Re: [2.5 patch] fix ipmi_devintf.c compilation

[Corey Minyard]

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Thank you for the quick heads-up.

Linus, I have attached a patch (with some documentation updates and 
another minor fix, too).  Please apply for the next release.

Thanks,

-Corey

Adrian Bunk wrote:

>On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:26:47PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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>>Summary of changes from v2.5.65 to v2.5.66
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>>Christoph Hellwig <[e-mail]>:
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>>  o misc devfs_register cleanups
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diff -urN linux.orig/Documentation/IPMI.txt linux-main/Documentation/IPMI.txt
--- linux.orig/Documentation/IPMI.txt	Tue Jan 14 11:16:08 2003
+++ linux-main/Documentation/IPMI.txt	Wed Mar 26 08:05:10 2003
@@ -5,6 +5,18 @@
 			  <[e-mail]>
 			    <[e-mail]>
 
+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-main/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig
--- linux.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig	Tue Jan 14 11:16:10 2003
+++ linux-main/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig	Wed Mar 26 08:05:10 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_devintf.c linux-main/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c
--- linux.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c	Wed Mar 26 08:00:57 2003
+++ linux-main/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_devintf.c	Wed Mar 26 08:13:31 2003
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@
 	if (if_num > MAX_DEVICES)
 		return;
 
-	snprinf(name, sizeof(name), "ipmidev/%d", if_num);
+	snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "ipmidev/%d", if_num);
 
 	handles[if_num] = devfs_register(NULL, name, DEVFS_FL_NONE,
 					 ipmi_major, if_num,
diff -urN linux.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_kcs_intf.c linux-main/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_kcs_intf.c
--- linux.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_kcs_intf.c	Fri Feb 28 16:03:18 2003
+++ linux-main/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_kcs_intf.c	Wed Mar 26 08:14:11 2003
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@
 	if (kcs_port && kcs_physaddr)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	new_kcs = kmalloc(kcs_size(), GFP_KERNEL);
+	new_kcs = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_kcs), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!new_kcs) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "ipmi_kcs: out of memory\n");
 		return -ENOMEM;

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