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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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#
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# Block layer core configuration
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#
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menuconfig BLOCK
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bool "Enable the block layer" if EXPERT
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default y
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select SBITMAP
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select SRCU
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help
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Provide block layer support for the kernel.
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Disable this option to remove the block layer support from the
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kernel. This may be useful for embedded devices.
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If this option is disabled:
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- block device files will become unusable
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- some filesystems (such as ext3) will become unavailable.
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Also, SCSI character devices and USB storage will be disabled since
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they make use of various block layer definitions and facilities.
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Say Y here unless you know you really don't want to mount disks and
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suchlike.
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if BLOCK
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config LBDAF
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bool "Support for large (2TB+) block devices and files"
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depends on !64BIT
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default y
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help
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Enable block devices or files of size 2TB and larger.
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This option is required to support the full capacity of large
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(2TB+) block devices, including RAID, disk, Network Block Device,
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Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and loopback.
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This option also enables support for single files larger than
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2TB.
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The ext4 filesystem requires that this feature be enabled in
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order to support filesystems that have the huge_file feature
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enabled. Otherwise, it will refuse to mount in the read-write
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mode any filesystems that use the huge_file feature, which is
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enabled by default by mke2fs.ext4.
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The GFS2 filesystem also requires this feature.
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If unsure, say Y.
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config BLK_SCSI_REQUEST
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bool
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config BLK_DEV_BSG
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bool "Block layer SG support v4"
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default y
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select BLK_SCSI_REQUEST
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help
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Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support
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for any block device.
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Unlike SG v3 (aka block/scsi_ioctl.c drivers/scsi/sg.c), SG v4
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can handle complicated SCSI commands: tagged variable length cdbs
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with bidirectional data transfers and generic request/response
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protocols (e.g. Task Management Functions and SMP in Serial
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Attached SCSI).
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This option is required by recent UDEV versions to properly
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access device serial numbers, etc.
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If unsure, say Y.
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config BLK_DEV_BSGLIB
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bool "Block layer SG support v4 helper lib"
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default n
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select BLK_DEV_BSG
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select BLK_SCSI_REQUEST
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help
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Subsystems will normally enable this if needed. Users will not
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normally need to manually enable this.
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If unsure, say N.
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config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
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bool "Block layer data integrity support"
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select CRC_T10DIF if BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
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---help---
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Some storage devices allow extra information to be
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stored/retrieved to help protect the data. The block layer
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data integrity option provides hooks which can be used by
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filesystems to ensure better data integrity.
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Say yes here if you have a storage device that provides the
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T10/SCSI Data Integrity Field or the T13/ATA External Path
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Protection. If in doubt, say N.
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config BLK_DEV_ZONED
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bool "Zoned block device support"
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---help---
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Block layer zoned block device support. This option enables
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support for ZAC/ZBC host-managed and host-aware zoned block devices.
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Say yes here if you have a ZAC or ZBC storage device.
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config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING
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bool "Block layer bio throttling support"
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depends on BLK_CGROUP=y
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default n
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---help---
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Block layer bio throttling support. It can be used to limit
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the IO rate to a device. IO rate policies are per cgroup and
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one needs to mount and use blkio cgroup controller for creating
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cgroups and specifying per device IO rate policies.
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See Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt for more information.
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config BLK_DEV_THROTTLING_LOW
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bool "Block throttling .low limit interface support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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depends on BLK_DEV_THROTTLING
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default n
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---help---
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Add .low limit interface for block throttling. The low limit is a best
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effort limit to prioritize cgroups. Depending on the setting, the limit
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can be used to protect cgroups in terms of bandwidth/iops and better
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utilize disk resource.
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Note, this is an experimental interface and could be changed someday.
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config BLK_CMDLINE_PARSER
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bool "Block device command line partition parser"
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default n
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---help---
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Enabling this option allows you to specify the partition layout from
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the kernel boot args. This is typically of use for embedded devices
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which don't otherwise have any standardized method for listing the
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partitions on a block device.
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See Documentation/block/cmdline-partition.txt for more information.
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config BLK_WBT
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bool "Enable support for block device writeback throttling"
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default n
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---help---
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Enabling this option enables the block layer to throttle buffered
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background writeback from the VM, making it more smooth and having
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less impact on foreground operations. The throttling is done
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dynamically on an algorithm loosely based on CoDel, factoring in
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the realtime performance of the disk.
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config BLK_WBT_SQ
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bool "Single queue writeback throttling"
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default n
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depends on BLK_WBT
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---help---
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Enable writeback throttling by default on legacy single queue devices
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config BLK_WBT_MQ
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bool "Multiqueue writeback throttling"
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default y
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depends on BLK_WBT
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---help---
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Enable writeback throttling by default on multiqueue devices.
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Multiqueue currently doesn't have support for IO scheduling,
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enabling this option is recommended.
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config BLK_DEBUG_FS
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bool "Block layer debugging information in debugfs"
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default y
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depends on DEBUG_FS
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---help---
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Include block layer debugging information in debugfs. This information
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is mostly useful for kernel developers, but it doesn't incur any cost
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at runtime.
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Unless you are building a kernel for a tiny system, you should
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say Y here.
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config BLK_SED_OPAL
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bool "Logic for interfacing with Opal enabled SEDs"
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---help---
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Builds Logic for interfacing with Opal enabled controllers.
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Enabling this option enables users to setup/unlock/lock
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Locking ranges for SED devices using the Opal protocol.
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menu "Partition Types"
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source "block/partitions/Kconfig"
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endmenu
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endif # BLOCK
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config BLOCK_COMPAT
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bool
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depends on BLOCK && COMPAT
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default y
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config BLK_MQ_PCI
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bool
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depends on BLOCK && PCI
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default y
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config BLK_MQ_VIRTIO
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bool
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depends on BLOCK && VIRTIO
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default y
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config BLK_MQ_RDMA
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bool
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depends on BLOCK && INFINIBAND
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default y
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source block/Kconfig.iosched
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