On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:48:20AM -0800, Philip Pokorny wrote:
> Seeing recent activity on the STONITH IPMILAN implementation of 2.x, I
> thought I would take this opportunity to repost some patches I
> developed for the 1.2.5 release of heartbeat.  I did not see any
> comments on my earlier posts, so I don't know if they got incorporated
> into the heartbeat code repository.
> 
> These patches fix similar compile problems with the 1.x code and allow
> IPMI to be used as a STONITH device on 1.x releases with Red Hat 4
> distributions.
> 
> The wrong structure was being used in the interface to the IPMI
> library.  The rsp_handler function should take an ipmi_msgi_t type not
> ipmi_msg_t.  Further, the wrong argument to the IPMI power control
> commands were being used.  This caused STONITH to send ON when it
> should have sent OFF and vice versa.
> 
> The interface used by STONITH is also available in the 1.4.4 branch of
> IPMILAN.  One function did change names, but the functionality is
> equivalent for our purposes, so allowing STONITH to compile against
> 1.4.4 allows a straight up compile against the libraries shipped with
> Red Hat 4.

Hi Philip,

I'm happy to review these patches with a view to committing them,
however I'm not sure that anyone is maintaining the 1.x branch as such.
I used to add patches there from time to time, but its been a while.
And I don't think there is any release schedule.

I guess that if there is significant demand for 1.2.x maintanance it
could be revivied - perhaps several people/organisations are doing there
own maintanance and that energy could be tapped.  However, as 2.1.x
seems to be at least as stable as 1.2.x ever was, and 2.1.x has a
compatibility mode to run 1.2.x configs, I wonder if the effort is
worthwhile - yes I do undertsand about existing customers that need
support, but even so.

P.S. Thanks for CCing me, that helps my a lot.


-- 
Horms

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