With the frontend having Xen but the backend not, it just looks odd:

  <*>   Xen virtual block device support
  <*>   Block-device backend driver

Fix it to have the 'Xen' in front of it.

Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Instead of unconditionally creating a fixed number of dead loop
devices which need to be investigated by storage handling services,
even when they are never used, we allow distros start with 0
loop devices and have losetup(8) and similar switch to the dynamic
/dev/loop-control interface instead of searching /dev/loop%i for free
devices.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>

with more details.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

.. and modify the Makefile and Kconfig files appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

Impact: refactor

Make a distinct frontend xenbus, in preparation for adding a backend xenbus.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
[corresponds to 2fd433a4188f in git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen.git
 with adjustments to reflect changes in the code which is moved]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>

The rados block device (rbd), based on osdblk, creates a block device
that is backed by objects stored in the Ceph distributed object storage
cluster.  Each device consists of a single metadata object and data
striped over many data objects.

The rbd driver supports read-only snapshots.

Signed-off-by: Yehuda Sadeh <yehuda@hq.newdream.net>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>

Make the PARIDE menu be displayed correctly, with proper/expected
indentation, by moving the GDROM kconfig symbol, which was
splitting the PARIDE kconfig symbol from its dependent symbols.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

Signed-off-by: Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Lars Ellenberg <lars.ellenberg@linbit.com>

Submitted driver exports a block device of the form /dev/osdblkX,
where X is a decimal number.

It does that by mounting a stacking block device on top
of an osd object. For example, if you create a 2G object
on an OSD device, you can then use this module to present
that 2G object as a Linux block device.

See inside patch for exact documentation.

[Sitting at linux-next helped fix proper Kconfig dependency
 for this driver, thanks to Randy Dunlap]

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>