From: Alan Borzeszkowski <alan.borzeszkowski@linux.intel.com>
To: ericvh@kernel.org, lucho@ionkov.net, asmadeus@codewreck.org,
mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com, andreas.noever@gmail.com,
YehezkelShB@gmail.com, corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, v9fs@lists.linux.dev,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux_oss@crudebyte.com,
alan.borzeszkowski@linux.intel.com
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Documentation/fs/9p: Add Thunderbolt transport documentation
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:23:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260924162333.147033-4-alan.borzeszkowski@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260924162333.147033-1-alan.borzeszkowski@linux.intel.com>
With new 9P Thunderbolt transport added, update documentation with
simple usage guide.
Signed-off-by: Alan Borzeszkowski <alan.borzeszkowski@linux.intel.com>
---
Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst
index 3f65db648db0..d79082b320ba 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.rst
@@ -50,6 +50,24 @@ mount points. Each 9P export is seen by the client as a virtio device with an
associated "mount_tag" property. Available mount tags can be
seen by reading /sys/bus/virtio/drivers/9pnet_virtio/virtio<n>/mount_tag files.
+Thunderbolt/USB4 Usage
+======================
+
+Establish USB4STREAM between two machines (see Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst).
+Export filesystem on server machine (e.g., using diod). Example::
+
+ diod -f -n -S -e /srv/shared -r 3 -w 4 3</dev/tbstream0 4>/dev/tbstream0
+
+Mount remote filesystem on client machine using::
+
+ mount -t 9p -o trans=thunderbolt,aname=<exported_remote_dir > /dev/<USB4STREAM_device> /mnt/9
+
+where USB4STREAM device is 'tbstreamX'.
+
+Example::
+
+ mount -t 9p -o trans=thunderbolt,aname=/srv/shared /dev/tbstream0 /mnt
+
USBG Usage
==========
@@ -112,16 +130,17 @@ Options
trans=name select an alternative transport. Valid options are
currently:
- ======== ============================================
- unix specifying a named pipe mount point
- tcp specifying a normal TCP/IP connection
- fd used passed file descriptors for connection
- (see rfdno and wfdno)
- virtio connect to the next virtio channel available
- (from QEMU with trans_virtio module)
- rdma connect to a specified RDMA channel
- usbg connect to a specified usb gadget channel
- ======== ============================================
+ =========== =========================================
+ unix specifying a named pipe mount point
+ tcp specifying a normal TCP/IP connection
+ fd used passed file descriptors for connection
+ (see rfdno and wfdno)
+ virtio connect to the next virtio channel available
+ (from QEMU with trans_virtio module)
+ rdma connect to a specified RDMA channel
+ usbg connect to a specified usb gadget channel
+ thunderbolt connect using USB4STREAM
+ =========== =========================================
uname=name user name to attempt mount as on the remote server. The
server may override or ignore this value. Certain user
--
2.53.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-24 16:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-24 16:23 [PATCH 0/3] net/9p: Add 9P transport over USB4STREAM Alan Borzeszkowski
2026-09-24 16:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] thunderbolt: stream: Add tbstream_dev_from_file() Alan Borzeszkowski
2026-09-29 6:42 ` Mika Westerberg
2026-09-24 16:23 ` [PATCH 2/3] net/9p/thunderbolt: Add native 9P Thunderbolt transport support Alan Borzeszkowski
2026-09-24 16:23 ` Alan Borzeszkowski [this message]
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