block: stub out and deprecated the capability attribute on the gendisk
authorChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Fri, 3 Feb 2023 15:02:09 +0000 (16:02 +0100)
committerJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Mon, 6 Feb 2023 15:44:55 +0000 (08:44 -0700)
commite81cd5a983bb35dabd38ee472cf3fea1c63e0f23
tree20d39a9e8085f53e7c2002a61280dc43ca8ce875
parent28e538a3093833cbac3e28dd511a8b74629d737a
block: stub out and deprecated the capability attribute on the gendisk

The capability attribute was added in 2017 to expose the kernel internal
GENHD_FL_MEDIA_CHANGE_NOTIFY to userspace without ever adding a value to
an UAPI header, and without ever setting it in any driver until it was
finally removed in Linux 5.7.

Deprecate the file and always return 0 instead of exposing the other
internal and frequently renumbered other gendisk flags.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230203150209.3199115-1-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Documentation/block/capability.rst [deleted file]
Documentation/block/index.rst
block/genhd.c