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| author | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2011-11-29 14:50:17 +0000 |
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| committer | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2011-11-29 14:50:17 +0000 |
| commit | 98014be39bda8277a5ad130bb274ed6eb18b74df (patch) | |
| tree | 974620a47c9350ff9b3c06ffd2b49470bbda72ab /Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block | |
| parent | 55135dfbf3dd83cb3e98deed8271b62d188404e1 (diff) | |
| parent | 6e2a587eb99267367409097b70cb2d61b09e5269 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'defconfigs-for-arnd' of git://git.linaro.org/people/triad/linux-stericsson into fixes
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block index 2b5d56127fce..c1eb41cb9876 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block @@ -206,16 +206,3 @@ Description: when a discarded area is read the discard_zeroes_data parameter will be set to one. Otherwise it will be 0 and the result of reading a discarded area is undefined. -What: /sys/block/<disk>/alias -Date: Aug 2011 -Contact: Nao Nishijima <nao.nishijima.xt@hitachi.com> -Description: - A raw device name of a disk does not always point a same disk - each boot-up time. Therefore, users have to use persistent - device names, which udev creates when the kernel finds a disk, - instead of raw device name. However, kernel doesn't show those - persistent names on its messages (e.g. dmesg). - This file can store an alias of the disk and it would be - appeared in kernel messages if it is set. A disk can have an - alias which length is up to 255bytes. Users can use alphabets, - numbers, "-" and "_" in alias name. This file is writeonce. |