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| author | Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> | 2013-02-28 02:05:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-02-28 04:10:21 +0100 |
| commit | d941aeae42942c2ef61ed5e05cc1ad0428085704 (patch) | |
| tree | 71dc328e44d821f70324cfea68b48c0a7c621bc4 /drivers/char | |
| parent | ipmi: remove superfluous kernel/userspace explanation (diff) | |
| download | linux-d941aeae42942c2ef61ed5e05cc1ad0428085704.tar.xz linux-d941aeae42942c2ef61ed5e05cc1ad0428085704.zip | |
ipmi: add new kernel options to prevent automatic ipmi init
The configuration change building ipmi_si into the kernel precludes the
use of a custom driver that can utilize more than one KCS interface,
multiple IPMBs, and more than one BMC. This capability is important for
fault-tolerant systems.
Even if the kernel option ipmi_si.trydefaults=0 is specified, ipmi_si
discovers and claims one of the KCS interfaces on a Stratus server. The
inability to now prevent the kernel from managing this device is a
regression from previous kernels. The regression breaks a capability
fault-tolerant vendors have relied upon.
To support both ACPI opregion access and the need to avoid activation of
ipmi_si on some platforms, we've added two new kernel options,
ipmi_si.tryacpi and ipmi_si.trydmi be added to prevent ipmi_si from
initializing when these options are set to 0 on the kernel command line.
With these options at the default value of 1, ipmi_si init proceeds
according to the kernel default.
Tested-by: Jim Paradis <jparadis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Evans <Robert.Evans@stratus.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Paradis <jparadis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Camuso <tcamuso@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 28 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c index 1c7fdcd22a98..a58beddb4821 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -1208,6 +1208,12 @@ static int smi_num; /* Used to sequence the SMIs */ #define DEFAULT_REGSPACING 1 #define DEFAULT_REGSIZE 1 +#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI +static bool si_tryacpi = 1; +#endif +#ifdef CONFIG_DMI +static bool si_trydmi = 1; +#endif static bool si_trydefaults = 1; static char *si_type[SI_MAX_PARMS]; #define MAX_SI_TYPE_STR 30 @@ -1238,6 +1244,16 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(hotmod, "Add and remove interfaces. See" " Documentation/IPMI.txt in the kernel sources for the" " gory details."); +#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI +module_param_named(tryacpi, si_tryacpi, bool, 0); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(tryacpi, "Setting this to zero will disable the" + " default scan of the interfaces identified via ACPI"); +#endif +#ifdef CONFIG_DMI +module_param_named(trydmi, si_trydmi, bool, 0); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(trydmi, "Setting this to zero will disable the" + " default scan of the interfaces identified via DMI"); +#endif module_param_named(trydefaults, si_trydefaults, bool, 0); MODULE_PARM_DESC(trydefaults, "Setting this to 'false' will disable the" " default scan of the KCS and SMIC interface at the standard" @@ -3408,16 +3424,20 @@ static int init_ipmi_si(void) #endif #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI - pnp_register_driver(&ipmi_pnp_driver); - pnp_registered = 1; + if (si_tryacpi) { + pnp_register_driver(&ipmi_pnp_driver); + pnp_registered = 1; + } #endif #ifdef CONFIG_DMI - dmi_find_bmc(); + if (si_trydmi) + dmi_find_bmc(); #endif #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI - spmi_find_bmc(); + if (si_tryacpi) + spmi_find_bmc(); #endif /* We prefer devices with interrupts, but in the case of a machine |