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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-02-28 19:23:06 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-02-28 19:23:06 -0800
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@@ -87,6 +87,12 @@ Command line parameters
compatibility, by the device number in hexadecimal (0xabcd or abcd). Device
numbers given as 0xabcd will be interpreted as 0.0.abcd.
+* /proc/cio_settle
+
+ A write request to this file is blocked until all queued cio actions are
+ handled. This will allow userspace to wait for pending work affecting
+ device availability after changing cio_ignore or the hardware configuration.
+
* For some of the information present in the /proc filesystem in 2.4 (namely,
/proc/subchannels and /proc/chpids), see driver-model.txt.
Information formerly in /proc/irq_count is now in /proc/interrupts.