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2006-09-30	[PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]	David Howells	1	-6/+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>
2006-09-23	[MTD] Fix dependencies with CONFIG_MTD=m	David Woodhouse	1	-2/+2
	CMDLINEPARTS shouldn't be selectable, and neither should SSFDC, which can be a tristate anyway. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-09-22	[MTD] Add SSFDC (SmartMedia) read-only translation layer	Claudio Lanconelli	1	-0/+8
	Signed-off-by: Claudio Lanconelli <lanconelli.claudio@eptar.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-06-26	Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild	Linus Torvalds	1	-2/+2
	* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (40 commits) kbuild: trivial fixes in Makefile kbuild: adding symbols in Kconfig and defconfig to TAGS kbuild: replace abort() with exit(1) kbuild: support for %.symtypes files kbuild: fix silentoldconfig recursion kbuild: add option for stripping modules while installing them kbuild: kill some false positives from modpost kbuild: export-symbol usage report generator kbuild: fix make -rR breakage kbuild: append -dirty for updated but uncommited changes kbuild: append git revision for all untagged commits kbuild: fix module.symvers parsing in modpost kbuild: ignore make's built-in rules & variables kbuild: bugfix with initramfs kbuild: modpost build fix kbuild: check license compatibility when building modules kbuild: export-type enhancement to modpost.c kbuild: add dependency on kernel.release to the package targets kbuild: `make kernelrelease' speedup kconfig: KCONFIG_OVERWRITECONFIG ...
2006-06-09	kconfig: remove leading whitespace in menu prompts	Roman Zippel	1	-2/+2
	This removes all the leading whitespace kconfig now warns about. Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-05-12	Trivial typo fixes in Kconfig files (MTD).	Egry Gábor	1	-2/+2
	Signed-off-by: Egry Gábor <gaboregry@t-online.hu> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2005-11-07	[MTD] core: Clean up trailing white spaces	Thomas Gleixner	1	-16/+16
	Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-11-06	[MTD] Add initial support for OneNAND flash chips	Kyungmin Park	1	-4/+6
	OneNAND is a new flash technology from Samsung with integrated SRAM buffers and logic interface. Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-11-06	[MTD] Add Resident Flash Disk (RFD) support	Sean Young	1	-1/+11
	This type of flash translation layer (FTL) is used by the Embedded BIOS by General Software. It is known as the Resident Flash Disk (RFD), see: http://www.gensw.com/pages/prod/bios/rfd.htm Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-04-16	Linux-2.6.12-rc2	Linus Torvalds	1	-0/+265
	Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!