From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Domsch Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 18:11:17 +0000 Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] Re: [PATCH 2.6.15] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c Message-Id: <20060118181116.GA5537@lists.us.dell.com> List-Id: References: <20060104221627.GA26064@lists.us.dell.com> <200601131724.42054.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <200601171717.03192.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <200601181029.46352.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200601181029.46352.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org, "Tolentino, Matthew E" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:29:46AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > Matt, what's your opinion on proceeding? I know you want to get > the DMI stuff in distros. I'm looking at reworking ioremap to > hide all this stuff, but that'll be a bigger change and may be > harder to get into distro releases. > > For upstream, the ioremap rework sounds like the way to go, but > I don't know which the distros would prefer for updates. Existing distros (RHEL3, RHEL4, SLES9, ..) don't have a huge problem because my target user - the ipmi driver - does its own DMI scanning on those distros still. Ugly, but works. So the only concern is SLES10 and RHEL5, both of which are still rebasing to upstream best as I can tell from their publicly posted kernels. So if it can be done "right" in 2.6.16-rc, let's do that. If it will be intrusive, and after 2.6.16 is out, than a minimally intrusive but working patch for 2.6.16-rc would be preferred. Thanks! Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com