Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 11:28:29 AM Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 
> The ACPI IPMI driver implements IPMI operation region support for the ACPI
> core. Systems that declare ACPI operation regions may reference them at any
> time, including during kernel initialisation. These accesses will fail
> unless the ACPI IPMI driver is present, and undesirable system behaviour
> may result. Set the default to Y in order to encourage distributions and
> users to configure kernels to avoid awkward surprises.

Do you have any examples of problems caused by that or is this just theoretical
at the moment?

Rafael

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