From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964862AbWARSLT (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:11:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964900AbWARSLT (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:11:19 -0500 Received: from ausc60ps301.us.dell.com ([143.166.148.206]:52069 "EHLO ausc60ps301.us.dell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964862AbWARSLS (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:11:18 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.99,381,1131343200"; d="scan'208"; a="29431794:sNHT16935792" Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 12:11:17 -0600 From: Matt Domsch To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org, "Tolentino, Matthew E" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] Re: [PATCH 2.6.15] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c Message-ID: <20060118181116.GA5537@lists.us.dell.com> References: <20060104221627.GA26064@lists.us.dell.com> <200601131724.42054.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <200601171717.03192.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <200601181029.46352.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200601181029.46352.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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