Hi Corey, > There are a lot of bad things that a set of BMCs could do that > would really confuse the IPMI driver; it's possible for BMCs with > different GUIDs to have the same product/devid (though that's > not technically legal), which would result in platform device > namespace collisions. Fixing it would involve either using > the GUID in the BMC name, which resulted in huge names, or > just using an ida for numbering the BMCs. The latter approach > was chosen to avoid the huge names.
Sounds good to me, and means we'll have more predictable names for unknown bmc implementations. Acked-by: Jeremy Kerr <j...@ozlabs.org> Cheers, Jeremy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list Openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
