[lm-sensors] patch to bmcsensors.c

[khali@linux-fr.org (Jean Delvare)]

Hi Charles,

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:07:00 -0700, Charles Grant wrote:
> Here are some changes I made to get bmcsensors working on our dual-core Xeon
> ATCA carrier (Kontron 8020).
> 
> 1) I modified the code to send an initial "get device ID" command to
> determine which commands are used to subsequently retrieve the SDR data
> (this code was taken directly from ipmitool).
> 
> 2) When retrieving partial buffers for an SDR, the request for the last
> buffer would return completion code 0xCA (cannot return number of requested
> data bytes), causing the code to half its buffer size, try again, and
> ultimately give up.  To get around this, I modified bmcsensors_get_sdr() and
> bmcsensors_rcv_sdr_msg() to never request more than the known number of
> remaining bytes.
> 
> 3) Sorry, but I also put "#ifdef DEBUG" around a lot of the printk's

Please send 3 separate patches, as these 3 changes appear to be
independent from each other. Smaller patches have a much higher chance
to be reviewed and merged.

Thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare