From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754240Ab2F2AB7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:01:59 -0400 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:36147 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752460Ab2F2AB6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2012 20:01:58 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.67,352,1309762800"; d="scan'208";a="159452572" From: Andi Kleen To: Cc: , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1 v2 ] ipmi: Setting OS name as Linux in BMC References: <4FEC8931.5020001@dell.com> <4FEC8A28.4070806@dell.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:01:54 -0700 In-Reply-To: <4FEC8A28.4070806@dell.com> (Srinivas G. Gowda's message of "Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:45:28 -0700") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org writes: > + > + data[0] = param_select; > + data[1] = set_selector; > + data[2] = string_encode; > + data[3] = str_len; > + data[4] = 'L'; > + data[5] = 'i'; > + data[6] = 'n'; > + data[7] = 'u'; > + data[8] = 'x'; Not sure that's all that useful. I can just see BMC's making the ACPI mistake of trying to work around specific issues, by checking for Linux. But since there are so many different Linux that will never work because "Linux" does not describe a fixed release or code base. Probably dangerous. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only