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| author | Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> | 2012-01-11 21:11:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> | 2012-01-11 21:11:29 +0200 |
| commit | 5878cf431ca7233a56819ca6970153ac0b129599 (patch) | |
| tree | e5d21d04a0b468d2dabbe3a3824f23b5537fc6a7 /Documentation/ABI/testing | |
| parent | 74ee4ef1f901fbb014bdcdc9171d126490ce2b62 (diff) | |
| parent | b13683d1cc14d1dd30b8e20f3ebea3f814ad029f (diff) | |
Merge branch 'slab/urgent' into slab/for-linus
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block | 13 |
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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. |