Re: Short notice: ipmi_si kills C8000

Thomas Bogendoerfer
2013-10-31T12:06:06Z

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 08:50:51PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote:
> Yes, I think it really makes sense to send this patch to stable kernel series.
> Without this patch, any parisc box (ok - probably only the C8000) crashes
> as soon as the ipmi driver is loaded.
>
> Will you ask (e.g. if possible for kernel 3.0 and higher - not sure if
> it applies)?

3.4 shows some fuzz and iirc there were some changes I needed to make for
inclusion into latest kernels. Afaik all other C8k went only into 3.10,
so that should be good enough. And the patch applies cleanly to 3.10.
I'll write mail to the stable team.

Thomas.

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