I'm not sure why you are sending this to me, since I don't maintain
ipmitool.
Howver, on this issue, an error response (CC != 0) from an IPMI BMC
should *never* contain any data. The spec never clearly says that as
far as I know, but in reality, that's the way it should work.
-corey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> I was using the KCS interface for some of my testing of my firmware
> ... And found that the open interface checks whether the completion
> code is 0x00 and then only copies the reponse data correctly .. and if
> not then it just leaves the way it is , by this the response data
> recieved to the application side is not correct ...
> *In src/plugin/open/open.c line 269*
> if (rsp.ccode == 0 && rsp.data_len > 0) {
> memmove(rsp.data, rsp.data + 1, rsp.data_len);
> rsp.data[recv.msg.data_len] = 0;
> }
>
> I was expecting to recieve completion code other that 0x00 which was
> valid in some case but this was giving a problem..
> Instead of this we just need here this ..
> if (rsp.data_len > 0) {
> memmove(rsp.data, rsp.data + 1, rsp.data_len);
> rsp.data[recv.msg.data_len] = 0;
> }
> Any way the upper layer always needs to check whether the completion
> code is 0x00 or not ..So i guess it should be fine here doing this ..
>
> Thanks,
> Harshad Prabhu
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