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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 08:22:04 +0100 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@...ula.com> Cc: "lenb@...nel.org" <lenb@...nel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "minyard@....org" <minyard@....org>, "rjw@...ysocki.net" <rjw@...ysocki.net>, "linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [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 -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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