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Message-id: <1454107394-8914-1-git-send-email-minyard@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 16:43:10 -0600
From: minyard@....org
To: openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] dmi: Rework to get IPMI autoloading from DMI tables
The IPMI driver would not auto-load from DMI tables. So these patches
creates a platform device from an IPMI DMI table entry, and then
modify the IPMI driver to handle all this.
I followed how ACPI works mostly, with a fwnode and such. But greatly
simplified, of course :).
I'm no sure if patch 4 is done in the right place. Maybe it would
be better in the IPMI driver directory? But it's pretty clean where
it is.
Also, I wasn't quite sure about the name of the device. If the device
was named ipmi_si or ipmi_ssif, the driver override would not be
required, but then you really couldn't tell it came from DMI.
You could also create a firmware_node like ACPI does, but that might
be overkill.
-corey
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