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  1. #
  2. # Block device driver configuration
  3. #
  4. menuconfig BLK_DEV
  5. bool "Block devices"
  6. depends on BLOCK
  7. default y
  8. if BLK_DEV
  9. config BLK_DEV_FD
  10. tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
  11. depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
  12. ---help---
  13. If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux,
  14. say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM
  15. Thinkpad users, is contained in <file:Documentation/floppy.txt>.
  16. That file also contains the location of the Floppy driver FAQ as
  17. well as location of the fdutils package used to configure additional
  18. parameters of the driver at run time.
  19. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  20. module will be called floppy.
  21. config AMIGA_FLOPPY
  22. tristate "Amiga floppy support"
  23. depends on AMIGA
  24. config ATARI_FLOPPY
  25. tristate "Atari floppy support"
  26. depends on ATARI
  27. config MAC_FLOPPY
  28. tristate "Support for PowerMac floppy"
  29. depends on PPC_PMAC && !PPC_PMAC64
  30. help
  31. If you have a SWIM-3 (Super Woz Integrated Machine 3; from Apple)
  32. floppy controller, say Y here. Most commonly found in PowerMacs.
  33. config BLK_DEV_PS2
  34. tristate "PS/2 ESDI hard disk support"
  35. depends on MCA && MCA_LEGACY && BROKEN
  36. help
  37. Say Y here if you have a PS/2 machine with a MCA bus and an ESDI
  38. hard disk.
  39. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  40. module will be called ps2esdi.
  41. config AMIGA_Z2RAM
  42. tristate "Amiga Zorro II ramdisk support"
  43. depends on ZORRO
  44. help
  45. This enables support for using Chip RAM and Zorro II RAM as a
  46. ramdisk or as a swap partition. Say Y if you want to include this
  47. driver in the kernel.
  48. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  49. module will be called z2ram.
  50. config ATARI_SLM
  51. tristate "Atari SLM laser printer support"
  52. depends on ATARI
  53. help
  54. If you have an Atari SLM laser printer, say Y to include support for
  55. it in the kernel. Otherwise, say N. This driver is also available as
  56. a module ( = code which can be inserted in and removed from the
  57. running kernel whenever you want). The module will be called
  58. acsi_slm. Be warned: the driver needs much ST-RAM and can cause
  59. problems due to that fact!
  60. config BLK_DEV_XD
  61. tristate "XT hard disk support"
  62. depends on ISA && ISA_DMA_API
  63. help
  64. Very old 8 bit hard disk controllers used in the IBM XT computer
  65. will be supported if you say Y here.
  66. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  67. module will be called xd.
  68. It's pretty unlikely that you have one of these: say N.
  69. config PARIDE
  70. tristate "Parallel port IDE device support"
  71. depends on PARPORT_PC
  72. ---help---
  73. There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through
  74. your computer's parallel port. Most of them are actually IDE devices
  75. using a parallel port IDE adapter. This option enables the PARIDE
  76. subsystem which contains drivers for many of these external drives.
  77. Read <file:Documentation/paride.txt> for more information.
  78. If you have said Y to the "Parallel-port support" configuration
  79. option, you may share a single port between your printer and other
  80. parallel port devices. Answer Y to build PARIDE support into your
  81. kernel, or M if you would like to build it as a loadable module. If
  82. your parallel port support is in a loadable module, you must build
  83. PARIDE as a module. If you built PARIDE support into your kernel,
  84. you may still build the individual protocol modules and high-level
  85. drivers as loadable modules. If you build this support as a module,
  86. it will be called paride.
  87. To use the PARIDE support, you must say Y or M here and also to at
  88. least one high-level driver (e.g. "Parallel port IDE disks",
  89. "Parallel port ATAPI CD-ROMs", "Parallel port ATAPI disks" etc.) and
  90. to at least one protocol driver (e.g. "ATEN EH-100 protocol",
  91. "MicroSolutions backpack protocol", "DataStor Commuter protocol"
  92. etc.).
  93. source "drivers/block/paride/Kconfig"
  94. config BLK_CPQ_DA
  95. tristate "Compaq SMART2 support"
  96. depends on PCI && VIRT_TO_BUS
  97. help
  98. This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array controllers. Everyone
  99. using these boards should say Y here. See the file
  100. <file:Documentation/cpqarray.txt> for the current list of boards
  101. supported by this driver, and for further information on the use of
  102. this driver.
  103. config BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA
  104. tristate "Compaq Smart Array 5xxx support"
  105. depends on PCI
  106. help
  107. This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array 5xxx controllers.
  108. Everyone using these boards should say Y here.
  109. See <file:Documentation/cciss.txt> for the current list of
  110. boards supported by this driver, and for further information
  111. on the use of this driver.
