The channel subsystem elements describe a channel in the I/O
subsystem
of a s390x machine, and not a normal device (like a disk or network card).
Reword the documentation here to make it this a little bit clearer.
Buglink:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1898074
Reviewed-by: Boris Fiuczynski <fiuczy(a)linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth(a)redhat.com>
---
v2: "channel" -> "subchannel" as suggested by Cornelia
docs/formatnode.html.in | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/formatnode.html.in b/docs/formatnode.html.in
index 1010a37a3d..5c7286df8a 100644
--- a/docs/formatnode.html.in
+++ b/docs/formatnode.html.in
@@ -396,15 +396,15 @@
</dl>
</dd>
<dt><code>css</code></dt>
- <dd>Describes a Channel SubSystem (CSS) device commonly found on
- the S390 architecture. Sub-elements include:
+ <dd>Describes a subchannel in the Channel SubSystem (CSS) commonly
+ found on the S390 architecture. Sub-elements include:
<dl>
<dt><code>cssid</code></dt>
<dd>The channel subsystem identifier.</dd>
<dt><code>ssid</code></dt>
<dd>The subchannel-set identifier.</dd>
<dt><code>devno</code></dt>
- <dd>The device number.</dd>
+ <dd>The subchannel number.</dd>
<dt><code>capability</code></dt>
<dd>
This optional element can occur multiple times. If it