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b2441318 1# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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2#
3# Block device driver configuration
4#
5
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6menuconfig BLK_DEV
7 bool "Block devices"
8 depends on BLOCK
9 default y
a7f7f624 10 help
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11 Say Y here to get to see options for various different block device
12 drivers. This option alone does not add any kernel code.
13
14 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled;
15 only do this if you know what you are doing.
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fd11d171 17if BLK_DEV
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eebf34a8 19source "drivers/block/null_blk/Kconfig"
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21config BLK_DEV_FD
22 tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
a08b6b79 23 depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
a7f7f624 24 help
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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
31c00fc1 27 Thinkpad users, is contained in
e7751617 28 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst>.
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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
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36config BLK_DEV_FD_RAWCMD
37 bool "Support for raw floppy disk commands (DEPRECATED)"
38 depends on BLK_DEV_FD
39 help
40 If you want to use actual physical floppies and expect to do
41 special low-level hardware accesses to them (access and use
42 non-standard formats, for example), then enable this.
43
44 Note that the code enabled by this option is rarely used and
45 might be unstable or insecure, and distros should not enable it.
46
47 Note: FDRAWCMD is deprecated and will be removed from the kernel
48 in the near future.
49
50 If unsure, say N.
51
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52config AMIGA_FLOPPY
53 tristate "Amiga floppy support"
54 depends on AMIGA
55
56config ATARI_FLOPPY
57 tristate "Atari floppy support"
58 depends on ATARI
59
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60config MAC_FLOPPY
61 tristate "Support for PowerMac floppy"
62 depends on PPC_PMAC && !PPC_PMAC64
63 help
64 If you have a SWIM-3 (Super Woz Integrated Machine 3; from Apple)
65 floppy controller, say Y here. Most commonly found in PowerMacs.
66
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67config BLK_DEV_SWIM
68 tristate "Support for SWIM Macintosh floppy"
4c6e5bc8 69 depends on M68K && MAC && !HIGHMEM
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70 help
71 You should select this option if you want floppy support
72 and you don't have a II, IIfx, Q900, Q950 or AV series.
73
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74config AMIGA_Z2RAM
75 tristate "Amiga Zorro II ramdisk support"
76 depends on ZORRO
77 help
78 This enables support for using Chip RAM and Zorro II RAM as a
79 ramdisk or as a swap partition. Say Y if you want to include this
80 driver in the kernel.
81
82 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
83 module will be called z2ram.
84
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85config N64CART
86 bool "N64 cart support"
87 depends on MACH_NINTENDO64
88 help
89 Support for the N64 cart.
90
2a750166 91config CDROM
a116895f 92 tristate
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94config GDROM
95 tristate "SEGA Dreamcast GD-ROM drive"
96 depends on SH_DREAMCAST
2a750166 97 select CDROM
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98 help
99 A standard SEGA Dreamcast comes with a modified CD ROM drive called a
100 "GD-ROM" by SEGA to signify it is capable of reading special disks
101 with up to 1 GB of data. This drive will also read standard CD ROM
102 disks. Select this option to access any disks in your GD ROM drive.
103 Most users will want to say "Y" here.
104 You can also build this as a module which will be called gdrom.
105
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106source "drivers/block/mtip32xx/Kconfig"
107
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108source "drivers/block/zram/Kconfig"
109
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110config BLK_DEV_UBD
111 bool "Virtual block device"
112 depends on UML
a7f7f624 113 help
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114 The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let
115 you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices.
116 Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say
117 Y here.
118
119config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC
120 bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD"
121 depends on BLK_DEV_UBD
a7f7f624 122 help
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123 Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the
124 host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode
125 Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host
126 computer crashes.
127
128 Synchronous operation (i.e. always writing data to the host's disk
129 immediately) is configurable on a per-UBD basis by using a special
130 kernel command line option. Alternatively, you can say Y here to
131 turn on synchronous operation by default for all block devices.
132
133 If you're running a journalling file system (like reiserfs, for
134 example) in your virtual machine, you will want to say Y here. If
135 you care for the safety of the data in your virtual machine, Y is a
136 wise choice too. In all other cases (for example, if you're just
137 playing around with User-Mode Linux) you can choose N.
