linux-kernel - [PATCH] Don't start kipmid if the IPMI driver can use interrupts

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Date:	Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:10:54 -0500
From:	Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>
To:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: [PATCH] Don't start kipmid if the IPMI driver can use interrupts


If the driver has interrupts available to it, there is really no
reason to have a kernel daemon push the IPMI state machine.

Note that I have experienced machines where the interrupts do
not work correctly.  This was a long time ago and hopefully
things are better now.  If some machines still have broken
interrupts, a blacklist will need to be added.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>

Index: linux-2.6.18/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ linux-2.6.18/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -916,7 +916,11 @@ static int smi_start_processing(void    
 	new_smi->last_timeout_jiffies = jiffies;
 	mod_timer(&new_smi->si_timer, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
 
- 	if (new_smi->si_type != SI_BT) {
+	/*
+	 * The BT interface is efficient enough to not need a thread,
+	 * and there is no need for a thread if we have interrupts.
+	 */
+ 	if ((new_smi->si_type != SI_BT) && (!new_smi->irq)) {
 		new_smi->thread = kthread_run(ipmi_thread, new_smi,
 					      "kipmi%d", new_smi->intf_num);
 		if (IS_ERR(new_smi->thread)) {
-
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