]: Add a pointer to the Generic Netlink wiki page.
  [IPV6] RAW: Don't release unlocked sock.
  ...
2006-12-07 09:05:15 -08:00
Randy Dunlap 3e29fe837a [PATCH] CISS: require same SCSI module support
Building CCISS SCSI tape support in-kernel when SCSI=m causes build errors,
so require SCSI support to be =y or same as CCISS SCSI tape support.

  drivers/built-in.o: In function `cciss_remove_one':
  cciss.c:(.text+0x79d4c): undefined reference to `scsi_remove_host'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x79d55): undefined reference to `scsi_host_put'
  drivers/built-in.o: In function `cciss_update_non_disk_devices':
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7bb54): undefined reference to `scsi_device_type'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7bcc8): undefined reference to `scsi_device_type'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7be81): undefined reference to `scsi_device_type'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7bf81): undefined reference to `scsi_device_type'
  drivers/built-in.o: In function `cciss_proc_write':
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7c175): undefined reference to `scsi_host_alloc'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7c1ed): undefined reference to `scsi_add_host'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7c1f9): undefined reference to `scsi_scan_host'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7c206): undefined reference to `scsi_host_put'
  make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:40 -08:00
Herbert Xu 8df3b0a219 [CRYPTO] cryptoloop: Select CRYPTO_CBC
As CBC is the default chaining method for cryptoloop, we should select
it from cryptoloop to ease the transition.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-12-06 18:38:59 -08:00
Christian Borntraeger 73cf963068 Fix bytes <-> kilobytes typo in Kconfig for ramdisk
This is a small fix for a typo in Kconfig. The default value for the block
size is 1024 bytes not 1024 kilobytes.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntrae@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 23:40:34 +02:00
Adrian Bunk bf6ee0ae49 remove mentionings of devfs in documentation
Now that devfs is removed, there's no longer any need to document how to
do this or that with devfs.

This patch includes some improvements by Joe Perches.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:17:48 +02:00
David Howells 9361401eb7 [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]
Make it possible to disable the block layer.  Not all embedded devices require
it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require
the block layer to be present.

This patch does the following:

 (*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev
     support.

 (*) Adds dependencies on CONFIG_BLOCK to any configuration item that controls
     an item that uses the block layer.  This includes:

     (*) Block I/O tracing.

     (*) Disk partition code.

     (*) All filesystems that are block based, eg: Ext3, ReiserFS, ISOFS.

     (*) The SCSI layer.  As far as I can tell, even SCSI chardevs use the
     	 block layer to do scheduling.  Some drivers that use SCSI facilities -
     	 such as USB storage - end up disabled indirectly from this.

     (*) Various block-based device drivers, such as IDE and the old CDROM
     	 drivers.

     (*) MTD blockdev handling and FTL.

     (*) JFFS - which uses set_bdev_super(), something it could avoid doing by
     	 taking a leaf out of JFFS2's book.

 (*) Makes most of the contents of linux/blkdev.h, linux/buffer_head.h and
     linux/elevator.h contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK being set.  sector_div() is,
     however, still used in places, and so is still available.

 (*) Also made contingent are the contents of linux/mpage.h, linux/genhd.h and
     parts of linux/fs.h.

 (*) Makes a number of files in fs/ contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) Makes mm/bounce.c (bounce buffering) contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) set_page_dirty() doesn't call __set_page_dirty_buffers() if CONFIG_BLOCK
     is not enabled.

 (*) fs/no-block.c is created to hold out-of-line stubs and things that are
     required when CONFIG_BLOCK is not set:

     (*) Default blockdev file operations (to give error ENODEV on opening).

 (*) Makes some /proc changes:

     (*) /proc/devices does not list any blockdevs.

     (*) /proc/diskstats and /proc/partitions are contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) Makes some compat ioctl handling contingent on CONFIG_BLOCK.

 (*) If CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined, makes sys_quotactl() return -ENODEV if
     given command other than Q_SYNC or if a special device is specified.

 (*) In init/do_mounts.c, no reference is made to the blockdev routines if
     CONFIG_BLOCK is not defined.  This does not prohibit NFS roots or JFFS2.

 (*) The bdflush, ioprio_set and ioprio_get syscalls can now be absent (return
     error ENOSYS by way of cond_syscall if so).

 (*) The seclvl_bd_claim() and seclvl_bd_release() security calls do nothing if
     CONFIG_BLOCK is not set, since they can't then happen.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2006-09-30 20:52:31 +02:00
Nathan Scott bef317e364 [PATCH] ramdisk blocksize Kconfig entry
Make the ramdisk blocksize configurable at kernel compilation time rather
than only at boot or module load time, like a couple of the other ramdisk
options.  I found this handy awhile back but thought little of it, until
recently asked by a few of the testing folks here to be able to do the same
thing for their automated test setups.

