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1#
2# Block device driver configuration
3#
4
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5menuconfig BLK_DEV
6 bool "Block devices"
7 depends on BLOCK
8 default y
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9 ---help---
10 Say Y here to get to see options for various different block device
11 drivers. This option alone does not add any kernel code.
12
13 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled;
14 only do this if you know what you are doing.
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18config BLK_DEV_NULL_BLK
19 tristate "Null test block driver"
20
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21config BLK_DEV_FD
22 tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
a08b6b79 23 depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
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24 ---help---
25 If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux,
26 say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM
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27 Thinkpad users, is contained in
28 <file:Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt>.
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29 That file also contains the location of the Floppy driver FAQ as
30 well as location of the fdutils package used to configure additional
31 parameters of the driver at run time.
32
33 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
34 module will be called floppy.
35
36config AMIGA_FLOPPY
37 tristate "Amiga floppy support"
38 depends on AMIGA
39
40config ATARI_FLOPPY
41 tristate "Atari floppy support"
42 depends on ATARI
43
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44config MAC_FLOPPY
45 tristate "Support for PowerMac floppy"
46 depends on PPC_PMAC && !PPC_PMAC64
47 help
48 If you have a SWIM-3 (Super Woz Integrated Machine 3; from Apple)
49 floppy controller, say Y here. Most commonly found in PowerMacs.
50
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51config BLK_DEV_SWIM
52 tristate "Support for SWIM Macintosh floppy"
53 depends on M68K && MAC
54 help
55 You should select this option if you want floppy support
56 and you don't have a II, IIfx, Q900, Q950 or AV series.
57
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58config AMIGA_Z2RAM
59 tristate "Amiga Zorro II ramdisk support"
60 depends on ZORRO
61 help
62 This enables support for using Chip RAM and Zorro II RAM as a
63 ramdisk or as a swap partition. Say Y if you want to include this
64 driver in the kernel.
65
66 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
67 module will be called z2ram.
68
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69config GDROM
70 tristate "SEGA Dreamcast GD-ROM drive"
71 depends on SH_DREAMCAST
72148aec 72 select BLK_SCSI_REQUEST # only for the generic cdrom code
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73 help
74 A standard SEGA Dreamcast comes with a modified CD ROM drive called a
75 "GD-ROM" by SEGA to signify it is capable of reading special disks
76 with up to 1 GB of data. This drive will also read standard CD ROM
77 disks. Select this option to access any disks in your GD ROM drive.
78 Most users will want to say "Y" here.
79 You can also build this as a module which will be called gdrom.
80
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81config PARIDE
82 tristate "Parallel port IDE device support"
6a19b41b 83 depends on PARPORT_PC
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84 ---help---
85 There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through
86 your computer's parallel port. Most of them are actually IDE devices
87 using a parallel port IDE adapter. This option enables the PARIDE
88 subsystem which contains drivers for many of these external drives.
31c00fc1 89 Read <file:Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt> for more information.
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90
91 If you have said Y to the "Parallel-port support" configuration
92 option, you may share a single port between your printer and other
93 parallel port devices. Answer Y to build PARIDE support into your
94 kernel, or M if you would like to build it as a loadable module. If
95 your parallel port support is in a loadable module, you must build
96 PARIDE as a module. If you built PARIDE support into your kernel,
97 you may still build the individual protocol modules and high-level
98 drivers as loadable modules. If you build this support as a module,
99 it will be called paride.
100
101 To use the PARIDE support, you must say Y or M here and also to at
102 least one high-level driver (e.g. "Parallel port IDE disks",
103 "Parallel port ATAPI CD-ROMs", "Parallel port ATAPI disks" etc.) and
104 to at least one protocol driver (e.g. "ATEN EH-100 protocol",
105 "MicroSolutions backpack protocol", "DataStor Commuter protocol"
106 etc.).
