[PATCH linux dev-4.7 7/8] ipmi: maintain a request expiry list

[Cédric Le Goater]

Hello,

On 11/04/2016 07:22 PM, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> Thanks for roping me in,
> 
> Patrick summed up my intention perfectly. IPMI messages will be structured 
> the same and use compatible fields, but would allow for different flow control. 
> In particular, the goal is to allow multiple requests and responses under a 
> single sequence number.

So if the combinations of { Seq, Command, NetFn } values are unique, we 
should be fine. The expiry list patch needs to be more precise when doing 
matching though.

Thanks,

C.