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| author | James Simmons | 2016-03-08 23:35:28 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman | 2016-03-11 02:48:53 +0100 |
| commit | b2b60cddb56729a0de1bfac3a9406b5631e7fcb7 (patch) | |
| tree | 3a9987b444c2ea4905128b1dc5fa2a16b69f0842 /drivers/staging/lustre | |
| parent | staging: lustre: fixup kernel Kconfig option LNET_MAX_PAYLOAD (diff) | |
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staging: lustre: add help section of Kconfig config LNET
Include a help section for Kconfig LNET.
Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/lustre')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/Kconfig | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/Kconfig index 9c85091bc37a..980ce444ac81 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/Kconfig @@ -1,6 +1,12 @@ config LNET - tristate "Lustre networking subsystem" + tristate "Lustre networking subsystem (LNet)" depends on LUSTRE_FS + help + The Lustre network layer, also known as LNet, is a networking abstaction + level API that was initially created to allow Lustre Filesystem to utilize + very different networks like tcp and ib verbs in a uniform way. In the + case of Lustre routers only the LNet layer is required. Lately other + projects are also looking into using LNet as their networking API as well. config LNET_MAX_PAYLOAD int "Lustre lnet max transfer payload (default 1MB)" |