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| author | Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> | 2017-08-19 01:32:03 +0300 |
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| committer | Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> | 2017-09-28 00:03:45 +0300 |
| commit | 1c9f98d1bfbd0696442f97fa7d43a727e1e16568 (patch) | |
| tree | d8ec85252acaa934729502d072b832fc6906c815 /drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig | |
| parent | b72fce52a14bbe0a94259a95032cf9dd1b3dd143 (diff) | |
| download | linux-1c9f98d1bfbd0696442f97fa7d43a727e1e16568.tar.xz | |
ipmi: Make IPMI panic strings always available
They were set by config items, but people complained that they were
never turned on. So have them always available and enabled by a
module parameter.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig | 27 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig b/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig index f6fa056a52fc..152ccefdaecb 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig @@ -25,21 +25,28 @@ if IPMI_HANDLER config IPMI_PANIC_EVENT bool 'Generate a panic event to all BMCs on a panic' help - When a panic occurs, this will cause the IPMI message handler to - generate an IPMI event describing the panic to each interface - registered with the message handler. + When a panic occurs, this will cause the IPMI message handler to, + by default, generate an IPMI event describing the panic to each + interface registered with the message handler. This is always + available, the module parameter for ipmi_msghandler named + panic_op can be set to "event" to chose this value, this config + simply causes the default value to be set to "event". config IPMI_PANIC_STRING bool 'Generate OEM events containing the panic string' depends on IPMI_PANIC_EVENT help - When a panic occurs, this will cause the IPMI message handler to - generate IPMI OEM type f0 events holding the IPMB address of the - panic generator (byte 4 of the event), a sequence number for the - string (byte 5 of the event) and part of the string (the rest of the - event). Bytes 1, 2, and 3 are the normal usage for an OEM event. - You can fetch these events and use the sequence numbers to piece the - string together. + When a panic occurs, this will cause the IPMI message handler to, + by default, generate IPMI OEM type f0 events holding the IPMB + address of the panic generator (byte 4 of the event), a sequence + number for the string (byte 5 of the event) and part of the + string (the rest of the event). Bytes 1, 2, and 3 are the normal + usage for an OEM event. You can fetch these events and use the + sequence numbers to piece the string together. This config + parameter sets the default value to generate these events, + the module parameter for ipmi_msghandler named panic_op can + be set to "string" to chose this value, this config simply + causes the default value to be set to "string". config IPMI_DEVICE_INTERFACE tristate 'Device interface for IPMI' |