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<title>linux.git/drivers/mtd/mtd_blkdevs.c, branch v2.6.31</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>mtd: blkdevs: do not forget to get MTD devices</title>
<updated>2009-08-03T13:20:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Artem Bityutskiy</name>
<email>Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-07-10T14:02:17+00:00</published>
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Nowadays MTD devices have to be "get" before they can be
used. This has to be done with 'get_mtd_device()'. The
'blktrans_open()' function did not do this and instead
used 'try_module_get()'. Fix this.

Since 'get_mtd_device()' already gets the module, extra
'try_module_get()' is not needed.

This fixes oops when one tries to use mtdblock on top of
gluebi.

Reported-by: Holger Brunck &lt;holger.brunck@keymile.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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Nowadays MTD devices have to be "get" before they can be
used. This has to be done with 'get_mtd_device()'. The
'blktrans_open()' function did not do this and instead
used 'try_module_get()'. Fix this.

Since 'get_mtd_device()' already gets the module, extra
'try_module_get()' is not needed.

This fixes oops when one tries to use mtdblock on top of
gluebi.

Reported-by: Holger Brunck &lt;holger.brunck@keymile.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy &lt;Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6</title>
<updated>2009-06-22T23:56:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-22T23:56:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ac1b7c378ef26fba6694d5f118fe7fc16fee2fe2'/>
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* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (63 commits)
  mtd: OneNAND: Allow setting of boundary information when built as module
  jffs2: leaking jffs2_summary in function jffs2_scan_medium
  mtd: nand: Fix memory leak on txx9ndfmc probe failure.
  mtd: orion_nand: use burst reads with double word accesses
  mtd/nand: s3c6400 support for s3c2410 driver
  [MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Use DIV_ROUND_UP
  [MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Deal with unaligned lengths in S3C2440 buffer read/write
  [MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Allow the machine code to get the BBT table from NAND
  [MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Added a kerneldoc for s3c2410_nand_set
  mtd: physmap_of: Add multiple regions and concatenation support
  mtd: nand: max_retries off by one in mxc_nand
  mtd: nand: s3c2410_nand_setrate(): use correct macros for 2412/2440
  mtd: onenand: add bbt_wait &amp; unlock_all as replaceable for some platform
  mtd: Flex-OneNAND support
  mtd: nand: add OMAP2/OMAP3 NAND driver
  mtd: maps: Blackfin async: fix memory leaks in probe/remove funcs
  mtd: uclinux: mark local stuff static
  mtd: uclinux: do not allow to be built as a module
  mtd: uclinux: allow systems to override map addr/size
  mtd: blackfin NFC: fix hang when using NAND on BF527-EZKITs
  ...
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* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (63 commits)
  mtd: OneNAND: Allow setting of boundary information when built as module
  jffs2: leaking jffs2_summary in function jffs2_scan_medium
  mtd: nand: Fix memory leak on txx9ndfmc probe failure.
  mtd: orion_nand: use burst reads with double word accesses
  mtd/nand: s3c6400 support for s3c2410 driver
  [MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Use DIV_ROUND_UP
  [MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Deal with unaligned lengths in S3C2440 buffer read/write
  [MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Allow the machine code to get the BBT table from NAND
  [MTD] [NAND] S3C2410: Added a kerneldoc for s3c2410_nand_set
  mtd: physmap_of: Add multiple regions and concatenation support
  mtd: nand: max_retries off by one in mxc_nand
  mtd: nand: s3c2410_nand_setrate(): use correct macros for 2412/2440
  mtd: onenand: add bbt_wait &amp; unlock_all as replaceable for some platform
  mtd: Flex-OneNAND support
  mtd: nand: add OMAP2/OMAP3 NAND driver
  mtd: maps: Blackfin async: fix memory leaks in probe/remove funcs
  mtd: uclinux: mark local stuff static
  mtd: uclinux: do not allow to be built as a module
  mtd: uclinux: allow systems to override map addr/size
  mtd: blackfin NFC: fix hang when using NAND on BF527-EZKITs
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[MTD] set blkdev parent to the mtd device, not its parent</title>
<updated>2009-05-26T15:41:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>David.Woodhouse@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-05T14:38:33+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size</title>
<updated>2009-05-22T21:22:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin K. Petersen</name>
<email>martin.petersen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-22T21:17:49+00:00</published>
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Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case.  The
sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
512-bytes.  Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
and the logical ditto.

