[md PATCH 20/22] md: revise Kconfig help for MD_MULTIPATH
From: NeilBrown <hidden>
Date: 2009-12-04 06:48:02
Subsystem:
device-mapper (lvm), software raid (multiple disks) support, the rest · Maintainers:
Alasdair Kergon, Mike Snitzer, Mikulas Patocka, Benjamin Marzinski, Song Liu, Yu Kuai, Linus Torvalds
Make it clear in the config message that MD_MULTIPATH is not under active development. Cc: Oren Held <redacted> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <redacted> --- drivers/md/Kconfig | 9 ++++----- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig
index 2158377..acb3a4e 100644
--- a/drivers/md/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/md/Kconfig@@ -185,11 +185,10 @@ config MD_MULTIPATH tristate "Multipath I/O support" depends on BLK_DEV_MD help - Multipath-IO is the ability of certain devices to address the same - physical disk over multiple 'IO paths'. The code ensures that such - paths can be defined and handled at runtime, and ensures that a - transparent failover to the backup path(s) happens if a IO errors - arrives on the primary path. + MD_MULTIPATH provides a simple multi-path personality for use + the MD framework. It is not under active development. New + projects should consider using DM_MULTIPATH which has more + features and more testing. If unsure, say N.