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| author | Seymour, Shane M <shane.seymour@hpe.com> | 2015-10-12 04:31:17 +0000 |
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| committer | James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com> | 2015-11-09 17:17:27 -0800 |
| commit | d9b43a10f0d04564c6e05de3728c3cbba64c644d (patch) | |
| tree | 5661a5a688a92e9260af7e7d5cea0a04acca5cf3 /Documentation/ABI | |
| parent | c59ab4e5afade13fdb65efc99c07fb8455aecba5 (diff) | |
st: allow debug output to be enabled or disabled via sysfs
Change st driver to allow enabling or disabling debug output
via sysfs file /sys/bus/scsi/drivers/st/debug_flag.
Previously the only way to enable debug output was:
1. loading the driver with the module parameter debug_flag=1
2. an ioctl call (this method was also the only way to dynamically
disable debug output).
To use the ioctl you need a second tape drive (if you are
actively testing the first tape drive) since a second process
cannot open the first tape drive if it is in use.
The this change is only functional if the value of the macro
DEBUG in st.c is a non-zero value (which it is by default).
Signed-off-by: Shane Seymour <shane.seymour@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurence Oberman <oberman.l@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kai Mäkisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-st | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-st b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-st new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ba5d77008a85 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-st @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +What: /sys/bus/scsi/drivers/st/debug_flag +Date: October 2015 +Kernel Version: ?.? +Contact: shane.seymour@hpe.com +Description: + This file allows you to turn debug output from the st driver + off if you write a '0' to the file or on if you write a '1'. + Note that debug output requires that the module be compiled + with the #define DEBUG set to a non-zero value (this is the + default). If DEBUG is set to 0 then this file will not + appear in sysfs as its presence is conditional upon debug + output support being compiled into the module. |