Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030282AbXBTREi (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:04:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030299AbXBTREi (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:04:38 -0500 Received: from saraswathi.solana.com ([198.99.130.12]:54975 "EHLO saraswathi.solana.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030282AbXBTREh (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:04:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:56:37 -0500 From: Jeff Dike To: akpm@osdl.org Cc: Allan Graves , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, user-mode-linux@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [PATCH 1/3] UML - Enable RAW Message-ID: <20070220165636.GA6246@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1982 Lines: 51 From: Allan Graves Date: Fri Jan 26 17:49:00 2007 [PATCH] Enable raw.ko in UML - This patch adds the RAW device driver options to the UML Kconfig.char file so that you may use them in UML. Signed-off-by: Allan Graves Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike -- arch/um/Kconfig.char | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6.18-mm/arch/um/Kconfig.char =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.18-mm.orig/arch/um/Kconfig.char 2007-01-17 06:02:47.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.18-mm/arch/um/Kconfig.char 2007-01-23 11:29:06.000000000 -0500 @@ -146,6 +146,25 @@ config LEGACY_PTYS 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) (OBSOLETE)" + 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. + + The raw driver is deprecated and will be removed soon. + Applications should simply 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" -- Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/