From: Allan Graves <allan.graves@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 04:13:29 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: [PATCH] uml: enable RAW
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cf2775f175128fc9fd7ffb88981e068d27bc85db;p=mv-sheeva.git

[PATCH] uml: enable RAW

Add the RAW device driver options to the UML Kconfig.char file so that you may
use them in UML.

Signed-off-by: Allan Graves<allan.graves@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig.char b/arch/um/Kconfig.char
index e03e40c7aac..a5b079d5e86 100644
--- a/arch/um/Kconfig.char
+++ b/arch/um/Kconfig.char
@@ -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"