Root/drivers/block/Kconfig

1#
2# Block device driver configuration
3#
4
5menuconfig BLK_DEV
6    bool "Block devices"
7    depends on BLOCK
8    default y
9    ---help---
10      Say Y here to get to see options for various different block device
11      drivers. This option alone does not add any kernel code.
12
13      If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled;
14      only do this if you know what you are doing.
15
16if BLK_DEV
17
18config BLK_DEV_FD
19    tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
20    depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
21    ---help---
22      If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux,
23      say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM
24      Thinkpad users, is contained in
25      <file:Documentation/blockdev/floppy.txt>.
26      That file also contains the location of the Floppy driver FAQ as
27      well as location of the fdutils package used to configure additional
28      parameters of the driver at run time.
29
30      To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
31      module will be called floppy.
32
33config AMIGA_FLOPPY
34    tristate "Amiga floppy support"
35    depends on AMIGA
36
37config ATARI_FLOPPY
38    tristate "Atari floppy support"
39    depends on ATARI
40
41config MAC_FLOPPY
42    tristate "Support for PowerMac floppy"
43    depends on PPC_PMAC && !PPC_PMAC64
44    help
45      If you have a SWIM-3 (Super Woz Integrated Machine 3; from Apple)
46      floppy controller, say Y here. Most commonly found in PowerMacs.
47
48config BLK_DEV_SWIM
49    tristate "Support for SWIM Macintosh floppy"
50    depends on M68K && MAC
51    help
52      You should select this option if you want floppy support
53      and you don't have a II, IIfx, Q900, Q950 or AV series.
54
55config AMIGA_Z2RAM
56    tristate "Amiga Zorro II ramdisk support"
57    depends on ZORRO
58    help
59      This enables support for using Chip RAM and Zorro II RAM as a
60      ramdisk or as a swap partition. Say Y if you want to include this
61      driver in the kernel.
62
63      To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
64      module will be called z2ram.
65
66config BLK_DEV_XD
67    tristate "XT hard disk support"
68    depends on ISA && ISA_DMA_API
69    select CHECK_SIGNATURE
70    help
71      Very old 8 bit hard disk controllers used in the IBM XT computer
72      will be supported if you say Y here.
73
74      To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
75      module will be called xd.
76
77      It's pretty unlikely that you have one of these: say N.
78
79config GDROM
80    tristate "SEGA Dreamcast GD-ROM drive"
81    depends on SH_DREAMCAST
82    help
83      A standard SEGA Dreamcast comes with a modified CD ROM drive called a
84      "GD-ROM" by SEGA to signify it is capable of reading special disks
85      with up to 1 GB of data. This drive will also read standard CD ROM
86      disks. Select this option to access any disks in your GD ROM drive.
87      Most users will want to say "Y" here.
88      You can also build this as a module which will be called gdrom.
89
90config PARIDE
91    tristate "Parallel port IDE device support"
92    depends on PARPORT_PC
93    ---help---
94      There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through
95      your computer's parallel port. Most of them are actually IDE devices
96      using a parallel port IDE adapter. This option enables the PARIDE
97      subsystem which contains drivers for many of these external drives.
98      Read <file:Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt> for more information.
99
100      If you have said Y to the "Parallel-port support" configuration
101      option, you may share a single port between your printer and other
102      parallel port devices. Answer Y to build PARIDE support into your
103      kernel, or M if you would like to build it as a loadable module. If
104      your parallel port support is in a loadable module, you must build
105      PARIDE as a module. If you built PARIDE support into your kernel,
106      you may still build the individual protocol modules and high-level
107      drivers as loadable modules. If you build this support as a module,
108      it will be called paride.
109
110      To use the PARIDE support, you must say Y or M here and also to at
111      least one high-level driver (e.g. "Parallel port IDE disks",
112      "Parallel port ATAPI CD-ROMs", "Parallel port ATAPI disks" etc.) and
113      to at least one protocol driver (e.g. "ATEN EH-100 protocol",
114      "MicroSolutions backpack protocol", "DataStor Commuter protocol"
115      etc.).
116
117source "drivers/block/paride/Kconfig"
118
119source "drivers/block/mtip32xx/Kconfig"
120
121config BLK_CPQ_DA
122    tristate "Compaq SMART2 support"
123    depends on PCI && VIRT_TO_BUS
124    help
125      This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array controllers. Everyone
126      using these boards should say Y here. See the file
127      <file:Documentation/blockdev/cpqarray.txt> for the current list of
128      boards supported by this driver, and for further information on the
129      use of this driver.