This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case.  The
sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
512-bytes.  Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
and the logical ditto.

This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: implement and enforce request peek/start/fetch</title>
<updated>2009-05-11T07:52:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-08T02:54:16+00:00</published>
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Till now block layer allowed two separate modes of request execution.
A request is always acquired from the request queue via
elv_next_request().  After that, drivers are free to either dequeue it
or process it without dequeueing.  Dequeue allows elv_next_request()
to return the next request so that multiple requests can be in flight.

Executing requests without dequeueing has its merits mostly in
allowing drivers for simpler devices which can't do sg to deal with
segments only without considering request boundary.  However, the
benefit this brings is dubious and declining while the cost of the API
ambiguity is increasing.  Segment based drivers are usually for very
old or limited devices and as converting to dequeueing model isn't
difficult, it doesn't justify the API overhead it puts on block layer
and its more modern users.

Previous patches converted all block low level drivers to dequeueing
model.  This patch completes the API transition by...

* renaming elv_next_request() to blk_peek_request()

* renaming blkdev_dequeue_request() to blk_start_request()

* adding blk_fetch_request() which is combination of peek and start

* disallowing completion of queued (not started) requests

* applying new API to all LLDs

Renamings are for consistency and to break out of tree code so that
it's apparent that out of tree drivers need updating.

[ Impact: block request issue API cleanup, no functional change ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Miller &lt;mike.miller@hp.com&gt;
Cc: unsik Kim &lt;donari75@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Waugh &lt;tim@cyberelk.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;Laurent@lvivier.info&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Cc: Adrian McMenamin &lt;adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;petkovbb@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: Pierre Ossman &lt;drzeus@drzeus.cx&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Markus Lidel &lt;Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber &lt;wein@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Pete Zaitcev &lt;zaitcev@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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Till now block layer allowed two separate modes of request execution.
A request is always acquired from the request queue via
elv_next_request().  After that, drivers are free to either dequeue it
or process it without dequeueing.  Dequeue allows elv_next_request()
to return the next request so that multiple requests can be in flight.

Executing requests without dequeueing has its merits mostly in
allowing drivers for simpler devices which can't do sg to deal with
segments only without considering request boundary.  However, the
benefit this brings is dubious and declining while the cost of the API
ambiguity is increasing.  Segment based drivers are usually for very
old or limited devices and as converting to dequeueing model isn't
difficult, it doesn't justify the API overhead it puts on block layer
and its more modern users.

Previous patches converted all block low level drivers to dequeueing
model.  This patch completes the API transition by...

* renaming elv_next_request() to blk_peek_request()

* renaming blkdev_dequeue_request() to blk_start_request()

* adding blk_fetch_request() which is combination of peek and start

* disallowing completion of queued (not started) requests

* applying new API to all LLDs

Renamings are for consistency and to break out of tree code so that
it's apparent that out of tree drivers need updating.

[ Impact: block request issue API cleanup, no functional change ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Miller &lt;mike.miller@hp.com&gt;
Cc: unsik Kim &lt;donari75@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Waugh &lt;tim@cyberelk.net&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;Laurent@lvivier.info&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Cc: Adrian McMenamin &lt;adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;petkovbb@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: Pierre Ossman &lt;drzeus@drzeus.cx&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Markus Lidel &lt;Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com&gt;
Cc: Stefan Weinhuber &lt;wein@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Pete Zaitcev &lt;zaitcev@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mtd_blkdevs: dequeue in-flight request</title>
<updated>2009-05-11T07:52:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-08T02:54:11+00:00</published>
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mtd_blkdevs processes requests one-by-one synchronously from a kthread
and can be easily converted to dequeueing model.  Convert it.

[ Impact: dequeue in-flight request ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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mtd_blkdevs processes requests one-by-one synchronously from a kthread
and can be easily converted to dequeueing model.  Convert it.

