Re: Short notice: ipmi_si kills C8000

Thomas Bogendoerfer
2013-10-29T09:37:06Z

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.

Thomas.

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