linux-kernel - [char-misc-next 1/3 V2] mei: add ABI documentation for fw

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Message-Id: <1417090049-23219-1-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:07:27 +0200
From:	Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
To:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:	arnd@...db.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
Subject: [char-misc-next 1/3 V2] mei: add ABI documentation for fw_status exported through sysfs

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
---
V2: rephrase the description
 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mei | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mei b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mei
index 0ec8b8178c41..4eb1379b976c 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mei
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-mei
@@ -14,3 +14,18 @@ Description:
 		The /sys/class/mei/meiN directory is created for
 		each probed mei device
 
+What:		/sys/class/mei/meiN/fw_status
+Date:		Nov 2014
+KernelVersion:	3.19
+Contact:	Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
+Description:	Display fw status registers content
+
+		The ME FW writes its status information into fw status
+		registers for BIOS and OS to monitor fw health.
+
+		The register contains running state, power management
+		state, error codes, and others. The way the registers
+		are decoded depends on PCH or SoC generation.
+		Also number of registers varies between 1 and 6
+		depending on generation.
+
-- 
1.9.3

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