From: "Mingarelli, Thomas" <Thomas.Mingarelli@hp.com>
To: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>,
        "Frazier, Daniel Kent (ProLiant Linux)" <daniel_frazier@hp.com>
CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 20:18:22 +0000
Subject: RE: [PATCH 09/15] Despecificate driver from iLO2
Thread-Topic: [PATCH 09/15] Despecificate driver from iLO2
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I like that suggestion Wim. Sure would make future iLO releases easier to include.


Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wim Van Sebroeck [mailto:wim@iguana.be]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 3:14 PM
> To: Frazier, Daniel Kent (ProLiant Linux)
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Mingarelli, Thomas
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/15] Despecificate driver from iLO2
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> > This driver supports both iLO2 and iLO3, but our user-visible strings
> > currently only reference iLO2. Let's just call it "iLO" to avoid having
> > to update strings for each iLO generation. This driver doesn't support
> > iLO ASICs prior to iLO2, but that is sufficiently explained in Kconfig.
> 
> Just a thought: Wouldn't it be more consistent if it's called iLO2+
> everywhere?
> 
> > -	tristate "HP Proliant iLO 2 Hardware Watchdog Timer"
> > +	tristate "HP Proliant iLO Hardware Watchdog Timer"
> 
> would be: tristate "HP Proliant iLO2+ Hardware Watchdog Timer"
> 
> > -	.identity = "HP iLO2 HW Watchdog Timer",
> > +	.identity = "HP iLO HW Watchdog Timer",
> 
> and: .identity = "HP iLO2+ HW Watchdog Timer",
> 
> > -	 * First let's find out if we are on an iLO2 server. We will
> > +	 * First let's find out if we are on an iLO2+ server. We will
> 
> > -		dev_warn(&dev->dev,
> > -			"This server does not have an iLO2 ASIC.\n");
> > +		dev_warn(&dev->dev, "This server does not have an iLO ASIC"
> > +			 " version 2 or greater.\n");
> 
> dev_warn(&dev->dev,
> 	"This server does not have an iLO2+ ASIC.\n");
> 
> > -			"Unable to detect the iLO2 server memory.\n");
> > +			"Unable to detect the iLO server memory.\n");
> 
> "Unable to detect the iLO2+ server memory.\n");
> 
> For the rest I'm still reviewing the code.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Wim.

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