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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 | |
parent | b9fc02968c5dd3c0461b4bb126499a17b13fb86e (diff) |
xen/blkback: Flesh out the description in the Kconfig.
with more details.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
-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 | |||
478 | block devices to other guests via a high-performance shared-memory | 478 | block devices to other guests via a high-performance shared-memory |
479 | interface. | 479 | interface. |
480 | 480 | ||
481 | The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the | ||
482 | CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND configuration option. | ||
483 | |||
484 | The backend driver attaches itself to a any block device specified | ||
485 | in the XenBus configuration. There are no limits to what the block | ||
486 | device as long as it has a major and minor. | ||
487 | |||
488 | If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen block backend driver | ||
489 | domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To | ||
490 | compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module | ||
491 | will be called xen-blkback. | ||
492 | |||
493 | |||
481 | config VIRTIO_BLK | 494 | config VIRTIO_BLK |
482 | tristate "Virtio block driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" | 495 | tristate "Virtio block driver (EXPERIMENTAL)" |
483 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO | 496 | depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO |