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

[Matthew Garrett]

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.

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Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx>