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: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

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: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

This patch moves hd.c to drivers/block/
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>

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: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Support direct_access XIP method with brd.
Signed-off-by: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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: NNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NByron Bradley <byron.bbradley@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch moves virtio under the virtualization menu and changes virtio
devices to not claim to only be for lguest.
Signed-off-by: NAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

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: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

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: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

This option is already in arch/um/Kconfig.char
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>

Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: NRobert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

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: NGeert 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: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NJan 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: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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: NIan Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: NChristian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: NChris 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>

Tested on Xilinx Virtex ppc405, Katmai 440SPe, and Microblaze
Signed-off-by: NGrant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: NStefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: John William <jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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: NStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: NDavid Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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: NJan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

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: NDimitri Gorokhovik <dimitri.gorokhovik@free.fr>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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: NJean-Paul Saman <jean-paul.saman@nxp.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NFrederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

pktcdvd: Update Kconfig help text.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Maier <balagi@justmail.de>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: NMike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

As CBC is the default chaining method for cryptoloop, we should select
it from cryptoloop to ease the transition.
Signed-off-by: NHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

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: NChristian Borntraeger <borntrae@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

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: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

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: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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: NNathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The FRV arch doesn't currently support initrd, so it should be disabled
automatically for the moment.
Signed-off-by: NAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Zdenek Pavlas <pavlas@nextra.cz>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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: NPeter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Unless the help text is outdated, this seems to be logical.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NPeter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Make drivers that use directly PC parport HW depend on PARPORT_PC rather than
HW independent PARPORT.
Signed-off-by: NMarko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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: NPete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>