Subject: Re: [patch] ipmi: check, if default ports are accessible on PPC

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:48:21 +0200

On Mon, Feb 26, Christian Krafft wrote:

> ipmi_si_intf tries to access default ports, if no device could
> be found elsewhere. On PPC we have a function to check,
> if these legacy IO ports are accessible. This patch adds
> a check for these ports on PPC.
> This patch fixes a breakage of IPMI module
> on PPC machines without a BMC.

This patch is a no-op even for IPMI capable systems.
None of the platform check_legacy_ioport() functions check for port
number 0xca2, 0xca9 or 0xe4.

What exactly did you test? Appearently not Linus tree.