Re: Short notice: ipmi_si kills C8000

Rolf Eike Beer
2013-10-29T10:41:08Z

Am 29.10.2013 10:37, schrieb Thomas Bogendoerfer:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:56:12AM +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 07:17:20PM +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
>> > > I did "modprobe ipmi_si" on my C8000 (kernel 3.11.6), which
>> > > immediately broke the machine. I have no backtrace yet, but I'll try
>> > > to get one next week. In case someone has such a machine and the mood
>> > > to debug this already??? ;)
>> >
>> > [ 730.964000] ipmi message handler version 39.2
>> > [ 731.092000] IPMI System Interface driver.
>> > [ 731.148000] ipmi_si: Adding default-specified kcs state
>> > machine[ 731.224000] ipmi_si: Trying default-specified kcs state
>> > machine at i/o address 0xca2, slave address 0x0, irq 0 <Cpu0>
>>
>> looks like stupid ISA auto probing is turned on, when ipmi is loaded
>> as a module :-( I'll have a look.
>
> my patch went into 3.12-rc1 so it's expected that 3.11.6 crashes
> without it.

Oops, sorry, I misread the git log. I've now applied that patch to
3.11.6 and the module loads fine. Am I supposed to see anything in the
sysfs that I can query now?

Eike