Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 4 authors, 2023-02-06

Re: [PATCH] block: stub out and deprecated the capability attribute on the gendisk

From: Chaitanya Kulkarni <hidden>
Date: 2023-02-06 04:43:24

On 2/3/23 07:02, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
The capability attribute was added in 2017 to expose the kernel internal
GENHD_FL_MEDIA_CHANGE_NOTIFY to userspace without ever adding a value to
an UAPI header, and without ever setting it in any driver until it was
finally removed in Linux 5.7.

Deprecate the file and always return 0 instead of exposing the other
internal and frequently renumbered other gendisk flags.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>

-ck


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