[PATCH v2 00/12] blk-integrity lifetime fixes

Dan Williams dan.j.williams at intel.com
Thu Oct 15 17:06:29 PDT 2015


On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Martin K. Petersen
<martin.petersen at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com> writes:
>
> Dan,
>
> Dan> 5/ Fixed up Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block to reflect moving
> Dan> "integrity" sysfs attributes from "disk" to "disk/queue".
>
> You can't change an exported interface. Several apps are depending on
> it.

Hmm, add an "integrity" sysfs link for backwards compatibility, or
leave it as a child of the gendisk kobject?  Probably the latter
because it seems fine if the integrity_kobj has follow the gendisk
lifetime even if the struct blk_integrity info follows the
request_queue.



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