The Kconfig comment is largely lifted from comments in rd.c, and hopefully
this will increase the chances of making folks aware that the default value
often isn't a great choice here (for increasing values of PAGE_SIZE, even
moreso).

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-14 21:53:53 -07:00
Al Viro ffca11104c [PATCH] frv: initrd is grossly broken on frv (never built)
The FRV arch doesn't currently support initrd, so it should be disabled
automatically for the moment.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:42:55 -07:00
Adrian Bunk a687fb18cb [PATCH] let BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT depend on BLK_DEV_RAM
It's purely cosmetic, but with the patch there's no longer a
BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT setting in the .config if BLK_DEV_RAM=n.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:02 -08:00
H. Peter Anvin 1751ace034 [PATCH] Update documentation for BLK_DEV_INITRD to match current usage
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Zdenek Pavlas <pavlas@nextra.cz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:56:58 -08:00
Zdenek Pavlas 340e48e662 [PATCH] BLK_DEV_INITRD: do not require BLK_DEV_RAM=y
Initramfs initrd images do not need a ramdisk device, so remove this
restriction in Kconfig.  BLK_DEV_RAM=n saves about 13k on i386.  Also
without ramdisk device there's no need for "dry run", so initramfs unpacks
much faster.

People using cramfs, squashfs, or gzipped ext2/minix initrd images are
probably smart enough not to turn off ramdisk support by accident.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:57 -08:00
Peter Osterlund e1bc89bc99 [PATCH] pktcdvd: Don't waste kernel memory
Allocate memory for read-gathering at open time, when it is known just how
much memory is needed.  This avoids wasting kernel memory when the real packet
size is smaller than the maximum packet size supported by the driver.  This is
always the case when using DVD discs.

Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05 11:06:52 -08:00
Adrian Bunk b566ccefd7 [PATCH] Let CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE depend on EXPERIMENTAL
Unless the help text is outdated, this seems to be logical.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-05 11:06:52 -08:00
Marko Kohtala 6a19b41b35 [PATCH] parport: Kconfig dependency fixes
Make drivers that use directly PC parport HW depend on PARPORT_PC rather than
HW independent PARPORT.

Signed-off-by: Marko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:57 -08:00
Pete Zaitcev a00828e9ac [PATCH] USB: drivers/usb/storage/libusual
This patch adds a shim driver libusual, which routes devices between
usb-storage and ub according to the common table, based on unusual_devs.h.
The help and example syntax is in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-01-04 13:48:31 -08:00
Jens Axboe 3a65dfe8c0 [BLOCK] Move all core block layer code to new block/ directory
drivers/block/ is right now a mix of core and driver parts. Lets move
the core parts to a new top level directory. Al will move the fs/
related block parts to block/ next.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-04 08:43:35 +01:00
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk a08b6b7968 [PATCH] Kconfig fix (BLK_DEV_FD dependencies)
Sanitized and fixed floppy dependencies: split the messy dependencies for
BLK_DEV_FD by introducing a new symbol (ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC), making
BLK_DEV_FD depend on that one and taking declarations of ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
to arch/*/Kconfig.  While we are at it, fixed several obvious cases when
BLK_DEV_FD should have been excluded (architectures lacking asm/floppy.h
are *not* going to have floppy.c compile, let alone work).

If you can come up with better name for that ("this architecture might
have working PC-compatible floppy disk controller"), you are more than
welcome - just s/ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC/your_prefered_name/g in the patch
below...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 17:17:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds ef88b7dba2 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2005-09-06 00:35:51 -07:00
Ralf Baechle 875d43e72b [PATCH] mips: clean up 32/64-bit configuration
Start cleaning 32-bit vs. 64-bit configuration.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:06 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg dbec486632 kconfig: move initramfs options to General Setup
Move initramfs options from Device Drivers | Block Drivers to General Setup
This is a more natural place for this option.

Furthermore separate out intramfs options to usr/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-08-10 20:44:50 +02:00
Al Viro a553260618 [PATCH] ISA DMA Kconfig fixes - part 3
Drivers that expect ISA DMA API are marked as such in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-04 07:33:14 -07:00
Al Viro 461790f790 [PATCH] broken dependency for floppy on ARM
(!ARCH_S390 && !M68K && !IA64 && !UML) is obviously always true on ARM.

Intended behaviour for ARM is "absent unless we are on RiscPC or
EBSA285".  So what we want is added && !ARM in the first term - without
it the last part (|| ARCH_RPC || ARCH_EBSA285, that is) doesn't do
anything. 

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-24 12:28:35 -07:00