Jens,
Create a patch based on the current TOB git repository and submit a 
patch ticket to ipmitool with documentation pertaining to the change 
along with the patch.

Please take time to updated the man page if you have not already done so.

Jim

On 8/28/2014 10:26 AM, Jens Nyberg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My name is Jens Nyberg and I work as part of a team at Ericsson that
> currently are working on IPMI support for Ericsson Blade Systems
> (EBS). Previous iterations of these systems had been using there own
> specialized IPMI protocol which was incompatible with the standard but
> for the next generation we are trying to conform more to the standard
> protocol.
>
> We have, besides supporting some of the default ipmi commands, also
> developed an extension. This extension uses the keyword ericssonoem,
> the same way as you have sunoem or delloem today.
>
> I now would like to know what is the recommended way for us to share
> our extension upstream? I have forked the git repository on
> Sourceforge and I assume all I need to do is to create a merge request
> once I have uploaded the changes?
>
> As far as the changes involved they are pretty straightforward so they
> shouldn't be invasive at all. They are currently based on the latest
> tagged commit but we could easily rebase it to the latest master if
> you prefer. I assume ipmitool is one-track?
>
> Thanks
>
> / Jens
>
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