| cd67e10ac6997c6d1e1504e3c111b693bfdbc148 |
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31-Jan-2014 |
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> |
zram: promote zram from staging
Zram has lived in staging for a LONG LONG time and have been
fixed/improved by many contributors so code is clean and stable now. Of
course, there are lots of product using zram in real practice.
The major TV companys have used zram as swap since two years ago and
recently our production team released android smart phone with zram
which is used as swap, too and recently Android Kitkat start to use zram
for small memory smart phone. And there was a report Google released
their ChromeOS with zram, too and cyanogenmod have been used zram long
time ago. And I heard some disto have used zram block device for tmpfs.
In addition, I saw many report from many other peoples. For example,
Lubuntu start to use it.
The benefit of zram is very clear. With my experience, one of the
benefit was to remove jitter of video application with backgroud memory
pressure. It would be effect of efficient memory usage by compression
but more issue is whether swap is there or not in the system. Recent
mobile platforms have used JAVA so there are many anonymous pages. But
embedded system normally are reluctant to use eMMC or SDCard as swap
because there is wear-leveling and latency issues so if we do not use
swap, it means we can't reclaim anoymous pages and at last, we could
encounter OOM kill. :(
Although we have real storage as swap, it was a problem, too. Because
it sometime ends up making system very unresponsible caused by slow swap
storage performance.
Quote from Luigi on Google
"Since Chrome OS was mentioned: the main reason why we don't use swap
to a disk (rotating or SSD) is because it doesn't degrade gracefully
and leads to a bad interactive experience. Generally we prefer to
manage RAM at a higher level, by transparently killing and restarting
processes. But we noticed that zram is fast enough to be competitive
with the latter, and it lets us make more efficient use of the
available RAM. " and he announced.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg57717.html
Other uses case is to use zram for block device. Zram is block device
so anyone can format the block device and mount on it so some guys on
the internet start zram as /var/tmp.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-838198-start-0.html
Let's promote zram and enhance/maintain it instead of removing.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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| a3b25d9b774fbda2e6add28cf792941fd98fa999 |
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24-Jan-2014 |
Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be> |
drivers/block/Kconfig: update RAM block device module name
RAM block device support module name changed to brd.ko some years ago
with an "rd" alias to match previous module implementation. This patch
updates its Kconfig definition.
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
|
| 7badfb1c34f85e2b68252e4596d96e9b76f2b0ac |
|
18-Oct-2013 |
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
block: disable cpqarray in Kconfig
Mike writes:
"cpqarray hasn't been used in over 12 years. It's doubtful that anyone
still uses the board. It's time the driver was removed from the mainline
kernel. The only updates these days are minor and mostly done by people
outside of HP."
If nobody yells, we'll remove it from the kernel tree completely
for 3.15.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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| e67f86b31ae5be8a88bec27b5ecb18dc2ffc9c56 |
|
15-Oct-2013 |
Akhil Bhansali <abhansali@stec-inc.com> |
Add support for sTec's pci-e flash card Kronos
Signed-off-by: Akhil Bhansali <abhansali@stec-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: Ramprasad Chinthekindi <rchinthekindi@stec-inc.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Folded patch, contributions to clean up this driver from:
Jens Axboe
Dan Carpenter
Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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| f2298c0403b0dfcaef637eba0c02c4a06d7a25ab |
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25-Oct-2013 |
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> |
null_blk: multi queue aware block test driver
A driver that simply completes IO it receives, it does no
transfers. Written to fascilitate testing of the blk-mq code.
It supports various module options to use either bio queueing,
rq queueing, or mq mode.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
|
| 3c5710f6a229504d1e6b15cb4170b64ab420b43a |
|
03-Sep-2013 |
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> |
block: drop dependency on ARCH_SHARK
With this machine deleted, there is no need to maintain the
MFM block driver for its hard disk either.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
|
| f730e3dc6dc4698d55fd9bf6de33a5436900e9bd |
|
18-Jun-2013 |
Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
rsxx: Changing the adapter name to the official name.
