Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:01:26 -0600 | From | Russ Anderson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y" |
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:28:29AM -0500, 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.
Could you be more specific? Is the problem kernel code trying to use IPMI functionality before the ipmi_si driver is loaded? Or something else?
What is the "undesirable system behaviour"?
> Set the default to Y in order to encourage distributions and > users to configure kernels to avoid awkward surprises.
What are the "awkward surprises"?
Thanks, -- Russ Anderson, Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com
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