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- Feb 08, 2008
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Nick Piggin authored
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>
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- Feb 04, 2008
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Anthony Liguori authored
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>
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- Jan 28, 2008
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Adrian McMenamin authored
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>
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- Oct 23, 2007
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Rusty Russell authored
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>
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- Oct 19, 2007
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Adrian Bunk authored
This option is already in arch/um/Kconfig.char Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by:
Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
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Patrick Ringl authored
Signed-off-by:
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
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- Oct 12, 2007
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Robert P. J. Day authored
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>
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- Aug 23, 2007
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
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>
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- Aug 18, 2007
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Jan Engelhardt authored
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>
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- Jul 18, 2007
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
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>
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- Jul 17, 2007
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Grant Likely authored
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>
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- Jul 16, 2007
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Stephen Rothwell authored
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>
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Adrian Bunk authored
This patch removes some code that became dead code after the ATARI_ACSI removal. It also indirectly fixes the following bug introduced by commit c2bcf3b8: 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>
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David S. Miller authored
Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- Jul 10, 2007
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Jan Engelhardt authored
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>
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Jens Axboe authored
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>
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- May 10, 2007
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Martin Schwidefsky authored
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>
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- Mar 06, 2007
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Dimitri Gorokhovik authored
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>
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- Feb 11, 2007
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Jean-Paul Saman authored
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>
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- Dec 13, 2006
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Adrian Bunk authored
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>
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- Dec 08, 2006
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Thomas Maier authored
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>
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- Dec 07, 2006
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Randy Dunlap authored
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>
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Herbert Xu authored
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>
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- Oct 03, 2006
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Christian Borntraeger authored
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>
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Adrian Bunk authored
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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- Sep 30, 2006
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David Howells authored
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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- Jul 15, 2006
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Nathan Scott authored
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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- Jun 23, 2006
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Al Viro authored
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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- Mar 28, 2006
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Adrian Bunk authored
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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- Mar 26, 2006
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H. Peter Anvin authored
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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- Mar 25, 2006
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Zdenek Pavlas authored
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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- Feb 05, 2006
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Peter Osterlund authored
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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Adrian Bunk authored
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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- Jan 06, 2006
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Marko Kohtala authored
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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- Jan 04, 2006
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Pete Zaitcev authored
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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- Nov 04, 2005
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Jens Axboe authored
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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- Sep 08, 2005
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Al Viro authored
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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- Sep 05, 2005
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Ralf Baechle authored
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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- Aug 10, 2005
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Sam Ravnborg authored
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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- May 04, 2005
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Al Viro authored
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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