[PATCH] ipmi: add new kernel options to prevent automatic ipmi init

[Tony Camuso]

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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Robert Evans <Robert.Evans@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jim Paradis <jparadis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tony Camuso <tcamuso@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index 20ab5b3..0a441cf 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 int           si_tryacpi = 1;
+#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_DMI
+static int           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
-- 
1.7.11.7

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