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diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig.char b/arch/um/Kconfig.char index 70dabd1e0652..b9d7c4276682 100644 --- a/arch/um/Kconfig.char +++ b/arch/um/Kconfig.char @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ - -menu "Character Devices" +menu "UML Character Devices" config STDERR_CONSOLE bool "stderr console" @@ -105,92 +104,6 @@ config SSL_CHAN this if you expect the UML that you build to be run in environments which don't have a set of /dev/pty* devices. -config UNIX98_PTYS - bool "Unix98 PTY support" - help - A pseudo terminal (PTY) is a software device consisting of two - halves: a master and a slave. The slave device behaves identical to - a physical terminal; the master device is used by a process to - read data from and write data to the slave, thereby emulating a - terminal. Typical programs for the master side are telnet servers - and xterms. - - Linux has traditionally used the BSD-like names /dev/ptyxx for - masters and /dev/ttyxx for slaves of pseudo terminals. This scheme - has a number of problems. The GNU C library glibc 2.1 and later, - however, supports the Unix98 naming standard: in order to acquire a - pseudo terminal, a process opens /dev/ptmx; the number of the pseudo - terminal is then made available to the process and the pseudo - terminal slave can be accessed as /dev/pts/<number>. What was - traditionally /dev/ttyp2 will then be /dev/pts/2, for example. - - All modern Linux systems use the Unix98 ptys. Say Y unless - you're on an embedded system and want to conserve memory. - -config LEGACY_PTYS - bool "Legacy (BSD) PTY support" - default y - help - A pseudo terminal (PTY) is a software device consisting of two - halves: a master and a slave. The slave device behaves identical to - a physical terminal; the master device is used by a process to - read data from and write data to the slave, thereby emulating a - terminal. Typical programs for the master side are telnet servers - and xterms. - - Linux has traditionally used the BSD-like names /dev/ptyxx - for masters and /dev/ttyxx for slaves of pseudo - terminals. This scheme has a number of problems, including - security. This option enables these legacy devices; on most - systems, it is safe to say N. - -config RAW_DRIVER - tristate "RAW driver (/dev/raw/rawN)" - depends on BLOCK - help - The raw driver permits block devices to be bound to /dev/raw/rawN. - Once bound, I/O against /dev/raw/rawN uses efficient zero-copy I/O. - See the raw(8) manpage for more details. - - Applications should preferably open the device (eg /dev/hda1) - with the O_DIRECT flag. - -config MAX_RAW_DEVS - int "Maximum number of RAW devices to support (1-8192)" - depends on RAW_DRIVER - default "256" - help - The maximum number of RAW devices that are supported. - Default is 256. Increase this number in case you need lots of - raw devices. - -config LEGACY_PTY_COUNT - int "Maximum number of legacy PTY in use" - depends on LEGACY_PTYS - default "256" - help - The maximum number of legacy PTYs that can be used at any one time. - The default is 256, and should be more than enough. Embedded - systems may want to reduce this to save memory. - - When not in use, each legacy PTY occupies 12 bytes on 32-bit - architectures and 24 bytes on 64-bit architectures. - -config WATCHDOG - bool "Watchdog Timer Support" - -config WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT - bool "Disable watchdog shutdown on close" - depends on WATCHDOG - -config SOFT_WATCHDOG - tristate "Software Watchdog" - depends on WATCHDOG - -config UML_WATCHDOG - tristate "UML watchdog" - depends on WATCHDOG - config UML_SOUND tristate "Sound support" help @@ -211,29 +124,4 @@ config HOSTAUDIO tristate default UML_SOUND -#It is selected elsewhere, so kconfig would warn without this. -config HW_RANDOM - tristate - default n - -config UML_RANDOM - tristate "Hardware random number generator" - help - This option enables UML's "hardware" random number generator. It - attaches itself to the host's /dev/random, supplying as much entropy - as the host has, rather than the small amount the UML gets from its - own drivers. It registers itself as a standard hardware random number - generator, major 10, minor 183, and the canonical device name is - /dev/hwrng. - The way to make use of this is to install the rng-tools package - (check your distro, or download from - http://sourceforge.net/projects/gkernel/). rngd periodically reads - /dev/hwrng and injects the entropy into /dev/random. - -config MMAPPER - tristate "iomem emulation driver" - help - This driver allows a host file to be used as emulated IO memory inside - UML. - endmenu |