[ Impact: dequeue in-flight request ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: blk_rq_[cur_]_{sectors|bytes}() usage cleanup</title>
<updated>2009-05-11T07:50:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-07T13:24:45+00:00</published>
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With the previous changes, the followings are now guaranteed for all
requests in any valid state.

* blk_rq_sectors() == blk_rq_bytes() &gt;&gt; 9
* blk_rq_cur_sectors() == blk_rq_cur_bytes() &gt;&gt; 9

Clean up accessor usages.  Notable changes are

* nbd,i2o_block: end_all used instead of explicit byte count
* scsi_lib: unnecessary conditional on request type removed

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Pete Zaitcev &lt;zaitcev@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: Markus Lidel &lt;Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Boaz Harrosh &lt;bharrosh@panasas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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With the previous changes, the followings are now guaranteed for all
requests in any valid state.

* blk_rq_sectors() == blk_rq_bytes() &gt;&gt; 9
* blk_rq_cur_sectors() == blk_rq_cur_bytes() &gt;&gt; 9

Clean up accessor usages.  Notable changes are

* nbd,i2o_block: end_all used instead of explicit byte count
* scsi_lib: unnecessary conditional on request type removed

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Pete Zaitcev &lt;zaitcev@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: Markus Lidel &lt;Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Boaz Harrosh &lt;bharrosh@panasas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: convert to pos and nr_sectors accessors</title>
<updated>2009-05-11T07:50:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-07T13:24:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=83096ebf1263b2c1ee5e653ba37d993d02e3eb7b'/>
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With recent cleanups, there is no place where low level driver
directly manipulates request fields.  This means that the 'hard'
request fields always equal the !hard fields.  Convert all
rq-&gt;sectors, nr_sectors and current_nr_sectors references to
accessors.

While at it, drop superflous blk_rq_pos() &lt; 0 test in swim.c.

[ Impact: use pos and nr_sectors accessors ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com&gt;
Tested-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Acked-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Tested-by: Adrian McMenamin &lt;adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Adrian McMenamin &lt;adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Miller &lt;mike.miller@hp.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;petkovbb@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Moore &lt;Eric.Moore@lsi.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Pete Zaitcev &lt;zaitcev@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Waugh &lt;tim@cyberelk.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dario Ballabio &lt;ballabio_dario@emc.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: unsik Kim &lt;donari75@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;Laurent@lvivier.info&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
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With recent cleanups, there is no place where low level driver
directly manipulates request fields.  This means that the 'hard'
request fields always equal the !hard fields.  Convert all
rq-&gt;sectors, nr_sectors and current_nr_sectors references to
accessors.

While at it, drop superflous blk_rq_pos() &lt; 0 test in swim.c.

[ Impact: use pos and nr_sectors accessors ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com&gt;
Tested-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Acked-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Tested-by: Adrian McMenamin &lt;adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Adrian McMenamin &lt;adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Miller &lt;mike.miller@hp.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com&gt;
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &lt;bzolnier@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;petkovbb@googlemail.com&gt;
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov &lt;sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Moore &lt;Eric.Moore@lsi.com&gt;
Cc: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Cc: FUJITA Tomonori &lt;fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp&gt;
Cc: Pete Zaitcev &lt;zaitcev@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Clements &lt;paul.clements@steeleye.com&gt;
Cc: Tim Waugh &lt;tim@cyberelk.net&gt;
Cc: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@pobox.com&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: Alex Dubov &lt;oakad@yahoo.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Dario Ballabio &lt;ballabio_dario@emc.com&gt;
Cc: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: unsik Kim &lt;donari75@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;Laurent@lvivier.info&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;jens.axboe@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>block: replace end_request() with [__]blk_end_request_cur()</title>
<updated>2009-04-28T05:37:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-04-23T02:05:19+00:00</published>
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end_request() has been kept around for backward compatibility;
however, it's about time for it to go away.

* There aren't too many users left.

* Its use of @updtodate is pretty confusing.

* In some cases, newer code ends up using mixture of end_request() and
  [__]blk_end_request[_all](), which is way too confusing.

So, add [__]blk_end_request_cur() and replace end_request() with it.
Most conversions are straightforward.  Noteworthy ones are...

* paride/pcd: next_request() updated to take 0/-errno instead of 1/0.

