Re: Why are ipmi modules being loaded?

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Sunday 21 October 2007, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 03:34:11PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
>  > AFAICT from modules.pcimap, ipmi_si should only be loaded for PCI ID
>  > [103c:121a] (which I don't have), or for devices with class c0700
>  > (which I also don't have).
>
> Hmm, is lspci truncating the class code?
>
>  > 01:00.4 Serial bus controller [0c07]: Intel Corporation 82573E KCS
>  > (Active Management) [8086:108e] (rev 03)

Actually, these three look to be related (see also link below):
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit Ethernet 
Controller (Copper) (rev 03)
01:00.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Active Management Technology - 
SOL (rev 03)
01:00.4 Serial bus controller [0c07]: Intel Corporation 82573E KCS (Active 
Management) (rev 03)

I did check the class files in /sys. For these devices those have:
$ cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:01\:00.0/class
0x020000
$ cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:01\:00.3/class
0x070002
$ cat /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:01\:00.4/class
0x0c0701

The last is close, but still does not match the 0x0c0700 in modules.pcimap. 
Is there some fuzzy matching going on there?

> Because this smells like an IPMI-ish device.

Hmm. Yes, guess it is -ish. It's documented in:
http://download.intel.com/design/motherbd/cz/D1406801US.pdf (section 1.11.4)

Looks like something that is only useful for remote management though and 
not for on-system management.

Anyway, I've blacklisted the modules for now, but still feel that should not 
be necessary and there's an incorrect match happening.

Thanks for the reply Dave.