08 Sep, 2005

1 commit

  • The IPMI power control function proc_write_chassctrl was badly written, it
    directly used userspace pointers, it assumed that strings were NULL
    terminated, and it used the evil sscanf function. This converts over to
    using the sysctl interface for this data and changes the semantics to be a
    little more logical.

    Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Corey Minyard
     

24 Jun, 2005

2 commits

  • This patch to adds "power cycle" functionality to the IPMI power off module
    ipmi_poweroff. It also contains changes to support procfs control of the
    feature.

    The power cycle action is considered an optional chassis control in the IPMI
    specification. However, it is definitely useful when the hardware supports
    it. A power cycle is usually required in order to reset a firmware in a bad
    state. This action is critical to allow remote management of servers.

    The implementation adds power cycle as optional to the ipmi_poweroff module.
    It can be modified dynamically through the proc entry mentioned above. During
    a power down and enabled, the power cycle command is sent to the BMC firmware.
    If it fails either due to non-support or some error, it will retry to send
    the command as power off.

    Signed-off-by: Christopher A. Poblete
    Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Corey Minyard
     
  • This cleans up the IPMI documentation to fix some problems and make it more
    accurate for the current drivers.

    Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Corey Minyard
     

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds