From b7eeb4d921093cd509df26bafde70801b51dea9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corey Minyard Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:07:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 71235 b: refs/heads/master c: 650dd0c7faf8126aaa261833dc9171a070deeaf3 h: refs/heads/master i: 71233: 57a277024cea3b8aa1c59e71cc8ea8b30e6c7f6a 71231: 2c85cb69b0922256cf4507555f7d94bcae4baf01 v: v3 --- [refs] | 2 +- trunk/Documentation/IPMI.txt | 17 ++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index 948f84ea69df..adb77280cb18 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: f8fbcd3b9da5830fded133dbeb7066b1b92ee736 +refs/heads/master: 650dd0c7faf8126aaa261833dc9171a070deeaf3 diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/IPMI.txt b/trunk/Documentation/IPMI.txt index 24dc3fcf1594..83b05459eb5c 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/IPMI.txt +++ b/trunk/Documentation/IPMI.txt @@ -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: [:op2[:op3...]] The "op"s are: add|remove,kcs|bt|smic,mem|i/o,
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