The event receiver is disabled rather than enabled in the OpenIPMI interface because the IPMICTL_SET_GETS_EVENTS_CMD ioctl is called with an argument of 0 instead of 1.
This means that only IPMI backends that are driven by their own timer/interrupts will generate events.
Reported by: benjaminfair Original Ticket: ipmitool/bugs/488
The event receiver is disabled rather than enabled in the OpenIPMI interface because the IPMICTL_SET_GETS_EVENTS_CMD ioctl is called with an argument of 0 instead of 1.
This means that only IPMI backends that are driven by their own timer/interrupts will generate events.