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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
72 help
73 A standard SEGA Dreamcast comes with a modified CD ROM drive called a
74 "GD-ROM" by SEGA to signify it is capable of reading special disks
75 with up to 1 GB of data. This drive will also read standard CD ROM
76 disks. Select this option to access any disks in your GD ROM drive.
77 Most users will want to say "Y" here.
78 You can also build this as a module which will be called gdrom.
79
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80config PARIDE
81 tristate "Parallel port IDE device support"
6a19b41b 82 depends on PARPORT_PC
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83 ---help---
84 There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through
85 your computer's parallel port. Most of them are actually IDE devices
86 using a parallel port IDE adapter. This option enables the PARIDE
87 subsystem which contains drivers for many of these external drives.
31c00fc1 88 Read <file:Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt> for more information.
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89
90 If you have said Y to the "Parallel-port support" configuration
91 option, you may share a single port between your printer and other
92 parallel port devices. Answer Y to build PARIDE support into your
93 kernel, or M if you would like to build it as a loadable module. If
94 your parallel port support is in a loadable module, you must build
95 PARIDE as a module. If you built PARIDE support into your kernel,
96 you may still build the individual protocol modules and high-level
97 drivers as loadable modules. If you build this support as a module,
98 it will be called paride.
99
100 To use the PARIDE support, you must say Y or M here and also to at
101 least one high-level driver (e.g. "Parallel port IDE disks",
102 "Parallel port ATAPI CD-ROMs", "Parallel port ATAPI disks" etc.) and
103 to at least one protocol driver (e.g. "ATEN EH-100 protocol",
104 "MicroSolutions backpack protocol", "DataStor Commuter protocol"
105 etc.).
106
107source "drivers/block/paride/Kconfig"
108
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109source "drivers/block/mtip32xx/Kconfig"
110
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111config BLK_CPQ_DA
112 tristate "Compaq SMART2 support"
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114 help
115 This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array controllers. Everyone
116 using these boards should say Y here. See the file
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117 <file:Documentation/blockdev/cpqarray.txt> for the current list of
118 boards supported by this driver, and for further information on the
119 use of this driver.
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120
121config BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA
122 tristate "Compaq Smart Array 5xxx support"
123 depends on PCI
b7010ede 124 select CHECK_SIGNATURE
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125 help
126 This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array 5xxx controllers.
127 Everyone using these boards should say Y here.
31c00fc1 128 See <file:Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt> for the current list of
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129 boards supported by this driver, and for further information
130 on the use of this driver.
131
132config CISS_SCSI_TAPE
133 bool "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx"
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134 depends on BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA && PROC_FS
135 depends on SCSI=y || SCSI=BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA
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136 help
137 When enabled (Y), this option allows SCSI tape drives and SCSI medium
138 changers (tape robots) to be accessed via a Compaq 5xxx array
31c00fc1 139 controller. (See <file:Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt> for more details.)
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140
141 "SCSI support" and "SCSI tape support" must also be enabled for this
142 option to work.
143
144 When this option is disabled (N), the SCSI portion of the driver
145 is not compiled.
146
147config BLK_DEV_DAC960
148 tristate "Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI RAID Controller support"
149 depends on PCI
150 help
151 This driver adds support for the Mylex DAC960, AcceleRAID, and
152 eXtremeRAID PCI RAID controllers. See the file
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153 <file:Documentation/blockdev/README.DAC960> for further information
154 about this driver.
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155
156 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
157 module will be called DAC960.
158
159config BLK_DEV_UMEM
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160 tristate "Micro Memory MM5415 Battery Backed RAM support"
161 depends on PCI
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162 ---help---
163 Saying Y here will include support for the MM5415 family of
164 battery backed (Non-volatile) RAM cards.
165 <http://www.umem.com/>
166
167 The cards appear as block devices that can be partitioned into
168 as many as 15 partitions.
169
170 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
171 module will be called umem.
172
173 The umem driver has not yet been allocated a MAJOR number, so
bf6ee0ae 174 one is chosen dynamically.
