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-rw-r--r--drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig b/drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig
index 5d6237391dcd..c894841c6456 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/Kconfig
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
+config NVME_CORE
+ tristate
+
config BLK_DEV_NVME
tristate "NVM Express block device"
depends on PCI && BLOCK
+ select NVME_CORE
---help---
The NVM Express driver is for solid state drives directly
connected to the PCI or PCI Express bus. If you know you
@@ -11,11 +15,12 @@ config BLK_DEV_NVME
config BLK_DEV_NVME_SCSI
bool "SCSI emulation for NVMe device nodes"
- depends on BLK_DEV_NVME
+ depends on NVME_CORE
---help---
This adds support for the SG_IO ioctl on the NVMe character
and block devices nodes, as well a a translation for a small
number of selected SCSI commands to NVMe commands to the NVMe
driver. If you don't know what this means you probably want
- to say N here, and if you know what it means you probably
- want to say N as well.
+ to say N here, unless you run a distro that abuses the SCSI
+ emulation to provide stable device names for mount by id, like
+ some OpenSuSE and SLES versions.