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Message-ID: <20110815144022.GR27723@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:40:22 -0500
From:	scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	james.bottomley@...senpartnership.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stephenmcameron@...il.com,
	thenzl@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	mikem@...rdog.cce.hp.com, scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com
Subject: Re: [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@...rdog.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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