From 86ce18d7b7925bfd6b64c061828ca2a857ee83b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kristen Carlson Accardi Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 13:57:38 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/block/capability.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/block/capability.txt (limited to 'Documentation/block') diff --git a/Documentation/block/capability.txt b/Documentation/block/capability.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2f1729424ef --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/block/capability.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Generic Block Device Capability +=============================================================================== +This file documents the sysfs file block//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. + -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2