Description of problem: Thank you for including the OpenIPMI device drivers in RHEL4 by virtue of their inclusion in kernel.org. Please include in the distribution the OpenIPMI userspace libraries, version 1.4.3 (experimental but more features and extensively tested), such that third party applications such as Dell OpenManage may write their applications and link against such libraries. By including the libraries in the distribution, Red Hat has the chance to control the release of those libraries for use by ISVs/IHVs. If Red Hat chooses not to include the userspace libraries, every third-party application that needs to communicate with the OpenIPMI device driver will need to provide them themselves, and due to concurrency issues regarding multiple IPMI commands being in flight at a time, having multiple instances of the userspace libraries is not feasible. (Alias: IssueTracker 51521)
Internal RFE bug #135938 opened; will be considered for future releases.
Per Dell OMSA team in conversation with OpenIPMI maintainer, they don't actually need this library as they thought they did. Thus I'm closing this.