Re: [Openipmi-developer] modprobe ipmi_si hangs under 2.6.30-rc5

[Corey Minyard]

Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Corey Minyard <minyard@xxxxxxx> 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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