Commit e81cd5a9 authored by Christoph Hellwig's avatar Christoph Hellwig Committed by Jens Axboe

block: stub out and deprecated the capability attribute on the gendisk

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: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarChaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230203150209.3199115-1-hch@lst.deSigned-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
parent 28e538a3
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Generic Block Device Capability
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This file documents the sysfs file ``block/<disk>/capability``.
``capability`` is a bitfield, printed in hexadecimal, indicating which
capabilities a specific block device supports:
.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/blkdev.h
......@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ Block
bfq-iosched
biovecs
blk-mq
capability
cmdline-partition
data-integrity
deadline-iosched
......
......@@ -1024,9 +1024,8 @@ ssize_t part_inflight_show(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
static ssize_t disk_capability_show(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
struct gendisk *disk = dev_to_disk(dev);
return sprintf(buf, "%x\n", disk->flags);
dev_warn_once(dev, "the capability attribute has been deprecated.\n");
return sprintf(buf, "0\n");
}
static ssize_t disk_alignment_offset_show(struct device *dev,
......
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