Changing the adapter name from FlashSystem-80 to the official
name: Flash Adapter 900GB Full Height.
Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
|
| 9bb3c4469e317919b0fde8c0e0a3ebe7bd2cf167 |
|
27-Feb-2013 |
Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
block: IBM RamSan 70/80 branding changes.
This patch includes changing the hardware branding name from
IBM RamSan to IBM FlashSystem.
v2 Changes include:
o Removing the unnecessary IBM Vendor ID #define
v1 Changes include:
o Changed all references of RamSan to FlashSystem.
o Changed the vendor/device IDs for the product.
o Changed driver version number.
o Updated the MAINTAINERS file.
o Various other little things.
Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
|
| 8722ff8cdbfac9c1b20e67bb067b455c48cb8e93 |
|
05-Feb-2013 |
josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com <josh.h.morris@us.ibm.com> |
block: IBM RamSan 70/80 device driver
This patch includes the device driver for the IBM RamSan
family of PCI SSD flash storage cards. This driver will
include support for the RamSan 70 and 80. The driver
presents a block device for device I/O.
Signed-off-by: Philip J Kelleher <pjk1939@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
|
| d1a6f4f19728d6e90480e53601a90fc9f6a348ad |
|
05-Jan-2013 |
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> |
block: delete super ancient PC-XT driver for 1980's hardware
This driver was for the 8 bit ISA cards that were installed in
the PC-XT machines of 1980 vintage. They supported the dual
ribbon cable MFM drives of 10-20MB capacity, and ran at a 3:1
interleave, giving performance on the order of 128kB/s.
By the introduction of the PC-AT (286) these controllers were
already scrapped in favour of 16 bit controllers with some onboard
RAM that could support a 1:1 interleave.
The git history doesn't show any evidence of runtime fixes that
would reflect active usage; instead just the usual tree-wide API
type changes/cleanups. Going back to in-source changelogs, the
last "runtime" fix that is evident is something I did over a
dozen years ago[1] -- and even back then, the hardware was long
since unavailable, so that ancient fix was also not runtime tested.
The time is long overdue for this to get flushed, so lets get
rid of it before anyone wastes more time doing builds and sparse
checks etc. on long since dead code.
[1] http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0102.2/0027.html
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
|
| b7010ede4342d3ab9f9a0c51c1aa50139aacadaf |
|
09-Sep-2012 |
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> |
cciss: select CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE
The patch cciss-use-check_signature.patch in -mm tree introduced
a build error:
drivers/built-in.o: In function `CISS_signature_present':
drivers/block/cciss.c:4270: undefined reference to `check_signature'
Add missing CONFIG_CHECK_SIGNATURE to fix this issue.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: "Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
|
| b8977285ecb0033b0bd9a99d4355f9c0bc8708f1 |
|
23-Oct-2012 |
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> |
drivers/block: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is
almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the Linux kernel
summit, remove it.
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
CC: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
CC: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
CC: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
|
| 68a5059ecf82cc9d52a86fb523584b4d485f1bbe |
|
26-Aug-2012 |
Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> |
block: remove the deprecated ub driver
It was scheduled to be removed in 3.6.
Acked-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
|
| 7396bd9fa1f291423b6e9a262662a447cc3deb86 |
|
15-Mar-2012 |
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> |
usb/ub: deprecate & schedule for removal the "Low Performance USB Block" driver
Deprecate this driver. All devices which can be handled by this driver
can also be handled by the usb-storage driver.
Acked-By: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
|
| 88523a61558a040546bf7d8b079ae0755d8e7005 |
|
30-Aug-2011 |
Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com> |
block: Add driver for Micron RealSSD pcie flash cards
This adds mtip32xx, a driver supporting Microns line of
pci-express flash storage cards.
