Re: [PATCH} Network interface for IPMI

[Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>]

Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> writes:

> I have decided
> that the network interface for IPMI is a good thing, as the IPMI
> device ioctls have pointers and require ugly hacks.  None should be
> needed for the network interface.

That's a joke, right? 
 

> +struct ipmi_sock_msg {
> +	int                   recv_type;
> +	long                  msgid;
        ^^^^^^^^^^^

Of course long would need to be always emulated. Your patch
shows exactly why packet based protocols for this are a bad
idea. The problem is that people will get it wrong, and then
it's nearly impossible to fix for a socket based protocol
because read/write cannot be easily hooked
(with ipsec we have exactly this problem already)

ioctls at least can be fixed up. Please keep using them.

> +	int                   data_len;
> +	unsigned char         data[0];

And I don't even want to know what's in there.

Andrew, please don't apply this broken patch.

-Andi