138
139config BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON
140 bool
141 default BLK_DEV_UBD
142
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143config BLK_DEV_LOOP
144 tristate "Loopback device support"
a7f7f624 145 help
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146 Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block
147 device; you can then create a file system on that block device and
148 mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard
149 drive partitions, CD-ROM drives or floppy drives. The loop devices
150 are block special device files with major number 7 and typically
151 called /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1 etc.
152
153 This is useful if you want to check an ISO 9660 file system before
154 burning the CD, or if you want to use floppy images without first
155 writing them to floppy. Furthermore, some Linux distributions avoid
156 the need for a dedicated Linux partition by keeping their complete
157 root file system inside a DOS FAT file using this loop device
158 driver.
159
160 To use the loop device, you need the losetup utility, found in the
161 util-linux package, see
4f6cce39 162 <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.
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163
164 The loop device driver can also be used to "hide" a file system in
165 a disk partition, floppy, or regular file, either using encryption
166 (scrambling the data) or steganography (hiding the data in the low
167 bits of, say, a sound file). This is also safe if the file resides
168 on a remote file server.
169
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170 Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback
171 device used for network connections from the machine to itself.
172
173 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
174 module will be called loop.
175
176 Most users will answer N here.
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178config BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT
179 int "Number of loop devices to pre-create at init time"
180 depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
181 default 8
182 help
183 Static number of loop devices to be unconditionally pre-created
184 at init time.
185
186 This default value can be overwritten on the kernel command
187 line or with module-parameter loop.max_loop.
188
189 The historic default is 8. If a late 2011 version of losetup(8)
190 is used, it can be set to 0, since needed loop devices can be
191 dynamically allocated with the /dev/loop-control interface.
192
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193source "drivers/block/drbd/Kconfig"
194
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195config BLK_DEV_NBD
196 tristate "Network block device support"
197 depends on NET
a7f7f624 198 help
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199 Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network
200 block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by
201 servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between
202 client and server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client
203 program this is hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to
204 a block device special file such as /dev/nd0.
205
206 Network block devices also allows you to run a block-device in
207 userland (making server and client physically the same computer,
208 communicating using the loopback network device).
209
e7751617 210 Read <file:Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/nbd.rst> for more information,
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211 especially about where to find the server code, which runs in user
212 space and does not need special kernel support.
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213
214 Note that this has nothing to do with the network file systems NFS
215 or Coda; you can say N here even if you intend to use NFS or Coda.
216
217 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
218 module will be called nbd.
219
220 If unsure, say N.
221
1da177e4 222config BLK_DEV_RAM
9db5579b 223 tristate "RAM block device support"
a7f7f624 224 help
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225 Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as
226 a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and
227 write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal
228 block devices (such as hard drives). It is usually used to load and
229 store a copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM
230 during the initial install of Linux.
231
31c00fc1 232 Note that the kernel command line option "ramdisk=XX" is now obsolete.
e7751617 233 For details, read <file:Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst>.
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234
235 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
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236 module will be called brd. An alias "rd" has been defined
237 for historical reasons.
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238
239 Most normal users won't need the RAM disk functionality, and can
240 thus say N here.
241
242config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT
a687fb18 243 int "Default number of RAM disks"
1da177e4 244 default "16"
a687fb18 245 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
1da177e4 246 help
2e977c85 247 The default value is 16 RAM disks. Change this if you know what you
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248 are doing. If you boot from a filesystem that needs to be extracted
249 in memory, you will need at least one RAM disk (e.g. root on cramfs).
250
251config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
252 int "Default RAM disk size (kbytes)"
253 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
254 default "4096"
255 help
256 The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know
2e977c85 257 what you are doing.
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259config CDROM_PKTCDVD
260 tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media (DEPRECATED)"
261 depends on !UML
262 depends on SCSI
263 select CDROM
264 help
265 Note: This driver is deprecated and will be removed from the
266 kernel in the near future!
267
268 If you have a CDROM/DVD drive that supports packet writing, say
269 Y to include support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji
270 compliant ATAPI or SCSI drive, which is just about any newer
271 DVD/CD writer.
272
273 Currently only writing to CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVDRAM discs
274 is possible.
275 DVD-RW disks must be in restricted overwrite mode.
276
277 See the file <file:Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.rst>
278 for further information on the use of this driver.
