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SubjectRe: [PATCH] hpsa: add heartbeat sysfs host attribute
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



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