The MTD subsystem has historically tried to be as configurable as possible. The
side-effect of this is that its configuration menu is rather large, and we are
gradually shrinking it. For example, we recently merged partitions support with
the mtdcore.
This patch does the next step - it merges the mtdchar module to mtdcore. And in
this case this is not only about eliminating too fine-grained separation and
simplifying the configuration menu. This is also about eliminating seemingly
useless kernel module.
Indeed, mtdchar is a module that allows user-space making use of MTD devices
via /dev/mtd* character devices. If users do not enable it, they simply cannot
use MTD devices at all. They cannot read or write the flash contents. Is it a
sane and useful setup? I believe not. And everyone just enables mtdchar.
Having mtdchar separate is also a little bit harmful. People sometimes miss the
fact that they need to enable an additional configuration option to have
user-space MTD interfaces, and then they wonder why on earth the kernel does
not allow using the flash? They spend time asking around.
Thus, let's just get rid of this module and make it part of mtd core.
Note, mtdchar had additional configuration option to enable OTP interfaces,
which are present on some flashes. I removed that option as well - it saves a
really tiny amount space.
[dwmw2: Strictly speaking, you can mount file systems on MTD devices just
fine without the mtdchar (or mtdblock) devices; you just can't do
other manipulations directly on the underlying device. But still I
agree that it makes sense to make this unconditional. And Yay! we
get to kill off an instance of checking CONFIG_foo_MODULE, which is
an abomination that should never happen.]
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
The CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL config item has not carried much meaning for a
while now and is almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the
Linux kernel summit, remove it from any "depends on" lines in Kconfigs.
CC: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
The Kconfig help on "Flash cmd/query data swapping" still mentions
LART_ENDIAN_BYTE. That option used to be relevant for setting
CONFIG_MTD_CFI_LART_BIT_SWAP. That option and macro got both removed in
v2.4.11-pre4. So, although LART endianness sounds intriguing, that part
of the help text can be removed.
And, while we're touching this choice, move the help text up one level.
Currently it's available under the "NO" option, while it's relevant for
all three options.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
This long overdue trivial change to the MTD_CFI_AMDSTD kconfig menu
description is intended to help clarify that this option also supports
Spansion flash devices.
Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Now that we can tell when we have one of the newer DataFlash chips,
optionally expose the 128 bytes of OTP memory they provide. Tested
on at45db642 revision B and D chips.
Switch mtdchar over to a generic HAVE_MTD_OTP flag instead of adding
another #ifdef for each type of chip whose driver has OTP support.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Use menuconfigs instead of menus, so the whole menu can be disabled at once
instead of going through all options.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Remove the obsolete Kconfig options MTD_CFI_AMDSTD_RETRY
and MTD_CFI_AMDSTD_RETRY_MAX
The code that depended on these was removed in early 2004, but
Kconfig was not updated accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
MTD_XIP depends on having working asm/mtd-xip.h; it's not just per-architecture
(arm-only, as current Kconfig would have it), but actually per-subarch as
well. Introduced a new symbol (ARCH_MTD_XIP) set by arch Kconfig; MTD_XIP
depends on it.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Build kernel/intermodule.c only when required.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch removes the wrong dependency of MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS on BROKEN and
marks the non-compiling MTD_AMDSTD and MTD_JEDEC drivers as BROKEN.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
ARM is the only known user of this at the moment.
Prevent allyes builds for other archs from failing
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This enables support for reading, writing and locking so called
"Protection Registers" present on some flash chips.
A subset of them are pre-programmed at the factory with a
unique set of values. The rest is user-programmable.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas 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!
