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device numbers (0xabcd or abcd, for 2.4 backward compatibility).
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You can use the 'all' keyword to ignore all devices.
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The '!' operator will cause the I/O-layer to _not_ ignore a device.
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- The order on the command line is not important.
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+ The command line is parsed from left to right.
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For example,
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cio_ignore=0.0.0023-0.0.0042,0.0.4711
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/proc/cio_ignore; "add <device range>, <device range>, ..." will ignore the
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specified devices.
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- Note: Already known devices cannot be ignored.
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+ Note: While already known devices can be added to the list of devices to be
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+ ignored, there will be no effect on then. However, if such a device
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+ disappears and then reappeares, it will then be ignored.
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- For example, if device 0.0.abcd is already known and all other devices
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- 0.0.a000-0.0.afff are not known,
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+ For example,
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"echo add 0.0.a000-0.0.accc, 0.0.af00-0.0.afff > /proc/cio_ignore"
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- will add 0.0.a000-0.0.abcc, 0.0.abce-0.0.accc and 0.0.af00-0.0.afff to the
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- list of ignored devices and skip 0.0.abcd.
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+ will add 0.0.a000-0.0.accc and 0.0.af00-0.0.afff to the list of ignored
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+ devices.
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The devices can be specified either by bus id (0.0.abcd) or, for 2.4 backward
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compatibilty, by the device number in hexadecimal (0xabcd or abcd).
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@@ -98,7 +99,8 @@ Command line parameters
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- /proc/s390dbf/cio_trace/hex_ascii
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Logs the calling of functions in the common I/O-layer and, if applicable,
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- which subchannel they were called for.
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+ which subchannel they were called for, as well as dumps of some data
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+ structures (like irb in an error case).
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The level of logging can be changed to be more or less verbose by piping to
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/proc/s390dbf/cio_*/level a number between 0 and 6; see the documentation on
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