Commit df3fe8de authored by Corey Minyard's avatar Corey Minyard Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ipmi: don't start kipmid if the IPMI driver can use interrupts

If the driver has interrupts available to it, there is really no reason to
have a kernel daemon push the IPMI state machine.

Note that I have experienced machines where the interrupts do not work
correctly.  This was a long time ago and hopefully things are better now.
If some machines still have broken interrupts, a blacklist will need to be
added.
Signed-off-by: default avatarCorey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent dcb9c392
......@@ -916,7 +916,11 @@ static int smi_start_processing(void *send_info,
new_smi->last_timeout_jiffies = jiffies;
mod_timer(&new_smi->si_timer, jiffies + SI_TIMEOUT_JIFFIES);
if (new_smi->si_type != SI_BT) {
/*
* The BT interface is efficient enough to not need a thread,
* and there is no need for a thread if we have interrupts.
*/
if ((new_smi->si_type != SI_BT) && (!new_smi->irq)) {
new_smi->thread = kthread_run(ipmi_thread, new_smi,
"kipmi%d", new_smi->intf_num);
if (IS_ERR(new_smi->thread)) {
......
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