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<title>linux.git/drivers/block/Kconfig, branch v2.6.20</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>[PATCH] remove the broken BLK_DEV_SWIM_IOP driver</title>
<updated>2006-12-13T17:05:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Bunk</name>
<email>bunk@stusta.de</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-13T08:35:17+00:00</published>
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The BLK_DEV_SWIM_IOP driver has:
- already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
- is still marked as BROKEN.

Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be
unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.

But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still
present in the older kernel releases.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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The BLK_DEV_SWIM_IOP driver has:
- already been marked as BROKEN in 2.6.0 three years ago and
- is still marked as BROKEN.

Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be
unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future.

But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still
present in the older kernel releases.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] pktcdvd: make procfs interface optional</title>
<updated>2006-12-08T16:28:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Maier</name>
<email>balagi@justmail.de</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-08T10:36:10+00:00</published>
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pktcdvd: Update Kconfig help text.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Maier &lt;balagi@justmail.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund &lt;petero2@telia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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pktcdvd: Update Kconfig help text.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Maier &lt;balagi@justmail.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund &lt;petero2@telia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6</title>
<updated>2006-12-07T17:05:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@woody.osdl.org</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-07T17:05:15+00:00</published>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (48 commits)
  [NETFILTER]: Fix non-ANSI func. decl.
  [TG3]: Identify Serdes devices more clearly.
  [TG3]: Use msleep.
  [TG3]: Use netif_msg_*.
  [TG3]: Allow partial speed advertisement.
  [TG3]: Add TG3_FLG2_IS_NIC flag.
  [TG3]: Add 5787F device ID.
  [TG3]: Fix Phy loopback.
  [WANROUTER]: Kill kmalloc debugging code.
  [TCP] inet_twdr_hangman: Delete unnecessary memory barrier().
  [NET]: Memory barrier cleanups
  [IPSEC]: Fix inetpeer leak in ipv4 xfrm dst entries.
  audit: disable ipsec auditing when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n
  audit: Add auditing to ipsec
  [IRDA] irlan: Fix compile warning when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n
  [IrDA]: Incorrect TTP header reservation
  [IrDA]: PXA FIR code device model conversion
  [GENETLINK]: Fix misplaced command flags.
  [NETLIK]: Add a pointer to the Generic Netlink wiki page.
  [IPV6] RAW: Don't release unlocked sock.
  ...
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (48 commits)
  [NETFILTER]: Fix non-ANSI func. decl.
  [TG3]: Identify Serdes devices more clearly.
  [TG3]: Use msleep.
  [TG3]: Use netif_msg_*.
  [TG3]: Allow partial speed advertisement.
  [TG3]: Add TG3_FLG2_IS_NIC flag.
  [TG3]: Add 5787F device ID.
  [TG3]: Fix Phy loopback.
  [WANROUTER]: Kill kmalloc debugging code.
  [TCP] inet_twdr_hangman: Delete unnecessary memory barrier().
  [NET]: Memory barrier cleanups
  [IPSEC]: Fix inetpeer leak in ipv4 xfrm dst entries.
  audit: disable ipsec auditing when CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL=n
  audit: Add auditing to ipsec
  [IRDA] irlan: Fix compile warning when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n
  [IrDA]: Incorrect TTP header reservation
  [IrDA]: PXA FIR code device model conversion
  [GENETLINK]: Fix misplaced command flags.
  [NETLIK]: Add a pointer to the Generic Netlink wiki page.
  [IPV6] RAW: Don't release unlocked sock.
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] CISS: require same SCSI module support</title>
<updated>2006-12-07T16:39:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>randy.dunlap@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-07T04:38:40+00:00</published>
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Building CCISS SCSI tape support in-kernel when SCSI=m causes build errors,
so require SCSI support to be =y or same as CCISS SCSI tape support.

  drivers/built-in.o: In function `cciss_remove_one':
  cciss.c:(.text+0x79d4c): undefined reference to `scsi_remove_host'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x79d55): undefined reference to `scsi_host_put'
  drivers/built-in.o: In function `cciss_update_non_disk_devices':
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7bb54): undefined reference to `scsi_device_type'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7bcc8): undefined reference to `scsi_device_type'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7be81): undefined reference to `scsi_device_type'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7bf81): undefined reference to `scsi_device_type'
  drivers/built-in.o: In function `cciss_proc_write':
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7c175): undefined reference to `scsi_host_alloc'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7c1ed): undefined reference to `scsi_add_host'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7c1f9): undefined reference to `scsi_scan_host'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7c206): undefined reference to `scsi_host_put'
  make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Miller &lt;mike.miller@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Building CCISS SCSI tape support in-kernel when SCSI=m causes build errors,
so require SCSI support to be =y or same as CCISS SCSI tape support.

