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Artem Bityutskiy 660685d9d1 mtd: merge mtdchar module with mtdcore
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>
2013-04-05 13:16:54 +01:00
Kees Cook 7b4dd55b89 drivers/mtd/chips: remove depends on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
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>
2013-01-11 11:38:07 -08:00
Paul Bolle 2e61c3a577 mtd: chips: reorganize Kconfig help on swapping
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>
2012-07-06 18:17:07 +01:00
Lucas De Marchi 25985edced Fix common misspellings
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-31 11:26:23 -03:00
Michael Roth fa3012318b Kconfig: Remove useless and sometimes wrong comments
Additionally, some excessive newlines removed.

Signed-off-by: Michael Roth <mroth@nessie.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-11-09 09:40:56 +01:00
David Woodhouse 5e706469a0 [MTD] [NOR] Select MTD_CFI_UTIL when MTD_CFI probe routine is enabled
It requires cfi_qry_mode_on(), which is in cfi_util.c

Reported by Russell King

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2008-09-01 12:23:22 +01:00
George G. Davis a0e7229edb [MTD] [NOR] Add "Spansion" to MTD_CFI_AMDSTD kconfig menu description
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>
2008-08-06 09:41:35 +01:00
David Brownell 34a82443b7 [MTD] dataflash OTP support
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>
2008-08-01 21:47:47 +01:00
David Woodhouse b7aa48be1e [MTD] [CHIPS] Remove MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS (jedec, amd_flash, sharp)
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2007-05-09 13:34:37 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt ec98c681a5 Use menuconfig objects: MTD
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>
2007-04-19 16:21:41 -05:00
Matt LaPlante 095096038d Fix several typos in drivers/
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:31:37 +02:00
David Woodhouse a15bdeef10 Remove use of inter_module_crap in NOR flash chip drivers.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-05-08 22:35:05 +01:00
Anders Larsen 3a3f8a126d MTD: remove obsolete Kconfig options
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>
2006-04-01 01:02:42 +02:00
Adrian Bunk 8917f6f70b Kconfig help: MTD_JEDECPROBE already supports Intel
Intel chips are already supported.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-03-26 19:15:03 +02:00
Al Viro 034d2f5af1 [PATCH] arm: fix dependencies for MTD_XIP
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>
2006-02-08 01:02:58 -05:00
Adrian Bunk fd279197b1 [PATCH] build kernel/intermodule.c only when required
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>
2006-01-16 23:15:26 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 3001aa826e [PATCH] no longer mark MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS as BROKEN
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>
2006-01-16 23:15:26 -08:00
Thomas Gleixner 1f948b43f7 [MTD] chips: Clean up trailing white spaces
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-11-07 14:45:15 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner 1ca70351af [MTD] Make XIP support depend on CONFIG_ARM
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>
2005-07-12 17:51:06 +02:00
Todd Poynor 02b15e343a [MTD] XIP for AMD CFI flash.
Author: Vitaly Wool <vwool@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <tpoynor@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-06-29 14:18:40 +02:00
Nicolas Pitre f77814dd57 [MTD] Support for protection register support on Intel FLASH chips
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>
2005-05-23 12:25:23 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
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!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00