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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
