Re: [PATCH] ipmi: setting OS name as Linux in BMC

[Corey Minyard <tcminyard@gmail.com>]

On 06/26/2012 11:02 AM, Srinivas_G_Gowda@Dell.com wrote:
> Corey, Thanks for the comments. I was looking at the way BMC presence 
> is detected. Thought it would be appropriate that BMC is told about 
> the OS information -- Soon after ipmi_si driver detects 
> BMC(Get_Device_ID) and before the driver starts doing anything useful. 
> Looked like a quick clean getaway..! Looking at the ipmi_msghandler, I 
> don't see how we will be able to do this during the driver 
> initialization process. I could probably do it inside 
> ipmi_register_smi in ipmi_msghandler. But I still prefer doing this in 
> ipmi_si itself. Please let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks, G 

The trouble is that there are other interfaces (that are unfortunately 
not in the mainstream kernel, but that's a different story) that would 
not benefit from this if you put it in ipmi_si.  That's a low-level 
interface, this is a higher-level function and belongs.

Look at get_guid() called from ipmi_register_smi() in 
ipmi_msghandler.c.  It's not that hard.

-corey