  drivers/built-in.o: In function `cciss_remove_one':
  cciss.c:(.text+0x79d4c): undefined reference to `scsi_remove_host'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x79d55): undefined reference to `scsi_host_put'
  drivers/built-in.o: In function `cciss_update_non_disk_devices':
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7bb54): undefined reference to `scsi_device_type'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7bcc8): undefined reference to `scsi_device_type'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7be81): undefined reference to `scsi_device_type'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7bf81): undefined reference to `scsi_device_type'
  drivers/built-in.o: In function `cciss_proc_write':
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7c175): undefined reference to `scsi_host_alloc'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7c1ed): undefined reference to `scsi_add_host'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7c1f9): undefined reference to `scsi_scan_host'
  cciss.c:(.text+0x7c206): undefined reference to `scsi_host_put'
  make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Miller &lt;mike.miller@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[CRYPTO] cryptoloop: Select CRYPTO_CBC</title>
<updated>2006-12-07T02:38:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Herbert Xu</name>
<email>herbert@gondor.apana.org.au</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-02T03:36:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8df3b0a219967080d9dc4b604b5fecacb6967af0'/>
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<content type='text'>
As CBC is the default chaining method for cryptoloop, we should select
it from cryptoloop to ease the transition.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
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<pre>
As CBC is the default chaining method for cryptoloop, we should select
it from cryptoloop to ease the transition.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Fix bytes &lt;-&gt; kilobytes  typo in Kconfig for ramdisk</title>
<updated>2006-10-03T21:40:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Borntraeger</name>
<email>borntrae@de.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-03T21:40:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=73cf9630683e8b9f58485b75a13a21ac9ff33aef'/>
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This is a small fix for a typo in Kconfig. The default value for the block
size is 1024 bytes not 1024 kilobytes.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntrae@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
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<pre>
This is a small fix for a typo in Kconfig. The default value for the block
size is 1024 bytes not 1024 kilobytes.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntrae@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>remove mentionings of devfs in documentation</title>
<updated>2006-10-03T20:17:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Adrian Bunk</name>
<email>bunk@stusta.de</email>
</author>
<published>2006-10-03T20:17:48+00:00</published>
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Now that devfs is removed, there's no longer any need to document how to
do this or that with devfs.

This patch includes some improvements by Joe Perches.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
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<pre>
Now that devfs is removed, there's no longer any need to document how to
do this or that with devfs.

This patch includes some improvements by Joe Perches.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk &lt;bunk@stusta.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6]</title>
<updated>2006-09-30T18:52:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-09-30T18:45:40+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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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 &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] ramdisk blocksize Kconfig entry</title>
<updated>2006-07-15T04:53:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Scott</name>
<email>nathans@sgi.com</email>
</author>
<published>2006-07-14T07:24:10+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=bef317e364f065717819fbbe7965d4401820286c'/>
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Make the ramdisk blocksize configurable at kernel compilation time rather
than only at boot or module load time, like a couple of the other ramdisk
options.  I found this handy awhile back but thought little of it, until
recently asked by a few of the testing folks here to be able to do the same
thing for their automated test setups.

The Kconfig comment is largely lifted from comments in rd.c, and hopefully
this will increase the chances of making folks aware that the default value
often isn't a great choice here (for increasing values of PAGE_SIZE, even
moreso).

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott &lt;nathans@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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Make the ramdisk blocksize configurable at kernel compilation time rather
than only at boot or module load time, like a couple of the other ramdisk
options.  I found this handy awhile back but thought little of it, until
recently asked by a few of the testing folks here to be able to do the same
thing for their automated test setups.

The Kconfig comment is largely lifted from comments in rd.c, and hopefully
this will increase the chances of making folks aware that the default value
often isn't a great choice here (for increasing values of PAGE_SIZE, even
moreso).

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott &lt;nathans@sgi.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[PATCH] frv: initrd is grossly broken on frv (never built)</title>
<updated>2006-06-23T14:42:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2006-06-23T09:04:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ffca11104c06aff1641b9787f9e5b1099187ff83'/>
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<content type='text'>
The FRV arch doesn't currently support initrd, so it should be disabled
automatically for the moment.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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The FRV arch doesn't currently support initrd, so it should be disabled
automatically for the moment.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
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