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Greg Kroah-Hartmanb2441312017-11-01 15:07:57 +01001# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002#
3# Block device driver configuration
4#
5
Jan Engelhardtfd11d172007-07-10 12:26:06 +02006menuconfig BLK_DEV
7 bool "Block devices"
8 depends on BLOCK
9 default y
Masahiro Yamadaa7f7f622020-06-14 01:50:22 +090010 help
Jan Engelhardt06bfb7e2007-08-18 12:56:21 +020011 Say Y here to get to see options for various different block device
12 drivers. This option alone does not add any kernel code.
13
14 If you say N, all options in this submenu will be skipped and disabled;
15 only do this if you know what you are doing.
David Howells93614012006-09-30 20:45:40 +020016
Jan Engelhardtfd11d172007-07-10 12:26:06 +020017if BLK_DEV
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070018
Damien Le Moaleebf34a2020-11-20 10:55:19 +090019source "drivers/block/null_blk/Kconfig"
Jens Axboef2298c02013-10-25 11:52:25 +010020
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070021config BLK_DEV_FD
22 tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uka08b6b72005-09-06 01:48:42 +010023 depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
Masahiro Yamadaa7f7f622020-06-14 01:50:22 +090024 help
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070025 If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux,
26 say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +000027 Thinkpad users, is contained in
Mauro Carvalho Chehabe7751612019-06-18 11:47:10 -030028 <file:Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/floppy.rst>.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070029 That file also contains the location of the Floppy driver FAQ as
30 well as location of the fdutils package used to configure additional
31 parameters of the driver at run time.
32
33 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
34 module will be called floppy.
35
36config AMIGA_FLOPPY
37 tristate "Amiga floppy support"
38 depends on AMIGA
39
40config ATARI_FLOPPY
41 tristate "Atari floppy support"
42 depends on ATARI
43
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070044config MAC_FLOPPY
45 tristate "Support for PowerMac floppy"
46 depends on PPC_PMAC && !PPC_PMAC64
47 help
48 If you have a SWIM-3 (Super Woz Integrated Machine 3; from Apple)
49 floppy controller, say Y here. Most commonly found in PowerMacs.
50
Laurent Vivier8852ecd2008-11-15 16:10:10 +010051config BLK_DEV_SWIM
52 tristate "Support for SWIM Macintosh floppy"
Christoph Hellwig4c6e5bc2021-04-06 08:17:25 +020053 depends on M68K && MAC && !HIGHMEM
Laurent Vivier8852ecd2008-11-15 16:10:10 +010054 help
55 You should select this option if you want floppy support
56 and you don't have a II, IIfx, Q900, Q950 or AV series.
57
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070058config AMIGA_Z2RAM
59 tristate "Amiga Zorro II ramdisk support"
60 depends on ZORRO
61 help
62 This enables support for using Chip RAM and Zorro II RAM as a
63 ramdisk or as a swap partition. Say Y if you want to include this
64 driver in the kernel.
65
66 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
67 module will be called z2ram.
68
Lauri Kasanend9b2a2b2021-01-23 09:53:27 +020069config N64CART
70 bool "N64 cart support"
71 depends on MACH_NINTENDO64
72 help
73 Support for the N64 cart.
74
Bart Van Assche2a750162017-10-30 09:02:19 -070075config CDROM
Jens Axboea1168952017-11-03 11:00:03 -060076 tristate
Bart Van Assche2a750162017-10-30 09:02:19 -070077
Randy Dunlap2395e462010-05-11 09:02:55 +020078config GDROM
79 tristate "SEGA Dreamcast GD-ROM drive"
80 depends on SH_DREAMCAST
Bart Van Assche2a750162017-10-30 09:02:19 -070081 select CDROM
Randy Dunlap2395e462010-05-11 09:02:55 +020082 help
83 A standard SEGA Dreamcast comes with a modified CD ROM drive called a
84 "GD-ROM" by SEGA to signify it is capable of reading special disks
85 with up to 1 GB of data. This drive will also read standard CD ROM
86 disks. Select this option to access any disks in your GD ROM drive.
87 Most users will want to say "Y" here.
88 You can also build this as a module which will be called gdrom.
89
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070090config PARIDE
91 tristate "Parallel port IDE device support"
Marko Kohtala6a19b412006-01-06 00:19:49 -080092 depends on PARPORT_PC
Masahiro Yamadaa7f7f622020-06-14 01:50:22 +090093 help
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070094 There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through
95 your computer's parallel port. Most of them are actually IDE devices
96 using a parallel port IDE adapter. This option enables the PARIDE
97 subsystem which contains drivers for many of these external drives.
