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authorJames Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>2007-05-30 23:57:05 -0500
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[SCSI] Merge up to linux-2.6 head
Conflicts: drivers/scsi/jazz_esp.c Same changes made by both SCSI and SPARC trees: problem with UTF-8 conversion in the copyright. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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+Generic Block Device Capability
+===============================================================================
+This file documents the sysfs file block/<disk>/capability
+
+capability is a hex word indicating which capabilities a specific disk
+supports. For more information on bits not listed here, see
+include/linux/genhd.h
+
+Capability Value
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+GENHD_FL_MEDIA_CHANGE_NOTIFY 4
+ When this bit is set, the disk supports Asynchronous Notification
+ of media change events. These events will be broadcast to user
+ space via kernel uevent.
+
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