[Freeipmi-devel] RE: ipmi-dcmi testing results

[Al Chu]

Hey Holger,

On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 17:12 +0100, Liebig, Holger wrote:
> Hi Al,
> 
> > > Interesting to see, that in the end dcmitool and the DCTS behave 
> > > differently.
> > 
> > If Fujitsu has interpreted this way (partially b/c of DCTS), 
> > I think it's a good chance other companies have interpreted 
> > it this way too.  So how about I make a special case.  If you 
> > are configuring w/ set-power-limit, but you can't call 
> > get-power-limit, then the user must give values for all input 
> > fields (exception action, limit, time limit, etc.).  
> > 
> 
> I only had a quick check of your changes (busy with other stuff). 
> Our actual implementation of the get power limit returns a full set of
> configuration parameters, just returned with the specific completion
> code 0x80. The DCTS is also expecting a response of exact 14bytes.  So
> I think, the get before set approach is correct and not all parameters
> need to be specified on the command line.

Wow.  This was unexpected :-)  I went ahead and (I think I) modified the
code to handle all the circumstances.  Will be out in the next beta.

Al

> Holger
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