Re: [PATCH 2/3] ipmi: Only register one si per bmc

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 01:09:45PM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:

> If I understand this correctly, this would really be "Only register one  
> si per system".  Unfortunately, there are systems that have more than  
> one BMC each with their own interface.

The spec explicitly says that while a system may have multiple BMCs, 
only one BMC may respond to GetDeviceID (6.11 of the 2.0 spec). Is the 
real world irritatingly incompatible with this?

> Also, I believe the driver would not function between the previous 
> patch and this patch, which isn't the best.

That's true. I can fix that up fairly easily.

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