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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
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acpi Fixes: 2013-03-12 20:25:53 -07:00
amba ARM: 7675/1: amba: tegra-ahb: Fix build error w/ PM_SLEEP w/o PM_RUNTIME 2013-03-15 17:20:02 +00:00
ata ACPI / glue: Drop .find_bridge() callback from struct acpi_bus_type 2013-03-04 14:23:40 +01:00
atm hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators 2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
auxdisplay
base ACPI and power management fixes for 3.9-rc2 2013-03-07 14:54:28 -08:00
bcma bcma_mips: add a const qualifier 2013-04-05 13:04:07 +01:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client 2013-02-28 17:43:09 -08:00
bluetooth Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-02-21 17:40:58 -08:00
bus
cdrom
char Simple virtio-rng fix. 2013-03-12 20:28:45 -07:00
clk clk: vt8500: Fix "fix device clock divisor calculations" 2013-03-14 22:34:26 +01:00
clocksource ImgTec Meta architecture changes for v3.9-rc1 2013-03-03 12:06:09 -08:00
connector proc connector: reject unprivileged listener bumps 2013-02-27 13:08:35 -05:00
cpufreq cpufreq / intel_pstate: Do not load on VM that does not report max P state. 2013-03-06 23:40:11 +01:00
cpuidle arm-soc: soc-specific updates 2013-02-21 15:27:22 -08:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2013-02-25 15:56:15 -08:00
dca dca: convert to idr_alloc() 2013-02-27 19:10:15 -08:00
devfreq
dio
dma Merge branch 'next' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma 2013-03-03 10:20:22 -08:00
edac Merge branch 'linux_next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac 2013-02-28 20:42:33 -08:00
eisa
extcon Char/Misc driver patches for 3.9-rc1 2013-02-21 13:57:13 -08:00
firewire firewire: convert to idr_alloc() 2013-02-27 19:10:15 -08:00
firmware Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2013-03-09 16:51:13 -08:00
gpio Two patches for Device Tree on at91sam9x5/NAND. 2013-03-14 23:55:59 +01:00
gpu Merge branch 'drm-nouveau-fixes-3.9' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/nouveau/linux-2.6 into drm-next 2013-03-11 13:53:58 +10:00
hid Merge branch 'for-3.9/upstream-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid 2013-03-08 14:42:52 -08:00
hsi hsi: fix kernel-doc warnings 2013-03-01 13:39:00 -08:00
hv Drivers: hv: vmbus: Use the new infrastructure for delivering VMBUS interrupts 2013-02-27 10:15:53 -08:00
hwmon hwmon: (pmbus/ltc2978) Fix temperature reporting 2013-03-14 09:03:51 -07:00
hwspinlock
i2c drivers/i2c: remove !S390 dependency, add missing GENERIC_HARDIRQS dependencies 2013-03-11 09:59:02 +01:00
ide Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
idle Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2013-02-22 19:25:09 -08:00
iio First round of iio fixes post the 3.9 merge window. 2013-03-06 05:48:24 +08:00
infiniband mlx4: remove leftover idr_pre_get() call 2013-03-13 15:21:46 -07:00
input arm-soc: bug fixes for 3.9-rc3 2013-03-18 08:17:14 -07:00
iommu iommu, x86: Add DMA remap fault reason 2013-03-06 09:41:51 +01:00
ipack Char/Misc driver patches for 3.9-rc1 2013-02-21 13:57:13 -08:00
irqchip irqchip: fix typo when moving gic_raise_softirq() 2013-03-04 17:15:33 -08:00
isdn drivers/isdn: checkng length to be sure not memory overflow 2013-03-08 00:35:44 -05:00
leds Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/linux-leds 2013-02-26 09:29:02 -08:00
lguest All trivial, thanks to the stuff which didn't quite make it time. 2013-02-26 14:49:12 -08:00
macintosh Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2013-02-23 17:09:55 -08:00
mailbox mailbox, pl320-ipc: remove __init from probe function 2013-03-04 14:23:11 +01:00
md md updates for 3.9 2013-03-05 17:22:08 -08:00
