Re: [Freeipmi-devel] spec file problem

[Dmitry Frolov]

* Cress, Andrew R <address@hidden> [03.12.2004 20:26]:

> Anand,
> 
> For IPMI SMBus systems, the IPMI commands use I2C, and the Linux kernel
> direction for I2C seems to be to consolidate support of various I2C
> chipsets around lm-sensors, and adoption into distributions of
> lm-sensors is growing.  The leverage for user-space programs to not have
> to develop chipset drivers for each platform is helpful.
> 
> So, for a future FreeIPMI SMBus implementation, IMO, FreeIPMI should use
> lm-sensors, which provides a user-space API.  The OpenIPMI project has
> also taken this approach for SMBus IPMI.
> 
> This corroborates the fact that the two should play nice in the same
> sandbox (option 2 below).
> Eventually they should play together. :-)

Except when this breaks portability. Lm-sensors is too
Linux-centric IFAIK, and wouldn't be easily portable to
e.g FreeBSD. I hope that FreeIPMI wouldn't depend on Lm-sensors
to just access SMBus.

    wbr&w, dmitry.
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