linux-kernel - Re: PROBLEM: modprobe hang at startup (3.8.x, 3.9.x, IBM x3550)

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Message-ID: <20130517102456.GA28229@pyro.melbourne.osa>
Date:	Fri, 17 May 2013 20:24:56 +1000
From:	Robert Norris <robn@...ra.com>
To:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
Cc:	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux I2C <linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: modprobe hang at startup (3.8.x, 3.9.x, IBM x3550)

On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:36:22AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> IPMI is still likely to access the SMBus controller. If there's a BMC
> in the machine, it can also access the SMBus slave with its own
> controller. It would be good to rule this out by disabling IPMI
> completely, removing the BMC from the machine if it has one, and
> checking if it makes the issue go away or not.

I think they do have a BMC (dmidecode would suggest so). I'll need to
confirm this, and then get the datacentre support guys to pull it (yeah,
messy - inherited machines on the other side of the world). It might
take a couple of days, I'll let you know how it goes.

Cheers,
Rob.
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