Re: [Openipmi-developer] [RFC v1 1/4] ipmi_bmc: framework for BT IPMI on BMCs

2017-09-06 Thread Corey Minyard
On 09/06/2017 04:56 AM, Brendan Higgins wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 6:01 AM, Corey Minyard wrote: If you just need the ability to catch a few commands in the kernel, what you have is fairly complicated. I think a simple notifier called from every driver would provide what you needed with j

Re: [Openipmi-developer] [RFC v1 1/4] ipmi_bmc: framework for BT IPMI on BMCs

2017-09-06 Thread Brendan Higgins via Openipmi-developer
On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 6:01 AM, Corey Minyard wrote: > On 08/23/2017 01:03 AM, Brendan Higgins wrote: > > >> >> ... As far as this being a complete design; I do not consider what I have presented as being complete. I mentioned some things above that I would like to add a

Re: [Openipmi-developer] [RFC v1 1/4] ipmi_bmc: framework for BT IPMI on BMCs

2017-08-24 Thread Corey Minyard
On 08/23/2017 01:03 AM, Brendan Higgins wrote: ... As far as this being a complete design; I do not consider what I have presented as being complete. I mentioned some things above that I would like to add and some people have already chimed in asking for some changes. I just wanted to get some

Re: [Openipmi-developer] [RFC v1 1/4] ipmi_bmc: framework for BT IPMI on BMCs

2017-08-22 Thread Brendan Higgins via Openipmi-developer
Sorry for the delayed response. >>> This piece of code takes a communication interface, called a bus, and >>> muxes/demuxes >>> messages on that bus to various users, called devices. The name >>> "devices" >>> confused >>> me for a bit, because I was thinking they were physical devices, what >>>

Re: [Openipmi-developer] [RFC v1 1/4] ipmi_bmc: framework for BT IPMI on BMCs

2017-08-11 Thread Corey Minyard
I'm removing LKML because we are leaving the realm of kernel stuff and talking mostly about IPMI. On 08/10/2017 08:06 PM, Brendan Higgins wrote: On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 6:58 AM, Corey Minyard wrote: On 08/07/2017 10:52 PM, Brendan Higgins wrote: From: Benjamin Fair This patch introduces a

Re: [Openipmi-developer] [RFC v1 1/4] ipmi_bmc: framework for BT IPMI on BMCs

2017-08-10 Thread Brendan Higgins via Openipmi-developer
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 6:58 AM, Corey Minyard wrote: > On 08/07/2017 10:52 PM, Brendan Higgins wrote: >> >> From: Benjamin Fair >> >> This patch introduces a framework for writing IPMI drivers which run on >> a Board Management Controller. It is similar in function to OpenIPMI. >> The framework

Re: [Openipmi-developer] [RFC v1 1/4] ipmi_bmc: framework for BT IPMI on BMCs

2017-08-10 Thread Corey Minyard
On 08/07/2017 10:52 PM, Brendan Higgins wrote: From: Benjamin Fair This patch introduces a framework for writing IPMI drivers which run on a Board Management Controller. It is similar in function to OpenIPMI. The framework handles registering devices and routing messages. Ok, I think I unders