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SubjectRe: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"
On Wed 2014-03-12 23:22:49, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.

Yet you claim that IMPI is needed for that, and that's why you made
IMPI default.

So ... do we need dmi-based blacklist?
Pavel
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