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diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
index 084b9efcefca..ecceaaa1a66f 100644
--- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ menuconfig BLK_DEV
bool "Block devices"
depends on BLOCK
default y
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here to get to see options for various different block device
drivers. This option alone does not add any kernel code.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_NULL_BLK_FAULT_INJECTION
config BLK_DEV_FD
tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
depends on ARCH_MAY_HAVE_PC_FDC
- ---help---
+ help
If you want to use the floppy disk drive(s) of your PC under Linux,
say Y. Information about this driver, especially important for IBM
Thinkpad users, is contained in
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ config GDROM
config PARIDE
tristate "Parallel port IDE device support"
depends on PARPORT_PC
- ---help---
+ help
There are many external CD-ROM and disk devices that connect through
your computer's parallel port. Most of them are actually IDE devices
using a parallel port IDE adapter. This option enables the PARIDE
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ source "drivers/block/zram/Kconfig"
config BLK_DEV_UMEM
tristate "Micro Memory MM5415 Battery Backed RAM support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Saying Y here will include support for the MM5415 family of
battery backed (Non-volatile) RAM cards.
<http://www.umem.com/>
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_UMEM
config BLK_DEV_UBD
bool "Virtual block device"
depends on UML
- ---help---
+ help
The User-Mode Linux port includes a driver called UBD which will let
you access arbitrary files on the host computer as block devices.
Unless you know that you do not need such virtual block devices say
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_UBD
config BLK_DEV_UBD_SYNC
bool "Always do synchronous disk IO for UBD"
depends on BLK_DEV_UBD
- ---help---
+ help
Writes to the virtual block device are not immediately written to the
host's disk; this may cause problems if, for example, the User-Mode
Linux 'Virtual Machine' uses a journalling filesystem and the host
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_COW_COMMON
config BLK_DEV_LOOP
tristate "Loopback device support"
- ---help---
+ help
Saying Y here will allow you to use a regular file as a block
device; you can then create a file system on that block device and
mount it just as you would mount other block devices such as hard
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_CRYPTOLOOP
select CRYPTO
select CRYPTO_CBC
depends on BLK_DEV_LOOP
- ---help---
+ help
Say Y here if you want to be able to use the ciphers that are
provided by the CryptoAPI as loop transformation. This might be
used as hard disk encryption.
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ source "drivers/block/drbd/Kconfig"
config BLK_DEV_NBD
tristate "Network block device support"
depends on NET
- ---help---
+ help
Saying Y here will allow your computer to be a client for network
block devices, i.e. it will be able to use block devices exported by
servers (mount file systems on them etc.). Communication between
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_SKD
tristate "STEC S1120 Block Driver"
depends on PCI
depends on 64BIT
- ---help---
+ help
Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
STEC, Inc. S1120 PCIe SSD.
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_SKD
config BLK_DEV_SX8
tristate "Promise SATA SX8 support"
depends on PCI
- ---help---
+ help
Saying Y or M here will enable support for the
Promise SATA SX8 controllers.
@@ -294,7 +294,7 @@ config BLK_DEV_SX8
config BLK_DEV_RAM
tristate "RAM block device support"
- ---help---
+ help
Saying Y here will allow you to use a portion of your RAM memory as
a block device, so that you can make file systems on it, read and
write to it and do all the other things that you can do with normal
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ config XEN_BLKDEV_BACKEND
config VIRTIO_BLK
tristate "Virtio block driver"
depends on VIRTIO
- ---help---
+ help
This is the virtual block driver for virtio. It can be used with
QEMU based VMMs (like KVM or Xen). Say Y or M.