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| -rw-r--r-- | block/Kconfig | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/block/Kconfig b/block/Kconfig index 6597b60e8e69..0768741d6813 100644 --- a/block/Kconfig +++ b/block/Kconfig @@ -52,11 +52,16 @@ config LSF endif # BLOCK config BLK_DEV_BSG - bool "Block layer SG support" + bool "Block layer SG support v4 (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on (SCSI=y) && EXPERIMENTAL - default y ---help--- - Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 - support for any block device. + Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support + for any block device. + + Unlike SG v3 (aka block/scsi_ioctl.c drivers/scsi/sg.c), SG v4 + can handle complicated SCSI commands: tagged variable length cdbs + with bidirectional data transfers and generic request/response + protocols (e.g. Task Management Functions and SMP in Serial + Attached SCSI). source block/Kconfig.iosched |