[PATCH v15 4/9] nvmet-passthru: Introduce NVMet passthru Kconfig option

Logan Gunthorpe logang at deltatee.com
Thu Jul 16 16:33:14 EDT 2020


From: Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni at wdc.com>

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 at wdc.com>
[logang at deltatee.com: fixed some of the wording in the help message]
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang at deltatee.com>
Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi at grimberg.me>
---
 drivers/nvme/target/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/target/Kconfig b/drivers/nvme/target/Kconfig
index 4474952d64c6..8056955e652c 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/target/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/nvme/target/Kconfig
@@ -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
-- 
2.20.1




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