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authorAllan Graves <allan.graves@gmail.com>2007-02-28 20:13:29 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-03-01 14:53:38 -0800
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[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>
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diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig.char b/arch/um/Kconfig.char
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@@ -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"