Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:21:54 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] ipmi: Only register one si per bmc |
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On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 01:09:45PM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> If I understand this correctly, this would really be "Only register one > si per system". Unfortunately, there are systems that have more than > one BMC each with their own interface.
The spec explicitly says that while a system may have multiple BMCs, only one BMC may respond to GetDeviceID (6.11 of the 2.0 spec). Is the real world irritatingly incompatible with this?
> Also, I believe the driver would not function between the previous > patch and this patch, which isn't the best.
That's true. I can fix that up fairly easily.
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