Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/3] ipmi: Cleanups for allowing IPMI support to always be "y" | Date | Mon, 24 Feb 2014 13:43:14 +0100 |
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On Sunday, February 23, 2014 08:23:33 PM minyard@acm.org wrote: > Three patches to remove issues with probing interface default, to make > sure the driver is completely idle if nothing is happening on it, and to > compile the IPMI driver into the kernel if ACPI is enabled. > > The ACPI spec really requires that the IPMI driver be built into the > kernel because ACPI uses IPMI for some operations. But some people > do not want the driver even using the mimimal amount of CPU it uses > when idle. And the default probing, even though sort of implied to > be required by the spec, is really a bad idea and can result in hangs > on systems with other hardware at those location. > > Hopefully these patches make everyone happy.
No objections from my side.
I'll drop the Matthew's patch ([3/3] in this series) from my tree, then, so please carry it along will any followups if needed.
Thanks, Rafael
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