netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/ncsi: Add Intel OS2BMC OEM command

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Message-ID: <Yxrun9LRcFv2QntR@home.paul.comp>
Date:   Fri, 9 Sep 2022 10:43:27 +0300
From:   Paul Fertser <fercerpav@...il.com>
To:     Jiaqing Zhao <jiaqing.zhao@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     Samuel Mendoza-Jonas <sam@...dozajonas.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        openbmc@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/ncsi: Add Intel OS2BMC OEM command

Hello,

On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 03:34:53PM +0800, Jiaqing Zhao wrote:
> > Can you please outline some particular use cases for this feature?
> > 
> It enables access between host and BMC when BMC shares the network connection
> with host using NCSI, like accessing BMC via HTTP or SSH from host. 

Why having a compile time kernel option here more appropriate than
just running something like "/usr/bin/ncsi-netlink --package 0
--channel 0 --index 3 --oem-payload 00000157200001" (this example uses
another OEM command) on BMC userspace startup?

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