Extend the core device-mapper infrastructure to accept arbitrary ioctls on a
mapped device provided that it has exactly one target and it is capable of
supporting ioctls.

[We can't use unlocked_ioctl because we need 'inode': 'file' might be NULL.
Is it worth changing this?]
Signed-off-by: NMilan Broz <mbroz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

> Am Wednesday 21 June 2006 21:31 schrieb Alasdair G Kergon:
> > static struct block_device_operations dm_blk_dops = {
> > .open = dm_blk_open,
> > .release = dm_blk_close,
> > +.ioctl = dm_blk_ioctl,
> > .getgeo = dm_blk_getgeo,
> > .owner = THIS_MODULE
>
> I guess this also needs a ->compat_ioctl method, otherwise it won't
> work for ioctl numbers that have a compat_ioctl implementation in the
> low-level device driver.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Tidy device-mapper error messages to include context information
automatically.
Signed-off-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Add a library function dm_create_error_table() to create a table that rejects
any I/O sent to a device with EIO.
Signed-off-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Move definitions of core device-mapper functions for manipulating mapped
devices and their tables to <linux/device-mapper.h> advertising their
availability for use elsewhere in the kernel.

Protect the contents of device-mapper.h with ifdef __KERNEL__.  And throw
in a few formatting clean-ups and extra comments.
Signed-off-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This flag should be set for a virtual device iff it is set for all
underlying devices.
Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

drivers/md/dm-table.c:500: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
Signed-off-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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!