Re: [Openipmi-developer] Shutdown behavior with IPMI enabled

Mandeep Sandhu
2015-05-06T20:34:20Z

> Certainly, it should just immediately power the system off. There is a
> soft shutdown option if you want a graceful shutdown.
>
> The spec says:
>
> 0 - power down. Force system into soft off (S4/S45) state. This is for
> ‘emergency’ management power down actions. The command
> does not initiate a clean shut-down of the operating system prior to
> powering down the system.
>
> I would say the system in question is not compliant, to me, 6 seconds an
> "force" are not the same thing :).

You're right. The BMC firmware needs fixing!

>>> It might be best to remove, or at least disable normally, the config
>>> option in most systems. That way systems that really needed it could
>>> have it, but it wouldn't affect most people.
>> Which config option do you refer to here? Something that disables the
>> IPMI power off function?
>
> Yes, CONFIG_IPMI_POWEROFF

Ok. This is set as a module in my config. Maybe I should blacklist
this module from loading.

Thanks for your help.

-mandeep

>
> -corey
>
>> Thanks for your time.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -mandeep
>>
>>> -corey
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> -mandeep
>