On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Jim Mankovich <jm...@hp.com> wrote:
> 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

Thought should be given whether or not to split man page into smaller
ones. It's 3.5k lines already and I'm not sure this is user friendly.

Z.

>
> 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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