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authorEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>2007-10-23 13:47:31 -0500
committerEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>2007-10-23 13:47:31 -0500
commitb530cc794024be227876a089e66fb17b7b512763 (patch)
tree70b2c555ea9cfe0337a7e25b8cf57c0236efe242 /Documentation
parent0b776eb5426752d4e53354ac89e3710d857e09a7 (diff)
downloadlinux-b530cc794024be227876a089e66fb17b7b512763.tar.bz2
9p: add virtio transport
This adds a transport to 9p for communicating between guests and a host using a virtio based transport. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
index b90f537af35c..bf8080640eba 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
@@ -42,10 +42,12 @@ OPTIONS
trans=name select an alternative transport. Valid options are
currently:
- unix - specifying a named pipe mount point
- tcp - specifying a normal TCP/IP connection
- fd - used passed file descriptors for connection
+ unix - specifying a named pipe mount point
+ tcp - specifying a normal TCP/IP connection
+ fd - used passed file descriptors for connection
(see rfdno and wfdno)
+ virtio - connect to the next virtio channel available
+ (from lguest or KVM with trans_virtio module)
uname=name user name to attempt mount as on the remote server. The
server may override or ignore this value. Certain user