Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
Allow user space to determine if an ATAPI device supports
async notification (AN) of media changes. This is done by
adding a new sysfs file "async_notification" to genhd.
If the file reads 1, then the device supports async
notification. If the file reads 0, it does not.
A flag is set in the generic disk to indicate whether
or not AN is supported. This flag is set by the SCSI
subsystem when it registers with add_disk. The SCSI
system gets information from libata on whether the
device supports AN during dev_configure.
Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@xxxxxxxxx>
Index: 2.6-mm/block/genhd.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6-mm.orig/block/genhd.c
+++ 2.6-mm/block/genhd.c
@@ -372,6 +372,11 @@ static ssize_t disk_size_read(struct gen
{
return sprintf(page, "%llu\n", (unsigned long long)get_capacity(disk));
}
+static ssize_t disk_AN_read(struct gendisk * disk, char *page)
+{
+ return sprintf(page, "%d\n",
+ (disk->flags & GENHD_FL_ASYNC_NOTIFICATION ? 1 : 0));
+}
static ssize_t disk_stats_read(struct gendisk * disk, char *page)
{
@@ -419,6 +424,10 @@ static struct disk_attribute disk_attr_s
.attr = {.name = "stat", .mode = S_IRUGO },
.show = disk_stats_read
};
+static struct disk_attribute disk_attr_AN = {
+ .attr = {.name = "media_change_events", .mode = S_IRUGO },
+ .show = disk_AN_read
+};
#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
@@ -455,6 +464,7 @@ static struct attribute * default_attrs[
&disk_attr_removable.attr,
&disk_attr_size.attr,
&disk_attr_stat.attr,
+ &disk_attr_AN.attr,
#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
&disk_attr_fail.attr,
#endif
Index: 2.6-mm/include/linux/genhd.h
===================================================================
--- 2.6-mm.orig/include/linux/genhd.h
+++ 2.6-mm/include/linux/genhd.h
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ struct hd_struct {
#define GENHD_FL_REMOVABLE 1
#define GENHD_FL_DRIVERFS 2
+#define GENHD_FL_ASYNC_NOTIFICATION 4
#define GENHD_FL_CD 8
#define GENHD_FL_UP 16
#define GENHD_FL_SUPPRESS_PARTITION_INFO 32
Index: 2.6-mm/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
===================================================================
--- 2.6-mm.orig/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
+++ 2.6-mm/include/scsi/scsi_device.h
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ struct scsi_device {
unsigned fix_capacity:1; /* READ_CAPACITY is too high by 1 */
unsigned guess_capacity:1; /* READ_CAPACITY might be too high by 1 */
unsigned retry_hwerror:1; /* Retry HARDWARE_ERROR */
-
+ unsigned async_notification:1; /* device supports async notification */
unsigned int device_blocked; /* Device returned QUEUE_FULL. */
unsigned int max_device_blocked; /* what device_blocked counts down from */
Index: 2.6-mm/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6-mm.orig/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
+++ 2.6-mm/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
@@ -899,6 +899,9 @@ static void ata_scsi_dev_config(struct s
blk_queue_max_hw_segments(q, q->max_hw_segments - 1);
}
+ if (dev->flags & ATA_DFLAG_AN)
+ sdev->async_notification = 1;
+
if (dev->flags & ATA_DFLAG_NCQ) {
int depth;
Index: 2.6-mm/drivers/scsi/sr.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6-mm.orig/drivers/scsi/sr.c
+++ 2.6-mm/drivers/scsi/sr.c
@@ -603,6 +603,8 @@ static int sr_probe(struct device *dev)
dev_set_drvdata(dev, cd);
disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_REMOVABLE;
+ if (sdev->async_notification)
+ disk->flags |= GENHD_FL_ASYNC_NOTIFICATION;
add_disk(disk);
(added linux-scsi to CC)
Comments:
1) From a procedural standpoint, you'll want to separate this patch into
three patches: generic block layer stuff, SCSI stuff, and libata stuff.
2) I don't claim to be a sysfs expert, but this seems like a reasonable
approach for reporting async-notification capabilities
3) I would make the contents of 'media_change_events' be a list of
flags, rather than a boolean. Thus, when AN is present,
media_change_events would return "AN\n". It would return "\n" (no
flags) when AN is absent. This permits future expansion of this
capabilities reporting variable.
4) Figure out some place to document 'media_change_events', in
Documentation/*
5) I think the method of delivery probably needs discussing, and some
work. Presumably the normal hotplug paths should be traversed for this
sort of thing.
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