linux/drivers/s390/block
David Howells 9361401eb7 [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>
2006-09-30 20:52:31 +02:00
..
dasd_3370_erp.c [S390] dasd whitespace and other cosmetics. 2006-06-29 14:58:12 +02:00
dasd_3990_erp.c [S390] dasd whitespace and other cosmetics. 2006-06-29 14:58:12 +02:00
dasd_9336_erp.c [S390] dasd whitespace and other cosmetics. 2006-06-29 14:58:12 +02:00
dasd_9343_erp.c [S390] dasd whitespace and other cosmetics. 2006-06-29 14:58:12 +02:00
dasd_devmap.c [S390] Replace nopav-message on VM. 2006-09-20 15:59:52 +02:00
dasd_diag.c [PATCH] Split struct request ->flags into two parts 2006-09-30 20:23:37 +02:00
dasd_diag.h [S390] dasd whitespace and other cosmetics. 2006-06-29 14:58:12 +02:00
dasd_eckd.c [PATCH] Split struct request ->flags into two parts 2006-09-30 20:23:37 +02:00
dasd_eckd.h [S390] add PAV support to the dasd driver. 2006-06-29 15:08:18 +02:00
dasd_eer.c [S390] __exit cleanup. 2006-09-20 15:59:12 +02:00
dasd_erp.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
dasd_fba.c [PATCH] Split struct request ->flags into two parts 2006-09-30 20:23:37 +02:00
dasd_fba.h [S390] dasd whitespace and other cosmetics. 2006-06-29 14:58:12 +02:00
dasd_genhd.c [S390] dasd: fix device shutdown process. 2006-08-30 14:33:33 +02:00
dasd_int.h [S390] dasd deadlock after state change pending interrupt. 2006-09-20 15:59:05 +02:00
dasd_ioctl.c [S390] Fix sparse warnings. 2006-07-12 16:41:55 +02:00
dasd_proc.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
dasd.c [S390] dasd default debug level. 2006-09-20 15:59:07 +02:00
dcssblk.c [PATCH] s390: kzalloc() conversion in drivers/s390 2006-03-24 07:33:18 -08:00
Kconfig [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer [try #6] 2006-09-30 20:52:31 +02:00
Makefile [PATCH] s390: dasd extended error reporting 2006-03-24 07:33:17 -08:00
xpram.c [S390] Inline assembly cleanup. 2006-09-28 16:56:43 +02:00