Audet, Jean-Michel writes: | Are we OK if I patch IPMITool in the CVS. Patch it. There are probably some OS's that don't have it built into the driver. It won't conflict unless people try to do both at once. We might want to add a note that they should use the driver provided watchdog if available.
Doug A. | -----Message d'origine----- | De?: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Doug Ambrisko | Envoy??: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:27 AM | ??: Benoit Guillon | Cc?: ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net | Objet?: Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Watchdog commands | | Benoit Guillon writes: | | Hello, | | | | Strangely enough, ipmitool does not provide the watchdog commands. Here | | is an uncomplete implementation. The feature is handy for resetting | | remote boards when there is no other way to do so. | | This isn't a bad thing to implement and is a good feature, however, | the OS IPMI driver implementation (if exists) should be used before | the ipmitool one. The reason being is that during kernel panic's | and dumping you probably want to turn of the watchdog for a bit or | if you are in the kernel debugger. So we use the driver implementation. | | Doug A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
