[RFC PATCH linux dev-4.7 4/6] misc: Add Aspeed BT IPMI BMC driver

Cédric Le Goater clg at kaod.org
Thu Sep 15 20:42:40 AEST 2016


On 09/15/2016 12:03 PM, Joel Stanley wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Cédric Le Goater <clg at kaod.org> wrote:
>>>> I'm not sure there. When I open /dev/ttyUSB0 I'm talking to the USB0
>>>> serial device. When I open /dev/mtd0, I'm talking to the mtd0 device.
>>>> So when I open /dev/ipmi-bt-bmc, I would expect to talk to the BMC
>>>> device?
>>>
>>> Yes. I went a little too far in the global rename. /dev/ipmi-bt-bmc makes
>>
>> I meant /dev/ipmi-bt-host ! :)
> 
> Hah good! I didn't follow at all. That makes a lot more sense.
>
> Thanks for sending the patches out. I will hold off applying them
> until you've got support from upstream.

yes. This is better. I am realizing that I will have to change 
the ipmi Makefile, so the location of the driver is not certain 
yet.

C.



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