st: allow debug output to be enabled or disabled via sysfs
authorSeymour, Shane M <shane.seymour@hpe.com>
Mon, 12 Oct 2015 04:31:17 +0000 (04:31 +0000)
committerJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
Tue, 10 Nov 2015 01:17:27 +0000 (17:17 -0800)
commitd9b43a10f0d04564c6e05de3728c3cbba64c644d
tree5661a5a688a92e9260af7e7d5cea0a04acca5cf3
parentc59ab4e5afade13fdb65efc99c07fb8455aecba5
st: allow debug output to be enabled or disabled via sysfs

Change st driver to allow enabling or disabling debug output
via sysfs file /sys/bus/scsi/drivers/st/debug_flag.

Previously the only way to enable debug output was:

1. loading the driver with the module parameter debug_flag=1
2. an ioctl call (this method was also the only way to dynamically
disable debug output).

To use the ioctl you need a second tape drive (if you are
actively testing the first tape drive) since a second process
cannot open the first tape drive if it is in use.

The this change is only functional if the value of the macro
DEBUG in st.c is a non-zero value (which it is by default).

Signed-off-by: Shane Seymour <shane.seymour@hpe.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurence Oberman <oberman.l@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kai Mäkisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Odin.com>
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-driver-st [new file with mode: 0644]
Documentation/scsi/st.txt
drivers/scsi/st.c