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Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:21:54 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ipmi: Only register one si per bmc
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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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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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