Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y" | Date | Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:26 +0100 |
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On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 11:28:29 AM Matthew Garrett wrote: > > The ACPI IPMI driver implements IPMI operation region support for the ACPI > core. Systems that declare ACPI operation regions may reference them at any > time, including during kernel initialisation. These accesses will fail > unless the ACPI IPMI driver is present, and undesirable system behaviour > may result. Set the default to Y in order to encourage distributions and > users to configure kernels to avoid awkward surprises.
Do you have any examples of problems caused by that or is this just theoretical at the moment?
Rafael
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