Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:06:35 -0500 | From | Corey Minyard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1 v2 ] ipmi: Setting OS name as Linux in BMC |
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Srinivas, what is your use case?
-corey
On 06/28/2012 07:01 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > <Srinivas_G_Gowda@Dell.com> 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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