Re: [PATCH 25/25] Documentation: sysfs-block-device: document command duration limits

From: Damien Le Moal
Date: Thu Dec 08 2022 - 22:38:45 EST


On 12/9/22 12:22, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 11:59:41AM +0100, Niklas Cassel wrote:
>> +What: /sys/block/*/device/duration_limits/enable
>> +Date: Dec, 2022
>> +KernelVersion: v6.3
>> +Contact: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> +Description:
>> + (RW) For ATA and SCSI devices supporting the command duration
>> + limits feature, write to the file to turn on or off the
>> + feature. By default this feature is turned off. If the device
>> + does not support the command duration limits feature, this
>> + attribute does not exist (the directory
>> + "/sys/block/*/device/duration_limits" does not exist).
>> + Writing "1" to this file enables the use of command duration
>> + limits for read and write commands in the kernel and turns on
>> + the feature on the device. Writing "0" disables the feature.
>
> Sphinx reported inline emphasis warning due to unescaped asterisk above:
>
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-device:101: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
>
> I have applied the fixup:

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>> <snipped>...
>> + Possible values are:
>> +
>> + - 0x0: The device will complete the command at the
>> + earliest possible time (i.e, do nothing based on
>> + the time limit not being met).
>> + - 0xD: The device will complete the command and an IO
>> + failure will be reported to the user with the ETIME
>> + error code.
>> + - 0xF: Same as 0xD.
>> +
>
> The lists items above looks poorly indented in htmldocs (due to use of
> proportional fonts). The fix is to align to first character after bullet
> list marker, like:

Thanks for the hints. Will fix that in v2.


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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research