md: reintroduce md-linear

md: reintroduce md-linear

commit 127186cfb184eaccdfe948e6da66940cfa03efc5 upstream.

THe md-linear is removed by commit 849d18e27be9 ("md: Remove deprecated
CONFIG_MD_LINEAR") because it has been marked as deprecated for a long
time.

However, md-linear is used widely for underlying disks with different size,
sadly we didn't know this until now, and it's true useful to create
partitions and assemble multiple raid and then append one to the other.

People have to use dm-linear in this case now, however, they will prefer
to minimize the number of involved modules.

Fixes: 849d18e27be9 ("md: Remove deprecated CONFIG_MD_LINEAR")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250102112841.1227111-1-yukuai1@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>