* paride/pf: pf_end_request() and next_request() updated to take
  0/-errno instead of 1/0.

* xd: xd_readwrite() updated to return 0/-errno instead of 1/0.

* mtd/mtd_blkdevs: blktrans_discard_request() updated to return
  0/-errno instead of 1/0.  Unnecessary local variable res
  initialization removed from mtd_blktrans_thread().

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Joerg Dorchain &lt;joerg@dorchain.net&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Acked-by: Laurent Vivier &lt;Laurent@lvivier.info&gt;
Cc: Tim Waugh &lt;tim@cyberelk.net&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: Markus Lidel &lt;Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Pete Zaitcev &lt;zaitcev@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: unsik Kim &lt;donari75@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
end_request() has been kept around for backward compatibility;
however, it's about time for it to go away.

* There aren't too many users left.

* Its use of @updtodate is pretty confusing.

* In some cases, newer code ends up using mixture of end_request() and
  [__]blk_end_request[_all](), which is way too confusing.

So, add [__]blk_end_request_cur() and replace end_request() with it.
Most conversions are straightforward.  Noteworthy ones are...

* paride/pcd: next_request() updated to take 0/-errno instead of 1/0.

* paride/pf: pf_end_request() and next_request() updated to take
  0/-errno instead of 1/0.

* xd: xd_readwrite() updated to return 0/-errno instead of 1/0.

* mtd/mtd_blkdevs: blktrans_discard_request() updated to return
  0/-errno instead of 1/0.  Unnecessary local variable res
  initialization removed from mtd_blktrans_thread().

[ Impact: cleanup ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Joerg Dorchain &lt;joerg@dorchain.net&gt;
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Acked-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@secretlab.ca&gt;
Acked-by: Laurent Vivier &lt;Laurent@lvivier.info&gt;
Cc: Tim Waugh &lt;tim@cyberelk.net&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge &lt;jeremy@xensource.com&gt;
Cc: Markus Lidel &lt;Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com&gt;
Cc: David Woodhouse &lt;dwmw2@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Pete Zaitcev &lt;zaitcev@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: unsik Kim &lt;donari75@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>[MTD] driver model updates</title>
<updated>2009-04-04T13:29:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Brownell</name>
<email>dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-03-26T07:42:41+00:00</published>
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Update driver model support in the MTD framework, so it fits
better into the current udev-based hotplug framework:

 - Each mtd_info now has a device node.  MTD drivers should set
   the dev.parent field to point to the physical device, before
   setting up partitions or otherwise declaring MTDs.

 - Those device nodes always map to /sys/class/mtdX device nodes,
   which no longer depend on MTD_CHARDEV.

 - Those mtdX sysfs nodes have a "starter set" of attributes;
   it's not yet sufficient to replace /proc/mtd.

 - Enabling MTD_CHARDEV provides /sys/class/mtdXro/ nodes and the
   /sys/class/mtd*/dev attributes (for udev, mdev, etc).

 - Include a MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV_MAJOR macro.  It'll work with
   udev creating the /dev/mtd* nodes, not just a static rootfs.

So the sysfs structure is pretty much what you'd expect, except
that readonly chardev nodes are a bit quirky.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell &lt;dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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<pre>
Update driver model support in the MTD framework, so it fits
better into the current udev-based hotplug framework:

 - Each mtd_info now has a device node.  MTD drivers should set
   the dev.parent field to point to the physical device, before
   setting up partitions or otherwise declaring MTDs.

 - Those device nodes always map to /sys/class/mtdX device nodes,
   which no longer depend on MTD_CHARDEV.

 - Those mtdX sysfs nodes have a "starter set" of attributes;
   it's not yet sufficient to replace /proc/mtd.

 - Enabling MTD_CHARDEV provides /sys/class/mtdXro/ nodes and the
   /sys/class/mtd*/dev attributes (for udev, mdev, etc).

 - Include a MODULE_ALIAS_CHARDEV_MAJOR macro.  It'll work with
   udev creating the /dev/mtd* nodes, not just a static rootfs.

So the sysfs structure is pretty much what you'd expect, except
that readonly chardev nodes are a bit quirky.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell &lt;dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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