From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, bjorn.helgaas@hp.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ipmi: Only register one si per bmc
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:21:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100421182154.GA16436@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BCF3F69.3050003@acm.org>
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 01:09:45PM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> If I understand this correctly, this would really be "Only register one
> si per system". Unfortunately, there are systems that have more than
> one BMC each with their own interface.
The spec explicitly says that while a system may have multiple BMCs,
only one BMC may respond to GetDeviceID (6.11 of the 2.0 spec). Is the
real world irritatingly incompatible with this?
> Also, I believe the driver would not function between the previous
> patch and this patch, which isn't the best.
That's true. I can fix that up fairly easily.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-21 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-20 18:40 [PATCH 1/3] ipmi: Split device discovery and registration Matthew Garrett
2010-04-20 18:40 ` [PATCH 2/3] ipmi: Only register one si per bmc Matthew Garrett
2010-04-20 18:40 ` [PATCH 3/3] ipmi: Change device discovery order Matthew Garrett
2010-04-21 18:09 ` [PATCH 2/3] ipmi: Only register one si per bmc Corey Minyard
2010-04-21 18:21 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-04-21 20:03 ` Corey Minyard
2010-04-21 20:10 ` Matthew Garrett
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