Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:57:11 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Davis, Todd C" <todd.c.davis@intel.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.4-rc2-mm1: IPMI_SMB doesnt compile
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:01:07AM -0600, Corey Minyard wrote:
> You need to run off the panic events, the config flag IPMI_PANIC_EVENT, 
> and it should compile fine.  This is a flag that causes the driver to 
> put some information about the panic into an event log in the IPMI 
> controller so it can be fetched later.
> 
> To do this, the driver needs a way to run each operation to completion 
> without scheduling, interrupts. or the like.  It needs this to do send 
> the panic event (since you cannot schedule during a panic), although it 
> also really needs it to do things like extend the watchdog timer time at 
> panic time.  The I2C driver does not currently have this, so it doesn't 
> work with this option and the SMBus driver.
> 
> I have included a patch from Todd Davis at Intel that adds this function 
> to the I2C driver.  I believe Todd has been working on getting this in 
> through the I2C driver writers, although the patch is fairly non-intrusive.

All I've seen are some 2.4 patches, no 2.6 patches.

Anyone care to send them to the i2c maintainers?

thanks,

greg k-h
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