Can you try adding the debug parameters I specified in the first email
to the ipmi_smb module?  That would dump useful debug information to the
syslog.

-Corey

sangamesh mahashetti wrote:

>Hi Corey
>        thank you for the response. i am sorry i could not reply to you
>immediately.i applied the patch you gave me and rebuilt the kernel. the
>problem hasn't gone away. now the system goes down after some time. so i
>checked /var/log/messages try and find out why it went down. i did not
>get any core dumps or error messages. is there some other way to debug
>this ?
>
>thanks & regards
>SangameshM
>On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 11:22 +0530, Anupama M.R. wrote:
>  
>
>>-----Original Message----- 
>>From: Corey Minyard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>>Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 9:04 PM 
>>To: Anupama M.R. 
>>Cc: [email protected] 
>>Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] FW: mail to IPMI group
>>
>>
>>Anupama M.R. wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hi, 
>>>
>>>i have a Intel SE7520JR2 Motherboard  running Linux fedora core 4 
>>>with 2.6.15 kernel. i have applied the following ipmi patches to the 
>>>kernel in the same order. 
>>>
>>>1. linux-base-2.6.15-v38.0.diff 
>>>2. linux-emu-2.6.15-v38.0.diff 
>>>3. linux-i2c-2.6.15-v38.0.diff 
>>>4. linux-i2c-i801-2.6.15-v38.0.diff 
>>>5. linux-smb-2.6.15-v38.0.diff 
>>>
>>>I am using ipmitool to view sensor values. The problem is ipmitool
>>>      
>>>
>>is 
>>    
>>
>>>inconsistent. some times it works and some times it doesn't. some
>>>      
>>>
>>times 
>>    
>>
>>>ipmitool reports "Unable to get SDR info" after a while. 
>>>
>>>I had ipmi drivers up and running fine on 2.6.13.2. only when i
>>>      
>>>
>>changed 
>>    
>>
>>>to 2.6.15 i am facing this problem. it would be great if anyone
>>>      
>>>
>>could 
>>    
>>
>>>help me out. 
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Thanks for reporting this.  I think there is a missing
>>initialization, 
>>can try try the attached patch?
>>
>>That patch should fix the oops, which should allow things to be 
>>initialized properly, which should hopefully let the IPMI driver
>>work :).
>>
>>If not, we need to probe some more.  When you load the ipmi_smb
>>module, 
>>can you specify "dbg_probe=1 dbg=7" to have it spit out more debugging
>>info?
>>
>>-Corey
>>
>>    
>>
>>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>Index: linux-2.6.15/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
>>===================================================================
>>--- linux-2.6.15.orig/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
>>+++ linux-2.6.15/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
>>@@ -1407,6 +1407,7 @@ s32 i2c_smbus_xfer(struct i2c_adapter * 
>>      entry->smbus.command = command;
>>      entry->smbus.size = size;
>>      entry->smbus.data = data;
>>+     entry->complete = NULL;
>> 
>>      if (algo->smbus_start) {
>>              i2c_perform_op_wait(adapter, entry);
>>    
>>



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