Jonathan Fournier wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I have a question regarding an older revision of the serial IPMI
> driver and the latest one.
>
> From that patch:
> http://osdir.com/ml/linux.kernel.openipmi/2006-06/msg00004.html
> <http://osdir.com/ml/linux.kernel.openipmi/2006-06/msg00004.html>
>
> I see that the driver had some sort of behavior to handle a Pigeon
> Point IPMC firmware upgrade i.e.:
>
> ...
> #define IPMI_PP_FW_UPGRADE_START 0x1
> #define IPMI_PP_FW_UPGRADE_DONE 0x4
> ...
>
> I don't see any trace of these #defines anymore in the latest driver,
> is it still supported but just in a different way? Or did it get removed?

It's handled in a different manner now.  Any message that has NetFN
IPMI_NETFN_FIRMWARE_REQUEST will cause the driver to temporarily suspend
any automatic processing on that interface.  I think that will
accomplish the same thing that the previous code, and is more general.

-corey

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