From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: NeilBrown Subject: [md PATCH 20/22] md: revise Kconfig help for MD_MULTIPATH Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:48:02 +1100 Message-ID: <20091204064802.10264.72402.stgit@notabene.brown> References: <20091204064559.10264.37619.stgit@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20091204064559.10264.37619.stgit@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: Oren Held List-Id: linux-raid.ids Make it clear in the config message that MD_MULTIPATH is not under active development. Cc: Oren Held Signed-off-by: NeilBrown --- 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.