Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:18:56 +0100 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [patch] Version 2 of the Linux IPMI driver |
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> The lanana guy is not available for a while, so I'm not getting a device > number in the near future, but I think it's ready for the 2.5 release. > Does this need more time, or is it ready for inclusion?
I don't think you should be using a device number at all. ioctl is Evil (TM) and it's perfectly possible to write an IPMI driver which uses neither an ioctl nor a chaacter device. Voila:
http://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/willy/patches/bmc.diff
yes, it was stupid to call it BMC instead of IPMI. i was handed a pile of junk that'd been half-heartedly ported from windows. however, the principle is sound, you don't need ioctl, nor a character device.
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