Hi Brendan, > The driver was handling interaction with userspace on its own. This > patch changes it to use the functionality of the ipmi_bmc framework > instead. > > Note that this removes the ability for the BMC to set SMS_ATN by making > an ioctl. If this functionality is required, it can be added back in > with a later patch.
As Chris has mentioned, we do use this actively at the moment, so I'd prefer if we could not drop the support for SMS_ATN. However, using a different interface should be fine, if that helps. Cheers, Jeremy
