Jörg,
To be clear, Kent works for Canonical and with Dell directly, and I can
see that the patch has been written by Dell. I presume that Dell and
Kent have tested it. I see that the patch affects ipmi_delloem.{c,h}
only, and in addition it looks like the only thing it does is handle 13G
in the same way that other known hardware is handled - no feature
changes at all.
This looks like a prime hardware enablement candidate to cherry-pick and
maintain in Ubuntu until new releases have caught up, so that Dell 13G
is supported well in Ubuntu as soon as it is available. It's also a
candidate for a Trusty SRU as it's purely a hardware enablement patch.
I would prefer to see the patch land upstream first, so that we can be
more confident that Ubuntu doesn't accidentally diverge and that we can
drop the patch with the next ipmitool release. And an upstream release
would be even better. But as Dell want the support in time for Utopic
and assuming that they have tested it, I propose that we accept the
patch in Ubuntu and maintain the delta until a new release filters
through. Do you have any objection to this?
Alternatively, you can take the patch in Debian if you want it, and
Ubuntu can sync.
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