From: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
Cc: minyard@acm.org, lenb@kernel.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
rja@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:01:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140220230126.GA13558@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1392740909-2079-1-git-send-email-matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:28:29AM -0500, 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.
Could you be more specific? Is the problem kernel code
trying to use IPMI functionality before the ipmi_si driver
is loaded? Or something else?
What is the "undesirable system behaviour"?
> Set the default to Y in order to encourage distributions and
> users to configure kernels to avoid awkward surprises.
What are the "awkward surprises"?
Thanks,
--
Russ Anderson, Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-20 23:01 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
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 [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20140220230126.GA13558@sgi.com \
--to=rja@sgi.com \
--cc=lenb@kernel.org \
--cc=linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=matthew.garrett@nebula.com \
--cc=minyard@acm.org \
--cc=rjw@rjwysocki.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.