Re: IPMI fix for panic handling

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 11:53:31 -0500 Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> wrote:

| >diff -u -r1.3 Kconfig
| >--- drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig	28 Mar 2003 05:14:18 -0000	1.3
| >+++ drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig	19 Aug 2003 14:20:43 -0000
| >@@ -24,6 +24,18 @@
| > 	 generate an IPMI event describing the panic to each interface
| > 	 registered with the message handler.
| > 
| >+config IPMI_PANIC_STRING
| >+	bool 'Generate a OEM events holding the panic string'
| >
| >I can't decode/translate that quoted string...
| >'an OEM event' ??
| >s/holding/containing/ ??
| >
| I'll work on that.  Is the description below good enough?

Yes, I think it is.

| >
| >+	depends on IPMI_PANIC_EVENT
| >+	help
| >+	  When a panic occurs, this will cause the IPMI message handler to
| >+	  generate an IPMI OEM type f0 events holding the IPMB address of the
| >                                       event
| >+	  panic generator (byte 4 of the event), a sequence number for the
| >+	  string (byte 5 of the event) and part of the string (the rest of the
| >+	  event).  Bytes 1, 2, and 3 are the normal usage for an OEM event.
| >+	  You can fetch these events and use the sequence numbers to piece the
| >+	  string together.
| >+
| > config IPMI_DEVICE_INTERFACE
| >        tristate 'Device interface for IPMI'
| >        depends on IPMI_HANDLER

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