On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 08:44 +0200, Liebig, Holger wrote: > Hi Albert, > > > > Hey Holger, > > > > I've been re-reading this section and now I'm confused by it. I have to > > admit, I'm not entirely sure how I came to my original interpretation, but > > your guess that I read "unreadable" and stopped is as good a guess as any. > > > > > Maybe the value was first set in the SDR's when support for the > > > optional Get Sensor Thresholds cmd was not yet available in the > > > firmware, or by mistake. > > > > After thinking about it, I think this interpretation may be correct. It > > seems to be verified by atleast 1 motherboard I have on site that has the > > same situation you describe. It has 11b set for the threshold access > > support. > > > [...] > > > > However, when calling "Get Sensor Thresholds" against this sensor I get a > > completion code of CDh = "Command illegal for specified sensor or record > > type." > > > > I think the compliant thing to do would be to get thresholds from the SDR > > instead of via Get Sensor Thresholds of the threshold_access == > > fixed/unreadable. > [Liebig, Holger] > This sounds reasonable. > > > > > Would this work for you Holger? Or would we still need to the vendor > > specific exception? Attached is a patch I made to test this out and it > > works on the motherboard I have. > [Liebig, Holger] > > The patch works also fine with our systems. It would be great if this would > be included in future versions of FreeIPMI.
Applied, it'll be in future versions. > Thanks, > Holger > > P.S. Regarding non linear sensors: this can be solved in most cases by > "Get Sensor Reading Factors" cmd and the actual reading or threshold > value. 10 years ago we had one 1U system which used this for fan > sensors. I've never included it b/c I've never had a motherboard that had non-linear sensors. Is it something you'd be able to test if I try and add it? Al > -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
