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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:31:53 -0500
From: Corey Minyard <corey@...yard.net>
To: "Ivan T. Ivanov" <iivanov@...e.de>
Cc: minyard@....org, openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipmi:ssif: Exit early when there is a SMBus error
On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 5:15 AM Ivan T. Ivanov <iivanov@...e.de> wrote:
>
> On 08-18 12:27, Ivan T. Ivanov wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > 3) It appears the response to the GET_DEVICE_ID command, though a
> > > response is returned, is not valid. The right way to handle this would
> > > be to do more validation in the ssif_detect() function. It doesn't do
> > > any validation of the response data, and that's really what needs to be
> > > done.
> > >
> >
> > do_cmd() in ssif_detect() already do validation. Perhaps,
> > ssif_probe() should just not return ENODEV in case of error.
> >
>
> Oh, I wanted to say ssif_detect, not ssif_probe.
Yeah, that's probably the right solution. I'll look at this a bit.
But I see the problem. Do you want to do a patch, or do you want me
to?
-corey
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