Messages in this thread | | | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y" | Date | Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:22:49 +0000 |
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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.
-- Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
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