.\" This manpage has been automatically generated by docbook2man .\" from a DocBook document. This tool can be found at: .\" .\" Please send any bug reports, improvements, comments, patches, .\" etc. to Steve Cheng . .TH "IBMASM_SEND_OS_STATE" "9" "09 October 2005" "" "" .SH NAME ibmasm_send_os_state \- .SH SYNOPSIS "SYNOPSIS" .sp \fB .sp int ibmasm_send_os_state (struct service_processor * \fIsp\fB, int \fIos_state\fB); \fR .SH "ARGUMENTS" .TP \fB\fIsp\fB\fR -- undescribed -- .TP \fB\fIos_state\fB\fR -- undescribed -- .SH "DESCRIPTION" .PP During driver init this function is called with os state ``up''\&. This causes the service processor to start sending heartbeats the driver. During driver exit the function is called with os state ``down'', causing the service processor to stop the heartbeats.