107
108source "drivers/block/paride/Kconfig"
109
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110source "drivers/block/mtip32xx/Kconfig"
111
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112source "drivers/block/zram/Kconfig"
113
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114config BLK_DEV_DAC960
115 tristate "Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI RAID Controller support"
116 depends on PCI
117 help
118 This driver adds support for the Mylex DAC960, AcceleRAID, and
119 eXtremeRAID PCI RAID controllers. See the file
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120 <file:Documentation/blockdev/README.DAC960> for further information
121 about this driver.
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122
123 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
124 module will be called DAC960.
125
126config BLK_DEV_UMEM
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127 tristate "Micro Memory MM5415 Battery Backed RAM support"
128 depends on PCI
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129 ---help---
130 Saying Y here will include support for the MM5415 family of
131 battery backed (Non-volatile) RAM cards.
132 <http://www.umem.com/>
133
134 The cards appear as block devices that can be partitioned into
135 as many as 15 partitions.
136
137 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
138 module will be called umem.
139
140 The umem driver has not yet been allocated a MAJOR number, so
bf6ee0ae 141 one is chosen dynamically.
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142
143config BLK_DEV_UBD
144 bool "Virtual block device"
145 depends on UML
146 ---help---
147 The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let
148 you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices.
149 Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say
150 Y here.
151
152config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC
153 bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD"
154 depends on BLK_DEV_UBD
155 ---help---
156 Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the
157 host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode
158 Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host
159 computer crashes.
160
161 Synchronous operation (i.e. always writing data to the host's disk
162 immediately) is configurable on a per-UBD basis by using a special
163 kernel command line option. Alternatively, you can say Y here to
164 turn on synchronous operation by default for all block devices.
165
166 If you're running a journalling file system (like reiserfs, for
167 example) in your virtual machine, you will want to say Y here. If
168 you care for the safety of the data in your virtual machine, Y is a
169 wise choice too. In all other cases (for example, if you're just
170 playing around with User-Mode Linux) you can choose N.
171
172config BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON
173 bool
174 default BLK_DEV_UBD
175
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176config BLK_DEV_LOOP
177 tristate "Loopback device support"
178 ---help---
179 Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block
180 device; you can then create a file system on that block device and
181 mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard
182 drive partitions, CD-ROM drives or floppy drives. The loop devices
183 are block special device files with major number 7 and typically
184 called /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1 etc.
185
186 This is useful if you want to check an ISO 9660 file system before
187 burning the CD, or if you want to use floppy images without first
188 writing them to floppy. Furthermore, some Linux distributions avoid
189 the need for a dedicated Linux partition by keeping their complete
190 root file system inside a DOS FAT file using this loop device
191 driver.
192
193 To use the loop device, you need the losetup utility, found in the
194 util-linux package, see
4f6cce39 195 <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.
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196
197 The loop device driver can also be used to "hide" a file system in
198 a disk partition, floppy, or regular file, either using encryption
199 (scrambling the data) or steganography (hiding the data in the low
200 bits of, say, a sound file). This is also safe if the file resides
201 on a remote file server.
202
203 There are several ways of encrypting disks. Some of these require
204 kernel patches. The vanilla kernel offers the cryptoloop option
205 and a Device Mapper target (which is superior, as it supports all
206 file systems). If you want to use the cryptoloop, say Y to both
207 LOOP and CRYPTOLOOP, and make sure you have a recent (version 2.12
208 or later) version of util-linux. Additionally, be aware that
209 the cryptoloop is not safe for storing journaled filesystems.
210
211 Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback
212 device used for network connections from the machine to itself.
213
214 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
215 module will be called loop.
216
217 Most users will answer N here.
218
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219config BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT
220 int "Number of loop devices to pre-create at init time"
221 depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
222 default 8
223 help
224 Static number of loop devices to be unconditionally pre-created
225 at init time.
226
227 This default value can be overwritten on the kernel command
228 line or with module-parameter loop.max_loop.
229
230 The historic default is 8. If a late 2011 version of losetup(8)
231 is used, it can be set to 0, since needed loop devices can be
232 dynamically allocated with the /dev/loop-control interface.
