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From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de,
	openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org,
	"Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] Re: [PATCH 2.6.15] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:11:17 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060118181116.GA5537@lists.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601181029.46352.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 10:29:46AM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Matt, what's your opinion on proceeding?  I know you want to get
> the DMI stuff in distros.  I'm looking at reworking ioremap to
> hide all this stuff, but that'll be a bigger change and may be
> harder to get into distro releases.
> 
> For upstream, the ioremap rework sounds like the way to go, but
> I don't know which the distros would prefer for updates.

Existing distros (RHEL3, RHEL4, SLES9, ..) don't have a huge problem
because my target user - the ipmi driver - does its own DMI scanning
on those distros still.  Ugly, but works.  So the only concern is
SLES10 and RHEL5, both of which are still rebasing to upstream best as
I can tell from their publicly posted kernels.  So if it can be done
"right" in 2.6.16-rc, let's do that.  If it will be intrusive, and
after 2.6.16 is out, than a minimally intrusive but working patch for
2.6.16-rc would be preferred.

Thanks!
Matt

-- 
Matt Domsch
Software Architect
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-18 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-04 22:16 [PATCH 2.6.15 1/2] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c Matt Domsch
2006-01-04 22:36 ` Alex Williamson
2006-01-04 23:29   ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-05 16:41     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-05 17:37       ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-05 17:54         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-06  0:02           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-06 17:15             ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-04 22:55 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-06 17:21 ` [PATCH 2.6.15] " Matt Domsch
2006-01-06 22:39   ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-14  0:24     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-14  0:45       ` Alan Cox
2006-01-14  1:19       ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-14  5:05         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-18  0:17       ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-18  2:32         ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-18 15:53           ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-18 17:29         ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-18 18:11           ` Matt Domsch [this message]
2006-01-19 20:10             ` [PATCH 0/5] ia64 ioremap, DMI, EFI system table Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:12               ` [PATCH 1/5] EFI, /dev/mem: simplify efi_mem_attribute_range() Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:12               ` [PATCH 2/5] ia64: ioremap: check EFI for valid memory attributes Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:13               ` [PATCH 3/5] DMI: only ioremap stuff we actually need Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:13               ` [PATCH 4/5] EFI: keep physical table addresses in efi structure Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:14               ` [PATCH 5/5] ACPI: clean up memory attribute checking for map/read/write Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-30 17:11               ` [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 0/5] ia64 ioremap, DMI, EFI system table Matt Domsch
2006-03-17 23:54     ` [PATCH 2.6.15] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c Andrew Morton
2006-03-18 14:56       ` Matt Domsch
2006-03-18 15:43         ` Matt Domsch
2006-03-18 19:51           ` Andrew Morton

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