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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2006-09-30 14:45:40 -0400
committerJens Axboe <axboe@nelson.home.kernel.dk>2006-09-30 14:52:31 -0400
commit9361401eb7619c033e2394e4f9f6d410d6719ac7 (patch)
tree04b94a71f2366988c17740d1c16cfbdec41d5d2e /drivers/char/Kconfig
parentd366e40a1cabd453be6e2609caa7e12f9ca17b1f (diff)
[PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]
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: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig
index 4cc619edf424..bde1c665d9f4 100644
--- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
@@ -1006,6 +1006,7 @@ config GPIO_VR41XX
1006 1006
1007config RAW_DRIVER 1007config RAW_DRIVER
1008 tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN) (OBSOLETE)" 1008 tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN) (OBSOLETE)"
1009 depends on BLOCK
1009 help 1010 help
1010 The raw driver permits block devices to be bound to /dev/raw/rawN. 1011 The raw driver permits block devices to be bound to /dev/raw/rawN.
1011 Once bound, I/O against /dev/raw/rawN uses efficient zero-copy I/O. 1012 Once bound, I/O against /dev/raw/rawN uses efficient zero-copy I/O.