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[PATCH] s390: cio documentation

Some clarifications in the cio documentation.

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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Cornelia Huck and committed by
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Documentation/s390/CommonIO
··· 30 30 device numbers (0xabcd or abcd, for 2.4 backward compatibility). 31 31 You can use the 'all' keyword to ignore all devices. 32 32 The '!' operator will cause the I/O-layer to _not_ ignore a device. 33 - The order on the command line is not important. 33 + The command line is parsed from left to right. 34 34 35 35 For example, 36 36 cio_ignore=0.0.0023-0.0.0042,0.0.4711 ··· 72 72 /proc/cio_ignore; "add <device range>, <device range>, ..." will ignore the 73 73 specified devices. 74 74 75 - Note: Already known devices cannot be ignored. 75 + Note: While already known devices can be added to the list of devices to be 76 + ignored, there will be no effect on then. However, if such a device 77 + disappears and then reappeares, it will then be ignored. 76 78 77 - For example, if device 0.0.abcd is already known and all other devices 78 - 0.0.a000-0.0.afff are not known, 79 + For example, 79 80 "echo add 0.0.a000-0.0.accc, 0.0.af00-0.0.afff > /proc/cio_ignore" 80 - will add 0.0.a000-0.0.abcc, 0.0.abce-0.0.accc and 0.0.af00-0.0.afff to the 81 - list of ignored devices and skip 0.0.abcd. 81 + will add 0.0.a000-0.0.accc and 0.0.af00-0.0.afff to the list of ignored 82 + devices. 82 83 83 84 The devices can be specified either by bus id (0.0.abcd) or, for 2.4 backward 84 85 compatibilty, by the device number in hexadecimal (0xabcd or abcd). ··· 99 98 100 99 - /proc/s390dbf/cio_trace/hex_ascii 101 100 Logs the calling of functions in the common I/O-layer and, if applicable, 102 - which subchannel they were called for. 101 + which subchannel they were called for, as well as dumps of some data 102 + structures (like irb in an error case). 103 103 104 104 The level of logging can be changed to be more or less verbose by piping to 105 105 /proc/s390dbf/cio_*/level a number between 0 and 6; see the documentation on