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[PATCH] md: fix duplicity of levels in md.txt

md.txt has two sections describing the 'level' sysfs attribute, and some of
the text is out-of-date.  So make just one section, and make it right.

Cc: Christian Kujau <evil@g-house.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
NeilBrown 18 年之前
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Documentation/md.txt

@@ -154,11 +154,12 @@ contains further md-specific information about the device.
 
 
 All md devices contain:
 All md devices contain:
   level
   level
-     a text file indicating the 'raid level'.  This may be a standard
-     numerical level prefixed by "RAID-" - e.g. "RAID-5", or some
-     other name such as "linear" or "multipath".
+     a text file indicating the 'raid level'. e.g. raid0, raid1,
+     raid5, linear, multipath, faulty.
      If no raid level has been set yet (array is still being
      If no raid level has been set yet (array is still being
-     assembled), this file will be empty.
+     assembled), the value will reflect whatever has been written
+     to it, which may be a name like the above, or may be a number
+     such as '0', '5', etc.
 
 
   raid_disks
   raid_disks
      a text file with a simple number indicating the number of devices
      a text file with a simple number indicating the number of devices
@@ -192,14 +193,6 @@ All md devices contain:
      1.2 (newer format in varying locations) or "none" indicating that
      1.2 (newer format in varying locations) or "none" indicating that
      the kernel isn't managing metadata at all.
      the kernel isn't managing metadata at all.
 
 
-  level
-     The raid 'level' for this array.  The name will often (but not
-     always) be the same as the name of the module that implements the
-     level.  To be auto-loaded the module must have an alias
-        md-$LEVEL  e.g. md-raid5
-     This can be written only while the array is being assembled, not
-     after it is started.
-
   layout
   layout
      The "layout" for the array for the particular level.  This is
      The "layout" for the array for the particular level.  This is
      simply a number that is interpretted differently by different
      simply a number that is interpretted differently by different