Rename the block documentation files to ReST, add an
index for them and adjust in order to produce a nice html
output via the Sphinx build system.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>

To avoid confusion between REQ_OP_FLUSH, which is handled by
request_fn drivers, and upper layers requesting the block layer
perform a flush sequence along with possibly a WRITE, this patch
renames REQ_FLUSH to REQ_PREFLUSH.
Signed-off-by: NMike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

This adds a REQ_OP_FLUSH operation that is sent to request_fn
based drivers by the block layer's flush code, instead of
sending requests with the request->cmd_flags REQ_FLUSH bit set.
Signed-off-by: NMike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: NHannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

We don't have any drivers left using it, so kill it off. Update
documentation to use the newer blk_queue_write_cache().
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>