From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262236AbUBXNzM (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:55:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262219AbUBXNzL (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:55:11 -0500 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.198.39]:58834 "EHLO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262172AbUBXNzF (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:55:05 -0500 Message-ID: <403B57B8.2000008@acm.org> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 07:55:04 -0600 From: Corey Minyard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030428 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lkml , Linus Torvalds Subject: [PATCH] IPMI driver updates, part 1b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org It looks like part 1 of the IPMI driver updates was a little too big to get through. So I've split it up. Part 1a and part1b must both be applied. Here's the original message. Also, this is for the 2.6.3 kernel. It has been far too long since the last IPMI driver updates, but now all the planets have aligned and all the pieces I needed are in and all seem to be working. This update is coming as four parts that must be applied in order, but the later parts do not have to be applied for the former parts to work. This first part does basic updates to the IPMI infrastructure. It adds support for messaging through an IPMI LAN interface, which is required for some system software that already exists on other IPMI drivers. It also does some renaming (in preparation for one of the later patches) and a lot of little cleanups. FYI, IPMI is a standard for monitoring and maintaining a system. It provides interfaces for detecting sensors (voltage, temperature, etc.) in the system and monitoring those sensors. Many systems have extended capabilities that allow IPMI to control the system, doing things like lighting leds and controlling hot-swap. This driver allows access to the IPMI system. -Corey