Signed-off-by: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
|
| b60503ba432b16fc84442a84e29a7aad2c0c363d |
|
20-Jan-2011 |
Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com> |
NVMe: New driver
This driver is for devices that follow the NVM Express standard
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
|
| ea5e116162b7e0cf83a2b8a273440514404604de |
|
03-Aug-2011 |
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> |
xen/blkback: Make description more obvious.
With the frontend having Xen but the backend not, it just looks odd:
<*> Xen virtual block device support
<*> Block-device backend driver
Fix it to have the 'Xen' in front of it.
Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
|
| d134b00b9acca3fb054d7c88a5f5d562ecbb42d1 |
|
31-Jul-2011 |
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> |
loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices
Instead of unconditionally creating a fixed number of dead loop
devices which need to be investigated by storage handling services,
even when they are never used, we allow distros start with 0
loop devices and have losetup(8) and similar switch to the dynamic
/dev/loop-control interface instead of searching /dev/loop%i for free
devices.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
|
| a4c348580e65c95d4b278bb6f154f622df12b893 |
|
12-May-2011 |
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> |
xen/blkback: Flesh out the description in the Kconfig.
with more details.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
|
| dfc07b13dcacefda6ebdea14584ed8724dc980ef |
|
18-Apr-2011 |
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> |
xen/blkback: Move it from drivers/xen to drivers/block
.. and modify the Makefile and Kconfig files appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
|
| 2de06cc1f18d638cc7ab1169f61a8599045c2d4f |
|
09-Feb-2009 |
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> |
xen: separate out frontend xenbus
Impact: refactor
Make a distinct frontend xenbus, in preparation for adding a backend xenbus.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
[corresponds to 2fd433a4188f in git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git
with adjustments to reflect changes in the code which is moved]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
|
| 602adf400201636e95c3fed9f31fba54a3d7e844 |
|
13-Aug-2010 |
Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net> |
rbd: introduce rados block device (rbd), based on libceph
The rados block device (rbd), based on osdblk, creates a block device
that is backed by objects stored in the Ceph distributed object storage
cluster. Each device consists of a single metadata object and data
striped over many data objects.
The rbd driver supports read-only snapshots.
Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
|
| 8ae4f63623c6a6d164e28d6ac327cf8287b0a24d |
|
08-Jun-2010 |
David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> |
spectra: Move to drivers/staging
It'll take some work before this is really shippable.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
|
| 494a43bb188c10b9b21375bbfe2691e41e3cb145 |
|
26-Apr-2010 |
Alan Olsen <alan.r.olsen@intel.com> |
Moorestown "Post Beta" nand driver.
Contains the fixes for nand corruption with the watchdog driver.
New features compares to MRST NAND driver Post Alpah2 2.0:
1. Enable CDMA feature of NAND controller
How to use this driver:
The same with before. That is, to enable this driver,
you can set
CONFIG_MRST_NAND=y
CONFIG_MRST_NAND_HW=y
Signed-off-by: Gao Yunpeng <yunpeng.gao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Alan Olsen <alan.r.olsen@intel.com>
|
| 2395e463fefd4aa8b784787e926e9b84e216d14f |
|
11-May-2010 |
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> |
paride: fix menu indentation
Make the PARIDE menu be displayed correctly, with proper/expected
indentation, by moving the GDROM kconfig symbol, which was
splitting the PARIDE kconfig symbol from its dependent symbols.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
|
| b411b3637fa71fce9cf2acf0639009500f5892fe |
|
26-Sep-2009 |
Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com> |
The DRBD driver
Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>
|
| 2a13877c5ef3207a2a5c56250742e60808677f90 |
|
10-Apr-2009 |
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> |
osdblk: a Linux block device for OSD objects
Submitted driver exports a block device of the form /dev/osdblkX,
where X is a decimal number.
It does that by mounting a stacking block device on top
of an osd object. For example, if you create a 2G object
on an OSD device, you can then use this module to present
that 2G object as a Linux block device.
