From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: minyard@acm.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Version 2 of the Linux IPMI driver
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:18:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020906201856.F26580@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
> The lanana guy is not available for a while, so I'm not getting a device
> number in the near future, but I think it's ready for the 2.5 release.
> Does this need more time, or is it ready for inclusion?
I don't think you should be using a device number at all. ioctl is Evil
(TM) and it's perfectly possible to write an IPMI driver which uses
neither an ioctl nor a chaacter device. Voila:
http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/willy/patches/bmc.diff
yes, it was stupid to call it BMC instead of IPMI. i was handed a pile
of junk that'd been half-heartedly ported from windows. however, the
principle is sound, you don't need ioctl, nor a character device.
--
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next reply other threads:[~2002-09-06 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-06 19:18 Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2002-09-06 20:25 ` [patch] Version 2 of the Linux IPMI driver Corey Minyard
2002-09-06 20:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-09-09 17:07 ` Greg KH
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2002-09-06 18:35 Corey Minyard
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