Commit 373c491f authored by Cornelia Huck's avatar Cornelia Huck Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] s390: documentation update

Fix typos and add a section about cpus in the driver-model documentation.
Signed-off-by: default avatarCornelia Huck <cohuck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 1b44e98d
......@@ -8,11 +8,10 @@ All devices which can be addressed by means of ccws are called 'CCW devices' -
even if they aren't actually driven by ccws.
All ccw devices are accessed via a subchannel, this is reflected in the
structures under root/:
structures under devices/:
root/
- sys
- legacy
devices/
- system/
- css0/
- 0.0.0000/0.0.0815/
- 0.0.0001/0.0.4711/
......@@ -36,7 +35,7 @@ availability: Can be 'good' or 'boxed'; 'no path' or 'no device' for
online: An interface to set the device online and offline.
In the special case of the device being disconnected (see the
notify function under 1.2), piping 0 to online will focibly delete
notify function under 1.2), piping 0 to online will forcibly delete
the device.
The device drivers can add entries to export per-device data and interfaces.
......@@ -222,7 +221,7 @@ and are called 'chp0.<chpid>'. They have no driver and do not belong to any bus.
Please note, that unlike /proc/chpids in 2.4, the channel path objects reflect
only the logical state and not the physical state, since we cannot track the
latter consistently due to lacking machine support (we don't need to be aware
of anyway).
of it anyway).
status - Can be 'online' or 'offline'.
Piping 'on' or 'off' sets the chpid logically online/offline.
......@@ -235,12 +234,16 @@ status - Can be 'online' or 'offline'.
3. System devices
-----------------
Note: cpus may yet be added here.
3.1 xpram
---------
xpram shows up under sys/ as 'xpram'.
xpram shows up under devices/system/ as 'xpram'.
3.2 cpus
--------
For each cpu, a directory is created under devices/system/cpu/. Each cpu has an
attribute 'online' which can be 0 or 1.
4. Other devices
......
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