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authorMartin K. Petersen2012-01-11 09:29:31 -0600
committerJens Axboe2012-01-11 09:29:31 -0600
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block: Add BLKROTATIONAL ioctl
Introduce an ioctl which permits applications to query whether a block device is rotational. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Diffstat (limited to 'block/compat_ioctl.c')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/block/compat_ioctl.c b/block/compat_ioctl.c
index 7b725020823..7c668c8a6f9 100644
--- a/block/compat_ioctl.c
+++ b/block/compat_ioctl.c
@@ -719,6 +719,9 @@ long compat_blkdev_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
719 case BLKSECTGET: 719 case BLKSECTGET:
720 return compat_put_ushort(arg, 720 return compat_put_ushort(arg,
721 queue_max_sectors(bdev_get_queue(bdev))); 721 queue_max_sectors(bdev_get_queue(bdev)));
722 case BLKROTATIONAL:
723 return compat_put_ushort(arg,
724 !blk_queue_nonrot(bdev_get_queue(bdev)));
722 case BLKRASET: /* compatible, but no compat_ptr (!) */ 725 case BLKRASET: /* compatible, but no compat_ptr (!) */
723 case BLKFRASET: 726 case BLKFRASET:
724 if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) 727 if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))