From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPMI driver updates for 2.4
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:38:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <413519F7.3000004@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040831111621.GE4615@logos.cnet>
There actually aren't any bug fixes. These are all new feature
additions. It is a big driver revamp, but it has been around for a while
I guess it is not critical now, but it would be nicer for the users of
the driver.
-Corey
Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>Hi Corey,
>
>You wrote a nice changelog entry - thanks for that.
>
>I'm not sure if we should apply all of this in v2.4. It looks like a
>big driver revamp to me.
>
>Is is all this critical for being merged in v2.4.x now?
>
>Would it be very painful/unwanted to maintain only the bugfixes
>and not only new features? What you think about that?
>
>On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 10:39:38PM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
>
>
>>Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Corey,
>>>
>>>Care to write a detailed changelog so we can apply this?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>I'm sorry this took so long, I have been dealing with disasters at work.
>>
>>Ok, a detailed changelog:
>>
>>* Add a new "system interface" driver that supports all the standard
>> IPMI system interfaces (SMIC, BT, and KCS, see the IPMI spec for
>> more details if you care). This driver will auto-detect the interface
>> type and parameters via SMBIOS or ACPI tables.
>>* Deprecate the old KCS-only interface.
>>* Support non-contiguous registers for system interfaces.
>>* Add support for IPMI LAN bridging so messages can be received
>> from and sent to system software connected to a LAN interface.
>>* Add support for powering off the system on a halt via the IPMI
>> interface.
>>* Add support for storing panic logs in the IPMI event log.
>>* Allow control of message parameters (resends, timeouts)
>>
>>I've also re-attached the patch.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>
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2004-08-31 11:16 ` IPMI driver updates for 2.4 Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-01 0:38 ` Corey Minyard [this message]
2004-09-11 17:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-09-13 13:32 ` Corey Minyard
2004-09-13 18:18 ` Marcelo Tosatti
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