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175
176config BLK_DEV_UBD
177 bool "Virtual block device"
178 depends on UML
179 ---help---
180 The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let
181 you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices.
182 Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say
183 Y here.
184
185config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC
186 bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD"
187 depends on BLK_DEV_UBD
188 ---help---
189 Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the
190 host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode
191 Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host
192 computer crashes.
193
194 Synchronous operation (i.e. always writing data to the host's disk
195 immediately) is configurable on a per-UBD basis by using a special
196 kernel command line option. Alternatively, you can say Y here to
197 turn on synchronous operation by default for all block devices.
198
199 If you're running a journalling file system (like reiserfs, for
200 example) in your virtual machine, you will want to say Y here. If
201 you care for the safety of the data in your virtual machine, Y is a
202 wise choice too. In all other cases (for example, if you're just
203 playing around with User-Mode Linux) you can choose N.
204
205config BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON
206 bool
207 default BLK_DEV_UBD
208
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209config BLK_DEV_LOOP
210 tristate "Loopback device support"
211 ---help---
212 Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block
213 device; you can then create a file system on that block device and
214 mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard
215 drive partitions, CD-ROM drives or floppy drives. The loop devices
216 are block special device files with major number 7 and typically
217 called /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1 etc.
218
219 This is useful if you want to check an ISO 9660 file system before
220 burning the CD, or if you want to use floppy images without first
221 writing them to floppy. Furthermore, some Linux distributions avoid
222 the need for a dedicated Linux partition by keeping their complete
223 root file system inside a DOS FAT file using this loop device
224 driver.
225
226 To use the loop device, you need the losetup utility, found in the
227 util-linux package, see
228 <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.
229
230 The loop device driver can also be used to "hide" a file system in
231 a disk partition, floppy, or regular file, either using encryption
232 (scrambling the data) or steganography (hiding the data in the low
233 bits of, say, a sound file). This is also safe if the file resides
234 on a remote file server.
235
236 There are several ways of encrypting disks. Some of these require
237 kernel patches. The vanilla kernel offers the cryptoloop option
238 and a Device Mapper target (which is superior, as it supports all
239 file systems). If you want to use the cryptoloop, say Y to both
240 LOOP and CRYPTOLOOP, and make sure you have a recent (version 2.12
241 or later) version of util-linux. Additionally, be aware that
242 the cryptoloop is not safe for storing journaled filesystems.
243
244 Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback
245 device used for network connections from the machine to itself.
246
247 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
248 module will be called loop.
249
250 Most users will answer N here.
251
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252config BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT
253 int "Number of loop devices to pre-create at init time"
254 depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
255 default 8
256 help
257 Static number of loop devices to be unconditionally pre-created
258 at init time.
259
260 This default value can be overwritten on the kernel command
261 line or with module-parameter loop.max_loop.
262
263 The historic default is 8. If a late 2011 version of losetup(8)
264 is used, it can be set to 0, since needed loop devices can be
265 dynamically allocated with the /dev/loop-control interface.
266
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267config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP
268 tristate "Cryptoloop Support"
269 select CRYPTO
8df3b0a2 270 select CRYPTO_CBC
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271 depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
272 ---help---
273 Say Y here if you want to be able to use the ciphers that are
274 provided by the CryptoAPI as loop transformation. This might be
275 used as hard disk encryption.
276
277 WARNING: This device is not safe for journaled file systems like
278 ext3 or Reiserfs. Please use the Device Mapper crypto module
279 instead, which can be configured to be on-disk compatible with the
280 cryptoloop device.
281
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282source "drivers/block/drbd/Kconfig"
283
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284config BLK_DEV_NBD
285 tristate "Network block device support"
286 depends on NET
287 ---help---
288 Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network
289 block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by
290 servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between
291 client and server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client
292 program this is hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to
293 a block device special file such as /dev/nd0.
294
295 Network block devices also allows you to run a block-device in
296 userland (making server and client physically the same computer,
297 communicating using the loopback network device).
