Re: [PATCH 1/1 v2 ] ipmi: Setting OS name as Linux in BMC

[Corey Minyard]

Srinivas, what is your use case?

-corey

On 06/28/2012 07:01 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> <Srinivas_G_Gowda@xxxxxxxx> 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


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