9p: add virtio transport
This adds a transport to 9p for communicating between guests and a host
using a virtio based transport.
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
index b90f537..bf80806 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt
@@ -42,10 +42,12 @@
trans=name select an alternative transport. Valid options are
currently:
- unix - specifying a named pipe mount point
- tcp - specifying a normal TCP/IP connection
- fd - used passed file descriptors for connection
+ unix - specifying a named pipe mount point
+ tcp - specifying a normal TCP/IP connection
+ fd - used passed file descriptors for connection
(see rfdno and wfdno)
+ virtio - connect to the next virtio channel available
+ (from lguest or KVM with trans_virtio module)
uname=name user name to attempt mount as on the remote server. The
server may override or ignore this value. Certain user