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authorCorey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>2006-10-01 02:27:56 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-01 03:39:23 -0400
commitc69c31270c35a6b8421a8e4ba81de1247ac6df95 (patch)
tree5f46902faa683f32a69adbe53c8ec3ca4ed19466 /Documentation
parent54f67f631dfc25ca7a8b19200e34013abc974337 (diff)
[PATCH] IPMI: per-channel command registration
This patch adds the ability to register for a command per-channel in the IPMI driver. If your BMC supports multiple channels, incoming messages can be useful to have the ability to register to receive commands on a specific channel instead the current behaviour of all channels. Signed-off-by: David Barksdale <amatus@ocgnet.org> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -326,9 +326,12 @@ for events, they will all receive all events that come in.
326 326
327For receiving commands, you have to individually register commands you 327For receiving commands, you have to individually register commands you
328want to receive. Call ipmi_register_for_cmd() and supply the netfn 328want to receive. Call ipmi_register_for_cmd() and supply the netfn
329and command name for each command you want to receive. Only one user 329and command name for each command you want to receive. You also
330may be registered for each netfn/cmd, but different users may register 330specify a bitmask of the channels you want to receive the command from
331for different commands. 331(or use IPMI_CHAN_ALL for all channels if you don't care). Only one
332user may be registered for each netfn/cmd/channel, but different users
333may register for different commands, or the same command if the
334channel bitmasks do not overlap.
332 335
333From userland, equivalent IOCTLs are provided to do these functions. 336From userland, equivalent IOCTLs are provided to do these functions.
334 337