Commit 64dce81f authored by Wolfram Sang's avatar Wolfram Sang Committed by Corey Minyard
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ipmi: docs: don't advertise deprecated sysfs entries 



"i2c-adapter" class entries are deprecated since 2009. Switch to the
proper location.

Reported-by: default avatarHeiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/80c4a898-5867-4162-ac85-bdf7c7c68746@gmail.com


Fixes: 25930707 ("ipmi: Add SMBus interface driver (SSIF)")
Signed-off-by: default avatarWolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Message-Id: <20240901090211.3797-2-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCorey Minyard <corey@minyard.net>
parent 88f65f90

Documentation/driver-api/ipmi.rst

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	alerts_broken



The addresses are normal I2C addresses.  The adapter is the string

name of the adapter, as shown in /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-<n>/name.

name of the adapter, as shown in /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-<n>/name.

It is *NOT* i2c-<n> itself.  Also, the comparison is done ignoring

spaces, so if the name is "This is an I2C chip" you can say

adapter_name=ThisisanI2cchip.  This is because it's hard to pass in