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-rw-r--r--Documentation/IPMI.txt5
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c25
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/IPMI.txt b/Documentation/IPMI.txt
index 653d5d739d7f..31d1d658827f 100644
--- a/Documentation/IPMI.txt
+++ b/Documentation/IPMI.txt
@@ -505,7 +505,10 @@ at module load time (for a module) with:
The addresses are normal I2C addresses. The adapter is the string
name of the adapter, as shown in /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-<n>/name.
-It is *NOT* i2c-<n> itself.
+It is *NOT* i2c-<n> itself. Also, the comparison is done ignoring
+spaces, so if the name is "This is an I2C chip" you can say
+adapter_name=ThisisanI2cchip. This is because it's hard to pass in
+spaces in kernel parameters.
The debug flags are bit flags for each BMC found, they are:
IPMI messages: 1, driver state: 2, timing: 4, I2C probe: 8
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
index 1de1914f5f89..3c3b7257867b 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
@@ -1258,6 +1258,23 @@ static const struct file_operations smi_stats_proc_ops = {
.release = single_release,
};
+static int strcmp_nospace(char *s1, char *s2)
+{
+ while (*s1 && *s2) {
+ while (isspace(*s1))
+ s1++;
+ while (isspace(*s2))
+ s2++;
+ if (*s1 > *s2)
+ return 1;
+ if (*s1 < *s2)
+ return -1;
+ s1++;
+ s2++;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
static struct ssif_addr_info *ssif_info_find(unsigned short addr,
char *adapter_name,
bool match_null_name)
@@ -1272,8 +1289,10 @@ restart:
/* One is NULL and one is not */
continue;
}
- if (strcmp(info->adapter_name, adapter_name))
- /* Names to not match */
+ if (adapter_name &&
+ strcmp_nospace(info->adapter_name,
+ adapter_name))
+ /* Names do not match */
continue;
}
found = info;
@@ -1407,7 +1426,7 @@ static int ssif_probe(struct i2c_client *client, const struct i2c_device_id *id)
} else {
no_support:
/* Assume no multi-part or PEC support */
- pr_info(PFX "Error fetching SSIF: %d %d %2.2x, your system probably doesn't support this command so using defaults\n",
+ pr_info(PFX "Error fetching SSIF: %d %d %2.2x, your system probably doesn't support this command so using defaults\n",
rv, len, resp[2]);
ssif_info->max_xmit_msg_size = 32;