298
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299 Read <file:Documentation/blockdev/nbd.txt> for more information,
300 especially about where to find the server code, which runs in user
301 space and does not need special kernel support.
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302
303 Note that this has nothing to do with the network file systems NFS
304 or Coda; you can say N here even if you intend to use NFS or Coda.
305
306 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
307 module will be called nbd.
308
309 If unsure, say N.
310
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311config BLK_DEV_NVME
312 tristate "NVM Express block device"
313 depends on PCI
314 ---help---
315 The NVM Express driver is for solid state drives directly
316 connected to the PCI or PCI Express bus. If you know you
317 don't have one of these, it is safe to answer N.
318
319 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
320 module will be called nvme.
321
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322config BLK_DEV_SKD
323 tristate "STEC S1120 Block Driver"
324 depends on PCI
325 depends on 64BIT
326 ---help---
327 Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
328 STEC, Inc. S1120 PCIe SSD.
329
330 Use device /dev/skd$N amd /dev/skd$Np$M.
331
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332config BLK_DEV_OSD
333 tristate "OSD object-as-blkdev support"
334 depends on SCSI_OSD_ULD
335 ---help---
336 Saying Y or M here will allow the exporting of a single SCSI
337 OSD (object-based storage) object as a Linux block device.
338
339 For example, if you create a 2G object on an OSD device,
340 you can then use this module to present that 2G object as
341 a Linux block device.
342
343 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
344 module will be called osdblk.
345
346 If unsure, say N.
347
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348config BLK_DEV_SX8
349 tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support"
350 depends on PCI
351 ---help---
352 Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
353 Promise SATA SX8 controllers.
354
355 Use devices /dev/sx8/$N and /dev/sx8/$Np$M.
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356
357config BLK_DEV_RAM
9db5579b 358 tristate "RAM block device support"
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359 ---help---
360 Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as
361 a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and
362 write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal
363 block devices (such as hard drives). It is usually used to load and
364 store a copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM
365 during the initial install of Linux.
366
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367 Note that the kernel command line option "ramdisk=XX" is now obsolete.
368 For details, read <file:Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt>.
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369
370 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
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371 module will be called brd. An alias "rd" has been defined
372 for historical reasons.
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373
374 Most normal users won't need the RAM disk functionality, and can
375 thus say N here.
376
377config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT
a687fb18 378 int "Default number of RAM disks"
1da177e4 379 default "16"
a687fb18 380 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
1da177e4 381 help
2e977c85 382 The default value is 16 RAM disks. Change this if you know what you
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383 are doing. If you boot from a filesystem that needs to be extracted
384 in memory, you will need at least one RAM disk (e.g. root on cramfs).
385
386config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
387 int "Default RAM disk size (kbytes)"
388 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
389 default "4096"
390 help
391 The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know
2e977c85 392 what you are doing.
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394config BLK_DEV_XIP
395 bool "Support XIP filesystems on RAM block device"
396 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
397 default n
398 help
399 Support XIP filesystems (such as ext2 with XIP support on) on
400 top of block ram device. This will slightly enlarge the kernel, and
401 will prevent RAM block device backing store memory from being
402 allocated from highmem (only a problem for highmem systems).
403
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404config CDROM_PKTCDVD
405 tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media"
406 depends on !UML
407 help
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408 If you have a CDROM/DVD drive that supports packet writing, say
409 Y to include support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji
410 compliant ATAPI or SCSI drive, which is just about any newer
411 DVD/CD writer.
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413 Currently only writing to CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVDRAM discs
414 is possible.
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415 DVD-RW disks must be in restricted overwrite mode.
416
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417 See the file <file:Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt>
418 for further information on the use of this driver.
419
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420 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
421 module will be called pktcdvd.
422
423config CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS
424 int "Free buffers for data gathering"
425 depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD
426 default "8"
427 help
428 This controls the maximum number of active concurrent packets. More
429 concurrent packets can increase write performance, but also require
430 more memory. Each concurrent packet will require approximately 64Kb
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431 of non-swappable kernel memory, memory which will be allocated when
432 a disc is opened for writing.
