Messages in this thread | | | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y" | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2014 07:24:36 +0000 |
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On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 08:22 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Wed 2014-03-12 23:22:49, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > 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.
I claim that the ACPI spec defines the behaviour of IPMI operation regions, and so we should default IPMI to Y in order to (by default) implement the ACPI spec.
> So ... do we need dmi-based blacklist?
I don't see why.
-- Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
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