Re: Noisy ipmi0 after bootup? (really other kernel noise)

["Juan Romero Pardines" <xtraeme%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Simon Burge wrote:

> With no added options and today's sources, I get the added bonus of
> being told the previous critical warnings twice!  This is booting to
> single user, so no syslogd etc:
>
>  ipmi0: critical over limit on 'Fan8/CPU2'
>  ipmi0: critical over limit on 'Fan8/CPU2'
>  ipmi0: critical over limit on 'Fan7/CPU1'
>  ipmi0: critical over limit on 'Fan7/CPU1'
>  ipmi0: critical over limit on 'Fan6'
>  ipmi0: critical over limit on 'Fan6'
>  ipmi0: critical over limit on 'Fan5'
>  ipmi0: critical over limit on 'Fan5'
>  ipmi0: critical over limit on 'Fan4'
>  ipmi0: critical over limit on 'Fan4'

IMHO, the correct fix for this would be to check in ipmi.c:ipmi_sensor_status()
if edata->value_cur contains valid data, otherwise I'd change its state to
ENVSYS_SINVALID.