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authorKristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>2007-05-23 13:57:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-23 20:14:11 -0700
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genhd: expose AN to user space
Allow user space to determine if a disk supports Asynchronous Notification of media changes. This is done by adding a new sysfs file "capability_flags", which is documented in (insert file name). This sysfs file will export all disk capabilities flags to user space. We also define a new flag to define the media change notification capability. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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+Generic Block Device Capability
+===============================================================================
+This file documents the sysfs file block/<disk>/capability
+
+capability is a hex word indicating which capabilities a specific disk
+supports. For more information on bits not listed here, see
+include/linux/genhd.h
+
+Capability Value
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+GENHD_FL_MEDIA_CHANGE_NOTIFY 4
+ When this bit is set, the disk supports Asynchronous Notification
+ of media change events. These events will be broadcast to user
+ space via kernel uevent.
+