See inside patch for exact documentation.
[Sitting at linux-next helped fix proper Kconfig dependency
for this driver, thanks to Randy Dunlap]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
|
| 4737f0978d6e64eae468e01fa181abf6499e6b84 |
|
05-Jun-2009 |
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> |
trivial: Kconfig: .ko is normally not included in module names
.ko is normally not included in Kconfig help, make it consistent.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
|
| 6fa612b56c575a5235568593eab4240c90608630 |
|
11-May-2009 |
Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> |
microblaze: Kconfig: Enable drivers for Microblaze
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
|
| 8a11a789c39cd6f61de4243234cf44a46c23ffd0 |
|
28-Apr-2009 |
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com> |
mg_disk: fix dependency on libata
Add local copies of ata_id_string() and ata_id_c_string() to mg_disk
so there is no need for the driver to depend on ATA and SCSI.
[ Impact: break dependency on libata by copying ata id string functions ]
Cc: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
|
| 3fbed4c61abd8458896e38633d10110cb5a589d4 |
|
02-Apr-2009 |
unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com> |
mflash: initial support
This driver supports mflash IO mode for linux.
Mflash is embedded flash drive and mainly targeted mobile and consumer
electronic devices.
Internally, mflash has nand flash and other hardware logics and supports 2
different operation (ATA, IO) modes. ATA mode doesn't need any new driver
and currently works well under standard IDE subsystem. Actually it's one
chip SSD. IO mode is ATA-like custom mode for the host that doesn't have
IDE interface.
Followings are brief descriptions about IO mode.
A. IO mode based on ATA protocol and uses some custom command. (read confirm,
write confirm)
B. IO mode uses SRAM bus interface.
C. IO mode supports 4kB boot area, so host can boot from mflash.
This driver is quitely similar to a standard ATA driver, but because of
following reasons it is currently seperated with ATA layer.
1. ATA layer deals standard ATA protocol. ATA layer have many low-
level device specific interface, but data transfer keeps ATA rule.
But, mflash IO mode doesn't.
2. Even though currently not used in mflash driver code, mflash has
some custom command and modes. (nand fusing, firmware patch, etc) If
this feature supported in linux kernel, ATA layer more altered.
3. Currently PATA platform device driver doesn't support interrupt.
(I'm not sure) But, mflash uses interrupt (polling mode is just for
debug).
4. mflash is somewhat under-develop product. Even though some company
already using mflash their own product, I think more time is needed for
standardization of custom command and mode. That time (maybe October)
I will talk to with ATA people. If they accept integration, I will
integrate.
Signed-off-by: unsik Kim <donari75@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
|
| 8852ecd97488249ca7fe2c0d3eb44cae95886881 |
|
15-Nov-2008 |
Laurent Vivier <laurent@lvivier.info> |
m68k: mac - Add SWIM floppy support
It allows to read data from a floppy, but not to write to, and to eject the
floppy (useful on our Mac without eject button).
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <Laurent@lvivier.info>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
|
| fb9a4ca9820fd4d7c4906bd393004662451e273e |
|
07-Jan-2009 |
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> |
bzip2/lzma: move initrd/ramfs options out of BLK_DEV
Impact: Partial resolution of build failure
Move the initrd/initramfs configuration options from
drivers/block/Kconfig to usr/Kconfig, since they do not and should not
depend on CONFIG_BLK_DEV. This fixes builds when CONFIG_BLK_DEV=n.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
|
| c8531ab343dec88ed8005e403b1b304c710b7494 |
|
05-Jan-2009 |
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> |
bzip2/lzma: proper Kconfig dependencies for the ramdisk options
Impact: Partial resolution of build failure
Make all the compression algorithms properly configurable, and make
sure the ramdisk options pull in the proper compression algorithms, as
they should.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
|
| 30d65dbfe3add7f010a075991dc0bfeaebb7d9e1 |
|
04-Jan-2009 |
Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> |
bzip2/lzma: config and initramfs support for bzip2/lzma decompression
Impact: New code for initramfs decompression, new features
This is the second part of the bzip2/lzma patch
The bzip patch is based on an idea by Christian Ludwig, includes support for
compressing the kernel with bzip2 or lzma rather than gzip. Both
compressors give smaller sizes than gzip. Lzma's decompresses faster
than bzip2.
