nvmet: introduce the passthru Kconfig option
authorChaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
Fri, 24 Jul 2020 17:25:20 +0000 (11:25 -0600)
committerChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Wed, 29 Jul 2020 05:45:21 +0000 (07:45 +0200)
This patch updates KConfig file for the NVMeOF target where we add new
option so that user can selectively enable/disable passthru code.

Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>
[logang@deltatee.com: fixed some of the wording in the help message]
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
drivers/nvme/target/Kconfig

index 4474952..8056955 100644 (file)
@@ -16,6 +16,18 @@ config NVME_TARGET
          To configure the NVMe target you probably want to use the nvmetcli
          tool from http://git.infradead.org/users/hch/nvmetcli.git.
 
+config NVME_TARGET_PASSTHRU
+       bool "NVMe Target Passthrough support"
+       depends on NVME_TARGET
+       depends on NVME_CORE=y || NVME_CORE=NVME_TARGET
+       help
+         This enables target side NVMe passthru controller support for the
+         NVMe Over Fabrics protocol. It allows for hosts to manage and
+         directly access an actual NVMe controller residing on the target
+         side, incuding executing Vendor Unique Commands.
+
+         If unsure, say N.
+
 config NVME_TARGET_LOOP
        tristate "NVMe loopback device support"
        depends on NVME_TARGET