From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>
To: "william cheng" <opensourcewill@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: modprobing ipmi_si on Dell Power Edge 2600 make the terminal hang kernel ver. >= 2.6.20
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:15:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18324.21679.979192.4576@harpo.it.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d34f9680801201740u4eb912eel921e7890b4ac023a@mail.gmail.com>
william cheng writes:
> Dear all,
>
> We got some problem on modprobing the ipmi_si module on Dell
> Power Edge 2600.
> On modprobing the ipmi_si the terminal hang and the process
> cannot be terminated by control-C.
> We got these messages in dmesg
>
> ipmi message handler version 39.1
> IPMI System Interface driver.
> ipmi_si: Trying SMBIOS-specified bt state machine at i/o
> address 0xe4, slave address 0x20, irq 10
> Using irq 10
> IPMI BT: req2rsp=10 secs retries=3
> ipmi_si: Error clearing flags: c6
>
>
> We have tested a few other dell machine (Power Edge 2500,
> 2900, ....), and this problem only occurs in Power Edge 2600.
>
>
> The problem occurs in the following testes
> Debian testing lenny
> Ubuntu 7.10
> Ubuntu 7.04
> Fedore 8
> Kernel 2.6.20
> Kernel 2.6.21
> Kernel 2.6.22
> Kernel 2.6.22.5
> Kernel 2.6.22.14
> Kernel 2.6.22.15
> Kernel 2.6.23.12
>
> While in the following testes we can successfully modprobe the ipmi_si
> Ubuntu 6.10
> Debian 4.0r2
> Kernel 2.6.18.3
> Kernel 2.6.18.5
> Kernel 2.6.18.8
> Kernel 2.6.19
> Kernel 2.6.19.7
>
> It looks like the problem only occurs when using kernel after
> 2.6.20 with Power Edge 2600.
I saw the same loop when upgrading a PE2600 from an RHEL4 2.6.9
kernel to an RHEL5 2.6.18 kernel. Since I had no interest in ipmi_si
I just de-configured it and wrote it off as yet another RHEL bug.
Seems now that RedHat backported an upstream bug :-(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-21 8:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-21 1:40 modprobing ipmi_si on Dell Power Edge 2600 make the terminal hang kernel ver. >= 2.6.20 william cheng
2008-01-21 8:15 ` Mikael Pettersson [this message]
2008-01-22 12:50 ` Matt Domsch
2008-01-22 15:02 ` [Openipmi-developer] " Matt Domsch
2008-01-22 15:33 ` Corey Minyard
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