Jörg, To be clear, Kent works for Canonical and with Dell directly, and I can see that the patch has been written by Dell. I presume that Dell and Kent have tested it. I see that the patch affects ipmi_delloem.{c,h} only, and in addition it looks like the only thing it does is handle 13G in the same way that other known hardware is handled - no feature changes at all.
This looks like a prime hardware enablement candidate to cherry-pick and maintain in Ubuntu until new releases have caught up, so that Dell 13G is supported well in Ubuntu as soon as it is available. It's also a candidate for a Trusty SRU as it's purely a hardware enablement patch. I would prefer to see the patch land upstream first, so that we can be more confident that Ubuntu doesn't accidentally diverge and that we can drop the patch with the next ipmitool release. And an upstream release would be even better. But as Dell want the support in time for Utopic and assuming that they have tested it, I propose that we accept the patch in Ubuntu and maintain the delta until a new release filters through. Do you have any objection to this? Alternatively, you can take the patch in Debian if you want it, and Ubuntu can sync. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to ipmitool in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1343407 Title: Add support for Dell PowerEdge 13G servers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ipmitool/+bug/1343407/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs