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

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Paul Goyette wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Simon Burge wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure if this qualifies.  With an August 23 kernel, I get these
> > during a boot:
> >
> >     ipmi0: critical over limit on 'Fan8/CPU2'
> >     ipmi0: critical over limit on 'Fan7/CPU1'
> >     ipmi0: critical over limit on 'Fan6'
> >     ipmi0: critical over limit on 'Fan5'
> >     ipmi0: critical over limit on 'Fan4'
> >
> > This spew on to console about 10 or 15 seconds after init starts, and
> > happen even if I boot to single user mode (ie, no rc.d stuff involved at
> > all).
> >
> > I suspect these are just unattached sensors?  They never change from:
> >
> >         Fan8/CPU2:          0 RPM
> >         Fan7/CPU1:          0 RPM
> >              Fan6:          0 RPM
> >              Fan5:          0 RPM
> >              Fan4:          0 RPM
> 
> Well, that certainly qualifies as weird!  It's rather hard to imagine 
> how a fan running at 0 RPM could be over any critical limit!  :)

I assumed that a fan not spinning at all was "critical" too...

> Unattached sensors shouldn't generate alarms.  Any chance you could 
> check with a kernel from today to see if the initialization code I 
> committed has any effect?  Meantime I grovel through the code again 
> looking for more clues.

Ok, will try this.  Any FOO_DEBUG options I can set to get extra info?

Cheers,
Simon.