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IPMI: documentation fixes

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Clean up IPMI documentation to remove references to high-res timers and add
info about the polling thread.  Also fix an doc error for a parameter.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Corey Minyard 2007-10-18 03:07:09 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -441,17 +441,20 @@ ACPI, and if none of those then a KCS device at the spec-specified
0xca2. If you want to turn this off, set the "trydefaults" option to
false.
If you have high-res timers compiled into the kernel, the driver will
use them to provide much better performance. Note that if you do not
have high-res timers enabled in the kernel and you don't have
interrupts enabled, the driver will run VERY slowly. Don't blame me,
If your IPMI interface does not support interrupts and is a KCS or
SMIC interface, the IPMI driver will start a kernel thread for the
interface to help speed things up. This is a low-priority kernel
thread that constantly polls the IPMI driver while an IPMI operation
is in progress. The force_kipmid module parameter will all the user to
force this thread on or off. If you force it off and don't have
interrupts, the driver will run VERY slowly. Don't blame me,
these interfaces suck.
The driver supports a hot add and remove of interfaces. This way,
interfaces can be added or removed after the kernel is up and running.
This is done using /sys/modules/ipmi_si/hotmod, which is a write-only
parameter. You write a string to this interface. The string has the
format:
This is done using /sys/modules/ipmi_si/parameters/hotmod, which is a
write-only parameter. You write a string to this interface. The string
has the format:
<op1>[:op2[:op3...]]
The "op"s are:
add|remove,kcs|bt|smic,mem|i/o,<address>[,<opt1>[,<opt2>[,...]]]