Feature Request: dracut integration

[emansom]

During boot and reboot cycles the fans will blast at 100% as SMFC isn't running yet.

This can be rather annoying, especially when the server has rebooted itself (e.g. watchdog after kernel panic) and it's waiting on a LUKS key phrase.

Implementing a dracut module would resolve this.

[petersulyok]

I think the spinning up of the fans made by SMFC itself when it set IPMI to FULL mode (if it was in a different one).

   # Create an Ipmi class instances and set required IPMI fan mode.
    try:
        my_ipmi = Ipmi(my_log, my_config)
        old_mode = my_ipmi.get_fan_mode()
    except (ValueError, FileNotFoundError) as e:
        my_log.msg(my_log.LOG_ERROR, f'{e}.')
        sys.exit(7)
    my_log.msg(my_log.LOG_DEBUG, f'Old IPMI fan mode = {my_ipmi.get_fan_mode_name(old_mode)}')
    if old_mode != my_ipmi.FULL_MODE:
        my_ipmi.set_fan_mode(my_ipmi.FULL_MODE)
        my_log.msg(my_log.LOG_DEBUG, f'New IPMI fan mode = {my_ipmi.get_fan_mode_name(my_ipmi.FULL_MODE)}')

You can give a try with disabling SMFC and check the booting process.

If SMFC is enabled sometimes I can do a full boot cycle without fans at 100%, sometimes I cannot. It is not consistent.