[PATCH] IPMI: per-channel command registration

[net-next-2.6.git] / Documentation / IPMI.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/IPMI.txt b/Documentation/IPMI.txt
index 84d3d4d10c175943a86f12bd735694be19529eb7..7756e09ea7595a999c69311b5bb399054154826e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/IPMI.txt
+++ b/Documentation/IPMI.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ standard for controlling intelligent devices that monitor a system.
 It provides for dynamic discovery of sensors in the system and the
 ability to monitor the sensors and be informed when the sensor's
 values change or go outside certain boundaries.  It also has a
-standardized database for field-replacable units (FRUs) and a watchdog
+standardized database for field-replaceable units (FRUs) and a watchdog
 timer.
 
 To use this, you need an interface to an IPMI controller in your
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ situation, you need to read the section below named 'The SI Driver' or
 IPMI defines a standard watchdog timer.  You can enable this with the
 'IPMI Watchdog Timer' config option.  If you compile the driver into
 the kernel, then via a kernel command-line option you can have the
-watchdog timer start as soon as it intitializes.  It also have a lot
+watchdog timer start as soon as it initializes.  It also have a lot
 of other options, see the 'Watchdog' section below for more details.
 Note that you can also have the watchdog continue to run if it is
 closed (by default it is disabled on close).  Go into the 'Watchdog
@@ -326,9 +326,12 @@ for events, they will all receive all events that come in.
 
 For receiving commands, you have to individually register commands you
 want to receive.  Call ipmi_register_for_cmd() and supply the netfn
-and command name for each command you want to receive.  Only one user
-may be registered for each netfn/cmd, but different users may register
-for different commands.
+and command name for each command you want to receive.  You also
+specify a bitmask of the channels you want to receive the command from
+(or use IPMI_CHAN_ALL for all channels if you don't care).  Only one
+user may be registered for each netfn/cmd/channel, but different users
+may register for different commands, or the same command if the
+channel bitmasks do not overlap.
 
 From userland, equivalent IOCTLs are provided to do these functions.
 
@@ -605,12 +608,13 @@ is in the ipmi_poweroff module.  When the system requests a powerdown,
 it will send the proper IPMI commands to do this.  This is supported on
 several platforms.
 
-There is a module parameter named "poweroff_control" that may either be zero
-(do a power down) or 2 (do a power cycle, power the system off, then power
-it on in a few seconds).  Setting ipmi_poweroff.poweroff_control=x will do
-the same thing on the kernel command line.  The parameter is also available
-via the proc filesystem in /proc/ipmi/poweroff_control.  Note that if the
-system does not support power cycling, it will always to the power off.
+There is a module parameter named "poweroff_powercycle" that may
+either be zero (do a power down) or non-zero (do a power cycle, power
+the system off, then power it on in a few seconds).  Setting
+ipmi_poweroff.poweroff_control=x will do the same thing on the kernel
+command line.  The parameter is also available via the proc filesystem
+in /proc/sys/dev/ipmi/poweroff_powercycle.  Note that if the system
+does not support power cycling, it will always do the power off.
 
 Note that if you have ACPI enabled, the system will prefer using ACPI to
 power off.