Bela Lubkin wrote: > Folks, > > I have become aware of a fork in the OpenIPMI driver development stream. > > Besides the ongoing Linux 2.6 and 2.4 drivers shepherded by Corey Minyard, HP > has a private version with some useful enhancements including stability fixes > and support for fully interrupt-driven PCI BMC cards, and for IPMI 2.0 OEM > Channels & OEM Messages. > > HP apparently feel these changes are too big to be accepted by Corey & the > development community. > > I hope this perception is wrong and their changes can in fact be reconciled > into the mainline OpenIPMI drivers. > > HP, please offer your changes for Corey's examination; > Corey, please consider them for inclusion. > Yes, please send them. It doesn't do anyone any good to have two drivers floating around. I'll certainly consider the changes (especially stability fixes). > My own need is for a Linux 2.4 version of a merged driver, and I know that's > unlikely even if a merge happens at the 2.6 level. I wish to speak in > support of any merging that might happen, whether or not a 2.4 merge happens. > (Yet I also greatly encourage the 2.4 merge ;-) > I need to move the v39.1 changes that make sense to 2.4, so this is a good time to talk about it.
I had previously abandoned the 2.4 driver, but apparently there is still some demand for it so it is now back under maintenance. It has been rejected from the 2.4 kernel proper, though, so it will always be a patch. -Corey ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