233
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234config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP
235 tristate "Cryptoloop Support"
236 select CRYPTO
8df3b0a2 237 select CRYPTO_CBC
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238 depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
239 ---help---
240 Say Y here if you want to be able to use the ciphers that are
241 provided by the CryptoAPI as loop transformation. This might be
242 used as hard disk encryption.
243
244 WARNING: This device is not safe for journaled file systems like
245 ext3 or Reiserfs. Please use the Device Mapper crypto module
246 instead, which can be configured to be on-disk compatible with the
247 cryptoloop device.
248
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249source "drivers/block/drbd/Kconfig"
250
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251config BLK_DEV_NBD
252 tristate "Network block device support"
253 depends on NET
254 ---help---
255 Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network
256 block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by
257 servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between
258 client and server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client
259 program this is hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to
260 a block device special file such as /dev/nd0.
261
262 Network block devices also allows you to run a block-device in
263 userland (making server and client physically the same computer,
264 communicating using the loopback network device).
265
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266 Read <file:Documentation/blockdev/nbd.txt> for more information,
267 especially about where to find the server code, which runs in user
268 space and does not need special kernel support.
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269
270 Note that this has nothing to do with the network file systems NFS
271 or Coda; you can say N here even if you intend to use NFS or Coda.
272
273 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
274 module will be called nbd.
275
276 If unsure, say N.
277
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278config BLK_DEV_SKD
279 tristate "STEC S1120 Block Driver"
280 depends on PCI
281 depends on 64BIT
282 ---help---
283 Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
284 STEC, Inc. S1120 PCIe SSD.
285
286 Use device /dev/skd$N amd /dev/skd$Np$M.
287
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288config BLK_DEV_SX8
289 tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support"
290 depends on PCI
291 ---help---
292 Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
293 Promise SATA SX8 controllers.
294
295 Use devices /dev/sx8/$N and /dev/sx8/$Np$M.
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296
297config BLK_DEV_RAM
9db5579b 298 tristate "RAM block device support"
1647b9b9 299 select DAX if BLK_DEV_RAM_DAX
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300 ---help---
301 Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as
302 a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and
303 write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal
304 block devices (such as hard drives). It is usually used to load and
305 store a copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM
306 during the initial install of Linux.
307
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308 Note that the kernel command line option "ramdisk=XX" is now obsolete.
309 For details, read <file:Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt>.
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310
311 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
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312 module will be called brd. An alias "rd" has been defined
313 for historical reasons.
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314
315 Most normal users won't need the RAM disk functionality, and can
316 thus say N here.
317
318config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT
a687fb18 319 int "Default number of RAM disks"
1da177e4 320 default "16"
a687fb18 321 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
1da177e4 322 help
2e977c85 323 The default value is 16 RAM disks. Change this if you know what you
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324 are doing. If you boot from a filesystem that needs to be extracted
325 in memory, you will need at least one RAM disk (e.g. root on cramfs).
326
327config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
328 int "Default RAM disk size (kbytes)"
329 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
330 default "4096"
331 help
332 The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know
2e977c85 333 what you are doing.
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335config BLK_DEV_RAM_DAX
336 bool "Support Direct Access (DAX) to RAM block devices"
337 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM && FS_DAX
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338 default n
339 help
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340 Support filesystems using DAX to access RAM block devices. This
341 avoids double-buffering data in the page cache before copying it
342 to the block device. Answering Y will slightly enlarge the kernel,
343 and will prevent RAM block device backing store memory from being
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344 allocated from highmem (only a problem for highmem systems).
345
1da177e4 346config CDROM_PKTCDVD
5a8b187c 347 tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media (DEPRECATED)"
1da177e4 348 depends on !UML
72148aec 349 select BLK_SCSI_REQUEST
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351 Note: This driver is deprecated and will be removed from the
352 kernel in the near future!
353
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354 If you have a CDROM/DVD drive that supports packet writing, say
355 Y to include support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji
356 compliant ATAPI or SCSI drive, which is just about any newer
357 DVD/CD writer.
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359 Currently only writing to CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVDRAM discs
360 is possible.