media arm-soc: late OMAP changes 2013-02-28 20:00:40 -08:00
memory
memstick memstick: move the dereference below the NULL test 2013-02-27 19:10:23 -08:00
message
mfd mfd: twl4030-madc: Remove __exit_p annotation 2013-03-15 07:42:22 +01:00
misc fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. 2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
mmc Merge branches 'devel-stable', 'fixes' and 'mmci' into for-linus 2013-03-03 00:32:50 +00:00
mtd mtd: merge mtdchar module with mtdcore 2013-04-05 13:16:54 +01:00
net rrunner.c: fix possible memory leak in rr_init_one() 2013-03-10 16:42:23 -04:00
nfc Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next into for-davem 2013-02-18 13:47:13 -05:00
ntb
nubus
of Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-02-21 17:40:58 -08:00
oprofile fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. 2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
parisc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
parport Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux 2013-02-21 17:54:03 -08:00
pci ACPI / glue: Add .match() callback to struct acpi_bus_type 2013-03-04 14:23:40 +01:00
pcmcia Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2013-02-21 17:40:58 -08:00
pinctrl ARM: at91: add gpio suspend/resume support when using pinctrl 2013-03-14 09:37:42 +01:00
platform Platform: x86: chromeos_laptop : Add basic platform data for atmel devices 2013-03-08 16:03:29 -08:00
pnp ACPI / glue: Add .match() callback to struct acpi_bus_type 2013-03-04 14:23:40 +01:00
power power: convert to idr_alloc() 2013-02-27 19:10:18 -08:00
pps drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: use devm_kzalloc 2013-02-27 19:10:23 -08:00
ps3
ptp
pwm pwm: Changes for v3.9-rc1 2013-02-26 09:34:29 -08:00
rapidio
regulator Merge remote-tracking branch 'regulator/fix/twl' into tmp 2013-03-05 10:12:43 +08:00
remoteproc remoteproc: convert to idr_alloc() 2013-02-27 19:10:18 -08:00
rpmsg rpmsg: convert to idr_alloc() 2013-02-27 19:10:18 -08:00
rtc rtc: rtc-mv: Add support for clk to avoid lockups 2013-03-08 21:34:41 +00:00
s390 s390/kdump: Do not add standby memory for kdump 2013-03-11 09:59:06 +01:00
sbus Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
scsi ACPI / glue: Add .match() callback to struct acpi_bus_type 2013-03-04 14:23:40 +01:00
sfi
sh
sn
spi arm-soc: soc-specific updates 2013-02-21 15:27:22 -08:00
ssb ssb: driver_mipscore: add a const qualifier 2013-04-05 13:04:10 +01:00
staging Merge branch 'akpm' (fixes from Andrew) 2013-03-13 15:21:57 -07:00
target Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2013-03-02 11:43:27 -08:00
tc
thermal Fix mis-merge of intel_powerclamp.c resulting in compile error 2013-02-28 20:23:09 -08:00
tty TTY/Serial fixes for 3.9-rc2 2013-03-13 15:02:02 -07:00
uio uio: convert to idr_alloc() 2013-02-27 19:10:19 -08:00
usb USB fixes for 3.9-rc2 2013-03-13 15:03:48 -07:00
uwb
vfio vfio: convert to idr_alloc() 2013-02-27 19:10:19 -08:00
vhost Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2013-02-26 11:42:23 -08:00
video Merge at91 lcdfb bug fixes into fixes 2013-03-15 00:00:50 +01:00
virt
virtio All trivial, thanks to the stuff which didn't quite make it time. 2013-02-26 14:49:12 -08:00
vlynq
vme vme: add missing put_device() after device_register() fails 2013-02-14 09:24:14 -08:00
w1 w1: fix oops when w1_search is called from netlink connector 2013-03-12 16:20:46 -07:00
watchdog watchdog: sp805_wdt depends on ARM 2013-03-01 12:56:26 +01:00
xen Fixes: 2013-03-12 20:25:53 -07:00
zorro new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
Kconfig Char/Misc driver patches for 3.9-rc1 2013-02-21 13:57:13 -08:00
Makefile Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc 2013-02-23 17:09:55 -08:00