Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] BLOCK: Make it possible to disable the block layer | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:13:13 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 14:00 +0100, David Howells wrote: > Make it possible to disable the block layer. Not all embedded devices require > it, some can make do with just JFFS2, NFS, ramfs, etc - none of which require > the block layer to be present. > > This patch does the following: > > (*) Introduces CONFIG_BLOCK to disable the block layer, buffering and blockdev > support.
Excellent -- I've been meaning to do this (and occasionally hacking on it half-heartedly before getting distracted by something else shiny) for a _long_ time.
It looks good in general.
> (*) The contents of a number of filesystem- and blockdev-specific header files > are now contingent on their own configuration options. This includes: > Ext3/JBD, RAID, MSDOS and ReiserFS.
Why? Those header files shouldn't be included from anywhere _but_ the code in question, and in fact should probably be just moved into fs/foo instead of living in include/linux/foo_fs.h.
And please, _never_ make anything dependent on CONFIG_foo_MODULE.
-- dwmw2
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