Expand the parameter parsing for block2mtd. It now accepts:
Ki, Mi, Gi - the official prefixes for binary multiples,
see http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html,
ki - mistake on my side and analog to "k" for decimal multiples,
KiB, MiB, GiB - for people that prefer to add a "B" for byte,
kiB - combination of the above.
There were complaints about not accepting "k" for 1024. This has long
been common practice, but is known to lead to confusion. Hence the new
SI units and hence block2mtd only accepts units that cannot be confused
with decimal units. Diverging from common practice doesn't always please
people, even if the change is for the better.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Several flags are set by some devices, but never checked. Remove them.
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
mtdblock_ro is by definition readonly. Remove the silly checks.
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
mtdblock is the only user of aggregate capabilities in mtd. This is clearly
bogus and should be changed. In particular, it tries to determine whether
the device in question is a piece of RAM. For every single driver that fits
the current criteria, an easier test would be to check for the type being
MTD_RAM.
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Remove the blkmtd driver.
- An alternative exists (block2mtd) that hasn't had bug report for > 1 year.
- Most embedded people tend to use ancient kernels with custom patches from
mtd cvs and elsewhere, so the 1 year warning period neither helps nor hurts
them too much.
- It's in the way of klibc. The problems caused by pulling blkmtd support
are fairly low, while the problems caused by delaying klibc can be fairly
substantial. At best, this would be a severe burden on hpa's time.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
o Uninline kfree_skb, which saves some 15k of object code on my notebook.
o Allow kfree_skb to be called with a NULL argument.
Subsequent patches can remove conditional from drivers and further
reduce source and object size.
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Add support for "4G Systems MTX-1 Flash device", better known as meshcube.
From: Bruno Randolf <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
- Lindent
- Removal of slram/phram functionality
- Removal of most #ifdefs
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Jffs2 apparently needs this.
Accept newline at the end of input.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
- Remove Gareth from the Copyrights (at his own request)
- Fix the "fscking embarrassment"
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Jörn Engel