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| author | Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> | 2006-12-08 15:56:02 +0100 |
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| committer | Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> | 2006-12-08 15:56:02 +0100 |
| commit | 7f090145a14afc35844dce80174c9c24f9e66ec5 (patch) | |
| tree | 14ee3ba84574ed147ea779c2747d4bec2cc72915 /Documentation/s390 | |
| parent | 529192f3b90682e37c5fcab461d968d062f1e0e4 (diff) | |
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[S390] Update documentation for dynamic subchannel mapping.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt | 7 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt b/Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt index 77bf450ec39b..e938c442277d 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt +++ b/Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt @@ -18,11 +18,18 @@ devices/ - 0.0.0002/ - 0.1.0000/0.1.1234/ ... + - defunct/ In this example, device 0815 is accessed via subchannel 0 in subchannel set 0, device 4711 via subchannel 1 in subchannel set 0, and subchannel 2 is a non-I/O subchannel. Device 1234 is accessed via subchannel 0 in subchannel set 1. +The subchannel named 'defunct' does not represent any real subchannel on the +system; it is a pseudo subchannel where disconnnected ccw devices are moved to +if they are displaced by another ccw device becoming operational on their +former subchannel. The ccw devices will be moved again to a proper subchannel +if they become operational again on that subchannel. + You should address a ccw device via its bus id (e.g. 0.0.4711); the device can be found under bus/ccw/devices/. |