Sorry, Brice. This has been reported by people, and it has been fixed by
later post. The commits within linus's tree are:
commit 6df77862f63f389df3b1ad879738e04440d7385d
Author: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com>
Date: Sun Nov 13 13:01:33 2016 +0800
bnx2: Wait for in-flight DMA to complete at probe stage
commit 5d0d4b91bf627f14f95167b738d524156c9d440b
Author: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com>
Date: Sun Nov 13 13:01:32 2016 +0800
Revert "bnx2: Reset device during driver initialization"
This reverts commit 3e1be7ad2d38c6bd6aeef96df9bd0a7822f4e51c.
And I believe both of them also are picked up into 4.8-stable kernel.
Please have a way to get them.
Sorry again!
Thanks
Baoquan
On 11/29/16 at 07:57am, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Hello
>
> My Dell PowerEdge R815 doesn't have IPMI anymore when I boot a 4.8
> kernel, the BMC doesn't even ping anymore. Its Ethernet devices are 4 of
> those:
>
> 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709
> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
> DeviceName: Embedded NIC 1
> Subsystem: Dell NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet
> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
> Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
> Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 42
> Region 0: Memory at e6000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
> Capabilities: <access denied>
> Kernel driver in use: bnx2
> Kernel modules: bnx2
>
> The only change in bnx2 between 4.7 and 4.8 appears to be this one:
>
> commit 3e1be7ad2d38c6bd6aeef96df9bd0a7822f4e51c
> Author: Baoquan He <b...@redhat.com>
> Date: Fri Sep 9 22:43:12 2016 +0800
>
> bnx2: Reset device during driver initialization
>
> Could you patch actually break the BMC? What do I need to further debug
> this issue?
>
> Thanks
> Brice
>