Mauro Carvalho Chehabe7751612019-06-18 11:47:10 -030098 Read <file:Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/paride.rst> for more information.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070099
100 If you have said Y to the "Parallel-port support" configuration
101 option, you may share a single port between your printer and other
102 parallel port devices. Answer Y to build PARIDE support into your
103 kernel, or M if you would like to build it as a loadable module. If
104 your parallel port support is in a loadable module, you must build
105 PARIDE as a module. If you built PARIDE support into your kernel,
106 you may still build the individual protocol modules and high-level
107 drivers as loadable modules. If you build this support as a module,
108 it will be called paride.
109
110 To use the PARIDE support, you must say Y or M here and also to at
111 least one high-level driver (e.g. "Parallel port IDE disks",
112 "Parallel port ATAPI CD-ROMs", "Parallel port ATAPI disks" etc.) and
113 to at least one protocol driver (e.g. "ATEN EH-100 protocol",
114 "MicroSolutions backpack protocol", "DataStor Commuter protocol"
115 etc.).
116
117source "drivers/block/paride/Kconfig"
118
Sam Bradshaw88523a62011-08-30 08:34:26 -0600119source "drivers/block/mtip32xx/Kconfig"
120
Minchan Kimcd67e102014-01-30 15:45:52 -0800121source "drivers/block/zram/Kconfig"
122
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700123config BLK_DEV_UBD
124 bool "Virtual block device"
125 depends on UML
Masahiro Yamadaa7f7f622020-06-14 01:50:22 +0900126 help
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700127 The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let
128 you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices.
129 Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say
130 Y here.
131
132config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC
133 bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD"
134 depends on BLK_DEV_UBD
Masahiro Yamadaa7f7f622020-06-14 01:50:22 +0900135 help
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700136 Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the
137 host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode
138 Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host
139 computer crashes.
140
141 Synchronous operation (i.e. always writing data to the host's disk
142 immediately) is configurable on a per-UBD basis by using a special
143 kernel command line option. Alternatively, you can say Y here to
144 turn on synchronous operation by default for all block devices.
145
146 If you're running a journalling file system (like reiserfs, for
147 example) in your virtual machine, you will want to say Y here. If
148 you care for the safety of the data in your virtual machine, Y is a
149 wise choice too. In all other cases (for example, if you're just
150 playing around with User-Mode Linux) you can choose N.
151
152config BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON
153 bool
154 default BLK_DEV_UBD
155
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700156config BLK_DEV_LOOP
157 tristate "Loopback device support"
Masahiro Yamadaa7f7f622020-06-14 01:50:22 +0900158 help
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700159 Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block
160 device; you can then create a file system on that block device and
161 mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard
162 drive partitions, CD-ROM drives or floppy drives. The loop devices
163 are block special device files with major number 7 and typically
164 called /dev/loop0, /dev/loop1 etc.
165
166 This is useful if you want to check an ISO 9660 file system before
167 burning the CD, or if you want to use floppy images without first
168 writing them to floppy. Furthermore, some Linux distributions avoid
169 the need for a dedicated Linux partition by keeping their complete
170 root file system inside a DOS FAT file using this loop device
171 driver.
172
173 To use the loop device, you need the losetup utility, found in the
174 util-linux package, see
SeongJae Park4f6cce32017-03-27 21:44:06 +0900175 <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700176
177 The loop device driver can also be used to "hide" a file system in
178 a disk partition, floppy, or regular file, either using encryption
179 (scrambling the data) or steganography (hiding the data in the low
180 bits of, say, a sound file). This is also safe if the file resides
181 on a remote file server.
182
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700183 Note that this loop device has nothing to do with the loopback
184 device used for network connections from the machine to itself.
185
186 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
187 module will be called loop.
188
189 Most users will answer N here.
190
Kay Sieversd134b002011-07-31 22:08:04 +0200191config BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT
192 int "Number of loop devices to pre-create at init time"
193 depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
194 default 8
195 help
196 Static number of loop devices to be unconditionally pre-created
197 at init time.
198
199 This default value can be overwritten on the kernel command
200 line or with module-parameter loop.max_loop.
201
202 The historic default is 8. If a late 2011 version of losetup(8)
203 is used, it can be set to 0, since needed loop devices can be
204 dynamically allocated with the /dev/loop-control interface.
