Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754339Ab2F2DGl (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:06:41 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:35759 "EHLO mail-ob0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752452Ab2F2DGk (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jun 2012 23:06:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4FED1BBB.1030303@acm.org> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:06:35 -0500 From: Corey Minyard Reply-To: minyard@acm.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: Srinivas_G_Gowda@Dell.com, tcminyard@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1 v2 ] ipmi: Setting OS name as Linux in BMC References: <4FEC8931.5020001@dell.com> <4FEC8A28.4070806@dell.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 909 Lines: 35 Srinivas, what is your use case? -corey On 06/28/2012 07:01 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > writes: >> + >> + data[0] = param_select; >> + data[1] = set_selector; >> + data[2] = string_encode; >> + data[3] = str_len; >> + data[4] = 'L'; >> + data[5] = 'i'; >> + data[6] = 'n'; >> + data[7] = 'u'; >> + data[8] = 'x'; > Not sure that's all that useful. I can just see BMC's making the ACPI > mistake of trying to work around specific issues, by checking for > Linux. > > But since there are so many different Linux that will never work > because "Linux" does not describe a fixed release or code base. > > Probably dangerous. > > -Andi > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/