Add a new background method into mtd_blktrans_ops, add background support
into mtd_blktrans_thread(), and add mtd_blktrans_cease_background().

If the mtd blktrans dev has the background support, the thread will
call background function when the request queue becomes empty. The background
operation may run as long as needs to until
mtd_blktrans_cease_background() tells to stop.
Signed-off-by: NJarkko Lavinen <jarkko.lavinen@nokia.com>
Tested-by: NArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

This patch adds an ability to export sysfs attributes below
the block disk device.

This can be used to pass the udev an information about the FTL
and could include the vendor, serial, version, etc...
Signed-off-by: NMaxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

* Add locking where it was missing.

* Don't do a get_mtd_device in blktrans_open because it would lead to a
  deadlock; instead do that in add_mtd_blktrans_dev.

* Only free the mtd_blktrans_dev structure when the last user exits.

* Flush request queue on device removal.

* Track users, and call tr->release in del_mtd_blktrans_dev
  Due to that ->open and release aren't called more that once.

Now it is safe to call del_mtd_blktrans_dev while the device is still in use.
Signed-off-by: NMaxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

This is the biggest change. To make hotplug possible, and this layer 
clean, the mtd_blktrans_dev now contains everything for a single mtd 
block translation device. Also removed some very old leftovers.
Signed-off-by: NMaxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Once upon a time, the MTD repository was using CVS.

This patch therefore removes all usages of the no longer updated CVS
keywords from the MTD code.

This also includes code that printed them to the user.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Currently, mtd_blkdevs enforces a block size of 512, even if the drivers
can seemingly request a different size. This patch fixes mtd_blkdevs so
block sizes other than 512 work correctly.
Signed-off-by: NRichard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

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!