NC-SI driver: Detect OCP module power down!

[Thu Nguyen]

On 1/3/21 23:44, Milton Miller II wrote:
> January 03, 2021 8:45 AM Thu Nguyen wrote and miltonm at us.ibm.com 
> <mailto:miltonm at us.ibm.com> responded:
>
> In our test platform, BMC boot up with NC-SI module is plugged and
> powered. NC-SI interface (eth0) is up and worked well.
>
> Then the power of NC-SI module is power off. NC-SI driver can't detect
> this state.
>
> BMC console keeps print:
>
> [ 1780.411126] ftgmac100 1e660000.ethernet eth0: NCSI Channel 0 timed out!
>
> [ 1785.579455] ftgmac100 1e660000.ethernet eth0: NCSI: No channel with
> link found, configuring channel 0
>
> [ 1802.253375] ftgmac100 1e660000.ethernet eth0: NCSI Channel 0 timed out!
>
> [ 1807.501456] ftgmac100 1e660000.ethernet eth0: NCSI: No channel with
> link found, configuring channel 0
>
> Look at the ncs-manager.c code, it seems if a channel of NC-SI module is
> time out its' monitor_state will be disabled, the link will be down then
> the driver will go to next channel.
>
> But if all of channels of NC-SI module are down. The driver will reset
> the monitor_state of all channels and check their states again.
>
> Milton> The NCSI specification explicitly says that power to the nics 
> and the controller must be synchronized.
>
>
> Do we have any mechanism to detect power off state of NC-SI module?
>
> Milton> No, but the state machines will reset if you ifconfig down the 
> interface.

[Thu] Thank for this info. It seem there are no ways to detect Power off 
state of NC-SI module.

This case is similar with the case OCP is failure or Unplugged when hot 
plug.

>
> How about hot plug NC-SI module?
>
>
> Regards.
>
> Thu Nguyen.
>
Regards.

Thu Nguyen.

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