Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752034AbbEFUeU (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2015 16:34:20 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f172.google.com ([209.85.214.172]:34183 "EHLO mail-ob0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751177AbbEFUeT convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2015 16:34:19 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <554A6C6F.4030602@acm.org> References: <554A0E26.1030605@acm.org> <554A6C6F.4030602@acm.org> Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 13:34:18 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] Shutdown behavior with IPMI enabled From: Mandeep Sandhu To: minyard@acm.org Cc: openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1374 Lines: 49 > Certainly, it should just immediately power the system off. There is a > soft shutdown option if you want a graceful shutdown. > > The spec says: > > 0 - power down. Force system into soft off (S4/S45) state. This is for > ‘emergency’ management power down actions. The command > does not initiate a clean shut-down of the operating system prior to > powering down the system. > > I would say the system in question is not compliant, to me, 6 seconds an > "force" are not the same thing :). You're right. The BMC firmware needs fixing! >>> It might be best to remove, or at least disable normally, the config >>> option in most systems. That way systems that really needed it could >>> have it, but it wouldn't affect most people. >> Which config option do you refer to here? Something that disables the >> IPMI power off function? > > Yes, CONFIG_IPMI_POWEROFF Ok. This is set as a module in my config. Maybe I should blacklist this module from loading. Thanks for your help. -mandeep > > -corey > >> Thanks for your time. >> >> Regards, >> -mandeep >> >>> -corey >>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> -mandeep > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/