linux-toradex.git/drivers/mtd/Kconfig, branch v3.11

mtd: merge mtdchar module with mtdcore

2013-04-05T12:16:54+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

Merge tag 'for-linus-20130301' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd

2013-03-03T00:33:54+00:00

Pull MTD update from David Woodhouse:
 "Fairly unexciting MTD merge for 3.9:

   - misc clean-ups in the MTD command-line partitioning parser
     (cmdlinepart)
   - add flash locking support for STmicro chips serial flash chips, as
     well as for CFI command set 2 chips.
   - new driver for the ELM error correction HW module found in various
     TI chips, enable the OMAP NAND driver to use the ELM HW error
     correction
   - added number of new serial flash IDs
   - various fixes and improvements in the gpmi NAND driver
   - bcm47xx NAND driver improvements
   - make the mtdpart module actually removable"

* tag 'for-linus-20130301' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (45 commits)
  mtd: map: BUG() in non handled cases
  mtd: bcm47xxnflash: use pr_fmt for module prefix in messages
  mtd: davinci_nand: Use managed resources
  mtd: mtd_torturetest can cause stack overflows
  mtd: physmap_of: Convert device allocation to managed devm_kzalloc()
  mtd: at91: atmel_nand: for PMECC, add code to check the ONFI parameter ECC requirement.
  mtd: atmel_nand: make pmecc-cap, pmecc-sector-size in dts is optional.
  mtd: atmel_nand: avoid to report an error when lookup table offset is 0.
  mtd: bcm47xxsflash: adjust names of bus-specific functions
  mtd: bcm47xxpart: improve probing of nvram partition
  mtd: bcm47xxpart: add support for other erase sizes
  mtd: bcm47xxnflash: register this as normal driver
  mtd: bcm47xxnflash: fix message
  mtd: bcm47xxsflash: register this as normal driver
  mtd: bcm47xxsflash: write number of written bytes
  mtd: gpmi: add sanity check for the ECC
  mtd: gpmi: set the Golois Field bit for mx6q's BCH
  mtd: devices: elm: Removes  literals in elm DT node
  mtd: gpmi: fix a dereferencing freed memory error
  mtd: fix the wrong timeo for panic_nand_wait()
  ...

mtd: cmdlinepart: Make it into a module

2013-02-04T07:27:33+00:00

All other partitioning schemes can be compiled as modules

Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel 
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy

drivers/mtd: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

2013-01-11T19:38:07+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy

mtd: bcm47part driver for BCM47XX chipsets

2012-09-29T14:32:31+00:00

This driver provides parser detecting partitions on BCM47XX flash
memories. It has many differences in comparison to BCM63XX, like:
1) Different CFE with no more trivial MAGICs
2) More partitions types (board_data, ML, POT)
3) Supporting more than 1 flash on a device
which resulted in decision of writing new parser.

It uses generic mtd interface and was successfully tested with Netgear
WNDR4500 router which has 2 flash memories: serial one and NAND one.

Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki 
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

mtd: of_parts: fix breakage in Kconfig

2012-06-01T19:06:59+00:00

MTD_OF_PARTS and the default setting is not working due to using 'Y'
instead of 'y', introduced in commit
d6137badeff1ef64b4e0092ec249ebdeaeb3ff37. This made our board, and
possibly other boards using DTS defined partitions and not having
CONFIG_MTD_OF_PARTS=y defined in the defconfig, fail to mount root.

Signed-off-by: Frank Svendsboe 
Cc: stable@kernel.org [3.2+]
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

Merge tag 'for-linus-3.4' of git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6

2012-03-31T00:31:56+00:00

Pull MTD changes from David Woodhouse:
 - Artem's cleanup of the MTD API continues apace.
 - Fixes and improvements for ST FSMC and SuperH FLCTL NAND, amongst
   others.
 - More work on DiskOnChip G3, new driver for DiskOnChip G4.
 - Clean up debug/warning printks in JFFS2 to use pr_.

Fix up various trivial conflicts, largely due to changes in calling
conventions for things like dmaengine_prep_slave_sg() (new inline
wrapper to hide new parameter, clashing with rewrite of previously last
parameter that used to be an 'append' flag, and is now a bitmap of
'unsigned long flags').

(Also some header file fallout - like so many merges this merge window -
and silly conflicts with sparse fixes)

* tag 'for-linus-3.4' of git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (120 commits)
  mtd: docg3 add protection against concurrency
  mtd: docg3 refactor cascade floors structure
  mtd: docg3 increase write/erase timeout
  mtd: docg3 fix inbound calculations
  mtd: nand: gpmi: fix function annotations
  mtd: phram: fix section mismatch for phram_setup
  mtd: unify initialization of erase_info->fail_addr
  mtd: support ONFI multi lun NAND
  mtd: sm_ftl: fix typo in major number.
  mtd: add device-tree support to spear_smi
  mtd: spear_smi: Remove default partition information from driver
  mtd: Add device-tree support to fsmc_nand
  mtd: fix section mismatch for doc_probe_device
  mtd: nand/fsmc: Remove sparse warnings and errors
  mtd: nand/fsmc: Add DMA support
  mtd: nand/fsmc: Access the NAND device word by word whenever possible
  mtd: nand/fsmc: Use dev_err to report error scenario
  mtd: nand/fsmc: Use devm routines
  mtd: nand/fsmc: Modify fsmc driver to accept nand timing parameters via platform
  mtd: fsmc_nand: add pm callbacks to support hibernation
  ...

mtd: mtdoops: kill Kconfig usage instructions

2012-03-26T23:15:37+00:00

The mtdoops usage instructions found in Kconfig have been incorrect
since:

    commit 2e386e4bac90554887e73d6f342e845185b33fc3
    mtd: mtdoops: refactor as a kmsg_dumper

mtdoops no longer uses a console. Now, if you build it into your kernel,
you add something like the following to your command line to select
partition X as your logging partition:

    mtdoops.mtddev=X

Anyway, it seems better to leave the documentation out of Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris 
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

MTD: Relax dependencies

2012-03-24T23:29:56+00:00

CONFIG_GENERIC_IO is just enough for the basic MTD stuff.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger 
Acked-by: Artem Bityutskiy

mtd: maps: bcm963xx-flash: make CFE partition parsing an mtd parser

2012-01-09T18:15:31+00:00

Recent BCM63XX devices support a variety of flash types (parallel, SPI,
NAND) and share the partition layout. To prevent code duplication make
the CFE partition parsing code a stand alone mtd parser to allow SPI or
NAND flash drivers to use it.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski 
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli 
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy 
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse