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| author | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2009-12-13 20:49:59 -0500 |
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| committer | NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> | 2009-12-13 20:51:41 -0500 |
| commit | 93bd89a6d5f268acbdb8d775e40d3a280b07b5bd (patch) | |
| tree | 64fba42505d5d95457032dd70e9a6beb9b6f0845 | |
| parent | 0efb9e6191e1d3d34c1db90b829b742bc36d532e (diff) | |
md: revise Kconfig help for MD_MULTIPATH
Make it clear in the config message that MD_MULTIPATH is not under
active development.
Cc: Oren Held <orenhe@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/Kconfig | 9 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig index 2158377a1359..acb3a4e404ff 100644 --- a/drivers/md/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig | |||
| @@ -185,11 +185,10 @@ config MD_MULTIPATH | |||
| 185 | tristate "Multipath I/O support" | 185 | tristate "Multipath I/O support" |
| 186 | depends on BLK_DEV_MD | 186 | depends on BLK_DEV_MD |
| 187 | help | 187 | help |
| 188 | Multipath-IO is the ability of certain devices to address the same | 188 | MD_MULTIPATH provides a simple multi-path personality for use |
| 189 | physical disk over multiple 'IO paths'. The code ensures that such | 189 | the MD framework. It is not under active development. New |
| 190 | paths can be defined and handled at runtime, and ensures that a | 190 | projects should consider using DM_MULTIPATH which has more |
| 191 | transparent failover to the backup path(s) happens if a IO errors | 191 | features and more testing. |
| 192 | arrives on the primary path. | ||
| 193 | 192 | ||
| 194 | If unsure, say N. | 193 | If unsure, say N. |
| 195 | 194 | ||
