Commit be816bc4 authored by Corey Minyard's avatar Corey Minyard
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Documentation:ipmi: Remove comments about interrupt level 



Callbacks no longer run at interrupt level or bh, so remove those
comments.

Signed-off-by: default avatarCorey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
parent 6bd0eb6d

Documentation/driver-api/ipmi.rst

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@@ -280,10 +280,8 @@ Creating the User 
To use the message handler, you must first create a user using

ipmi_create_user.  The interface number specifies which SMI you want

to connect to, and you must supply callback functions to be called

when data comes in.  The callback function can run at interrupt level,

so be careful using the callbacks.  This also allows to you pass in a

piece of data, the handler_data, that will be passed back to you on

all calls.

when data comes in.  This also allows to you pass in a piece of data,

the handler_data, that will be passed back to you on all calls.



Once you are done, call ipmi_destroy_user() to get rid of the user.
@@ -303,8 +301,7 @@ use it for anything you like. 


Responses come back in the function pointed to by the ipmi_recv_hndl

field of the "handler" that you passed in to ipmi_create_user().

Remember again, these may be running at interrupt level.  Remember to

look at the receive type, too.

Remember to look at the receive type, too.



From userland, you fill out an ipmi_req_t structure and use the

IPMICTL_SEND_COMMAND ioctl.  For incoming stuff, you can use select()