From bf2d087749d91e1fa2826edde1e2fd650d3053ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Corey Minyard Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:49:18 -0500 Subject: ipmi:ssif: Add a module parm to specify that SMBus alerts don't work They are broken on some platforms, this gives people a chance to work around it until the firmware is fixed. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard --- drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'drivers/char/ipmi') diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c index b043d8d45823..877205d22046 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c @@ -1136,6 +1136,10 @@ module_param_array(slave_addrs, int, &num_slave_addrs, 0); MODULE_PARM_DESC(slave_addrs, "The default IPMB slave address for the controller."); +static bool alerts_broken; +module_param(alerts_broken, bool, 0); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(alerts_broken, "Don't enable alerts for the controller."); + /* * Bit 0 enables message debugging, bit 1 enables state debugging, and * bit 2 enables timing debugging. This is an array indexed by @@ -1582,6 +1586,10 @@ static int ssif_probe(struct i2c_client *client, const struct i2c_device_id *id) ssif_info->global_enables |= IPMI_BMC_EVT_MSG_BUFF; } + /* Some systems don't behave well if you enable alerts. */ + if (alerts_broken) + goto found; + msg[0] = IPMI_NETFN_APP_REQUEST << 2; msg[1] = IPMI_SET_BMC_GLOBAL_ENABLES_CMD; msg[2] = ssif_info->global_enables | IPMI_BMC_RCV_MSG_INTR; -- cgit v1.2.3