From 662a889608dfabbb1b4954b172a6872a25dc8f90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ed Cashin Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:03:26 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] aoe: describe the behavior of the "err" character device Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c index ed57a890c643..2bf6273e6779 100644 --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoechr.c @@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ struct ErrMsg { }; static DEFINE_MUTEX(aoechr_mutex); + +/* A ring buffer of error messages, to be read through + * "/dev/etherd/err". When no messages are present, + * readers will block waiting for messages to appear. + */ static struct ErrMsg emsgs[NMSG]; static int emsgs_head_idx, emsgs_tail_idx; static struct completion emsgs_comp;