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authorCorey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>2015-03-31 13:48:53 -0400
committerCorey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>2015-05-05 15:24:45 -0400
commitb0e9aaa99dfb3036829e91d4f0aae449639e221a (patch)
tree737024f5452fc39d09fe6fc470c2140359bbd904 /Documentation
parentd467f7a405cf0e7f06ed8d3175607ebb4ed06671 (diff)
ipmi:ssif: Ignore spaces when comparing I2C adapter names
Some of the adapters have spaces in their names, but that's really hard to pass in as a module or kernel parameters. So ignore the spaces. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/IPMI.txt b/Documentation/IPMI.txt
index 653d5d739d7f..31d1d658827f 100644
--- a/Documentation/IPMI.txt
+++ b/Documentation/IPMI.txt
@@ -505,7 +505,10 @@ at module load time (for a module) with:
505 505
506The addresses are normal I2C addresses. The adapter is the string 506The addresses are normal I2C addresses. The adapter is the string
507name of the adapter, as shown in /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-<n>/name. 507name of the adapter, as shown in /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-<n>/name.
508It is *NOT* i2c-<n> itself. 508It is *NOT* i2c-<n> itself. Also, the comparison is done ignoring
509spaces, so if the name is "This is an I2C chip" you can say
510adapter_name=ThisisanI2cchip. This is because it's hard to pass in
511spaces in kernel parameters.
509 512
510The debug flags are bit flags for each BMC found, they are: 513The debug flags are bit flags for each BMC found, they are:
511IPMI messages: 1, driver state: 2, timing: 4, I2C probe: 8 514IPMI messages: 1, driver state: 2, timing: 4, I2C probe: 8