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authorCorey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>2013-02-27 17:05:12 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-02-27 19:10:21 -0800
commitd941aeae42942c2ef61ed5e05cc1ad0428085704 (patch)
tree71dc328e44d821f70324cfea68b48c0a7c621bc4 /drivers/char/ipmi
parent59fb1b9f5d9910c2eb97107dd0eb7e3bce8f0dde (diff)
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/ipmi')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c28
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