130
131config BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA
132    tristate "Compaq Smart Array 5xxx support"
133    depends on PCI
134    help
135      This is the driver for Compaq Smart Array 5xxx controllers.
136      Everyone using these boards should say Y here.
137      See <file:Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt> for the current list of
138      boards supported by this driver, and for further information
139      on the use of this driver.
140
141config CISS_SCSI_TAPE
142    bool "SCSI tape drive support for Smart Array 5xxx"
143    depends on BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA && PROC_FS
144    depends on SCSI=y || SCSI=BLK_CPQ_CISS_DA
145    help
146      When enabled (Y), this option allows SCSI tape drives and SCSI medium
147      changers (tape robots) to be accessed via a Compaq 5xxx array
148      controller. (See <file:Documentation/blockdev/cciss.txt> for more details.)
149
150      "SCSI support" and "SCSI tape support" must also be enabled for this
151      option to work.
152
153      When this option is disabled (N), the SCSI portion of the driver
154      is not compiled.
155
156config BLK_DEV_DAC960
157    tristate "Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI RAID Controller support"
158    depends on PCI
159    help
160      This driver adds support for the Mylex DAC960, AcceleRAID, and
161      eXtremeRAID PCI RAID controllers. See the file
162      <file:Documentation/blockdev/README.DAC960> for further information
163      about this driver.
164
165      To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
166      module will be called DAC960.
167
168config BLK_DEV_UMEM
169    tristate "Micro Memory MM5415 Battery Backed RAM support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
170    depends on PCI && EXPERIMENTAL
171    ---help---
172      Saying Y here will include support for the MM5415 family of
173      battery backed (Non-volatile) RAM cards.
174      <http://www.umem.com/>
175
176      The cards appear as block devices that can be partitioned into
177      as many as 15 partitions.
178
179      To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
180      module will be called umem.
181
182      The umem driver has not yet been allocated a MAJOR number, so
183      one is chosen dynamically.
184
185config BLK_DEV_UBD
186    bool "Virtual block device"
187    depends on UML
188    ---help---
189          The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let
190          you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices.
191          Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say
192          Y here.
193
194config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC
195    bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD"
196    depends on BLK_DEV_UBD
197    ---help---
198      Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the
199      host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode
200      Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host
201      computer crashes.
202
203          Synchronous operation (i.e. always writing data to the host's disk
204          immediately) is configurable on a per-UBD basis by using a special
205          kernel command line option. Alternatively, you can say Y here to
206          turn on synchronous operation by default for all block devices.
207
208          If you're running a journalling file system (like reiserfs, for
209          example) in your virtual machine, you will want to say Y here. If
210          you care for the safety of the data in your virtual machine, Y is a
211          wise choice too. In all other cases (for example, if you're just
212          playing around with User-Mode Linux) you can choose N.
213
214config BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON
215    bool
216    default BLK_DEV_UBD
217
218config BLK_DEV_LOOP
219    tristate "Loopback device support"
220    ---help---
221      Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block
222      device; you can then create a file system on that block device and
223      mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard
224      drive partitions, CD-ROM drives or floppy drives. The loop devices
225      are block special device files with major number 7 and typically
226      called /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1 etc.
227
228      This is useful if you want to check an ISO 9660 file system before
229      burning the CD, or if you want to use floppy images without first
230      writing them to floppy. Furthermore, some Linux distributions avoid
231      the need for a dedicated Linux partition by keeping their complete
232      root file system inside a DOS FAT file using this loop device
233      driver.
234
235      To use the loop device, you need the losetup utility, found in the
236      util-linux package, see
237      <ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.
238
239      The loop device driver can also be used to "hide" a file system in
240      a disk partition, floppy, or regular file, either using encryption
241      (scrambling the data) or steganography (hiding the data in the low
242      bits of, say, a sound file). This is also safe if the file resides
243      on a remote file server.
244
245      There are several ways of encrypting disks. Some of these require
246      kernel patches. The vanilla kernel offers the cryptoloop option
247      and a Device Mapper target (which is superior, as it supports all
248      file systems). If you want to use the cryptoloop, say Y to both
249      LOOP and CRYPTOLOOP, and make sure you have a recent (version 2.12
250      or later) version of util-linux. Additionally, be aware that
251      the cryptoloop is not safe for storing journaled filesystems.
252
253      Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback
254      device used for network connections from the machine to itself.
255
256      To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
257      module will be called loop.
