On Sunday, February 23, 2014 08:23:33 PM [email protected] 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
