Maybe this is a good opportunity to clean things up.
For example, mac_address is interesting. Yes, IPMI accepts a mac_address. But it expects the MAC of the BMC port, which the host won't see. So the mac_address returned by get_effective_power_parameters() is not usable by the IPMI power driver.
Maybe this is a good opportunity to clean things up.
For example, mac_address is interesting. Yes, IPMI accepts a mac_address. But it expects the MAC of the BMC port, which the host won't see. So the mac_address returned by get_effective_ power_parameter s() is not usable by the IPMI power driver.