From 5eeb929390de7d5219483a1ca10cce4a84066099 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexandre Bounine Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 15:55:07 -0700 Subject: rapidio: documentation update for enumeration changes Update RapidIO documentation to reflect changes made to enumeration/discovery build configuration and user space triggering mechanism. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine Cc: Matt Porter Cc: Li Yang Cc: Kumar Gala Cc: Andre van Herk Cc: Micha Nelissen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/rapidio/sysfs.txt | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/rapidio/sysfs.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/rapidio/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/rapidio/sysfs.txt index 97f71ce575d6..19878179da4c 100644 --- a/Documentation/rapidio/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/rapidio/sysfs.txt @@ -88,3 +88,20 @@ that exports additional attributes. IDT_GEN2: errlog - reads contents of device error log until it is empty. + + +5. RapidIO Bus Attributes +------------------------- + +RapidIO bus subdirectory /sys/bus/rapidio implements the following bus-specific +attribute: + + scan - allows to trigger enumeration discovery process from user space. This + is a write-only attribute. To initiate an enumeration or discovery + process on specific mport device, a user needs to write mport_ID (not + RapidIO destination ID) into this file. The mport_ID is a sequential + number (0 ... RIO_MAX_MPORTS) assigned to the mport device. + For example, for a machine with a single RapidIO controller, mport_ID + for that controller always will be 0. + To initiate RapidIO enumeration/discovery on all available mports + a user must write '-1' (or RIO_MPORT_ANY) into this attribute file. -- cgit v1.2.3