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Subject[PATCH] 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: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>

Index: linux-2.6.18/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ linux-2.6.18/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -916,7 +916,11 @@ static int smi_start_processing(void
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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