Re: [Openipmi-developer] Need help with OpenIPMI 2.4 kernel support

2006-09-08 Thread Carol Hebert
Hi Corey, Roger and I believe your approach sounds great and very much appreciate your help. Thank you very much again, Carol On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 18:23 -0500, Corey Minyard wrote: > Roger Mach wrote: > > I took a look at these patchsets and they appear to be good, with just a > > couple of mi

Re: [Openipmi-developer] Need help with OpenIPMI 2.4 kernel support

2006-09-07 Thread Corey Minyard
Roger Mach wrote: > I took a look at these patchsets and they appear to be good, with just a > couple of minor issues. Thanks for taking time to look at this. > First, I encountered a compiler error when > building ipmi_kcs_intf.c that I believe was already reported on the > ipmitool-devel list e

Re: [Openipmi-developer] Need help with OpenIPMI 2.4 kernel support

2006-09-07 Thread Roger Mach
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:53:51 -0500 (07:53 PDT), Corey Minyard wrote: > I have a set of patches that should bring forward the 2.4 driver to the > same level of features as the 2.6 driver (as close as you can get, I > think). I have three sets of quilt patches at: > > http://openipmi.sourceforge.n

Re: [Openipmi-developer] Need help with OpenIPMI 2.4 kernel support

2006-08-24 Thread Bela Lubkin
Corey Minyard wrote (in 3 messages): > I forgot to mention that the v37 code does actually make sense. > Everything Matt has worked on has gone to the mainstream kernel, so all > Matt's changes should be there, either already in v37, or in future > patches to the main kernel. The ones I spot-chec

Re: [Openipmi-developer] Need help with OpenIPMI 2.4 kernel support

2006-08-24 Thread Corey Minyard
issue with the 2.4.21 kernel but there appear to be >> patch sets for 3 different 2.4 kernels posted for v37. Would you need >> to have us supply diffs/patches for all 3 kernels? >> >> Second, would it be possible to post a pointer to Matt's dkms website on >&

Re: [Openipmi-developer] Need help with OpenIPMI 2.4 kernel support

2006-08-23 Thread Corey Minyard
site on > the 2.4 driver download page? Although Matt has several times posted a > pointer to this website on the mailing list, customers probably don't > know to dig through the mail archives to find it. > > Thank you very much again for your consideration and help with

Re: [Openipmi-developer] Need help with OpenIPMI 2.4 kernel support

2006-08-23 Thread Corey Minyard
the 2.4.21 kernel but there appear to be >> patch sets for 3 different 2.4 kernels posted for v37. Would you need >> to have us supply diffs/patches for all 3 kernels? >> >> Second, would it be possible to post a pointer to Matt's dkms website on >> the 2.4 driver

Re: [Openipmi-developer] Need help with OpenIPMI 2.4 kernel support

2006-08-11 Thread Carol Hebert
e patch sets for? We've only > > been working on this issue with the 2.4.21 kernel but there appear to be > > patch sets for 3 different 2.4 kernels posted for v37. Would you need > > to have us supply diffs/patches for all 3 kernels? > > > > Second, would it be poss

Re: [Openipmi-developer] Need help with OpenIPMI 2.4 kernel support

2006-08-08 Thread Corey Minyard
his website on the mailing list, customers probably don't > know to dig through the mail archives to find it. > > Thank you very much again for your consideration and help with this > issue. > > Carol Hebert > LTC System x Enablement > IBM Corp. > > > >>

Re: [Openipmi-developer] Need help with OpenIPMI 2.4 kernel support

2006-08-08 Thread Bela Lubkin
probably don't know to dig through the mail archives to find it. Thank you very much again for your consideration and help with this issue. Carol Hebert LTC System x Enablement IBM Corp. > Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:18:54 -0500 > From: Corey Minyard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: [Openipmi-developer] Need help with OpenIPMI 2.4 kernel support

2006-07-24 Thread Corey Minyard
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

[Openipmi-developer] Need help with OpenIPMI 2.4 kernel support

2006-07-24 Thread Carol Hebert
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