The IPMI specifcation says the generator ID is 0x20, but that is for bits 7-1. Bit 0 is set to specify it is a software event. The correct value is 0x41. Without this fix, panic events written into the System Event Log appear to come from an "unknown" generator, rather than from the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Jordan Hargrave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com --- linux-2.6/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c Tue Dec 6 12:53:19 2005 +++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c Fri Dec 9 10:27:42 2005 @@ -2986,7 +2986,7 @@ static void send_panic_events(char *str) msg.cmd = 2; /* Platform event command. */ msg.data = data; msg.data_len = 8; - data[0] = 0x21; /* Kernel generator ID, IPMI table 5-4 */ + data[0] = 0x41; /* Kernel generator ID, IPMI table 5-4 */ data[1] = 0x03; /* This is for IPMI 1.0. */ data[2] = 0x20; /* OS Critical Stop, IPMI table 36-3 */ data[4] = 0x6f; /* Sensor specific, IPMI table 36-1 */ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
