linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 03/21] documentation, capability: fix Generic Block Device Capability

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Date:   Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:35:49 +0100
From:   Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@...cali.it>
To:     Sergei Shtepa <sergei.shtepa@...am.com>, axboe@...nel.dk,
        corbet@....net, hch@....de
Cc:     linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/21] documentation, capability: fix Generic Block
 Device Capability

Il 13/12/2022 13:13, Fabio Fantoni ha scritto:
> Il 09/12/2022 15:23, Sergei Shtepa ha scritto:
>> When adding documentation for blkfilter, new lines of documentation
>> appeared in the file include/linux/blkdev.h. To preserve the appearance
>> of this document, the required sections and function descriptions were
>> explicitly specified.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtepa <sergei.shtepa@...am.com>
>> ---
>>   Documentation/block/capability.rst | 3 +++
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/block/capability.rst 
>> b/Documentation/block/capability.rst
>> index 2ae7f064736a..8fad791980bb 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/block/capability.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/block/capability.rst
>> @@ -8,3 +8,6 @@ This file documents the sysfs file 
>> ``block/<disk>/capability``.
>>   capabilities a specific block device supports:
>>     .. kernel-doc:: include/linux/blkdev.h
>> +    :DOC: genhd capability flags
>> +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/blkdev.h
>> +    :functions: disk_openers blk_alloc_disk bio_end_io_acct
> Thanks for spotting this, I think this is not related to blkfilter 
> patch but was already wrong/broken before and should be posted in a 
> single patch out of the blksnap serie (also fixing title, as reported 
> by Bagas Sanjaya, like "documentation: fix Generic Block Device 
> Capability")
>
> from a fast look seems to me should have only:
>
> +    :DOC: genhd capability flags
>
> and out of that looking older version of doc 
> (https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.10/block/capability.html) seems to 
> me that this DOC in blkdev.h need improvement as it seems to me it was 
> better in the past, for example also reporting the corresponding 
> hexadecimal value in parentheses

Hi, after a fast look to the git history the "genhd capability flags" 
DOC was changed in commit 430cc5d3ab4d0ba0bd011cfbb0035e46ba92920c 
(block: cleanup the GENHD_FL_* definitions) as part of 
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211122130625.1136848-1-hch@lst.de/ and 
after that in Documentation/block/capability.rst is not possible 
"decode" /sys/block/<disk>/capability reading it 
(https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.1/block/capability.html) without 
having to read also include/linux/blkdev.h code, or I'm wrong?

is correct readd the hexadecimal value from bitfield?

GENHD_FL_REMOVABLE (0x01): ...

GENHD_FL_HIDDEN (0x02): ...

GENHD_FL_NO_PART (0x04): ...

Thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english