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.