From: Zhao Yakui <[email protected]> Add the document description about how to use ipmi_get_smi_info.
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <[email protected]> --- Documentation/IPMI.txt | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/IPMI.txt b/Documentation/IPMI.txt index 69dd29e..0b8aecc 100644 --- a/Documentation/IPMI.txt +++ b/Documentation/IPMI.txt @@ -533,6 +533,43 @@ completion during sending a panic event. Other Pieces ------------ +Get the detailed info related with the IPMI device +-------- +The IPMI smi_watcher will be used to catch the IPMI interface as they come or go. +In order to communicate with the correct IPMI device, it should be confirmed + whether it is what we wanted especially on the system with multiple IPMI +devices. But the new_smi callback function of smi_watcher provides very +limited info(only the interface number and dev pointer) and there is no +detailed info about the low level interface. For example: which mechansim +registers the IPMI interface(ACPI, PCI, DMI and so on). + The function of ipmi_get_smi_info is added to get the +detailed info of IPMI device. The following is the struct definition of +ipmi_smi_info(Now only ACPI info is defined. If the info is required for +other IPMI device type, please add it) . + struct ipmi_smi_info{ + enum ipmi_addr_src addr_src; + struct device *dev; + union { + /* + * Now only SI_ACPI info is provided. If the info is required + * for other type, please add it + */ +#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI + struct { + void *acpi_handle; + } acpi_info; +#endif + } smi_info; +}; + + The following is the definition of ipmi_get_smi_info. + extern int ipmi_get_smi_info(int if_num, enum ipmi_addr_src type, + struct ipmi_smi_info **data); + It is noted that the returned smi_data is not the dynamically +allocated memory. It is only the pointer of the corresponding info stored +in IPMI device. In such case the caller don't try to free the corresponding +memory. + Watchdog -------- -- 1.5.4.5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