205
Philipp Reisnerb411b362009-09-25 16:07:19 -0700206source "drivers/block/drbd/Kconfig"
207
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700208config BLK_DEV_NBD
209 tristate "Network block device support"
210 depends on NET
Masahiro Yamadaa7f7f622020-06-14 01:50:22 +0900211 help
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700212 Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network
213 block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by
214 servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between
215 client and server works over TCP/IP networking, but to the client
216 program this is hidden: it looks like a regular local file access to
217 a block device special file such as /dev/nd0.
218
219 Network block devices also allows you to run a block-device in
220 userland (making server and client physically the same computer,
221 communicating using the loopback network device).
222
Mauro Carvalho Chehabe7751612019-06-18 11:47:10 -0300223 Read <file:Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/nbd.rst> for more information,
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +0000224 especially about where to find the server code, which runs in user
225 space and does not need special kernel support.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700226
227 Note that this has nothing to do with the network file systems NFS
228 or Coda; you can say N here even if you intend to use NFS or Coda.
229
230 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
231 module will be called nbd.
232
233 If unsure, say N.
234
235config BLK_DEV_SX8
236 tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support"
237 depends on PCI
Masahiro Yamadaa7f7f622020-06-14 01:50:22 +0900238 help
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700239 Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
240 Promise SATA SX8 controllers.
241
242 Use devices /dev/sx8/$N and /dev/sx8/$Np$M.
243
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700244config BLK_DEV_RAM
Nick Piggin9db55792008-02-08 04:19:49 -0800245 tristate "RAM block device support"
Masahiro Yamadaa7f7f622020-06-14 01:50:22 +0900246 help
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700247 Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as
248 a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and
249 write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal
250 block devices (such as hard drives). It is usually used to load and
251 store a copy of a minimal root file system off of a floppy into RAM
252 during the initial install of Linux.
253
Randy Dunlap31c00fc2008-11-13 21:33:24 +0000254 Note that the kernel command line option "ramdisk=XX" is now obsolete.
Mauro Carvalho Chehabe7751612019-06-18 11:47:10 -0300255 For details, read <file:Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/ramdisk.rst>.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700256
257 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
Fabian Fredericka3b25d92014-01-23 15:53:46 -0800258 module will be called brd. An alias "rd" has been defined
259 for historical reasons.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700260
261 Most normal users won't need the RAM disk functionality, and can
262 thus say N here.
263
264config BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT
Adrian Bunka687fb12006-03-28 01:56:17 -0800265 int "Default number of RAM disks"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700266 default "16"
Adrian Bunka687fb12006-03-28 01:56:17 -0800267 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700268 help
Patrick Ringl2e977c82007-10-19 23:05:02 +0200269 The default value is 16 RAM disks. Change this if you know what you
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700270 are doing. If you boot from a filesystem that needs to be extracted
271 in memory, you will need at least one RAM disk (e.g. root on cramfs).
272
273config BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE
274 int "Default RAM disk size (kbytes)"
275 depends on BLK_DEV_RAM
276 default "4096"
277 help
278 The default value is 4096 kilobytes. Only change this if you know
Patrick Ringl2e977c82007-10-19 23:05:02 +0200279 what you are doing.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700280
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700281config CDROM_PKTCDVD
Jens Axboe5a8b1872016-11-21 09:33:17 -0700282 tristate "Packet writing on CD/DVD media (DEPRECATED)"
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700283 depends on !UML
Christoph Hellwig68ec3b82021-10-21 08:06:05 +0200284 depends on SCSI
Bart Van Assche2a750162017-10-30 09:02:19 -0700285 select CDROM
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700286 help
Jens Axboe5a8b1872016-11-21 09:33:17 -0700287 Note: This driver is deprecated and will be removed from the
288 kernel in the near future!
289
Thomas Maier2d4eeec52006-12-08 02:36:10 -0800290 If you have a CDROM/DVD drive that supports packet writing, say
291 Y to include support. It should work with any MMC/Mt Fuji
292 compliant ATAPI or SCSI drive, which is just about any newer
293 DVD/CD writer.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700294
Thomas Maier2d4eeec52006-12-08 02:36:10 -0800295 Currently only writing to CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVDRAM discs
296 is possible.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700297 DVD-RW disks must be in restricted overwrite mode.
298
Mauro Carvalho Chehab8ea61882019-06-12 14:52:40 -0300299 See the file <file:Documentation/cdrom/packet-writing.rst>
Thomas Maier2d4eeec52006-12-08 02:36:10 -0800300 for further information on the use of this driver.
301
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700302 To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
303 module will be called pktcdvd.