It also supports ramdisks and initramfs' compressed using these two
compressors.
The functionality has been successfully used for a couple of years by
the udpcast project
This version applies to "tip" kernel 2.6.28
This part contains:
- support for new compressions (bzip2 and lzma) in initramfs and
old-style ramdisk
- config dialog for kernel compression (but new kernel compressions
not yet supported)
Signed-off-by: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
|
| 31c00fc15ebd35c1647775dbfc167a15d46657fd |
|
13-Nov-2008 |
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> |
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>
|
| f327c1c33f4882c70f29ff3a9ff7c55c1951d1f6 |
|
16-Jul-2008 |
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> |
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>
|
| 453ea3ed0b3e8ad67d4ee9d2fccf3d95a3e1f709 |
|
16-Jul-2008 |
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> |
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>
|
| 2af3e6017e53065ddf40bb19190a29199b7ffee3 |
|
06-Mar-2008 |
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> |
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>
|
| 75acb9cd2ef0bbb463098fdd40cbcdda79d45fa3 |
|
08-Feb-2008 |
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> |
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>
|
| 9db5579be4bb5320c3248f6acf807aedf05ae143 |
|
08-Feb-2008 |
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> |
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>
|
| 0ad07ec1fd2f3e90dfb086b04c07a83db40e9172 |
|
08-Nov-2007 |
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> |
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>
|
| 74ee1a7590b782a6df01d00ae38093cbfbee5ca9 |
|
21-Jan-2008 |
Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk> |
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>
|
| e467cde238184d1b0923db2cd61ae1c5a6dc15aa |
|
22-Oct-2007 |
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> |
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>
|
| d96267ae4640e3c9b7b32e83dc716824489b7d5c |
|
20-Oct-2007 |
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> |
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>
|
| 2e977c85d78e2ae846d313d0c139d0efbc0c1207 |
|
19-Oct-2007 |
Patrick Ringl <patrick_@freenet.de> |
fix typos in drivers/block/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
|
| cebe0fe70fbf033a1a6b7c5c8b79eb13060a4ab7 |
|
12-Oct-2007 |
Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> |
[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>
|
| 928923c76b393e38e5ba1d47e843e208ceef6cf9 |
|
22-Aug-2007 |
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> |
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>
|
| 06bfb7eb1535822a3338ffea9918e22215abed90 |
|
18-Aug-2007 |
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> |
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>
|
| 9f27ee595038653ddf8bca871200d39247d6f4fc |
|
18-Jul-2007 |
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> |
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>
|
| 74489a91dd43aecd638709d34a2f58b91cfda5cf |
|
17-Jul-2007 |
Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> |
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>
|
| f057eac0d7ad967138390a9dd7fd8267e1e39d19 |
|
16-Jul-2007 |
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> |
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>
|
| 56a68a500fcab9e3a9a49ca7fbef14230ab7d144 |
|
13-Jul-2007 |
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> |
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>
|
| 667ef3c3968e4e2ddc3f3f84f05e11fb2453d5b6 |
|
16-Jul-2007 |
David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> |
[SPARC64]: Add Sun LDOM virtual disk driver.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
|
| fd11d171e51a5b81c176d856d5df5612117e1a45 |
|
10-Jul-2007 |
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> |
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>
|
| c2bcf3b8978c291e1b7f6499475c8403a259d4d6 |
|
19-Jun-2007 |
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> |
[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>
|
| 61d48c2c31799ab9dbddbbcfccfd8042a5c6b75a |
|
10-May-2007 |
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> |
[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>
|
| f991633de626a5f16069d00e26b45142e037ce24 |
|
06-Mar-2007 |
Dimitri Gorokhovik <dimitri.gorokhovik@free.fr> |
[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>
|
| c33df4eaaf41fd3e34837a6ae9a5f9970c393d9f |
|
10-Feb-2007 |
Jean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman@nxp.com> |
[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>
|
| b21a323710e77a27b2f66af901bd3640c30aba6e |
|
13-Dec-2006 |
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> |
[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>
|
| 2d4eeec563a0472b68de3597c17f2d3b11c49c00 |
|
08-Dec-2006 |
Thomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de> |
[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>
|
| 3e29fe837a512229f4757cd93fdd7163d027d103 |
|
07-Dec-2006 |
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> |
[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>
|
| 8df3b0a219967080d9dc4b604b5fecacb6967af0 |
|
02-Dec-2006 |
