From 0ef75a0e21ff001aa7c41fd1ae7e9849b17e6da3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: luyf5 <luyf5@lenovo.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 17:45:41 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Use weak reference to return a proxy of object for gc

https://gitlab.icelab.lenovo.com/pygcon/pyghmi/commit/a64eb41ecdb72270d5db26a5ef6c850ee79cab10 (75175)[legacy_Servers]Electrolux - M4/M5 Nodes appear offline
use weak reference to return a proxy of object for garbage collection

Change-Id: I89ea4f06c5b163e576491e74a5c62b66eb6fcc7a
---
 pyghmi/ipmi/fru.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pyghmi/ipmi/fru.py b/pyghmi/ipmi/fru.py
index c48d0bf1..06065fbc 100644
--- a/pyghmi/ipmi/fru.py
+++ b/pyghmi/ipmi/fru.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Information Storage Definition (Document Revision 1.2)
 
 import struct
 import time
+import weakref
 
 import pyghmi.exceptions as iexc
 import pyghmi.ipmi.private.spd as spd
@@ -128,7 +129,7 @@ class FRU(object):
         if self.rawfru is not None:
             self.parsedata()
         elif ipmicmd is not None:
-            self.ipmicmd = ipmicmd
+            self.ipmicmd = weakref.proxy(ipmicmd)
             # Use the ipmicmd to fetch the data
             try:
                 self.fetch_fru(fruid)