On 07/28/2010 12:22 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:41:10 -0600 > Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 11:28:28 am Yinghai Lu wrote: >>> On 07/27/2010 10:23 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: >>>> On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 11:07:55 am Yinghai Lu wrote: >>>>> On 07/27/2010 08:34 AM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: >>>>>> On Monday, July 26, 2010 03:48:02 pm Yinghai Lu wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> after the commint that change ipmi_si detecting sequence from >>>>>>> SMBIOS/ACPI to ACPI/SMBIOS, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> | commit 754d453185275951d39792865927ec494fa1ebd8 >>>>>>> | Author: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]> >>>>>>> | Date: Wed May 26 14:43:47 2010 -0700 >>>>>>> | >>>>>>> | ipmi: change device discovery order >>>>>>> | >>>>>>> | The ipmi spec provides an ordering for si discovery. Change the >>>>>>> driver to >>>>>>> | match, with the exception of preferring smbios to SPMI as HPs (at >>>>>>> least) >>>>>>> | contain accurate information in the former but not the latter. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ipmi_si can not be initialized. >>>>>> >>>>>> I think this patch makes sense, as long as this is not a bringup >>>>>> issue that only affects pre-release firmware. If this only affects >>>>>> a prototype, it would be better to change the firmware so it conforms >>>>>> to the conventional _CRS usage of systems in the field. >>>>>> >>>>>> To that end, I'd like to know what system this is, and whether IPMI >>>>>> works under Windows on this system. We know that Windows doesn't >>>>>> look at SMBIOS or SPMI, so if Windows works, it must be doing something >>>>>> similar to your patch. >>>>> >>>>> Sun Fire X4800. >>>>> >>>>> Yes. other OSes work and pass certification. >>>> >>>> Please put this information in the changelog (if that wasn't obvious). >>> >>> I don't want to mention other os. >> >> Sigh. Why is this so difficult? > > It wasn't for me ;) > > Do we have acks for 2.6.36 and a -stable backport on this patch?
Matthew Garrett <[email protected]> gave ack to it. looks like Matthew's patch only get into 2.6.35. So we need it for 2.6.35 and later. Thanks Yinghai ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
