Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 May 2009 07:37:03 -0500 | From | Corey Minyard <> | Subject | Re: [Openipmi-developer] modprobe ipmi_si hangs under 2.6.30-rc5 |
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Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> writes: > > >> Ferenc Wagner wrote: >> >> >>> Just out of interest, how often does the driver wake up to check >>> the inteface? >>> >> When idle, the driver wakes up every 10ms to check for something on >> the driver. >> > > Wow, 100 times per second, that sure sounds gross for piping out SEL > entries! Though it certainly doesn't matter much for our servers, but > hasn't it got the potential to heavily tax laptop batteries? Or is > that why ipmi_si isn't loaded automatically by udev? > IPMI is used for a lot of things beyond just getting SEL entries. I some cases (probably most) it's excessive, in others it's not.
However, AFAIK IPMI hardware is only available in server systems. I don't think it's ever been used in a laptop.
-corey
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