dbus connections

dbus connections

[Chris Austen]

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Re: dbus connections

[Patrick Williams]

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I think we should expose APIs in ipmid-api.h for performing dbus
operations.  I think work Vishwa is doing is going to require an IPMI
module to be able to create a dbus object too.  The ipmid is going to
need to deal with the sequencing and callbacks for this.

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 12:24:30AM +0000, Chris Austen wrote:
> <div class="socmaildefaultfont" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10.5pt" ><div dir="ltr" >Brad found a problem today where the ipmi processes are creating dbus connections rather then relying on the parent IPMI starting program.&nbsp; What happens is each error log is a connection, each fru is a connection. on our palmettos this wasn't obvious but on a broken Barreleye with 115 error logs and 46 different FRUs if certainly was.</div>
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> <div dir="ltr" >so how to fix this.&nbsp; #1 you could just extern the ipmid.C's bus variable to the files that need it.&nbsp; OR you could add the bus variable to every single ipmi calback input parameter.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
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> <div dir="ltr" >Thoughts?</div>
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> <div><br>Chris Austen<br>POWER Systems Enablement Manager<br>(512) 286-5184 (T/L: 363-5184)</div></div></div><BR>
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