Re: [Freeipmi-devel] register spacing

[Anand Babu]

,----[ Albert Chu <address@hidden> ]
| Hey all,
| 
| My other concern is how to add this to the API.  Right now the
| register spacing is hard coded as +1 in
| libfreeipmi/src/ipmi-kcs-interface.h.  I'm hardcoding +4 for my
| testing/debugging right now.  But a long term solution requires
| something else.  Almost all of the kcs interface only allows the
| user to pass in the base port address, but not a register offset.
| 
| There are several ways to fix this problem.  I think anything
| involving an API change isn't one of them.  We could add a global
| variable and ipmi_kcs_register_spacing() initialization function?
| Configuration files are also possible.
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Added support for register spacing. KCS driver init function accepts
reg_space argument additionally. I have already updated bmc-watchdog
and fish core to use Ian's ipmi-locate code. Looks like Ian already
had the code for register spacing but commented them out while adding
PCI locate. 

Another change - sms_io_base is taken through the KCS driver init
function. This has resulted in API changes across the code base. But I
think change is appropriate.  I am going to introduce another layer to
unify all inband and out of band drivers under one common API set.

-- 
Anand Babu
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