[Ipmitool-devel] [patches:#71] [BMR #81324] Remove hard-coded FRU inventory access length restriction.

[Dmitry B. <di...@pi...>]

Hello, IPMITool maintainers team,

Please, review the attached patch which does the following with the code 
in lib/ipmi_fru.c:

1. Removes hard-coded 16-byte length FRU inventory device transactions 
and introduces a command-line argument to setup such restriction for 
appropriate devices.
2. Fixes a bug where the algorithm incorrectly gathers FRU info blocks 
which led to an impossibility to write data into a FRU device.
3. Adds several code optimizations by organizing FRU blocks into a 
linked list which is simpler to handle in a higher layer code.
4. Replace absolute offset with the relative one which is used to access 
the data buffer in the read_fru_area() API. Updated the dumping 
functions correspondingly.

Regards,
Dmitry