258
259      Most users will answer N here.
260
261config BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT
262    int "Number of loop devices to pre-create at init time"
263    depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
264    default 8
265    help
266      Static number of loop devices to be unconditionally pre-created
267      at init time.
268
269      This default value can be overwritten on the kernel command
270      line or with module-parameter loop.max_loop.
271
272      The historic default is 8. If a late 2011 version of losetup(8)
273      is used, it can be set to 0, since needed loop devices can be
274      dynamically allocated with the /dev/loop-control interface.
275
276config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP
277    tristate "Cryptoloop Support"
278    select CRYPTO
279    select CRYPTO_CBC
280    depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
281    ---help---
282      Say Y here if you want to be able to use the ciphers that are
283      provided by the CryptoAPI as loop transformation. This might be
284      used as hard disk encryption.
285
286      WARNING: This device is not safe for journaled file systems like
287      ext3 or Reiserfs. Please use the Device Mapper crypto module
288      instead, which can be configured to be on-disk compatible with the
289      cryptoloop device.
290
291source "drivers/block/drbd/Kconfig"
292
293config BLK_DEV_NBD
294    tristate "Network block device support"
295    depends on NET
296    ---help---
297      Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network
298      block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by
299      servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between
300      client and server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client
301      program this is hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to
302      a block device special file such as /dev/nd0.
303
304      Network block devices also allows you to run a block-device in
305      userland (making server and client physically the same computer,
306      communicating using the loopback network device).
307
308      Read <file:Documentation/blockdev/nbd.txt> for more information,
309      especially about where to find the server code, which runs in user
310      space and does not need special kernel support.
311
312      Note that this has nothing to do with the network file systems NFS
313      or Coda; you can say N here even if you intend to use NFS or Coda.
314
315      To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
316      module will be called nbd.
317
318      If unsure, say N.
319
320config BLK_DEV_NVME
321    tristate "NVM Express block device"
322    depends on PCI
323    ---help---
324      The NVM Express driver is for solid state drives directly
325      connected to the PCI or PCI Express bus. If you know you
326      don't have one of these, it is safe to answer N.
327
328      To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
329      module will be called nvme.
330
331config BLK_DEV_OSD
332    tristate "OSD object-as-blkdev support"
333    depends on SCSI_OSD_ULD
334    ---help---
335      Saying Y or M here will allow the exporting of a single SCSI
336      OSD (object-based storage) object as a Linux block device.
337
338      For example, if you create a 2G object on an OSD device,
339      you can then use this module to present that 2G object as
340      a Linux block device.
341
342      To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
343      module will be called osdblk.
344
345      If unsure, say N.
346
347config BLK_DEV_SX8
348    tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support"
349    depends on PCI
350    ---help---
351      Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
352      Promise SATA SX8 controllers.
353
354      Use devices /dev/sx8/$N and /dev/sx8/$Np$M.
355
356config BLK_DEV_UB
357    tristate "Low Performance USB Block driver (deprecated)"
358    depends on USB
359    help
360      This driver supports certain USB attached storage devices
361      such as flash keys.
362
363      If you enable this driver, it is recommended to avoid conflicts
364      with usb-storage by enabling USB_LIBUSUAL.
365
366      If unsure, say N.
367
368config BLK_DEV_RAM
369    tristate "RAM block device support"
370    ---help---
371      Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as
372      a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and
373      write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal
374      block devices (such as hard drives). It is usually used to load and
375      store a copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM
376      during the initial install of Linux.
377
378      Note that the kernel command line option "ramdisk=XX" is now obsolete.
379      For details, read <file:Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt>.
380
381      To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
382      module will be called rd.
383
384      Most normal users won't need the RAM disk functionality, and can
385      thus say N here.
386
387config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT
388    int "Default number of RAM disks"
389    default "16"
390    depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
391    help
392      The default value is 16 RAM disks. Change this if you know what you
393      are doing. If you boot from a filesystem that needs to be extracted
394      in memory, you will need at least one RAM disk (e.g. root on cramfs).
395
396config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
397    int "Default RAM disk size (kbytes)"
398    depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
399    default "4096"
400    help
401      The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know
402      what you are doing.
403
404config BLK_DEV_XIP
405    bool "Support XIP filesystems on RAM block device"
406    depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
407    default n
408    help
409      Support XIP filesystems (such as ext2 with XIP support on) on
410      top of block ram device. This will slightly enlarge the kernel, and
411      will prevent RAM block device backing store memory from being
412      allocated from highmem (only a problem for highmem systems).
