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* 'bsg' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
  bsg: fix missing space in version print
  Don't define empty struct bsg_class_device if !CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG
  bsg: Kconfig updates
  bsg: minor cleanup
  bsg: device hash table cleanup
  bsg: fix initialization error handling bugs
  bsg: mark FUJITA Tomonori as bsg maintainer
  bsg: convert to dynamic major
  bsg: address various review comments
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Linus Torvalds committed Jul 17, 2007
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions MAINTAINERS
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Expand Up @@ -913,6 +913,12 @@ M: mchan@broadcom.com
L: netdev@vger.kernel.org
S: Supported

BSG (block layer generic sg v4 driver)
P: FUJITA Tomonori
M: fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp
L: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
S: Supported

BTTV VIDEO4LINUX DRIVER
P: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
M: mchehab@infradead.org
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13 changes: 9 additions & 4 deletions block/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -52,11 +52,16 @@ config LSF
endif # BLOCK

config BLK_DEV_BSG
bool "Block layer SG support"
bool "Block layer SG support v4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on (SCSI=y) && EXPERIMENTAL
default y
---help---
Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4
support for any block device.
Saying Y here will enable generic SG (SCSI generic) v4 support
for any block device.

Unlike SG v3 (aka block/scsi_ioctl.c drivers/scsi/sg.c), SG v4
can handle complicated SCSI commands: tagged variable length cdbs
with bidirectional data transfers and generic request/response
protocols (e.g. Task Management Functions and SMP in Serial
Attached SCSI).

source block/Kconfig.iosched
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