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361 DVD-RW disks must be in restricted overwrite mode.
362
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363 See the file <file:Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt>
364 for further information on the use of this driver.
365
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366 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
367 module will be called pktcdvd.
368
369config CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS
370 int "Free buffers for data gathering"
371 depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD
372 default "8"
373 help
374 This controls the maximum number of active concurrent packets. More
375 concurrent packets can increase write performance, but also require
376 more memory. Each concurrent packet will require approximately 64Kb
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377 of non-swappable kernel memory, memory which will be allocated when
378 a disc is opened for writing.
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380config CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE
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381 bool "Enable write caching"
382 depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD
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383 help
384 If enabled, write caching will be set for the CD-R/W device. For now
385 this option is dangerous unless the CD-RW media is known good, as we
386 don't do deferred write error handling yet.
387
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388config ATA_OVER_ETH
389 tristate "ATA over Ethernet support"
390 depends on NET
391 help
392 This driver provides Support for ATA over Ethernet block
393 devices like the Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage Blade.
394
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395config SUNVDC
396 tristate "Sun Virtual Disk Client support"
397 depends on SUN_LDOMS
398 help
399 Support for virtual disk devices as a client under Sun
400 Logical Domains.
401
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402source "drivers/s390/block/Kconfig"
403
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404config XILINX_SYSACE
405 tristate "Xilinx SystemACE support"
6fa612b5 406 depends on 4xx || MICROBLAZE
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407 help
408 Include support for the Xilinx SystemACE CompactFlash interface
409
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410config XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND
411 tristate "Xen virtual block device support"
412 depends on XEN
413 default y
2de06cc1 414 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
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415 help
416 This driver implements the front-end of the Xen virtual
417 block device driver. It communicates with a back-end driver
418 in another domain which drives the actual block device.
419
dfc07b13 420config XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND
ea5e1161 421 tristate "Xen block-device backend driver"
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422 depends on XEN_BACKEND
423 help
424 The block-device backend driver allows the kernel to export its
425 block devices to other guests via a high-performance shared-memory
426 interface.
427
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428 The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the
429 CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND configuration option.
430
431 The backend driver attaches itself to a any block device specified
432 in the XenBus configuration. There are no limits to what the block
433 device as long as it has a major and minor.
434
435 If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen block backend driver
436 domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To
437 compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module
438 will be called xen-blkback.
439
440
e467cde2 441config VIRTIO_BLK
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442 tristate "Virtio block driver"
443 depends on VIRTIO
e467cde2 444 ---help---
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445 This is the virtual block driver for virtio. It can be used with
446 lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
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448config VIRTIO_BLK_SCSI
449 bool "SCSI passthrough request for the Virtio block driver"
450 depends on VIRTIO_BLK
451 select BLK_SCSI_REQUEST
452 ---help---
453 Enable support for SCSI passthrough (e.g. the SG_IO ioctl) on
454 virtio-blk devices. This is only supported for the legacy
455 virtio protocol and not enabled by default by any hypervisor.
543b334d 456 You probably want to use virtio-scsi instead.
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458config BLK_DEV_RBD
459 tristate "Rados block device (RBD)"
b8977285 460 depends on INET && BLOCK
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461 select CEPH_LIB
462 select LIBCRC32C
463 select CRYPTO_AES
464 select CRYPTO
465 default n
466 help
467 Say Y here if you want include the Rados block device, which stripes
468 a block device over objects stored in the Ceph distributed object
469 store.
470
471 More information at http://ceph.newdream.net/.
472
473 If unsure, say N.
474
8722ff8c 475config BLK_DEV_RSXX
f730e3dc 476 tristate "IBM Flash Adapter 900GB Full Height PCIe Device Driver"
8722ff8c 477 depends on PCI
478 help
479 Device driver for IBM's high speed PCIe SSD
f730e3dc 480 storage device: Flash Adapter 900GB Full Height.
8722ff8c 481
482 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
483 module will be called rsxx.
484
fd11d171 485endif # BLK_DEV