From 9f27ee595038653ddf8bca871200d39247d6f4fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:37:06 -0700
Subject: xen: add virtual block device driver.

The block device frontend driver allows the kernel to access block
devices exported exported by a virtual machine containing a physical
block device driver.

Signed-off-by: Ian Pratt <ian.pratt@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
---
 drivers/block/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

(limited to 'drivers/block/Kconfig')

diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
index 8f65b88cf711..a4a311992408 100644
--- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
@@ -427,4 +427,13 @@ config XILINX_SYSACE
 	help
 	  Include support for the Xilinx SystemACE CompactFlash interface
 
+config XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND
+	tristate "Xen virtual block device support"
+	depends on XEN
+	default y
+	help
+	  This driver implements the front-end of the Xen virtual
+	  block device driver.  It communicates with a back-end driver
+	  in another domain which drives the actual block device.
+
 endif # BLK_DEV
-- 
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