Hi Carol, On 10/6/06, Carol Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe I may have found a problem with the ipmi driver v39 in the > 2.6.18 kernel when loaded on multi-node systems (in my particular case, > an dual-node x460 with two BMCs). At first glance, it appears the > problem may be in the sysfs code added last January -- it looks like it > may not be handling the multiple BMCs correctly. The result is that > the ipmi_si module won't load and the ipmi device nodes don't get > created.
I guess I shouldn't be suprised - its very hard to find someone with access to a system with multiple BMCs (not just multiple interfaces) to who is willing to test this out with, I only have access to a old HP workstation with a rudimentary IPMI 1.0 card myself. > I'm only starting to debug the issue but wanted to let you know what > I've seen asap in case someone's already spotted this problem but I > missed seeing a patch and also because I'm not a sysfs expert and I > don't know what the original intent was for how to present multiple BMCs > (from multi-node systems) in the sysfs. I did write the code to handle multiple BMCs, but it looks like I overlooked something, from your backtrace at first glance it appears that some sysfs file is being duplicated in the same directory. Could you perhaps turn on sysfs/kobject debugging in the kernel debugging options? Thanks, Yani ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
