Attachment 310038 Details for Bug 452534 – Kconfig patch for raw driver on s390x

[patch] Kconfig patch for raw driver on s390x

linux-2.6-s390-rawdevices.patch (text/plain), 1.12 KB, created by Bryn M. Reeves on 2008-06-23 15:56:45 UTC

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Creator: Bryn M. Reeves

Created: 2008-06-23 15:56:45 UTC

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>--- drivers/s390/Kconfig.old    2008-05-23 01:07:07.000000000 +1200
>+++ drivers/s390/Kconfig        2008-06-18 17:16:43.000000000 +1200
>@@ -51,6 +51,26 @@
>          When not in use, each additional set of 256 PTYs occupy
>          approximately 8 KB of kernel memory on 32-bit architectures.
>
>+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 may be removed from 2.7
>+        kernels. 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 HANGCHECK_TIMER
>        tristate "Hangcheck timer"
>        help
>

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