BLK_INTEGRITY_REGIST

Section: Block Devices (9)
Updated: February 2011
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NAME

blk_integrity_register - Register a gendisk as being integrity-capable  

SYNOPSIS

int blk_integrity_register(struct gendisk * disk, struct blk_integrity * template);
 

ARGUMENTS

disk

struct gendisk pointer to make integrity-aware

template

optional integrity profile to register
 

DESCRIPTION

When a device needs to advertise itself as being able to send/receive integrity metadata it must use this function to register the capability with the block layer. The template is a blk_integrity struct with values appropriate for the underlying hardware. If template is NULL the new profile is allocated but not filled out. See Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt.  

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