[PATCH 8/8 v2] staging: unisys: ABI documentation for new sysfs entries
Greg KH
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Jul 22 23:14:56 UTC 2014
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 09:56:32AM -0400, Benjamin Romer wrote:
> This patch adds a documentation file for all of the interfaces that were moved
> to sysfs by the other patches in this set.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Romer <benjamin.romer at unisys.com>
> ---
> v2: whitespace errors were corrected.
>
> .../Documentation/ABI/sysfs-platform-visorchipset | 74 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 74 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/unisys/Documentation/ABI/sysfs-platform-visorchipset
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/Documentation/ABI/sysfs-platform-visorchipset b/drivers/staging/unisys/Documentation/ABI/sysfs-platform-visorchipset
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..b6cad24
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/Documentation/ABI/sysfs-platform-visorchipset
> @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
> +What: install/error
> +Date: 7/18/2014
> +KernelVersion: TBD
> +Contact: sparmaintainer at unisys.com
> +Description: used to send the ID of a string that should be displayed on
> + s-Par's automatic installation progress screen when an error
> + is encountered during installation. This field has no effect
> + if not in installation mode.
> +Users: sparmaintainer at unisys.com
> +
> +What: install/remainingsteps
> +Date: 7/18/2014
> +KernelVersion: TBD
> +Contact: sparmaintainer at unisys.com
> +Description: used to set the value of the progress bar on the s-Par automatic
> + installation progress screen. This field has no effect if not in
> + installation mode.
> +Users: sparmaintainer at unisys.com
> +
> +What: install/textid
> +Date: 7/18/2014
> +KernelVersion: TBD
> +Contact: sparmaintainer at unisys.com
> +Description: used to send the ID of a string that should be displayed on
> + s-Par's automatic installation progress screen. Setting this
> + field when not in installation mode (boottotool was set on
> + the previous guest boot) has no effect.
> +Users: sparmaintainer at unisys.com
> +
> +What: install/boottotool
> +Date: 7/18/2014
> +KernelVersion: TBD
> +Contact: sparmaintainer at unisys.com
> +Description: The boottotool flag controls s-Par behavior on the next boot of
> + this guest. Setting the flag will cause the guest to boot from
> + the utility and installation image, which will use the value in
> + the toolaction field to determine what operation is being
> + requested.
> +Users: sparmaintainer at unisys.com
> +
> +What: install/toolaction
> +Date: 7/18/2014
> +KernelVersion: TBD
> +Contact: sparmaintainer at unisys.com
> +Description: This field is used to tell s-Par which type of recovery tool
> + action to perform on the next guest boot-up. The meaning of the
> + value is dependent on the type of installation software used to
> + commission the guest.
> +Users: sparmaintainer at unisys.com
> +
> +What: guest/chipsetready
> +Date: 7/18/2014
> +KernelVersion: TBD
> +Contact: sparmaintainer at unisys.com
> +Description: This entry is used by Unisys application software on the guest
> + to acknowledge completion of specific events for integration
> + purposes, but these acknowledgements are not required for the
> + guest to operate correctly.
> +Users: sparmaintainer at unisys.com
What is the format of the chipsetready file? It looks like you want to
write 2 values to it? Please describe it better, for all of these.
thanks,
greg k-h
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