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434config CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE
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435 bool "Enable write caching"
436 depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD
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437 help
438 If enabled, write caching will be set for the CD-R/W device. For now
439 this option is dangerous unless the CD-RW media is known good, as we
440 don't do deferred write error handling yet.
441
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442config ATA_OVER_ETH
443 tristate "ATA over Ethernet support"
444 depends on NET
445 help
446 This driver provides Support for ATA over Ethernet block
447 devices like the Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage Blade.
448
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449config MG_DISK
450 tristate "mGine mflash, gflash support"
8a11a789 451 depends on ARM && GPIOLIB
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452 help
453 mGine mFlash(gFlash) block device driver
454
455config MG_DISK_RES
456 int "Size of reserved area before MBR"
457 depends on MG_DISK
458 default 0
459 help
460 Define size of reserved area that usually used for boot. Unit is KB.
461 All of the block device operation will be taken this value as start
462 offset
463 Examples:
464 1024 => 1 MB
465
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466config SUNVDC
467 tristate "Sun Virtual Disk Client support"
468 depends on SUN_LDOMS
469 help
470 Support for virtual disk devices as a client under Sun
471 Logical Domains.
472
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473source "drivers/s390/block/Kconfig"
474
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475config XILINX_SYSACE
476 tristate "Xilinx SystemACE support"
6fa612b5 477 depends on 4xx || MICROBLAZE
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478 help
479 Include support for the Xilinx SystemACE CompactFlash interface
480
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481config XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND
482 tristate "Xen virtual block device support"
483 depends on XEN
484 default y
2de06cc1 485 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
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486 help
487 This driver implements the front-end of the Xen virtual
488 block device driver. It communicates with a back-end driver
489 in another domain which drives the actual block device.
490
dfc07b13 491config XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND
ea5e1161 492 tristate "Xen block-device backend driver"
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493 depends on XEN_BACKEND
494 help
495 The block-device backend driver allows the kernel to export its
496 block devices to other guests via a high-performance shared-memory
497 interface.
498
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499 The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the
500 CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND configuration option.
501
502 The backend driver attaches itself to a any block device specified
503 in the XenBus configuration. There are no limits to what the block
504 device as long as it has a major and minor.
505
506 If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen block backend driver
507 domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To
508 compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module
509 will be called xen-blkback.
510
511
e467cde2 512config VIRTIO_BLK
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513 tristate "Virtio block driver"
514 depends on VIRTIO
e467cde2 515 ---help---
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516 This is the virtual block driver for virtio. It can be used with
517 lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
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453ea3ed 519config BLK_DEV_HD
f327c1c3 520 bool "Very old hard disk (MFM/RLL/IDE) driver"
453ea3ed 521 depends on HAVE_IDE
3c5710f6 522 depends on !ARM || ARCH_RPC || BROKEN
453ea3ed 523 help
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524 This is a very old hard disk driver that lacks the enhanced
525 functionality of the newer ones.
526
527 It is required for systems with ancient MFM/RLL/ESDI drives.
528
529 If unsure, say N.
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531config BLK_DEV_RBD
532 tristate "Rados block device (RBD)"
b8977285 533 depends on INET && BLOCK
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534 select CEPH_LIB
535 select LIBCRC32C
536 select CRYPTO_AES
537 select CRYPTO
538 default n
539 help
540 Say Y here if you want include the Rados block device, which stripes
541 a block device over objects stored in the Ceph distributed object
542 store.
543
544 More information at http://ceph.newdream.net/.
545
546 If unsure, say N.
547
8722ff8c 548config BLK_DEV_RSXX
f730e3dc 549 tristate "IBM Flash Adapter 900GB Full Height PCIe Device Driver"
8722ff8c 550 depends on PCI
551 help
552 Device driver for IBM's high speed PCIe SSD
f730e3dc 553 storage device: Flash Adapter 900GB Full Height.
8722ff8c 554
555 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
556 module will be called rsxx.
557
fd11d171 558endif # BLK_DEV