Re: [PATCH v3 3/3] blk-crypto: show crypto capabilities in sysfs

From: Bart Van Assche
Date: Tue Dec 14 2021 - 00:04:40 EST


On 12/11/21 02:50, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 09:29:41AM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
(b) No other block layer sysfs attribute follows this encoding scheme.

Then follow what they do. Do they have multiple values in a single
file? If so, they are broken and we should change that.

Hi Greg,

The only other block layer sysfs attribute I know of that reports multiple values is the queue/scheduler attribute. Here is an example of the output that can be produced by reading that attribute:

# cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
[mq-deadline] kyber bfq none

I don't think that changing the behavior of that attribute is an option because that would break existing user space software, e.g. the https://github.com/osandov/blktests/ test suite.

Thanks,

Bart.