IPMI driver version 18 release

Corey Minyard (minyard@acm.org)
Wed, 19 Feb 2003 22:09:06 -0600


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I found a few stupid bugs in the IPMI driver dealing with certain error
cases, and this also contains the documentation updates that I have not
sent to Linus enough times to be included yet :-).

The 2.5 version is attached. The 2.4 version is at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openipmi/

-Corey

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diff -urN linux.orig/Documentation/IPMI.txt linux/Documentation/IPMI.txt
--- linux.orig/Documentation/IPMI.txt Tue Jan 14 11:16:08 2003
+++ linux/Documentation/IPMI.txt Fri Feb 7 21:26:31 2003
@@ -5,6 +5,18 @@
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+The Intelligent Platform Management Interface, or IPMI, is a
+standard for controlling intelligent devices that monitor a system.
+It provides for dynamic discovery of sensors in the system and the
+ability to monitor the sensors and be informed when the sensor's
+values change or go outside certain boundaries. It also has a
+standardized database for field-replacable units (FRUs) and a watchdog
+timer.
+
+To use this, you need an interface to an IPMI controller in your
+system (called a Baseboard Management Controller, or BMC) and
+management software that can use the IPMI system.
+
This document describes how to use the IPMI driver for Linux. If you
are not familiar with IPMI itself, see the web site at
http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/index.htm. IPMI is a big
diff -urN linux.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig linux/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig
--- linux.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig Tue Jan 14 11:16:10 2003
+++ linux/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig Tue Jan 14 11:19:09 2003
@@ -7,8 +7,14 @@
tristate 'IPMI top-level message handler'
help
This enables the central IPMI message handler, required for IPMI
- to work. Note that you must have this enabled to do any other IPMI
- things. See IPMI.txt for more details.
+ to work.
+
+ IPMI is a standard for managing sensors (temperature,
+ voltage, etc.) in a system.
+
+ See Documentation/IPMI.txt for more details on the driver.
+
+ If unsure, say N.

config IPMI_PANIC_EVENT
bool 'Generate a panic event to all BMCs on a panic'
diff -urN linux.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c linux/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
--- linux.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c Tue Jan 14 11:16:10 2003
+++ linux/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c Wed Feb 19 17:11:19 2003
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@
unsigned int i;

for (i=intf->curr_seq;
- i!=(intf->curr_seq-1);
+ (i+1)%IPMI_IPMB_NUM_SEQ != intf->curr_seq;
i=(i+1)%IPMI_IPMB_NUM_SEQ)
{
if (! intf->seq_table[i].inuse)
@@ -906,8 +906,6 @@
probably, so abort. */
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&(intf->seq_lock),
flags);
- ipmi_free_recv_msg(recv_msg);
- ipmi_free_smi_msg(smi_msg);
goto out_err;
}

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