Re: [Freeipmi-devel] [bugs #8414] Poor handling of values that can only be set on certain platforms

[Albert Chu]

> These values are platform dependent. We cant guess if they
> correct. Correct way is to let the BMC report the status.

I think its fair to say BMC configuration support is platform specific,
but potential input values should still be checked.  For example:

###   values: Enable = 0, Disable = 1
non_volatile.per_message_authentication 0

If a vendor does not support "non_volatile.per_message_authentication".
bmc-config should output status from the BMC.

But according to the inline comments, the only available input for this
command is 0 or 1.  Therefore, an input of "9" or "FOO" should result in
a parse error and an error output from bmc-config.

Al

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----- Original Message -----
From: Anand Babu <address@hidden>
Date: Thursday, April 15, 2004 1:53 am
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-devel] [bugs #8414] Poor handling of values that
can only be set on certain platforms

> ,----
> | tdev3|/home/achur 116>/usr/sbin/bmc-config --diff -f conf-new
> | BMC:  callback_level.max_privilege_auth_type.none 0
> | USER: callback_level.max_privilege_auth_type.none 9
> | 
> | tdev3|/home/achur 117>/usr/sbin/bmc-config --commit -f conf-new
> | 
> | We can atleast check that user has input 0 or 1.
> `----
> These values are platform dependent. We cant guess if they
> correct. Correct way is to let the BMC report the status.
> 
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