Description of problem:

Moving to RHEL4 Update 5 breaks OpenIPMI temperature readings on (at least) Dell
SC1435 servers. The problem appears to be located in the
ipmitool-1.8.8-disabled-sensor.patch, as reverting that patch corrects the
problem. Note that the SC1435s are AMD-based servers, so are not affected by the
Woodcrest issues that seem to be behind that patch.

The same behaviour is also evident on RHEL5, apparently due to the same patch.

James Pearson supplied the attached patch which undoes the portion of the
disabled-sensor patch that seems to cause the problem (with the disclaimer that
he wasn't an OpenIPMI expert). I can report that James' patch fixes the problem
for me on both RHEL4U5 and RHEL5.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

1.4.14-1.4E.17

How reproducible:

  # ipmitool sdr type Temperature
  Temp             | 01h | ns  |  3.1 | Disabled
  Planar Temp      | 04h | ok  |  7.1 | 30 degrees C

Reverting that patch:

  # ipmitool sdr type Temperature
  Temp             | 01h | ok  |  3.1 | 35 degrees C
  Planar Temp      | 04h | ok  |  7.1 | 30 degrees C



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