The driver does all this work. Basically, it has to for allowing mutliple users. Responses that come in to the msg buffer will come in as responses. Commands that come in to the msg buffer will come to the application that has registered to receive the message via the IPMICTL_REGISTER_FOR_CMD ioctl.
-Corey Cress, Andrew R wrote: > Corey, > > I have an application (getevent) that issues a ReadEventMsgBuffer > command (cmd=0x35, netfn=0x06). This works ok with other drivers (Intel > imb, LanDesk, freeipmi), but not with the OpenIPMI driver. > > Test case on MVL CGE 4.01: > Using /dev/ipmi0 it returns get error status ret=16 > Using /dev/imb emulation, it returns status ret=1 (mapped in ipmi_imb) > > In looking through the driver source, I see that > ipmi_si.c:i_ipmi_request() has a comment wrt > IPMI_READ_EVENT_MSG_BUFFER_CMD that "We don't let the user do these > since we manage the sequence numbers." > > Is there another way to do this directly via /dev/ipmi0? Does the > OpenIPMI library have a function to simulate this, or is there a way for > the driver to handle these commands in a virtual way? > > Andy > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Openipmi-developer mailing list > Openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list Openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
