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-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
index b043d8d45823..877205d22046 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_ssif.c
@@ -1136,6 +1136,10 @@ module_param_array(slave_addrs, int, &num_slave_addrs, 0);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(slave_addrs,
"The default IPMB slave address for the controller.");
+static bool alerts_broken;
+module_param(alerts_broken, bool, 0);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(alerts_broken, "Don't enable alerts for the controller.");
+
/*
* Bit 0 enables message debugging, bit 1 enables state debugging, and
* bit 2 enables timing debugging. This is an array indexed by
@@ -1582,6 +1586,10 @@ static int ssif_probe(struct i2c_client *client, const struct i2c_device_id *id)
ssif_info->global_enables |= IPMI_BMC_EVT_MSG_BUFF;
}
+ /* Some systems don't behave well if you enable alerts. */
+ if (alerts_broken)
+ goto found;
+
msg[0] = IPMI_NETFN_APP_REQUEST << 2;
msg[1] = IPMI_SET_BMC_GLOBAL_ENABLES_CMD;
msg[2] = ssif_info->global_enables | IPMI_BMC_RCV_MSG_INTR;