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From: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
To: "pavel@ucw.cz" <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "lenb@kernel.org" <lenb@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"minyard@acm.org" <minyard@acm.org>,
	"rjw@rjwysocki.net" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:22:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1394666568.25122.1.camel@x230> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140312230007.GA1817@amd.pavel.ucw.cz>

On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 00:00 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Tue 2014-02-18 23:15:08, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> Would the right solution be to implement dependency between power
> meter and IMPI?

No. The power meter driver knows nothing about IPMI. It makes no IPMI
calls. There's no requirement that a vendor implement it via IPMI.

-- 
Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>

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From: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
To: "pavel@ucw.cz" <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "lenb@kernel.org" <lenb@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"minyard@acm.org" <minyard@acm.org>,
	"rjw@rjwysocki.net" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 23:22:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1394666568.25122.1.camel@x230> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140312230007.GA1817@amd.pavel.ucw.cz>

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On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 00:00 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Tue 2014-02-18 23:15:08, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> Would the right solution be to implement dependency between power
> meter and IMPI?

No. The power meter driver knows nothing about IPMI. It makes no IPMI
calls. There's no requirement that a vendor implement it via IPMI.

-- 
Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-12 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-18 16:28 [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y" Matthew Garrett
2014-02-18 23:26 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-02-18 23:15   ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-18 23:15     ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-18 23:35     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-02-18 23:25       ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-18 23:25         ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-19  0:45         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-02-19  0:53           ` Corey Minyard
2014-03-12 23:00     ` Pavel Machek
2014-03-12 23:22       ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2014-03-12 23:22         ` Matthew Garrett
2014-03-13  7:22         ` Pavel Machek
2014-03-13  7:24           ` Matthew Garrett
2014-03-13  7:24             ` Matthew Garrett
2014-03-13  8:38             ` Pavel Machek
2014-03-13 13:29               ` Corey Minyard
2014-03-16  8:53                 ` Pavel Machek
2014-02-20 20:14 ` Russ Anderson
2014-02-20 20:16   ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-20 20:16     ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-20 20:40     ` Russ Anderson
2014-02-20 20:46       ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-20 20:46         ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-20 20:59         ` Russ Anderson
2014-02-20 21:00           ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-20 21:00             ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-20 21:28             ` Russ Anderson
2014-02-20 21:39               ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-20 21:39                 ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-20 22:06                 ` Russ Anderson
2014-02-20 22:26                   ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-20 22:26                     ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-20 22:45                     ` Russ Anderson
2014-02-20 23:09                       ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-20 23:09                         ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-20 23:59                         ` Russ Anderson
2014-02-21  0:13                           ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-21  0:13                             ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-21 16:53                             ` Russ Anderson
2014-02-21  2:17                           ` Zheng, Lv
2014-02-21 16:12                             ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-21 16:12                               ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-24  0:48                               ` Zheng, Lv
2014-02-24  0:48                                 ` Zheng, Lv
2014-02-21 16:33                             ` Russ Anderson
2014-02-21 13:37             ` Corey Minyard
2014-02-21 15:51               ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-21 15:51                 ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-21 17:12                 ` Corey Minyard
2014-02-20 21:49         ` Russ Anderson
2014-02-20 21:51           ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-20 21:51             ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-21  0:10   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-02-20 23:01 ` Russ Anderson

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