From: Cornelia Huck Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:33:07 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [S390] cio: Update cio_ignore documentation. X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d45387d8bce2674fd21369a394933a02b8125878;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git [S390] cio: Update cio_ignore documentation. Add documentation for the new "purge" cio_ignore parameter. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky --- 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 Note: While already known devices can be added to the list of devices to be ignored, there will be no effect on then. However, if such a device - disappears and then reappears, it will then be ignored. + disappears and then reappears, it will then be ignored. To make + known devices go away, you need the "purge" command (see below). For example, "echo add 0.0.a000-0.0.accc, 0.0.af00-0.0.afff > /proc/cio_ignore" will add 0.0.a000-0.0.accc and 0.0.af00-0.0.afff to the list of ignored devices. + You can remove already known but now ignored devices via + "echo purge > /proc/cio_ignore" + All devices ignored but still registered and not online (= not in use) + will be deregistered and thus removed from the system. + The devices can be specified either by bus id (0.x.abcd) or, for 2.4 backward compatibility, by the device number in hexadecimal (0xabcd or abcd). Device numbers given as 0xabcd will be interpreted as 0.0.abcd.