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2013-04-05mtd: merge mtdchar module with mtdcoreArtem Bityutskiy
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>
2013-04-05mtd: mtdcore: cleanup mtdcore.h a littleArtem Bityutskiy
Remove useless extern qualifiers. Not that this is a problem, but we more often declare function prototypes without 'extern', so this is just about being more consistent. And I am going to add a couple more prototypes here. Additionally, remove a useless comment. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2013-04-05mtd: add 'const' qualifier to a couple of register functionsArtem Bityutskiy
'mtd_device_parse_register()' and 'parse_mtd_partitions()' functions accept a an array of character pointers. These functions modify neither the pointers nor the characters they point to. The characters are actually names of the MTD parsers. At the moment, the argument type is 'const char **', which means that only the names of the parsers are constant. Let's turn the argument type into 'const char * const *', which means that both names and the pointers which point to them are constant. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2011-09-11mtd: hide parse_mtd_partitionsDmitry Eremin-Solenikov
There is no need to export parse_mtd_partitions() now , as it's fully handled by registration functions. So move the definition to private header and remove respective EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2011-05-25mtd: remove add_mtd_partitions, add_mtd_device and friendsJamie Iles
These symbols are replaced with mtd_device_register() (and removal with mtd_device_unregister()) for public registration. Signed-off-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2010-02-25mtd: Replace static array of devices with an idr structureBen Hutchings
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2010-02-25mtd: Introduce and use iteration macro for reading the MTD device tableBen Hutchings
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2007-06-28[MTD] mtdcore.c: share syms with mtd_blkdev.cBen Dooks
Fix the sparse warnings generated by the implicit dependency of mtd_blkdevs.c and mtd_core.c for the two symbols mtd_table and mtd_table_mutex. This is done by adding an local header file mtdcore.h to define these (including the warning about the non-proliferation of these symbols). Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>