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Doc: driver-api: ipmi: Add description of alerts_broken module param
Add description about alerts_broken module parameter of ipmi_ssif driver which skips enabling SMBus alert during setup. Signed-off-by: Misono Tomohiro <[email protected]> Message-Id: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <[email protected]>
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Documentation/driver-api/ipmi.rst

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@@ -516,6 +516,7 @@ at module load time (for a module) with::
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slave_addrs=<addr1>,<addr2>,...
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tryacpi=[0|1] trydmi=[0|1]
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[dbg_probe=1]
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alerts_broken
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The addresses are normal I2C addresses. The adapter is the string
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name of the adapter, as shown in /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-<n>/name.
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usually 0x20 and the driver defaults to that, but in case it's not, it
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can be specified when the driver starts up.
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alerts_broken does not enable SMBus alert for SSIF. Otherwise SMBus
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alert will be enabled on supported hardware.
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Discovering the IPMI compliant BMC on the SMBus can cause devices on
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the I2C bus to fail. The SMBus driver writes a "Get Device ID" IPMI
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message as a block write to the I2C bus and waits for a response.

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