279
280 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
281 module will be called pktcdvd.
282
283config CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS
284 int "Free buffers for data gathering"
285 depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD
286 default "8"
287 help
288 This controls the maximum number of active concurrent packets. More
289 concurrent packets can increase write performance, but also require
290 more memory. Each concurrent packet will require approximately 64Kb
291 of non-swappable kernel memory, memory which will be allocated when
292 a disc is opened for writing.
293
294config CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE
295 bool "Enable write caching"
296 depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD
297 help
298 If enabled, write caching will be set for the CD-R/W device. For now
299 this option is dangerous unless the CD-RW media is known good, as we
300 don't do deferred write error handling yet.
301
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302config ATA_OVER_ETH
303 tristate "ATA over Ethernet support"
304 depends on NET
305 help
306 This driver provides Support for ATA over Ethernet block
307 devices like the Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage Blade.
308
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309config SUNVDC
310 tristate "Sun Virtual Disk Client support"
311 depends on SUN_LDOMS
312 help
313 Support for virtual disk devices as a client under Sun
314 Logical Domains.
315
61d48c2c 316source "drivers/s390/block/Kconfig"
74489a91 317
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318config XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND
319 tristate "Xen virtual block device support"
320 depends on XEN
321 default y
2de06cc1 322 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
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323 help
324 This driver implements the front-end of the Xen virtual
325 block device driver. It communicates with a back-end driver
326 in another domain which drives the actual block device.
327
dfc07b13 328config XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND
ea5e1161 329 tristate "Xen block-device backend driver"
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330 depends on XEN_BACKEND
331 help
332 The block-device backend driver allows the kernel to export its
333 block devices to other guests via a high-performance shared-memory
334 interface.
335
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336 The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the
337 CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND configuration option.
338
339 The backend driver attaches itself to a any block device specified
340 in the XenBus configuration. There are no limits to what the block
341 device as long as it has a major and minor.
342
343 If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen block backend driver
344 domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To
345 compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module
346 will be called xen-blkback.
347
348
e467cde2 349config VIRTIO_BLK
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350 tristate "Virtio block driver"
351 depends on VIRTIO
02746e26 352 select SG_POOL
a7f7f624 353 help
0ad07ec1 354 This is the virtual block driver for virtio. It can be used with
ecda85e7 355 QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
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357config BLK_DEV_RBD
358 tristate "Rados block device (RBD)"
b8977285 359 depends on INET && BLOCK
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360 select CEPH_LIB
361 select LIBCRC32C
362 select CRYPTO_AES
363 select CRYPTO
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364 help
365 Say Y here if you want include the Rados block device, which stripes
366 a block device over objects stored in the Ceph distributed object
367 store.
368
369 More information at http://ceph.newdream.net/.
370
371 If unsure, say N.
372
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373config BLK_DEV_UBLK
374 tristate "Userspace block driver (Experimental)"
375 select IO_URING
376 help
377 io_uring based userspace block driver. Together with ublk server, ublk
378 has been working well, but interface with userspace or command data
379 definition isn't finalized yet, and might change according to future
380 requirement, so mark is as experimental now.
381
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382 Say Y if you want to get better performance because task_work_add()
383 can be used in IO path for replacing io_uring cmd, which will become
384 shared between IO tasks and ubq daemon, meantime task_work_add() can
385 can handle batch more effectively, but task_work_add() isn't exported
386 for module, so ublk has to be built to kernel.
387
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388config BLKDEV_UBLK_LEGACY_OPCODES
389 bool "Support legacy command opcode"
390 depends on BLK_DEV_UBLK
391 default y
392 help
393 ublk driver started to take plain command encoding, which turns out
394 one bad way. The traditional ioctl command opcode encodes more
395 info and basically defines each code uniquely, so opcode conflict
396 is avoided, and driver can handle wrong command easily, meantime it
397 may help security subsystem to audit io_uring command.
398
399 Say Y if your application still uses legacy command opcode.
400
401 Say N if you don't want to support legacy command opcode. It is
402 suggested to enable N if your application(ublk server) switches to
403 ioctl command encoding.
404
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405source "drivers/block/rnbd/Kconfig"
406
fd11d171 407endif # BLK_DEV