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Doc: driver-api: ipmi: Add description of alerts_broken module param
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Add description about alerts_broken module parameter of ipmi_ssif driver
which skips enabling SMBus alert during setup.

Signed-off-by: Misono Tomohiro <misono.tomohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Message-Id: <20200624065405.17653-3-misono.tomohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
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Misono Tomohiro authored and Corey Minyard committed Jun 24, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -516,6 +516,7 @@ at module load time (for a module) with::
slave_addrs=<addr1>,<addr2>,...
tryacpi=[0|1] trydmi=[0|1]
[dbg_probe=1]
alerts_broken

The addresses are normal I2C addresses. The adapter is the string
name of the adapter, as shown in /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-<n>/name.
Expand All @@ -537,6 +538,9 @@ The slave_addrs specifies the IPMI address of the local BMC. This is
usually 0x20 and the driver defaults to that, but in case it's not, it
can be specified when the driver starts up.

alerts_broken does not enable SMBus alert for SSIF. Otherwise SMBus
alert will be enabled on supported hardware.

Discovering the IPMI compliant BMC on the SMBus can cause devices on
the I2C bus to fail. The SMBus driver writes a "Get Device ID" IPMI
message as a block write to the I2C bus and waits for a response.
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