From: Corey Minyard <corey@minyard.net>
To: "Nabil S. Alramli" <dev@nalramli.com>
Cc: nalramli@fastly.com, openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bmc/for-next RFC 0/1] ipmi: Retry BMC 100 times
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:53:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aj33oLelZRBlYgKD@mail.minyard.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260625224741.3632191-1-dev@nalramli.com>
On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 06:47:40PM -0400, Nabil S. Alramli wrote:
> Hello ipmi / BMC experts,
>
> We have been dealing with certain servers where the BMC firmware takes
> longer than usual to become available. We have been able to work around
> the problem by increasing the BMC retry counter GET_DEVICE_ID_MAX_RETRY
> from 5 to 100. Would you please share some guidance on whether or not this
> is a valid approach, and if it would be possible to incorporate in your
> next release?
No, this is not going to work. It can increase boot times too much on
some systems where IPMI isn't working quite right.
The right way to fix this is to schedule something later to keep
retrying. That's going to be a lot more complicated.
-corey
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Nabil S. Alramli (1):
> ipmi: Retry BMC 100 times
>
> include/linux/ipmi.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-06-25 22:47 [bmc/for-next RFC 0/1] ipmi: Retry BMC 100 times Nabil S. Alramli
2026-06-25 22:47 ` [bmc/for-next RFC 1/1] " Nabil S. Alramli
2026-06-26 3:53 ` Corey Minyard [this message]
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