304
305config CDROM_PKTCDVD_BUFFERS
306 int "Free buffers for data gathering"
307 depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD
308 default "8"
309 help
310 This controls the maximum number of active concurrent packets. More
311 concurrent packets can increase write performance, but also require
312 more memory. Each concurrent packet will require approximately 64Kb
Peter Osterlunde1bc89b2006-02-04 23:27:47 -0800313 of non-swappable kernel memory, memory which will be allocated when
314 a disc is opened for writing.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700315
316config CDROM_PKTCDVD_WCACHE
Kees Cookb8977282012-10-23 14:01:51 -0600317 bool "Enable write caching"
318 depends on CDROM_PKTCDVD
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700319 help
320 If enabled, write caching will be set for the CD-R/W device. For now
321 this option is dangerous unless the CD-RW media is known good, as we
322 don't do deferred write error handling yet.
323
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700324config ATA_OVER_ETH
325 tristate "ATA over Ethernet support"
326 depends on NET
327 help
328 This driver provides Support for ATA over Ethernet block
329 devices like the Coraid EtherDrive (R) Storage Blade.
330
David S. Miller667ef3c2007-07-16 04:03:56 -0700331config SUNVDC
332 tristate "Sun Virtual Disk Client support"
333 depends on SUN_LDOMS
334 help
335 Support for virtual disk devices as a client under Sun
336 Logical Domains.
337
Martin Schwidefsky61d48c22007-05-10 15:46:00 +0200338source "drivers/s390/block/Kconfig"
339
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f27ee52007-07-17 18:37:06 -0700340config XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND
341 tristate "Xen virtual block device support"
342 depends on XEN
343 default y
Ian Campbell2de06cc2009-02-09 12:05:51 -0800344 select XEN_XENBUS_FRONTEND
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9f27ee52007-07-17 18:37:06 -0700345 help
346 This driver implements the front-end of the Xen virtual
347 block device driver. It communicates with a back-end driver
348 in another domain which drives the actual block device.
349
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilkdfc07b12011-04-18 14:24:23 -0400350config XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilkea5e1162011-08-03 11:12:17 -0400351 tristate "Xen block-device backend driver"
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilkdfc07b12011-04-18 14:24:23 -0400352 depends on XEN_BACKEND
353 help
354 The block-device backend driver allows the kernel to export its
355 block devices to other guests via a high-performance shared-memory
356 interface.
357
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilka4c34852011-05-12 16:10:55 -0400358 The corresponding Linux frontend driver is enabled by the
359 CONFIG_XEN_BLKDEV_FRONTEND configuration option.
360
361 The backend driver attaches itself to a any block device specified
362 in the XenBus configuration. There are no limits to what the block
363 device as long as it has a major and minor.
364
365 If you are compiling a kernel to run in a Xen block backend driver
366 domain (often this is domain 0) you should say Y here. To
367 compile this driver as a module, chose M here: the module
368 will be called xen-blkback.
369
370
Rusty Russelle467cde2007-10-22 11:03:38 +1000371config VIRTIO_BLK
Kees Cookb8977282012-10-23 14:01:51 -0600372 tristate "Virtio block driver"
373 depends on VIRTIO
Max Gurtovoy02746e22021-09-01 16:14:34 +0300374 select SG_POOL
Masahiro Yamadaa7f7f622020-06-14 01:50:22 +0900375 help
Anthony Liguori0ad07ec2007-11-07 20:46:31 -0600376 This is the virtual block driver for virtio. It can be used with
Juergen Grossecda85e2017-08-16 19:31:57 +0200377 QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.
Rusty Russelle467cde2007-10-22 11:03:38 +1000378
Yehuda Sadeh602adf42010-08-12 16:11:25 -0700379config BLK_DEV_RBD
380 tristate "Rados block device (RBD)"
Kees Cookb8977282012-10-23 14:01:51 -0600381 depends on INET && BLOCK
Yehuda Sadeh602adf42010-08-12 16:11:25 -0700382 select CEPH_LIB
383 select LIBCRC32C
384 select CRYPTO_AES
385 select CRYPTO
Yehuda Sadeh602adf42010-08-12 16:11:25 -0700386 help
387 Say Y here if you want include the Rados block device, which stripes
388 a block device over objects stored in the Ceph distributed object
389 store.
390
391 More information at http://ceph.newdream.net/.
392
393 If unsure, say N.
394
Jack Wangbc018852020-05-11 15:51:29 +0200395source "drivers/block/rnbd/Kconfig"
396
Jan Engelhardtfd11d172007-07-10 12:26:06 +0200397endif # BLK_DEV