linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] block: export SSD/non-rotational queue flag through sysfs

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Date:	Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:25:59 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...oo.com>
CC:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: export SSD/non-rotational queue flag through sysfs

Sitsofe Wheeler wrote:
> How about cheapseek? fastrandom? flash? ssd? However the internal flag
> is called QUEUE_FLAG_NONROT so it kind of makes sense just to leave it
> as nonrot...

It is not necessary to obfuscate an interface to userspace just because
some internally used cpp macro got an awkward name.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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