examine: allows to examine a disk metadata on non-metadata compliant systems

[thirdparty/mdadm.git] / mdadm.h

diff --git a/mdadm.h b/mdadm.h
index fa5af3ae7a65de575bdc989081747f2a7b05f613..8277594bdb82cef41c1ed6c7ae85609e9ab46178 100644 (file)
--- a/mdadm.h
+++ b/mdadm.h
@@ -827,7 +827,11 @@ struct supertype {
        int container_dev;    /* devnum of container */
        void *sb;
        void *info;
-
+       int ignore_hw_compat; /* used to inform metadata handlers that it should ignore
+                                HW/firmware related incompatability to load metadata.
+                                Used when examining metadata to display content of disk
+                                when user has no hw/firmare compatible system.
+                             */
        struct metadata_update *updates;
        struct metadata_update **update_tail;