Re: Noisy ipmi0 after bootup?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Havard Eidnes wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I notice that when I boot NetBSD install media on recent hardware
> where it can find e.g. an ipmi0 device, it's spews console
> messages a short while after boot-up, apparently only to tell the
> user that everything is normal, e.g.
>
> ipmi0: normal state on 'Temp 9'
> ipmi0: normal state on 'Temp 2'
> ipmi0: normal state on 'Temp 1'
>
> etc.  Since this is on the console, these get duplicated as well,
> and since they are likely to appear while sysinst is running, are
> also likely to mess up the display.
>
> Can this sort of thing be necessary?!?

This is expected behavior with the current code, and happens on the 
first poll interval for each sensor that is monitored.  When a new 
monitor task is created, it has no previous reported state, so when the 
poll determines the new state is Normal, it reports the state change.

It would not be extremely difficult to suppress this by initializing
the previous value for a newly-created monitor task to "Normal".

Personally I like having the initial state reported, but I could be 
rather easily convinced to change it.

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