Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Feb 20 2014 - 15:16:32 EST


On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:14 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote:

> The distro that added this change created all sorts of support
> problems. Problems include kipmi0 spinning at 100% of cpu
> (creating a performance hit) and long boot delays (as the
> kernel tries to talk to a BMC that will never respond).
> It has been a big mess.

Why is the BMC not responding? Why is kipmi0 at 100%? Why are we not
fixing those bugs?

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Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx>