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

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Defaults are not right solution; system should still work if I select
> > non-default settings. Which you claim is not a case, but you don't see
> > why you should fix it.
> 
> If something is implemented using IPMI, then IPMI has to be there to
> use it.  Matthew's statement was:
> 
> 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).

Yes, and this failure is not fixed with different default.

									Pavel
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