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> |
[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>
|
| 73cf9630683e8b9f58485b75a13a21ac9ff33aef |
|
03-Oct-2006 |
Christian Borntraeger <borntrae@de.ibm.com> |
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>
|
| bf6ee0ae494596aaf311e8430684db85d1d2f25c |
|
03-Oct-2006 |
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> |
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>
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| 9361401eb7619c033e2394e4f9f6d410d6719ac7 |
|
30-Sep-2006 |
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> |
[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>
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| bef317e364f065717819fbbe7965d4401820286c |
|
14-Jul-2006 |
Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> |
[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>
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| ffca11104c06aff1641b9787f9e5b1099187ff83 |
|
23-Jun-2006 |
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
[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>
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28-Mar-2006 |
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> |
[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>
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| 1751ace034bba6b423c1de4668f0e65cc9ef2b84 |
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26-Mar-2006 |
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> |
[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>
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| 340e48e662dc9bf79cdd9dc755cb2eb2bad580cd |
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25-Mar-2006 |
Zdenek Pavlas <pavlas@nextra.cz> |
[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>
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| e1bc89bc9991e994f2b3c60d9ad2fdb5ad9b10fc |
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05-Feb-2006 |
Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> |
[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>
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| b566ccefd7814e4fa403de81aea299bdc11ceed5 |
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05-Feb-2006 |
Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> |
[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>
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| 6a19b41b35bf45fc27a46dccf26005b3f44c1aa1 |
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06-Jan-2006 |
Marko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@gmail.com> |
[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>
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| a00828e9ac62caed7b830d631914d7748817ccd1 |
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23-Oct-2005 |
Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> |
[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>
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| 3a65dfe8c088143c7155cfd36a72f4b0ad2fc4b2 |
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04-Nov-2005 |
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> |
[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>
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| a08b6b7968e7a6afc75e365ac31830867275abdc |
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06-Sep-2005 |
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> |
[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>
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| 875d43e72b5bf22161a81de7554f88eccf8a51ae |
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04-Sep-2005 |
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> |
[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>
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| dbec486632d2303f5c0e75af7a8473fa4c4a145a |
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10-Aug-2005 |
Sam Ravnborg <sam@mars.(none)> |
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>
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| a553260618d88c4790daec7975c88f3db1080b5b |
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04-May-2005 |
Al Viro <viro@www.linux.org.uk> |
[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>
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| 461790f79028ee9bfc3dd9d9afccc7e264aff9c7 |
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24-Apr-2005 |
Al Viro <viro@www.linux.org.uk> |
[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>
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| 5960f3a63394c091b17682aed3bd8fdd994a1b93 |
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17-Apr-2005 |
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> |
[PATCH] arm: fix floppy disk dependencies
Both the RiscPC and (optionally) EBSA285 have floppy disk support. Allow this
option to be selected on these ARM platforms again.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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| 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 |
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17-Apr-2005 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> |
Linux-2.6.12-rc2
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!
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