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| author | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> | 2011-05-12 16:10:55 -0400 |
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| committer | Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> | 2011-05-12 17:55:40 -0400 |
| commit | a4c348580e65c95d4b278bb6f154f622df12b893 (patch) | |
| tree | 768e1fc7132dfa752e83cb50918756c1276f89be /drivers/block | |
| parent | b9fc02968c5dd3c0461b4bb126499a17b13fb86e (diff) | |
| download | linux-a4c348580e65c95d4b278bb6f154f622df12b893.tar.bz2 | |
xen/blkback: Flesh out the description in the Kconfig.
with more details.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/Kconfig | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig index 9abb64689712..717d6e4e18d3 100644 --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig @@ -478,6 +478,19 @@ config XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND block devices to other guests via a high-performance shared-memory interface. + The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the + CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. + + The backend driver attaches itself to a any block device specified + in the XenBus configuration. There are no limits to what the block + device as long as it has a major and minor. + + If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen block backend driver + domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To + compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module + will be called xen-blkback. + + config VIRTIO_BLK tristate "Virtio block driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO |