Commit 14d9fa352592582e457cf75022202766baac1348

Authored by John Stoffel
Committed by Jens Axboe
1 parent 7e5f5fb09e

Make SCSI SG v4 driver enabled by default and remove EXPERIMENTAL dependency, si…

…nce udev depends on BSG

Make Block Layer SG support v4 the default, since recent udev versions
depend on this to access serial numbers and other low level info properly.

This should be backported to older kernels as well, since most distros have
enabled this for a long time.

Signed-off-by: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

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48 48 If unsure, say Y.
49 49  
50 50 config BLK_DEV_BSG
51   - bool "Block layer SG support v4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
52   - depends on EXPERIMENTAL
53   - ---help---
  51 + bool "Block layer SG support v4"
  52 + default y
  53 + help
54 54 Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support
55 55 for any block device.
56 56  
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60 60 protocols (e.g. Task Management Functions and SMP in Serial
61 61 Attached SCSI).
62 62  
63   - If unsure, say N.
  63 + This option is required by recent UDEV versions to properly
  64 + access device serial numbers, etc.
  65 +
  66 + If unsure, say Y.
64 67  
65 68 config BLK_DEV_INTEGRITY
66 69 bool "Block layer data integrity support"