[PATCH] s390: cio documentation update
Update documentation of the common I/O layer: - Add MSS-specific example. - Add more information on ccwgroup devices. - Add channel path type attribute. - Fix typo. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@ -16,10 +16,12 @@ devices/
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- 0.0.0000/0.0.0815/
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- 0.0.0001/0.0.4711/
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- 0.0.0002/
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- 0.1.0000/0.1.1234/
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In this example, device 0815 is accessed via subchannel 0, device 4711 via
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subchannel 1, and subchannel 2 is a non-I/O subchannel.
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In this example, device 0815 is accessed via subchannel 0 in subchannel set 0,
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device 4711 via subchannel 1 in subchannel set 0, and subchannel 2 is a non-I/O
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subchannel. Device 1234 is accessed via subchannel 0 in subchannel set 1.
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You should address a ccw device via its bus id (e.g. 0.0.4711); the device can
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be found under bus/ccw/devices/.
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@ -97,7 +99,7 @@ is not available to the device driver.
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Each driver should declare in a MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE into which CU types/models
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and/or device types/models it is interested. This information can later be found
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found in the struct ccw_device_id fields:
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in the struct ccw_device_id fields:
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struct ccw_device_id {
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__u16 match_flags;
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@ -208,6 +210,11 @@ Each ccwgroup device also provides an 'ungroup' attribute to destroy the device
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again (only when offline). This is a generic ccwgroup mechanism (the driver does
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not need to implement anything beyond normal removal routines).
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A ccw device which is a member of a ccwgroup device carries a pointer to the
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ccwgroup device in the driver_data of its device struct. This field must not be
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touched by the driver - it should use the ccwgroup device's driver_data for its
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private data.
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To implement a ccwgroup driver, please refer to include/asm/ccwgroup.h. Keep in
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mind that most drivers will need to implement both a ccwgroup and a ccw driver
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(unless you have a meta ccw driver, like cu3088 for lcs and ctc).
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@ -230,6 +237,8 @@ status - Can be 'online' or 'offline'.
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a channel path the user knows to be online, but the machine hasn't
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created a machine check for.
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type - The physical type of the channel path.
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3. System devices
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