From: Corey Minyard <[email protected]> The default probing can cause problems with some system, slow booting, extra CPU usages, etc. Turn it off by default and give a config option to enable it.
From: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <[email protected]> --- drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig | 12 ++++++++++++ drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig b/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig index 0baa8fa..db1c9b7 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig @@ -50,6 +50,18 @@ config IPMI_SI Currently, only KCS and SMIC are supported. If you are using IPMI, you should probably say "y" here. +config IPMI_SI_PROBE_DEFAULTS + bool 'Probe for all possible IPMI system interfaces by default' + default n + depends on IPMI_SI + help + Modern systems will usually expose IPMI interfaces via a discoverable + firmware mechanism such as ACPI or DMI. Older systems do not, and so + the driver is forced to probe hardware manually. This may cause boot + delays. Say "n" here to disable this manual probing. IPMI will then + only be available on older systems if the "ipmi_si_intf.trydefaults=1" + boot argument is passed. + config IPMI_WATCHDOG tristate 'IPMI Watchdog Timer' help diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c index 9c40691..25a1436 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c @@ -1239,7 +1239,7 @@ static bool si_tryplatform = 1; #ifdef CONFIG_PCI static bool si_trypci = 1; #endif -static bool si_trydefaults = 1; +static bool si_trydefaults = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPMI_SI_PROBE_DEFAULTS); static char *si_type[SI_MAX_PARMS]; #define MAX_SI_TYPE_STR 30 static char si_type_str[MAX_SI_TYPE_STR]; -- 1.8.3.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
