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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-02-16 22:05:46 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-02-16 22:05:46 +0100 |
| commit | ab02b61f24c76b1659086fcc8b00cbeeb6e95ac7 (patch) | |
| tree | f6760b0bf32bd3b9a760d6e895c7fb76cd9c2ef8 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm (diff) | |
| parent | drivers: ipmi: fix off-by-one bounds check that leads to a out-of-bounds write (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'for-linus-5.6-1' of https://github.com/cminyard/linux-ipmi
Pull IPMI update from Corey Minyard:
"Minor bug fixes for IPMI
I know this is late; I've been travelling and, well, I've been
distracted.
This is just a few bug fixes and adding i2c support to the IPMB
driver, which is something I wanted from the beginning for it"
* tag 'for-linus-5.6-1' of https://github.com/cminyard/linux-ipmi:
drivers: ipmi: fix off-by-one bounds check that leads to a out-of-bounds write
ipmi:ssif: Handle a possible NULL pointer reference
drivers: ipmi: Modify max length of IPMB packet
drivers: ipmi: Support raw i2c packet in IPMB
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/ipmb.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/ipmb.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/ipmb.rst index 3ec3baed84c4..209c49e05116 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/ipmb.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/ipmb.rst @@ -71,9 +71,13 @@ b) Example for device tree:: ipmb@10 { compatible = "ipmb-dev"; reg = <0x10>; + i2c-protocol; }; }; +If xmit of data to be done using raw i2c block vs smbus +then "i2c-protocol" needs to be defined as above. + 2) Manually from Linux:: modprobe ipmb-dev-int |