IPMI is a manage standard that allows intelligent management controllers to monitor things about the system (temperature, fan speed, etc.). The management controllers sit on a bus, and have addresses, and such. After seeing the ugliness required for the 32-bit ioctl compatability layers for 64-bit kernels, I have decided that the network interface for IPMI is a good thing, as the IPMI device ioctls have pointers and require ugly hacks. None should be needed for the network interface. This patch adds that layer. Relative to 2.6.10-rc2-mm1 -Corey