From 017ac5caefa0eadd5c78265f0ceec8bf10e528a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 23:46:53 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] aoe: document sysfs interface Documentation has been compiled from git commit logs and descriptions in Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt. This should be useful for scripting and tracking changes in the ABI. Signed-off-by: Aishwarya Pant <aishpant@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-aoe | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-aoe diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-aoe b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-aoe new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..b5837765bcdd4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-aoe @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +What: /sys/block/etherd*/mac +Date: Apr, 2005 +KernelVersion: v2.6.12 +Contact: Ed L. Cashin <ed.cashin@acm.org> +Description: + (RO) The ethernet address of the remote Ata over Ethernet (AoE) + device. + +What: /sys/block/etherd*/netif +Date: Apr, 2005 +KernelVersion: v2.6.12 +Contact: Ed L. Cashin <ed.cashin@acm.org> +Description: + (RO) The names of the network interfaces on the localhost (comma + separated) through which we are communicating with the remote + AoE device. + +What: /sys/block/etherd*/state +Date: Apr, 2005 +KernelVersion: v2.6.12 +Contact: Ed L. Cashin <ed.cashin@acm.org> +Description: + (RO) Device status. The state attribute is "up" when the device + is ready for I/O and "down" if detected but unusable. The + "down,closewait" state shows that the device is still open and + cannot come up again until it has been closed. The "up,kickme" + state means that the driver wants to send more commands to the + target but found out there were already the max number of + commands waiting for a response. It will retry again after being + kicked by the periodic timer handler routine. + +What: /sys/block/etherd*/firmware-version +Date: Apr, 2005 +KernelVersion: v2.6.12 +Contact: Ed L. Cashin <ed.cashin@acm.org> +Description: + (RO) Version of the firmware in the target. + +What: /sys/block/etherd*/payload +Date: Dec, 2012 +KernelVersion: v3.10 +Contact: Ed L. Cashin <ed.cashin@acm.org> +Description: + (RO) The amount of user data transferred (in bytes) inside each AoE + command on the network, network headers excluded. -- GitLab