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author | Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> | 2008-10-10 15:33:07 -0400 |
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committer | Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> | 2008-10-10 15:33:48 -0400 |
commit | d45387d8bce2674fd21369a394933a02b8125878 (patch) | |
tree | 3ec12c8fae9cbcc799cd356b80d021676a1753a0 /Documentation | |
parent | ecf5d9ef68b868b293b40b89615a92de7310d065 (diff) |
[S390] cio: Update cio_ignore documentation.
Add documentation for the new "purge" cio_ignore parameter.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/s390/CommonIO | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO index bf0baa19ec24..428e5c859b69 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO +++ b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO | |||
@@ -70,13 +70,19 @@ Command line parameters | |||
70 | 70 | ||
71 | Note: While already known devices can be added to the list of devices to be | 71 | Note: While already known devices can be added to the list of devices to be |
72 | ignored, there will be no effect on then. However, if such a device | 72 | ignored, there will be no effect on then. However, if such a device |
73 | disappears and then reappears, it will then be ignored. | 73 | disappears and then reappears, it will then be ignored. To make |
74 | known devices go away, you need the "purge" command (see below). | ||
74 | 75 | ||
75 | For example, | 76 | For example, |
76 | "echo add 0.0.a000-0.0.accc, 0.0.af00-0.0.afff > /proc/cio_ignore" | 77 | "echo add 0.0.a000-0.0.accc, 0.0.af00-0.0.afff > /proc/cio_ignore" |
77 | will add 0.0.a000-0.0.accc and 0.0.af00-0.0.afff to the list of ignored | 78 | will add 0.0.a000-0.0.accc and 0.0.af00-0.0.afff to the list of ignored |
78 | devices. | 79 | devices. |
79 | 80 | ||
81 | You can remove already known but now ignored devices via | ||
82 | "echo purge > /proc/cio_ignore" | ||
83 | All devices ignored but still registered and not online (= not in use) | ||
84 | will be deregistered and thus removed from the system. | ||
85 | |||
80 | The devices can be specified either by bus id (0.x.abcd) or, for 2.4 backward | 86 | The devices can be specified either by bus id (0.x.abcd) or, for 2.4 backward |
81 | compatibility, by the device number in hexadecimal (0xabcd or abcd). Device | 87 | compatibility, by the device number in hexadecimal (0xabcd or abcd). Device |
82 | numbers given as 0xabcd will be interpreted as 0.0.abcd. | 88 | numbers given as 0xabcd will be interpreted as 0.0.abcd. |