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SubjectRe: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"
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On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 00:00 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Tue 2014-02-18 23:15:08, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > For example, if you load the ACPI power meter driver before you've
> > installed the ACPI IPMI driver you'll typically get failures (most
> > vendors implement it via IPMI).
>
> Would the right solution be to implement dependency between power
> meter and IMPI?

No. The power meter driver knows nothing about IPMI. It makes no IPMI
calls. There's no requirement that a vendor implement it via IPMI.

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Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
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