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); >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- 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://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
