Re: [PATCH] ipmi: setting OS name as Linux in BMC
From: Corey Minyard
Date: Tue Jun 26 2012 - 12:59:17 EST
On 06/26/2012 11:02 AM, Srinivas_G_Gowda@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Corey, Thanks for the comments. I was looking at the way BMC presence
is detected. Thought it would be appropriate that BMC is told about
the OS information -- Soon after ipmi_si driver detects
BMC(Get_Device_ID) and before the driver starts doing anything useful.
Looked like a quick clean getaway..! Looking at the ipmi_msghandler, I
don't see how we will be able to do this during the driver
initialization process. I could probably do it inside
ipmi_register_smi in ipmi_msghandler. But I still prefer doing this in
ipmi_si itself. Please let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks, G
The trouble is that there are other interfaces (that are unfortunately
not in the mainstream kernel, but that's a different story) that would
not benefit from this if you put it in ipmi_si. That's a low-level
interface, this is a higher-level function and belongs.
Look at get_guid() called from ipmi_register_smi() in
ipmi_msghandler.c. It's not that hard.
-corey
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