Re: Re: [PATCH][RESEND] socket interface for IPMI against 2.5.66-bk

[Louis Zhuang]

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 22:55, Corey Minyard wrote:
> I've merged this in, but I made some adjustments:
> 
>     * I added a copyright to include/net/ipmi.h (just copied from
> net/ipmi/af_ipmi.c)
Just curious, should we add copyright even when I have announced it by
'MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")'? I dislike too many leagal text in code...
>     * I added usage comments to include/net/ipmi.h
>     * I modified the ioctls to return EFAULT on a bad user address.
>     * I modified SIOCIPMIGETEVENT to take a pointer to an integer, not
> an integer.  That's the way ioctls work, they always take a pointer,
> even though it sucks, IMHO.
> 
> I also adapted it to the 2.4 kernel.
> 
> I'll put out an experimental patch for this sometime soon (with a bunch
> of other stuff).  I also have SMIC and full ACPI support as part of it,
> and I'm waiting for them.
> 
> - -Corey

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