Re: [Freeipmi-devel] KCS Driver & SMS_ATN Register

[Al Chu]

Hi Matt,

Definitely open to patches.  Looking over the IPMI spec, I agree w/
A.B., it seems to be more useful for a higher level monitoring, w/ the
Get Message Flags and similar commands.  I can think of several patch
ideas:

1) add a KCS driver flag for checking for SMS_ATN in addition to OBF (or
instead of??).  Flags may be propogated up into higher level APIs too.

2) an additional function that checks for SMS_ATN in addition/or instead
of OBF that users can call instead.

It would be useful to understand your use case too.  Are you using the
KCS driver and IPMI bridging commands to bridge from one BMC to another
BMC?

Thanks,

Al

On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 18:51 -0800, Matt Jerdonek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The KCS driver appears to not use the SMS_ATN register.  This register
> is useful for BMC-to-BMC communication to know when the remote BMC has
> responded.  Are there any plans to monitor this register in future
> releases?  If not, are the maintainers open to including a patch?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Matt
> 
> 
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