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docs: sysfs-block-device: improve ncq_prio_enable documentation
authorNiklas Cassel <[email protected]>
Mon, 16 Aug 2021 01:44:55 +0000 (10:44 +0900)
committerJens Axboe <[email protected]>
Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:19:39 +0000 (07:19 -0600)
NCQ priority is an optional feature of the NCQ feature set and should
not be confused with the NCQ feature set itself. Clarify the
description of the ncq_prio_enable attribute to avoid this confusion.

Also add the missing documentation for the equivalent
sas_ncq_prio_enable attribute.

Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Damien Le Moal <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-device

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@@ -55,6 +55,20 @@ Date:                Oct, 2016
 KernelVersion: v4.10
 Contact:       [email protected]
 Description:
-               (RW) Write to the file to turn on or off the SATA ncq (native
-               command queueing) support. By default this feature is turned
-               off.
+               (RW) Write to the file to turn on or off the SATA NCQ (native
+               command queueing) priority support. By default this feature is
+               turned off. If the device does not support the SATA NCQ
+               priority feature, writing "1" to this file results in an error.
+
+
+What:          /sys/block/*/device/sas_ncq_prio_enable
+Date:          Oct, 2016
+KernelVersion: v4.10
+Contact:       [email protected]
+Description:
+               (RW) This is the equivalent of the ncq_prio_enable attribute
+               file for SATA devices connected to a SAS host-bus-adapter
+               (HBA) implementing support for the SATA NCQ priority feature.
+               This file does not exist if the HBA driver does not implement
+               support for the SATA NCQ priority feature, regardless of the
+               device support for this feature.
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