SRU Justtification Impact: The driver code changed in 3.19 to do periodic checks on irq and message settings commit d9b7e4f717a167610a49ceb9e5969e80146c89a8 ipmi: Periodically check to see if irqs and messages are set right This causes repeated error messages in the logs for certain BMCs which do not allow to disable the irq mode in the global config even when they do not support irqs.
Fix: Cherry-pick upstream commit 1e7d6a45f6b10bc48a1453bca3d829e210546571 which adds a quirk to detect this situation and avoids touching those bits. This was done in 4.0, so the only affected kernel is 3.19. Testcase: With an affected BMC and without the patch, errors repeatedly get logged. With the patch applied, there will be only a single message in the log. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1483214 Title: ipmi_si module spams kernel log with "ipmi_si 00:05: Could not set the global enables: 0xcc." Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in openipmi package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in linux source package in Vivid: Triaged Status in openipmi source package in Vivid: Invalid Bug description: Hello, after upgrading my system to 14.04.3 LTS and installing the Vivid-LTS- Enablement-Stack the kernel log of my system is spammed with the following message by the "impi_si" kernel module: ... [ 2268.244383] ipmi_si 00:05: Could not set the global enables: 0xcc. [ 2269.451974] ipmi_si 00:05: Could not set the global enables: 0xcc. [ 2270.252290] ipmi_si 00:05: Could not set the global enables: 0xcc. [ 2271.452749] ipmi_si 00:05: Could not set the global enables: 0xcc. [ 2272.253057] ipmi_si 00:05: Could not set the global enables: 0xcc. ... This bug is already known to the ipmi_si kernel module maintainer and seems to be fixed in 4.0+ kernels. Is it possible to backport this fix to the Vivid 3.19 kernel? Please see this mail thread: https://www.mail-archive.com/openipmi- develo...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02425.html IPMI functionality seems to be unaffected by this bug but as I said it spams the kernel log and that is rather annoying. System information: lsb_release -rd: Description: Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS Release: 14.04 apt-cache policy openipmi: openipmi: Installiert: 2.0.18-0ubuntu7.1 Installationskandidat: 2.0.18-0ubuntu7.1 Versionstabelle: *** 2.0.18-0ubuntu7.1 0 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.0.18-0ubuntu7 0 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages Greetings, Felix To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1483214/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
