On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Amelkin,  Aleksandr
<aleksandr.amel...@t-platforms.ru> wrote:
> Specifically, the patch does the following:
> 1.       Fixes incorrect behavior on FRUs without Internal Use Area (which
> is allowed by the specification)
>
> 2.       Corrects size calculation for Internal Use Area (finds the start of
> the actual next section instead of blindly assuming that the next section is
> Chasiss Info)
>
> 3.       Reduces the amount of copy/pasted code and magic numbers
>
> 4.       Corrects error messages to say the truth (that it couldn’t read
> something) instead of spitting out false claims (that something was
> “invalid”).
>
> 5.       Reduces nesting level by getting rid of “while(0)/break” in favor
> of simple “goto”.

Sounds good. It patches against Git tip too, which is good as well.

>
> It’s a pity that 1.8.14 now doesn’t allow calling ‘ekanalyzer frushow
> sm=<filename>’ without specifying
> a full set of target options, for the aforementioned ekanalyzer command
> doesn’t need them anyway and operates on a local file.
> But that’s another patch, I guess. J
>
> Another thing I would suggest to put on the ToDo list is adding checksum
> checking to this code.
>

Feel free to do both of those. It's not like there is some corporation
pouring resources into active development of ipmitool. None that I
know of.

Regards,
Z.


> With best regards –
>
> Alexander Amelkin
>
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