From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266084AbTFWRzU (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:55:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266085AbTFWRzU (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:55:20 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.202.64]:12476 "EHLO sccrmhc13.attbi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266084AbTFWRzR (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:55:17 -0400 Message-ID: <3EF74253.1040702@acm.org> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:09:23 -0500 From: Corey Minyard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030313 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: New version of the IPMI driver (version 23) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.74.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This update makes significant changes to the IPMI driver. No user interfaces changes have been made (although some new features have been added), but lots of internal changes have been done. These are: * A new low-level driver has been added, the "SI" (System Interface) driver. It supports both KCS and SMIC interfaces. The old KCS-only interface is also there, but it is deprecated. * A socket interface has been added to the driver, this adds an IPMI socket (so that another device number doesn't have to be used to talk to IPMI). * Support has been added for setting the timeout parameters on a per-message or per-connection basis. * A bunch of proc filesystem statistics have been added for IPMI. * The ACPI code should work in all cases now, and auto-detects the interface type. * Tons of little bug fixes, performance fixes, etc. have been done. * A new version of the IMB and Radisys emulation drivers are also there, with minor bug fixes. This should be pretty stable, a lot of people have been testing it. Thanks to all those who helped me with this. You can get it at http://openipmi.sf.net, a 2.4.21 and 2.5.73 version are available. I plan to start trying to push this into 2.5 soon. -Corey