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authorCorey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>2015-08-27 15:49:18 -0500
committerCorey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>2015-09-03 15:02:31 -0500
commitbf2d087749d91e1fa2826edde1e2fd650d3053ca (patch)
treedf012861e64de2281a1ca171fa5604b2d25b7345 /drivers/char/ipmi
parentacbd9ae70a94bdc626508f444879e19ebe1c421f (diff)
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ipmi:ssif: Add a module parm to specify that SMBus alerts don't work
They are broken on some platforms, this gives people a chance to work around it until the firmware is fixed. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/ipmi')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
index b043d8d45823..877205d22046 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
@@ -1136,6 +1136,10 @@ module_param_array(slave_addrs, int, &num_slave_addrs, 0);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(slave_addrs,
"The default IPMB slave address for the controller.");
+static bool alerts_broken;
+module_param(alerts_broken, bool, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(alerts_broken, "Don't enable alerts for the controller.");
+
/*
* Bit 0 enables message debugging, bit 1 enables state debugging, and
* bit 2 enables timing debugging. This is an array indexed by
@@ -1582,6 +1586,10 @@ static int ssif_probe(struct i2c_client *client, const struct i2c_device_id *id)
ssif_info->global_enables |= IPMI_BMC_EVT_MSG_BUFF;
}
+ /* Some systems don't behave well if you enable alerts. */
+ if (alerts_broken)
+ goto found;
+
msg[0] = IPMI_NETFN_APP_REQUEST << 2;
msg[1] = IPMI_SET_BMC_GLOBAL_ENABLES_CMD;
msg[2] = ssif_info->global_enables | IPMI_BMC_RCV_MSG_INTR;
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