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| author | Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2016-12-08 13:27:58 +1100 |
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| committer | Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2016-12-08 13:27:58 +1100 |
| commit | 2bcffb9eb7685c0ae561313318aaf1efffabf5d6 (patch) | |
| tree | 34af22d1686c4f60ce182d3cc7922cc435851ffc /doc/opal-api | |
| parent | 33fada1a6f4b1f5fcf131765f37fcb76c079bfb2 (diff) | |
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doc/sensors: be explicit about the encoding of sensor ID/handle not being ABI
Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/opal-api/opal-sensor-read-88.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/opal-api/opal-sensor-read-88.rst b/doc/opal-api/opal-sensor-read-88.rst index 22f880e..932f572 100644 --- a/doc/opal-api/opal-sensor-read-88.rst +++ b/doc/opal-api/opal-sensor-read-88.rst @@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ OPAL_SENSOR_READ ================ The OPAL sensor call reads a sensor data using a unique handler to -identity the targeted sensor. - +identity the targeted sensor. The `sensor_handler` is provided +via the device tree and is opaque to the OS (although we currently +do use an encoding scheme). This call can be asynchronous, when a message needs to be sent to a service processor for example. In this case, the call will return |