linux-kernel - Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH] IPMI: return correct value from ipmi

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Message-ID: <20080711115855.GA517@infomag.infomag.iguana.be>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:58:55 +0200
From:	Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@...ana.be>
To:	Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>
Cc:	Mark Rustad <MRustad@...il.com>,
	openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH] IPMI: return correct value from ipmi_write

Hi All,

> This patch is correct.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@...sta.com>
> 
> Mark Rustad wrote:
> >From: Mark Rustad <MRustad@...il.com>
> >
> >This patch corrects the handling of write operations to the IPMI watchdog
> >to work as intended by returning the number of characters actually
> >processed. Without this patch, an "echo V >/dev/watchdog" enables the
> >watchdog if IPMI is providing the watchdog function.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <MRustad@...il.com>

I'll add this to he linux-2.6-watchdog tree this evening so that Linus can pull.

Greetings,
Wim.

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