linux/include
NeilBrown 2604b703b6 [PATCH] md: remove personality numbering from md
md supports multiple different RAID level, each being implemented by a
'personality' (which is often in a separate module).

These personalities have fairly artificial 'numbers'.  The numbers
are use to:
 1- provide an index into an array where the various personalities
    are recorded
 2- identify the module (via an alias) which implements are particular
    personality.

Neither of these uses really justify the existence of personality numbers.
The array can be replaced by a linked list which is searched (array lookup
only happens very rarely).  Module identification can be done using an alias
based on level rather than 'personality' number.

The current 'raid5' modules support two level (4 and 5) but only one
personality.  This slight awkwardness (which was handled in the mapping from
level to personality) can be better handled by allowing raid5 to register 2
personalities.

With this change in place, the core md module does not need to have an
exhaustive list of all possible personalities, so other personalities can be
added independently.

This patch also moves the check for chunksize being non-zero into the ->run
routines for the personalities that need it, rather than having it in core-md.
 This has a side effect of allowing 'faulty' and 'linear' not to have a
chunk-size set.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
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acpi [ACPI] increase owner_id limit to 64 from 32 2005-12-21 04:52:16 -05:00
asm-alpha [PATCH] Alpha: convert to generic irq framework (alpha part) 2006-01-06 08:33:40 -08:00
asm-arm [PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2 2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
asm-arm26 [PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2 2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
asm-cris [PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2 2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
asm-frv [PATCH] frv: improve signal handling 2006-01-06 08:33:33 -08:00
asm-generic [PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read only: generic infrastructure 2006-01-06 08:33:36 -08:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] m68knommu: remove enable_irq_nosync() 2006-01-06 08:33:44 -08:00
asm-i386 [PATCH] mpspec: remove unneeded packed attribute 2006-01-06 08:33:39 -08:00
asm-ia64 [PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2 2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] m32r: Remove unnecessary icu_data_t definitions 2006-01-06 08:33:44 -08:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] m68knommu: remove enable_irq_nosync() 2006-01-06 08:33:44 -08:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] m68knommu: remove enable_irq_nosync() 2006-01-06 08:33:44 -08:00
asm-mips [PATCH] mips: remove include/asm-mips/riscos-syscall.h 2006-01-06 08:33:33 -08:00
asm-parisc [PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2 2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
asm-powerpc [PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2 2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
asm-ppc [PATCH] ppc32: Allows compilation of a MPC52xx kernel without PCI 2006-01-06 08:33:31 -08:00
asm-s390 [PATCH] s390: cleanup Kconfig 2006-01-06 08:33:53 -08:00
asm-sh [PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2 2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
asm-sh64 [PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2 2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
asm-sparc [PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2 2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
asm-sparc64 [PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2 2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
asm-um [PATCH] uml: eliminate anonymous union and clean up symlink lossage 2005-11-22 09:13:41 -08:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2 2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] cpu hotplug/x86_64: disable interrupt in play_dead 2006-01-06 08:33:39 -08:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] atomic_long_t & include/asm-generic/atomic.h V2 2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
keys [PATCH] Keys: Remove key duplication 2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
linux [PATCH] md: remove personality numbering from md 2006-01-06 08:34:06 -08:00
math-emu
media [PATCH] V4L/DVB: (3086c) Whitespaces cleanups part 4 2005-12-12 08:57:44 -08:00
mtd [MTD] user-abi: Clean up trailing white spaces 2005-11-07 14:43:11 +01:00
net [NETFILTER]: Call POST_ROUTING hook before fragmentation 2006-01-05 12:20:59 -08:00
pcmcia [PATCH] pcmcia: unify attach, EVENT_CARD_INSERTION handlers into one probe callback 2006-01-06 00:03:24 +01:00
rdma [IB] uverbs: have kernel return QP capabilities 2005-11-10 10:22:50 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2006-01-04 16:30:12 -08:00
sound [ALSA] Revert the nested-device patch 2006-01-04 10:13:48 +01:00
video