Re: [Freeipmi-devel] struct ipmi_device

[Albert Chu]

> User applications need to declare this ipmi_device buffer and pass on
> to UDM functions. Sometimes, user may access members of this struct
> directly to pass advanced arguments.

Similar to the issues we hit in IPMI 2.0 with fiid, I'm worried that not
hiding the implementation may bite us later on.

Al

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----- Original Message -----
From: Anand Babu <address@hidden>
Date: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 12:16 pm
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-devel] struct ipmi_device

> ,----[ Albert Chu <address@hidden> ]
> | Hi guys,
> | 
> | I just noticed you have struct ipmi_device in ipmi-interface.h.  Is
> | there a reason you believe this structure should be made public?  I
> | would think it should be made private so the abstraction can stay
> | hidden.
> `----
> User applications need to declare this ipmi_device buffer and pass on
> to UDM functions. Sometimes, user may access members of this struct
> directly to pass advanced arguments.
> 
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