This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ipmi: docs: don't advertise deprecated sysfs entries
to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ipmi-docs-don-t-advertise-deprecated-sysfs-entries.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit fc0b140ff61b5f36f93a6ffa557cc7909ea2c08f
Author: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Sep 1 11:02:11 2024 +0200
ipmi: docs: don't advertise deprecated sysfs entries
[ Upstream commit 64dce81f8c373c681e62d5ffe0397c45a35d48a2 ]
"i2c-adapter" class entries are deprecated since 2009. Switch to the
proper location.
Reported-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/80c4a898-5867-4162-ac85-bdf7c7c68746@xxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 259307074bfc ("ipmi: Add SMBus interface driver (SSIF)")
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Message-Id: <20240901090211.3797-2-wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <corey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/ipmi.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/ipmi.rst
index bc281f10ce4b7..0bfeeeeb17c85 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/ipmi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/ipmi.rst
@@ -519,7 +519,7 @@ at module load time (for a module) with::
alerts_broken
The addresses are normal I2C addresses. The adapter is the string
-name of the adapter, as shown in /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-<n>/name.
+name of the adapter, as shown in /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-<n>/name.
It is *NOT* i2c-<n> itself. Also, the comparison is done ignoring
spaces, so if the name is "This is an I2C chip" you can say
adapter_name=ThisisanI2cchip. This is because it's hard to pass in
