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authorKevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>2010-04-13 13:30:12 -0700
committerArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2010-05-03 09:08:13 +0300
commit70d38b9625edba52a809308427f78831c3963f52 (patch)
treeef5e519bd672c4ec2a80b7a78adfb66251a1193c /drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
parent01bf0b64579ead8a82e7cfc32ae44bc667e7ad0f (diff)
UBI: remove reboot notifier
The UBI reboot notifier causes problems with hibernation. Move this functionality into the low-level MTD driver instead. Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c35
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
index 55c726dde94..3a59a1d0045 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
#include <linux/log2.h>
#include <linux/kthread.h>
-#include <linux/reboot.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include "ubi.h"
@@ -832,34 +831,6 @@ static int autoresize(struct ubi_device *ubi, int vol_id)
}
/**
- * ubi_reboot_notifier - halt UBI transactions immediately prior to a reboot.
- * @n: reboot notifier object
- * @state: SYS_RESTART, SYS_HALT, or SYS_POWER_OFF
- * @cmd: pointer to command string for RESTART2
- *
- * This function stops the UBI background thread so that the flash device
- * remains quiescent when Linux restarts the system. Any queued work will be
- * discarded, but this function will block until do_work() finishes if an
- * operation is already in progress.
- *
- * This function solves a real-life problem observed on NOR flashes when an
- * PEB erase operation starts, then the system is rebooted before the erase is
- * finishes, and the boot loader gets confused and dies. So we prefer to finish
- * the ongoing operation before rebooting.
- */
-static int ubi_reboot_notifier(struct notifier_block *n, unsigned long state,
- void *cmd)
-{
- struct ubi_device *ubi;
-
- ubi = container_of(n, struct ubi_device, reboot_notifier);
- if (ubi->bgt_thread)
- kthread_stop(ubi->bgt_thread);
- ubi_sync(ubi->ubi_num);
- return NOTIFY_DONE;
-}
-
-/**
* ubi_attach_mtd_dev - attach an MTD device.
* @mtd: MTD device description object
* @ubi_num: number to assign to the new UBI device
@@ -1016,11 +987,6 @@ int ubi_attach_mtd_dev(struct mtd_info *mtd, int ubi_num, int vid_hdr_offset)
wake_up_process(ubi->bgt_thread);
spin_unlock(&ubi->wl_lock);
- /* Flash device priority is 0 - UBI needs to shut down first */
- ubi->reboot_notifier.priority = 1;
- ubi->reboot_notifier.notifier_call = ubi_reboot_notifier;
- register_reboot_notifier(&ubi->reboot_notifier);
-
ubi_devices[ubi_num] = ubi;
ubi_notify_all(ubi, UBI_VOLUME_ADDED, NULL);
return ubi_num;
@@ -1091,7 +1057,6 @@ int ubi_detach_mtd_dev(int ubi_num, int anyway)
* Before freeing anything, we have to stop the background thread to
* prevent it from doing anything on this device while we are freeing.
*/
- unregister_reboot_notifier(&ubi->reboot_notifier);
if (ubi->bgt_thread)
kthread_stop(ubi->bgt_thread);