s390/cio: add ipldev keyword to cio_ignore

[karo-tx-linux.git] / Documentation / s390 / CommonIO

diff --git a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO
index d378cba6645698d98678c75489ce1bd02b38bd82..d90a5ddb2b07d6ad642f42c352503f8ab5143c34 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO
+++ b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ Command line parameters
 
   Enable logging of debug information in case of ccw device timeouts.
 
-* cio_ignore = {all} |
-              {<device> | <range of devices>} |
-              {!<device> | !<range of devices>}
+* cio_ignore = device[,device[,..]]
+
+       device := {all | [!]ipldev | [!]<devno> | [!]<devno>-<devno>}
 
   The given devices will be ignored by the common I/O-layer; no detection
   and device sensing will be done on any of those devices. The subchannel to 
@@ -24,9 +24,10 @@ Command line parameters
   device numbers (0xabcd or abcd, for 2.4 backward compatibility). If you
   give a device number 0xabcd, it will be interpreted as 0.0.abcd.
 
-  You can use the 'all' keyword to ignore all devices.
-  The '!' operator will cause the I/O-layer to _not_ ignore a device.
-  The command line is parsed from left to right.
+  You can use the 'all' keyword to ignore all devices. The 'ipldev' keyword can
+  be used to refer to the CCW based boot device (this is probably useful only
+  when combined with the '!' operator). The '!' operator will cause the I/O-layer
+  to _not_ ignore a device. The command line is parsed from left to right.
 
   For example, 
        cio_ignore=0.0.0023-0.0.0042,0.0.4711