[PATCH 0/4] dmi: Rework to get IPMI autoloading from DMI tables

From: minyard
Date: Fri Jan 29 2016 - 18:44:13 EST


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