413
414config CDROM_PKTCDVD
415    tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media"
416    depends on !UML
417    help
418      If you have a CDROM/DVD drive that supports packet writing, say
419      Y to include support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji
420      compliant ATAPI or SCSI drive, which is just about any newer
421      DVD/CD writer.
422
423      Currently only writing to CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVDRAM discs
424      is possible.
425      DVD-RW disks must be in restricted overwrite mode.
426
427      See the file <file:Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.txt>
428      for further information on the use of this driver.
429
430      To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
431      module will be called pktcdvd.
432
433config CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS
434    int "Free buffers for data gathering"
435    depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD
436    default "8"
437    help
438      This controls the maximum number of active concurrent packets. More
439      concurrent packets can increase write performance, but also require
440      more memory. Each concurrent packet will require approximately 64Kb
441      of non-swappable kernel memory, memory which will be allocated when
442      a disc is opened for writing.
443
444config CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE
445    bool "Enable write caching (EXPERIMENTAL)"
446    depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD && EXPERIMENTAL
447    help
448      If enabled, write caching will be set for the CD-R/W device. For now
449      this option is dangerous unless the CD-RW media is known good, as we
450      don't do deferred write error handling yet.
451
452config ATA_OVER_ETH
453    tristate "ATA over Ethernet support"
454    depends on NET
455    help
456    This driver provides Support for ATA over Ethernet block
457    devices like the Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage Blade.
458
459config MG_DISK
460    tristate "mGine mflash, gflash support"
461    depends on ARM && GPIOLIB
462    help
463      mGine mFlash(gFlash) block device driver
464
465config MG_DISK_RES
466    int "Size of reserved area before MBR"
467    depends on MG_DISK
468    default 0
469    help
470      Define size of reserved area that usually used for boot. Unit is KB.
471      All of the block device operation will be taken this value as start
472      offset
473      Examples:
474            1024 => 1 MB
475
476config SUNVDC
477    tristate "Sun Virtual Disk Client support"
478    depends on SUN_LDOMS
479    help
480      Support for virtual disk devices as a client under Sun
481      Logical Domains.
482
483source "drivers/s390/block/Kconfig"
484
485config XILINX_SYSACE
486    tristate "Xilinx SystemACE support"
487    depends on 4xx || MICROBLAZE
488    help
489      Include support for the Xilinx SystemACE CompactFlash interface
490
491config XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND
492    tristate "Xen virtual block device support"
493    depends on XEN
494    default y
495    select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
496    help
497      This driver implements the front-end of the Xen virtual
498      block device driver. It communicates with a back-end driver
499      in another domain which drives the actual block device.
500
501config XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND
502    tristate "Xen block-device backend driver"
503    depends on XEN_BACKEND
504    help
505      The block-device backend driver allows the kernel to export its
506      block devices to other guests via a high-performance shared-memory
507      interface.
508
509      The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the
510      CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND configuration option.
511
512      The backend driver attaches itself to a any block device specified
513      in the XenBus configuration. There are no limits to what the block
514      device as long as it has a major and minor.
515
516      If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen block backend driver
517      domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To
518      compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module
519      will be called xen-blkback.
520
521
522config VIRTIO_BLK
523    tristate "Virtio block driver (EXPERIMENTAL)"
524    depends on EXPERIMENTAL && VIRTIO
525    ---help---
526      This is the virtual block driver for virtio. It can be used with
527          lguest or QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
528
529config BLK_DEV_HD
530    bool "Very old hard disk (MFM/RLL/IDE) driver"
531    depends on HAVE_IDE
532    depends on !ARM || ARCH_RPC || ARCH_SHARK || BROKEN
533    help
534      This is a very old hard disk driver that lacks the enhanced
535      functionality of the newer ones.
536
537      It is required for systems with ancient MFM/RLL/ESDI drives.
538
539      If unsure, say N.
540
541config BLK_DEV_RBD
542    tristate "Rados block device (RBD)"
543    depends on INET && EXPERIMENTAL && BLOCK
544    select CEPH_LIB
545    select LIBCRC32C
546    select CRYPTO_AES
547    select CRYPTO
548    default n
549    help
550      Say Y here if you want include the Rados block device, which stripes
551      a block device over objects stored in the Ceph distributed object
552      store.
553
554      More information at http://ceph.newdream.net/.
555
556      If unsure, say N.
557
558endif # BLK_DEV
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