  112. config CISS_SCSI_TAPE
  113. bool "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx"
  114. depends on BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA && PROC_FS
  115. depends on SCSI=y || SCSI=BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA
  116. help
  117. When enabled (Y), this option allows SCSI tape drives and SCSI medium
  118. changers (tape robots) to be accessed via a Compaq 5xxx array
  119. controller. (See <file:Documentation/cciss.txt> for more details.)
  120. "SCSI support" and "SCSI tape support" must also be enabled for this
  121. option to work.
  122. When this option is disabled (N), the SCSI portion of the driver
  123. is not compiled.
  124. config BLK_DEV_DAC960
  125. tristate "Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI RAID Controller support"
  126. depends on PCI
  127. help
  128. This driver adds support for the Mylex DAC960, AcceleRAID, and
  129. eXtremeRAID PCI RAID controllers. See the file
  130. <file:Documentation/README.DAC960> for further information about
  131. this driver.
  132. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  133. module will be called DAC960.
  134. config BLK_DEV_UMEM
  135. tristate "Micro Memory MM5415 Battery Backed RAM support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  136. depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
  137. ---help---
  138. Saying Y here will include support for the MM5415 family of
  139. battery backed (Non-volatile) RAM cards.
  140. <http://www.umem.com/>
  141. The cards appear as block devices that can be partitioned into
  142. as many as 15 partitions.
  143. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  144. module will be called umem.
  145. The umem driver has not yet been allocated a MAJOR number, so
  146. one is chosen dynamically.
  147. config BLK_DEV_UBD
  148. bool "Virtual block device"
  149. depends on UML
  150. ---help---
  151. The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let
  152. you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices.
  153. Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say
  154. Y here.
  155. config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC
  156. bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD"
  157. depends on BLK_DEV_UBD
  158. ---help---
  159. Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the
  160. host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode
  161. Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host
  162. computer crashes.
  163. Synchronous operation (i.e. always writing data to the host's disk
  164. immediately) is configurable on a per-UBD basis by using a special
  165. kernel command line option. Alternatively, you can say Y here to
  166. turn on synchronous operation by default for all block devices.
  167. If you're running a journalling file system (like reiserfs, for
  168. example) in your virtual machine, you will want to say Y here. If
  169. you care for the safety of the data in your virtual machine, Y is a
  170. wise choice too. In all other cases (for example, if you're just
  171. playing around with User-Mode Linux) you can choose N.
  172. config BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON
  173. bool
  174. default BLK_DEV_UBD
  175. config MMAPPER
  176. tristate "Example IO memory driver (BROKEN)"
  177. depends on UML && BROKEN
  178. ---help---
  179. The User-Mode Linux port can provide support for IO Memory
  180. emulation with this option. This allows a host file to be
  181. specified as an I/O region on the kernel command line. That file
  182. will be mapped into UML's kernel address space where a driver can
  183. locate it and do whatever it wants with the memory, including
  184. providing an interface to it for UML processes to use.
  185. For more information, see
  186. <http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/iomem.html>.
  187. If you'd like to be able to provide a simulated IO port space for
  188. User-Mode Linux processes, say Y. If unsure, say N.
  189. config BLK_DEV_LOOP
  190. tristate "Loopback device support"
  191. ---help---
  192. Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block
  193. device; you can then create a file system on that block device and
  194. mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard
  195. drive partitions, CD-ROM drives or floppy drives. The loop devices
  196. are block special device files with major number 7 and typically
  197. called /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1 etc.
  198. This is useful if you want to check an ISO 9660 file system before
  199. burning the CD, or if you want to use floppy images without first
  200. writing them to floppy. Furthermore, some Linux distributions avoid
  201. the need for a dedicated Linux partition by keeping their complete
  202. root file system inside a DOS FAT file using this loop device
  203. driver.
  204. To use the loop device, you need the losetup utility, found in the
  205. util-linux package, see
  206. <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.
  207. The loop device driver can also be used to "hide" a file system in
  208. a disk partition, floppy, or regular file, either using encryption
  209. (scrambling the data) or steganography (hiding the data in the low
  210. bits of, say, a sound file). This is also safe if the file resides
  211. on a remote file server.
  212. There are several ways of encrypting disks. Some of these require
  213. kernel patches. The vanilla kernel offers the cryptoloop option
  214. and a Device Mapper target (which is superior, as it supports all
  215. file systems). If you want to use the cryptoloop, say Y to both
  216. LOOP and CRYPTOLOOP, and make sure you have a recent (version 2.12
  217. or later) version of util-linux. Additionally, be aware that
  218. the cryptoloop is not safe for storing journaled filesystems.
  219. Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback
  220. device used for network connections from the machine to itself.
  221. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  222. module will be called loop.
