Re: [patch 03/19] SUNRPC: avoid choosing an IPMI port for RPCtraffic

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Oct 11 2006 - 20:51:30 EST


Ar Mer, 2006-10-11 am 19:45 -0400, ysgrifennodd Trond Myklebust:
> Feel free to tell the board manufacturers that they are idiots, and
> should not design boards that hijack specific ports without providing
> the O/S with any means of detecting this, but in the meantime, it _is_
> the case that they are doing this.

Then their hardware is faulty and should be specifically blacklisted not
make everyone have to deal with silly unmaintainable hacks.

Alan

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