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authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>2024-05-02 15:00:33 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2024-05-25 16:22:55 +0200
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block: add a partscan sysfs attribute for disks
commit a4217c6740dc64a3eb6815868a9260825e8c68c6 upstream. Userspace had been unknowingly relying on a non-stable interface of kernel internals to determine if partition scanning is enabled for a given disk. Provide a stable interface for this purpose instead. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.3+ Depends-on: 140ce28dd3be ("block: add a disk_has_partscan helper") Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/ZhQJf8mzq_wipkBH@gardel-login/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240502130033.1958492-3-hch@lst.de [axboe: add links and commit message from Keith] Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -101,6 +101,16 @@ Description:
devices that support receiving integrity metadata.
+What: /sys/block/<disk>/partscan
+Date: May 2024
+Contact: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
+Description:
+ The /sys/block/<disk>/partscan files reports if partition
+ scanning is enabled for the disk. It returns "1" if partition
+ scanning is enabled, or "0" if not. The value type is a 32-bit
+ unsigned integer, but only "0" and "1" are valid values.
+
+
What: /sys/block/<disk>/<partition>/alignment_offset
Date: April 2009
Contact: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>