I'll have to think about this. I don't really view this as a "one more release" type of thing. There's always one more thing to do. Instead, I view this as a support issue. Do I support 2.4, or not?
I'm pressed for time over the near future, so it will be difficult for me to do this. If you could get the pieces you need working and send me a diff from the v37 driver, that would probably be the easiest. This will also require work from Matt to package things up; I don't know if he is able to do this. -Corey Carol Hebert wrote: > Hi Corey, > > We have a critical situation concerning our IBM System x customers who > are running RHEL3U6 and other 2.4 distro kernels that do not contain the > IPMI driver "speed-up" fixes Matt Domsch posted for RHEL3U7 (Red Hat BZ > #168358, #168795) and for the 2.6 kernel on SourceForge. Without Matt's > fixes, our Flash utility takes upward of 2.5 hours to complete which is > considered unusable for our customers due to the danger a flash of that > time length poses to our customers' BMCs. > > I've seen your note posted with the v37 driver that it will be your last > 2.4 maintenance release but I was wondering if we might ask you to > reconsider and post one more patch set which contains Matt's speed-up > fixes and some of the other critical fixes which haven't yet been posted > for 2.4 in v37? Our team is not in a position to be able to take on the > maintenance and support role for "v38" as your v37 note suggested > someone do but would be willing to help put a patch together. > > We are hoping that the mileage Matt's speed-up patch has already put in > on RHEL3U7 will suffice to a certain extent in proving the patch's > correctness and stability since we have only System x boxes on which to > test the patch. > > We, and many other vendors I suspect (speak up now!), would be very > grateful to you if you would consider posting one more version of the > OpenIPMI driver on SourceForge for 2.4 kernels. Please let me know what > we can do to help make this last 2.4 patch set happen. > > Thank you very much for your consideration of this critical matter, > > Carol Hebert > LTC System x Enablement > IBM Corp. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Openipmi-developer mailing list > Openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list Openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
