On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > Neil> So I asked git why it as added, and it pointed to > Neil> commit 1308835ffffe6d61ad1f48c5c381c9cc47f683ec > > Neil> which suggests that it was added so that user space could tell the > Neil> kernel whether the device was rotational, rather than the other > Neil> way around. > > There's an option to do it via udev for broken devices that don't report > it. But both SCSI and ATA have a setting that gets queried and the > queue flag set accordingly. .. except few devices actually set it. That flag is _definitely_ all about the user being able to override it. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
