Re: [PATCH] ipmi: set si_trydefaults=0 for ARM64

[Tony Camuso <tcamuso@redhat.com>]

On 06/20/2016 04:57 PM, Corey Minyard wrote:
> On 06/20/2016 01:26 PM, Tony Camuso wrote:
>> Port I/O space does not exist in ARM64 and is not mapped. Attempts to
>> access it on ARM systems cause stack traces and worse.
>
> At this point, I think it is best to just completely pull out all concept
> of "default addresses" in the IPMI driver.  The defaults were disabled
> by default in 3.16, this is as good an impetus as any to just get rid
> of them.
>
> If you want, you can do a patch, or I can pull them out if you would
> prefer that.

I'll give it a go. Should have something later today.

Regards,
Tony


>
> Thanks,
>
> -corey
>
>> Signed-off-by: Tony Camuso <tcamuso@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 5 +++++
>>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
>> index 615abbf..85dcc86 100644
>> --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
>> +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
>> @@ -3841,6 +3841,11 @@ static int init_ipmi_si(void)
>>           spmi_find_bmc();
>>   #endif
>>   +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64
>> +    /* Don't touch port io space */
>> +    si_trydefaults = 0;
>> +#endif
>> +
>>   #ifdef CONFIG_PARISC
>>       register_parisc_driver(&ipmi_parisc_driver);
>>       parisc_registered = true;
>