Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:22:04 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y" |
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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 -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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