Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:57:11 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.4-rc2-mm1: IPMI_SMB doesnt compile |
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:01:07AM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote: > You need to run off the panic events, the config flag IPMI_PANIC_EVENT, > and it should compile fine. This is a flag that causes the driver to > put some information about the panic into an event log in the IPMI > controller so it can be fetched later. > > To do this, the driver needs a way to run each operation to completion > without scheduling, interrupts. or the like. It needs this to do send > the panic event (since you cannot schedule during a panic), although it > also really needs it to do things like extend the watchdog timer time at > panic time. The I2C driver does not currently have this, so it doesn't > work with this option and the SMBus driver. > > I have included a patch from Todd Davis at Intel that adds this function > to the I2C driver. I believe Todd has been working on getting this in > through the I2C driver writers, although the patch is fairly non-intrusive.
All I've seen are some 2.4 patches, no 2.6 patches.
Anyone care to send them to the i2c maintainers?
thanks,
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