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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/Kconfig | 26 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig index 084b9efcefca..ecceaaa1a66f 100644 --- a/drivers/block/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ menuconfig BLK_DEV bool "Block devices" depends on BLOCK default y - ---help--- + help Say Y here to get to see options for various different block device drivers. This option alone does not add any kernel code. @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_NULL_BLK_FAULT_INJECTION config BLK_DEV_FD tristate "Normal floppy disk support" depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC - ---help--- + help If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux, say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM Thinkpad users, is contained in @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ config GDROM config PARIDE tristate "Parallel port IDE device support" depends on PARPORT_PC - ---help--- + help There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through your computer's parallel port. Most of them are actually IDE devices using a parallel port IDE adapter. This option enables the PARIDE @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ source "drivers/block/zram/Kconfig" config BLK_DEV_UMEM tristate "Micro Memory MM5415 Battery Backed RAM support" depends on PCI - ---help--- + help Saying Y here will include support for the MM5415 family of battery backed (Non-volatile) RAM cards. <http://www.umem.com/> @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_UMEM config BLK_DEV_UBD bool "Virtual block device" depends on UML - ---help--- + help The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices. Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_UBD config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD" depends on BLK_DEV_UBD - ---help--- + help Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host @@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON config BLK_DEV_LOOP tristate "Loopback device support" - ---help--- + help Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block device; you can then create a file system on that block device and mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard @@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP select CRYPTO select CRYPTO_CBC depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP - ---help--- + help Say Y here if you want to be able to use the ciphers that are provided by the CryptoAPI as loop transformation. This might be used as hard disk encryption. @@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ source "drivers/block/drbd/Kconfig" config BLK_DEV_NBD tristate "Network block device support" depends on NET - ---help--- + help Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_SKD tristate "STEC S1120 Block Driver" depends on PCI depends on 64BIT - ---help--- + help Saying Y or M here will enable support for the STEC, Inc. S1120 PCIe SSD. @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_SKD config BLK_DEV_SX8 tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support" depends on PCI - ---help--- + help Saying Y or M here will enable support for the Promise SATA SX8 controllers. @@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_SX8 config BLK_DEV_RAM tristate "RAM block device support" - ---help--- + help Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ config XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND config VIRTIO_BLK tristate "Virtio block driver" depends on VIRTIO - ---help--- + help This is the virtual block driver for virtio. It can be used with QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M. |