[Bug 1483214] [NEW] ipmi_si module spams kernel log with "ipmi_si 00:05: Could not set the global enables: 0xcc."

[Felix Matouschek]

Public bug reported:

Hello,

after upgrading my system to 14.04.3 LTS and installing the Vivid-LTS-
Enablement-Stack the kernel log of my system is spammed with the
following message by the "impi_si" kernel module:

...
[ 2268.244383] ipmi_si 00:05: Could not set the global enables: 0xcc.
[ 2269.451974] ipmi_si 00:05: Could not set the global enables: 0xcc.
[ 2270.252290] ipmi_si 00:05: Could not set the global enables: 0xcc.
[ 2271.452749] ipmi_si 00:05: Could not set the global enables: 0xcc.
[ 2272.253057] ipmi_si 00:05: Could not set the global enables: 0xcc.
...

This bug is already known to the ipmi_si kernel module maintainer and
seems to be fixed in 4.0+ kernels.

Is it possible to backport this fix to the Vivid 3.19 kernel?

Please see this mail thread: https://www.mail-archive.com/openipmi-
developer at lists.sourceforge.net/msg02425.html

IPMI functionality seems to be unaffected by this bug but as I said it
spams the kernel log and that is rather annoying.

System information:

lsb_release -rd:
    Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS
    Release:        14.04

apt-cache policy openipmi:

    openipmi:
      Installiert:           2.0.18-0ubuntu7.1
      Installationskandidat: 2.0.18-0ubuntu7.1
      Versionstabelle:
     *** 2.0.18-0ubuntu7.1 0
            500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
            100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
         2.0.18-0ubuntu7 0
            500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

Greetings,
Felix

** Affects: linux-meta-lts-vivid (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: openipmi (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Also affects: linux-meta-lts-vivid (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  ipmi_si module spams kernel log with "ipmi_si 00:05: Could not set the
  global enables: 0xcc."

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