ipmi: Make IPMI panic strings always available

They were set by config items, but people complained that they were
never turned on.  So have them always available and enabled by a
module parameter.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/IPMI.txt b/Documentation/IPMI.txt
index aa77a25a0940..5ef1047e2e66 100644
--- a/Documentation/IPMI.txt
+++ b/Documentation/IPMI.txt
@@ -81,7 +81,9 @@ If you want the driver to put an event into the event log on a panic,
 enable the 'Generate a panic event to all BMCs on a panic' option.  If
 you want the whole panic string put into the event log using OEM
 events, enable the 'Generate OEM events containing the panic string'
-option.
+option.  You can also enable these dynamically by setting the module
+parameter named "panic_op" in the ipmi_msghandler module to "event"
+or "string".  Setting that parameter to "none" disables this function.
 
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