On Sunday, February 23, 2014 08:23:33 PM miny...@acm.org wrote: > Three patches to remove issues with probing interface default, to make > sure the driver is completely idle if nothing is happening on it, and to > compile the IPMI driver into the kernel if ACPI is enabled. > > The ACPI spec really requires that the IPMI driver be built into the > kernel because ACPI uses IPMI for some operations. But some people > do not want the driver even using the mimimal amount of CPU it uses > when idle. And the default probing, even though sort of implied to > be required by the spec, is really a bad idea and can result in hangs > on systems with other hardware at those location. > > Hopefully these patches make everyone happy.
No objections from my side. I'll drop the Matthew's patch ([3/3] in this series) from my tree, then, so please carry it along will any followups if needed. Thanks, 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/
