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| author | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> | 2007-07-18 03:37:06 +0200 |
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| committer | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> | 2007-07-18 17:47:45 +0200 |
| commit | 9f27ee595038653ddf8bca871200d39247d6f4fc (patch) | |
| tree | 602b4fe83ccfd6cb65b146ed80e84baec0fb6cb7 /drivers/block/Kconfig | |
| parent | xen: add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual device hotplug driver (diff) | |
| download | linux-9f27ee595038653ddf8bca871200d39247d6f4fc.tar.xz linux-9f27ee595038653ddf8bca871200d39247d6f4fc.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/block/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/block/Kconfig | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
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 |