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Alramli" 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 Message-ID: Reply-To: corey@minyard.net References: <20260625224741.3632191-1-dev@nalramli.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 >