Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Error sending IMB request

[Duncan L. <du...@ic...>]

06...@eq... wrote:

> Duncan Laurie wrote:
>
>> If this is an SMBus connected mBMC then you will likely need an 
>> additional OpenIPMI
>> kernel patch to use it.  The -smb.diff patch on 
>> openipmi.sourceforge.net is likely what
>> you want.
>>
>> -duncan
>
>
> Oh, so it seems I misunderstood something. :)
> Do I allways need to patch the 2.6 kernel with the base diff and in my 
> case smb diff? And given the actual list of patches at sourceforge - 
> against 2.6.13 kernel - I can't use 2.6.14 for ipmi yet, cat I?
>
> Thank you,
>

That depends how ugly the merge is; the patch for 2.6.13 might apply without
too much trouble to 2.6.14.  However until the SMBus support patch for 
OpenIPMI
makes it into the official 2.6 kernel tree you'll have to patch it 
manually every time
you want to upgrade the kernel...

-duncan