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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-firmware-acpi | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi | 10 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-firmware-acpi b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-firmware-acpi new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..6715a71bec3d --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-firmware-acpi @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +What: /sys/firmware/acpi/hotplug/force_remove +Date: Mar 2017 +Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> +Description: + Since the force_remove is inherently broken and dangerous to + use for some hotplugable resources like memory (because ignoring + the offline failure might lead to memory corruption and crashes) + enabling this knob is not safe and thus unsupported. diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi index c7fc72d4495c..613f42a9d5cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi @@ -44,16 +44,6 @@ Description: or 0 (unset). Attempts to write any other values to it will cause -EINVAL to be returned. -What: /sys/firmware/acpi/hotplug/force_remove -Date: May 2013 -Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> -Description: - The number in this file (0 or 1) determines whether (1) or not - (0) the ACPI subsystem will allow devices to be hot-removed even - if they cannot be put offline gracefully (from the kernel's - viewpoint). That number can be changed by writing a boolean - value to this file. - What: /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/ Date: February 2008 Contact: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> |