Some, but not all, md array support data redundancy and hence support checking and restoring that redundancy (resync, rebuild). Some attributes apply specifically to functions involving this redundancy, and so should only appear for md arrays for which they are meaningful. i.e. they should not appear for raid0, linear, multpath, faulty. This patch separates these into a distinct group and creates the group only if the personality supports sync_request. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/md.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ ./drivers/md/md.c --- ./drivers/md/md.c~current~ 2005-11-02 17:33:16.000000000 +1100 +++ ./drivers/md/md.c 2005-11-02 17:33:22.000000000 +1100 @@ -1807,10 +1807,19 @@ md_mismatches = __ATTR_RO(mismatch_cnt); static struct attribute *md_default_attrs[] = { &md_level.attr, &md_raid_disks.attr, + NULL, +}; + +static struct attribute *md_redundancy_attrs[] = { &md_scan_mode.attr, &md_mismatches.attr, NULL, }; +static struct attribute_group md_redundancy_group = { + .name = NULL, + .attrs = md_redundancy_attrs, +}; + static ssize_t md_attr_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr, char *page) @@ -2047,6 +2056,8 @@ static int do_md_run(mddev_t * mddev) bitmap_destroy(mddev); return err; } + if (mddev->pers->sync_request) + sysfs_create_group(&mddev->kobj, &md_redundancy_group); atomic_set(&mddev->writes_pending,0); mddev->safemode = 0; mddev->safemode_timer.function = md_safemode_timeout; @@ -2155,6 +2166,9 @@ static int do_md_stop(mddev_t * mddev, i set_disk_ro(disk, 0); blk_queue_make_request(mddev->queue, md_fail_request); mddev->pers->stop(mddev); + if (mddev->pers->sync_request) + sysfs_remove_group(&mddev->kobj, &md_redundancy_group); + module_put(mddev->pers->owner); mddev->pers = NULL; if (mddev->ro) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html