Re: [Freeipmi-devel] FreeBSD 5.4 / freeipmi 0.1.3 w/ Intel SE7210

[Albert Chu]

> I did not know about this issue. GNU Coding Standards recommends argp
> library. Currently some tools uses argp library and some getopt. I
> think it is better to use argp uniformly through out the code base. We
> will take care of this bug in the next release. (Albert can you take
> care of this bug?)

Sure, I'll add it to my list of todo's.

Al

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Albert Chu
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----- Original Message -----
From: Anand Babu <address@hidden>
Date: Monday, June 20, 2005 3:29 pm
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-devel] FreeBSD 5.4 / freeipmi 0.1.3 w/ Intel SE7210

> ,----[ "Mitch (Bitblock)" <address@hidden> ]
> | > Hi Mitch,
> | > There was a problem in Mailman settings. I screwed up the setting
> | > while I was trying to filter out spam. I think I have fixed it
> | > now. Please try and and let me know if it works.
> | 
> | [Mitch says:] I resent just a few minutes ago... hopefully it will
> | go through ok ;-) don't see an echo or a rejection yet though
> `----
> I found the problem now. Even though I restored the working
> configuration for few new members moderation bit was set. So I have to
> explicitly approve your previous message. I reset moderation bit to
> off for all. I hope Mailman should behave OK from now on. Thanks.
> 
> ,----
> | As an aside, one thing I didn't see documented was the reason for
> | the prompt to use set_io (the name was longer - can't remember it,
> | and rerunning config does not ask the question again even after a
> | make distclean) vs. io (4)?
> | 
> | I didn't see the option detailed in the PDF or anywhere else or any
> | details of what to choose or why / when?
> | 
> | Also, the troubleshooting section might make reference to the fact
> | that if it just hangs like mine does that it may mean support for
> | your chipset / board is not included yet? Or is that a bug?
> `----
> Device IO port can be set at run time either thru config file or
> command line argument. For 0.2.0 we are trying to detect device
> automatically as much as possible. We also added ACPI based probing
> recently. 
> 
> But you are correct. I will have to document in detail what the user
> should to and look for if it hangs in the first place. Thanks for
> pointing out that.
> 
> ,----
> | I also tried building freeipmi on some older Intel STL2 systems
> | (FreeBSD 4.8) - to get it work work, I had to manually add port:
> `----
> Older Intel STL2 motherboards should use IPMI-1.0. I am glad it works.
> Please tell us the port number that worked for you. I will make the
> device detection code match it with product/manufacturer id and return
> this port internally.
> 
> ,----
> | argp-standalone-1.3 And remove references to getopt.  FreeBSD uses
> | unistd, which seems to have been detected, but the separate
> | references to getopt were not removed - is this a configure bug?
> | Sorry I'm not a C coder
> | 
> | grep -r getopt.h *
> | vi work/freeipmi-0.1.3/bmc-watchdog/src/bmc-watchdog.c
> | vi work/freeipmi-0.1.3/ipmipower/src/ipmipower_config.c
> | vi work/freeipmi-0.1.3/libfreeipmi/src/ipmi-ping.c
> | 
> | I just dd'd the #include <getopt.h> lines.
> `----
> I did not know about this issue. GNU Coding Standards recommends argp
> library. Currently some tools uses argp library and some getopt. I
> think it is better to use argp uniformly through out the code base. We
> will take care of this bug in the next release. (Albert can you take
> care of this bug?)
> 
> ,----
> | After making, I ran bmc-info - which kindof works - I saw the
> | reference to the cat in the troubleshooting section - but this is
> | included code - should I have to edit the code?
> | 
> | vi /usr/local/share/fish/extensions/utils.scm
> | ;; (use-modules (srfi srfi-13))
> | vi /usr/local/share/fish/extensions/sensors.scm
> | ;; (use-modules (srfi srfi-13))
> | ;; (use-modules (srfi srfi-14))
> | 
> | Commenting those lines got rid of a few of the errors... Where do I
> | go from here?
> | 
> | 
> | ./bmc-info
> | 
> | >>--:>  >>--:>  >>--:> >>--:>
> | ~ ~   Cat ate the fish!!  ~ ~
> | >>--:>  >>--:>  >>--:> >>--:>
> | Fish Exception (gh_standard_handler dump):
> | tag        : misc-error
> | throw args : (#f ~A ~S (no such module (srfi srfi-13)) #f)
> | data       : [/usr/local/share/fish/extensions/utils.scm]
> | No backtrace available.
> | 
> | 
> | >>--:>  >>--:>  >>--:> >>--:>
> | ~ ~   Cat ate the fish!!  ~ ~
> | >>--:>  >>--:>  >>--:> >>--:>
> | Fish Exception (gh_standard_handler dump):
> | tag        : misc-error
> | throw args : (#f ~A ~S (no such module (srfi srfi-13)) #f)
> | data       : [/usr/local/share/fish/extensions/sensors.scm]
> | No backtrace available.
> | 
> | 
> | >>--:>  >>--:>  >>--:> >>--:>
> | ~ ~   Cat ate the fish!!  ~ ~
> | >>--:>  >>--:>  >>--:> >>--:>
> | Fish Exception (gh_standard_handler dump):
> | tag        : unbound-variable
> | throw args : (#f Unbound variable: ~S (system-error-errno) #f)
> | data       : [/usr/local/share/fish/extensions/bc-common.scm]
> | No backtrace available.
> | 
> | Device ID:         1
> | Device Revision:   0
> |                    [SDR Support]
> | Firmware Revision: 1.16
> |                    [Device Available (normal operation)]
> | IPMI Version:      1.0
> | Additional Device Support:
> |                    [Sensor Device]
> |                    [SDR Repository Device]
> |                    [SEL Device]
> |                    [FRU Inventory Device]
> |                    [Chassis Device]
> | Manufacturer ID:   B000077h
> | Product ID:        24Bh
> | Aux Firmware Revision Info: 0h
> `----
> This looks like you are using older version of GNU Guile.
> Minimum required version is "1.6.4".
> 
> configure script in the CVS checks GNU Guile version at compile time
> now.
> 
> -- 
> Anand Babu 
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