Lelievre, Frederic wrote: > Hi Corey, > > The previous version of the driver was retrying on the SendMessage failures, > no matter the return code received. Now it filters some of the error code > such as the lost of arbitration and perform retries on those. The problem is > that when the failure is not in the if statement, the code is returned right > away without retry (0x82 and 0x83 should pass after retry). Moreover, this is > impossible for the application to know that this failure comes from the > SendMessage and not from the encapsulated command (the netfn is not changed > from the application point of view). The error code is then misinterpreted by > the application, if the netfn of the command originally sent as an associated > 0x82 or 0x83 error code. > Ah, sorry for being so thick, I see now.
I don't have the I2C spec, so I don't really know what those codes mean. They looked pretty severe to me, so I treated them as hard errors. I've added the attached patch to go upstream. I'm copying the list so others that know can comment on this. -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 Openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
