Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Sep 2022 08:59:25 +0300 | From | Paul Fertser <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net/ncsi: Add Intel OS2BMC OEM command |
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Hello,
On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 10:57:17AM +0800, Jiaqing Zhao wrote: > The Intel OS2BMC OEM NCSI command is used for controlling whether > network traffic between host and sideband is allowed or not. By > default such traffic is disallowed, meaning that if the device using > NCS (usually BMC) does not have extra active connection, it cannot > reach the host.
Can you please explain the rationale behind introducing this as a compile-time kernel config option? I can probably imagine how this can make sense as a DT switch (e.g. to describe hardware where there's no other communication channel between the host and BMC) but even this feels far-fetched.
Can you please outline some particular use cases for this feature?
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