[Ipmitool-devel] Problem writing to uninitialized FRU

[Kevin H. <ke...@va...>]

Hello, all.
I was dealing yesterday with an uninitialized FRU.  Typical of an
EEPROM, it was set to all 0xff.  Ipmitool complained about the format /
version being equal to 0xff.  I did a little poking around, and I found
a version of the fru write function that had been 'ifdef-ed" out.  This
old version did not seem to do any checking, so I tried using it and it
worked.
 
1.  Can anyone point me to the discussion regarding the change?
 
2.  Does it seem reasonable to add a command-line flag to use one
version or the other?
 
Also, what is the preferred method / format for submitting patches?  I
didn't get any feedback from the diff file I sent last week.
 
  - Kevin