Hi, the command line parsing as it's done in the latest ipmitool is quite poor. There are several patches that could improve the situation a bit, but from some reason they were not accepted:
1) 'ipmitool sel delete' should accept hexadecimal value of event id https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_name=60f2b0dc0808161356m70895ac3l6f60a312441dc802%40mail.gmail.com (sf.net does not show the patch to me, I can provide it if you want). 2) 'ipmitool sol set' should check parameter ranges https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=27988.66.187.233.202.1186508444.squirrel%40www.lvwnet.com&forum_name=ipmitool-devel 3) 'ipmitool sol payload' should not crash, 'ipmitool tsol' crashes, 'sol payload enable' should check parameters https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2186967&group_id=95200&atid=610552 This is quite new submission and I understand it can take some time to process it. I admit whole command line parsing in ipmitool would deserve inspection, the above patches fix only part of the problem - but at least there are patches. I'd volunteer to review the parsing as a whole, but to be honest, looking at the list archives it does not motivate me to do anything - lot of patches are left without any comments and from outside it looks like black hole. Is there any special process how to send patches in a way they are applied? All three above are pretty simple and straightforward, it should not take too much time to review it and at least provide some feedback why it's not accepted (ok, the 2nd one got some replies, but still it's not accepted nor rejected). Jan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Ipmitool-devel mailing list Ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ipmitool-devel
