From: scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stephenmcameron@gmail.com, thenzl@redhat.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mikem@beardog.cce.hp.com,
scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hpsa: add heartbeat sysfs host attribute
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:40:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110815144022.GR27723@beardog.cce.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110813020147.GB15554@kroah.com>
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 07:01:47PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 01:03:14PM -0500, Stephen M. Cameron wrote:
> > From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
> >
> > The cciss driver had a CCISS_HEARTBEAT ioctl which
[...]
> >
> > + The "heartbeat" read-only attribute returns the value of a heartbeat
> > + counter register on a Smart Array controller as a 32 bit unsigned
> > + hexadecimal integer (e.g: "0x12345678"). The value should change
> > + periodically, not less than once per second. If this value fails to
> > + change for a period longer than one second, it means something has
> > + gone wrong (e.g. Smart Array controller firmware has locked up.)
> > +
>
> This all belongs in Documentation/ABI/ care to move it there instead?
Sure.
-- steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-15 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-12 18:03 [PATCH] hpsa: add heartbeat sysfs host attribute Stephen M. Cameron
2011-08-13 2:01 ` Greg KH
2011-08-15 14:40 ` scameron [this message]
2011-08-15 15:04 ` scameron
2011-08-15 15:45 ` Greg KH
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