On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:29:46AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > Matt, what's your opinion on proceeding? I know you want to get > the DMI stuff in distros. I'm looking at reworking ioremap to > hide all this stuff, but that'll be a bigger change and may be > harder to get into distro releases. > > For upstream, the ioremap rework sounds like the way to go, but > I don't know which the distros would prefer for updates.
Existing distros (RHEL3, RHEL4, SLES9, ..) don't have a huge problem because my target user - the ipmi driver - does its own DMI scanning on those distros still. Ugly, but works. So the only concern is SLES10 and RHEL5, both of which are still rebasing to upstream best as I can tell from their publicly posted kernels. So if it can be done "right" in 2.6.16-rc, let's do that. If it will be intrusive, and after 2.6.16 is out, than a minimally intrusive but working patch for 2.6.16-rc would be preferred. Thanks! Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
