- add the detailed explanation.
- remove 'default y'.
- make 'EXPERIMENTAL' keyword visible to the user in menu.
Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

The SCSI code can be compiled modular, but BLK_DEV_BSG currently cannot,
and depends on the SCSI layer.  So make sure that it depends on the SCSI
layer being compiled in, not just available as a module.

Noticed by Jeff Garzik and S.Çağlar Onur.

Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@pardus.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This updates bsg entry in Kconfig:

- bsg supports sg v4
- bsg depends on SCSI
- it might be better to mark it experimental for a while
Signed-off-by: NFUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

instead of going through all options.
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>

CONFIG_LBD and CONFIG_LSF are spread into asm/types.h for no particularly
good reason.

Centralising the definition in linux/types.h means that arch maintainers
don't need to bother adding it, as well as fixing the problem with
x86-64 users being asked to make a decision that has absolutely no
effect.

The H8/300 porters seem particularly confused since I'm not aware of any
microcontrollers that need to support 2TB filesystems.
Signed-off-by: NMatthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

It's too easy for people to shoot themselves in the foot, and it
only makes sense for embedded folks anyway.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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>

The help text says that if you select CONFIG_LBD, then it will automatically
select CONFIG_LFS.  That isn't currently the case, so update the text.

- Get rid of the cruft in the help text mentioning CONFIG_LBD

- Tell unsure users to select CONFIG_LFS.

- Remove the `default n'.
Signed-off-by: NTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

debugfs depends on sysfs, so make blktrace kconfig option depend
on that.

Reported by Adrian Bunk.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

Add blkcnt_t as the type of inode.i_blocks.  This enables you to make the size
of blkcnt_t either 4 bytes or 8 bytes on 32 bits architecture with CONFIG_LSF.

- CONFIG_LSF
  Add new configuration parameter.
- blkcnt_t
  On h8300, i386, mips, powerpc, s390 and sh that define sector_t,
  blkcnt_t is defined as u64 if CONFIG_LSF is enabled; otherwise it is
  defined as unsigned long.
  On other architectures, it is defined as unsigned long.
- inode.i_blocks
  Change the type from sector_t to blkcnt_t.
Signed-off-by: NTakashi Sato <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>

Sanitize some s390 Kconfig options.  We have ARCH_S390, ARCH_S390X,
ARCH_S390_31, 64BIT, S390_SUPPORT and COMPAT.  Replace these 6 options by
S390, 64BIT and COMPAT.
Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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: NJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>