  223. Most users will answer N here.
  224. config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP
  225. tristate "Cryptoloop Support"
  226. select CRYPTO
  227. select CRYPTO_CBC
  228. depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
  229. ---help---
  230. Say Y here if you want to be able to use the ciphers that are
  231. provided by the CryptoAPI as loop transformation. This might be
  232. used as hard disk encryption.
  233. WARNING: This device is not safe for journaled file systems like
  234. ext3 or Reiserfs. Please use the Device Mapper crypto module
  235. instead, which can be configured to be on-disk compatible with the
  236. cryptoloop device.
  237. config BLK_DEV_NBD
  238. tristate "Network block device support"
  239. depends on NET
  240. ---help---
  241. Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network
  242. block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by
  243. servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between
  244. client and server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client
  245. program this is hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to
  246. a block device special file such as /dev/nd0.
  247. Network block devices also allows you to run a block-device in
  248. userland (making server and client physically the same computer,
  249. communicating using the loopback network device).
  250. Read <file:Documentation/nbd.txt> for more information, especially
  251. about where to find the server code, which runs in user space and
  252. does not need special kernel support.
  253. Note that this has nothing to do with the network file systems NFS
  254. or Coda; you can say N here even if you intend to use NFS or Coda.
  255. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  256. module will be called nbd.
  257. If unsure, say N.
  258. config BLK_DEV_SX8
  259. tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support"
  260. depends on PCI
  261. ---help---
  262. Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
  263. Promise SATA SX8 controllers.
  264. Use devices /dev/sx8/$N and /dev/sx8/$Np$M.
  265. config BLK_DEV_UB
  266. tristate "Low Performance USB Block driver"
  267. depends on USB
  268. help
  269. This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices
  270. such as flash keys.
  271. If you enable this driver, it is recommended to avoid conflicts
  272. with usb-storage by enabling USB_LIBUSUAL.
  273. If unsure, say N.
  274. config BLK_DEV_RAM
  275. tristate "RAM disk support"
  276. ---help---
  277. Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as
  278. a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and
  279. write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal
  280. block devices (such as hard drives). It is usually used to load and
  281. store a copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM
  282. during the initial install of Linux.
  283. Note that the kernel command line option "ramdisk=XX" is now
  284. obsolete. For details, read <file:Documentation/ramdisk.txt>.
  285. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  286. module will be called rd.
  287. Most normal users won't need the RAM disk functionality, and can
  288. thus say N here.
  289. config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT
  290. int "Default number of RAM disks"
  291. default "16"
  292. depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
  293. help
  294. The default value is 16 RAM disks. Change this if you know what
  295. are doing. If you boot from a filesystem that needs to be extracted
  296. in memory, you will need at least one RAM disk (e.g. root on cramfs).
  297. config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
  298. int "Default RAM disk size (kbytes)"
  299. depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
  300. default "4096"
  301. help
  302. The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know
  303. what are you doing. If you are using IBM S/390, then set this to
  304. 8192.
  305. config BLK_DEV_RAM_BLOCKSIZE
  306. int "Default RAM disk block size (bytes)"
  307. depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
  308. default "1024"
  309. help
  310. The default value is 1024 bytes. PAGE_SIZE is a much more
  311. efficient choice however. The default is kept to ensure initrd
  312. setups function - apparently needed by the rd_load_image routine
  313. that supposes the filesystem in the image uses a 1024 blocksize.
  314. config CDROM_PKTCDVD
  315. tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media"
  316. depends on !UML
  317. help
  318. If you have a CDROM/DVD drive that supports packet writing, say
  319. Y to include support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji
  320. compliant ATAPI or SCSI drive, which is just about any newer
  321. DVD/CD writer.
  322. Currently only writing to CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVDRAM discs
  323. is possible.
  324. DVD-RW disks must be in restricted overwrite mode.
  325. See the file <file:Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt>
  326. for further information on the use of this driver.
  327. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
  328. module will be called pktcdvd.
  329. config CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS
  330. int "Free buffers for data gathering"
  331. depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD
  332. default "8"
  333. help
  334. This controls the maximum number of active concurrent packets. More
  335. concurrent packets can increase write performance, but also require
  336. more memory. Each concurrent packet will require approximately 64Kb
  337. of non-swappable kernel memory, memory which will be allocated when
  338. a disc is opened for writing.
  339. config CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE
  340. bool "Enable write caching (EXPERIMENTAL)"
  341. depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD && EXPERIMENTAL
  342. help
  343. If enabled, write caching will be set for the CD-R/W device. For now
  344. this option is dangerous unless the CD-RW media is known good, as we
  345. don't do deferred write error handling yet.
  346. config ATA_OVER_ETH
  347. tristate "ATA over Ethernet support"
  348. depends on NET
  349. help
  350. This driver provides Support for ATA over Ethernet block
  351. devices like the Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage Blade.
  352. source "drivers/s390/block/Kconfig"
  353. endif # BLK_DEV