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Message-ID: <20140313072204.GA7181@amd.pavel.ucw.cz>
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
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