Merge tag 'for-5.15/block-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
 "Nothing major in here - lots of good cleanups and tech debt handling,
  which is also evident in the diffstats. In particular:

   - Add disk sequence numbers (Matteo)

   - Discard merge fix (Ming)

   - Relax disk zoned reporting restrictions (Niklas)

   - Bio error handling zoned leak fix (Pavel)

   - Start of proper add_disk() error handling (Luis, Christoph)

   - blk crypto fix (Eric)

   - Non-standard GPT location support (Dmitry)

   - IO priority improvements and cleanups (Damien)o

   - blk-throtl improvements (Chunguang)

   - diskstats_show() stack reduction (Abd-Alrhman)

   - Loop scheduler selection (Bart)

   - Switch block layer to use kmap_local_page() (Christoph)

   - Remove obsolete disk_name helper (Christoph)

   - block_device refcounting improvements (Christoph)

   - Ensure gendisk always has a request queue reference (Christoph)

   - Misc fixes/cleanups (Shaokun, Oliver, Guoqing)"

* tag 'for-5.15/block-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (129 commits)
  sg: pass the device name to blk_trace_setup
  block, bfq: cleanup the repeated declaration
  blk-crypto: fix check for too-large dun_bytes
  blk-zoned: allow BLKREPORTZONE without CAP_SYS_ADMIN
  blk-zoned: allow zone management send operations without CAP_SYS_ADMIN
  block: mark blkdev_fsync static
  block: refine the disk_live check in del_gendisk
  mmc: sdhci-tegra: Enable MMC_CAP2_ALT_GPT_TEGRA
  mmc: block: Support alternative_gpt_sector() operation
  partitions/efi: Support non-standard GPT location
  block: Add alternative_gpt_sector() operation
  bio: fix page leak bio_add_hw_page failure
  block: remove CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
  block: remove a pointless call to MINOR() in device_add_disk
  null_blk: add error handling support for add_disk()
  virtio_blk: add error handling support for add_disk()
  block: add error handling for device_add_disk / add_disk
  block: return errors from disk_alloc_events
  block: return errors from blk_integrity_add
  block: call blk_register_queue earlier in device_add_disk
  ...

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig
index fd732aede922..bac87d773c54 100644
--- a/block/Kconfig
+++ b/block/Kconfig
@@ -114,16 +114,6 @@ config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW
 
 	Note, this is an experimental interface and could be changed someday.
 
-config BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER
-	bool "Block device command line partition parser"
-	help
-	Enabling this option allows you to specify the partition layout from
-	the kernel boot args.  This is typically of use for embedded devices
-	which don't otherwise have any standardized method for listing the
-	partitions on a block device.
-
-	See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.rst for more information.
-
 config BLK_WBT
 	bool "Enable support for block device writeback throttling"
 	help
@@ -251,4 +241,8 @@ config BLK_MQ_RDMA
 config BLK_PM
 	def_bool BLOCK && PM
 
+# do not use in new code
+config BLOCK_HOLDER_DEPRECATED
+	bool
+
 source "block/Kconfig.iosched"