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 :-( -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
