From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bjorn Helgaas Subject: Re: [PATCH ] IPMI: Locate the IPMI system interface in ACPI namespace Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:59:06 -0600 Message-ID: <200911170759.06902.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> References: <1258363089-26881-1-git-send-email-yakui.zhao@intel.com> <200911161051.33492.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <1258419550.3813.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from g6t0187.atlanta.hp.com ([15.193.32.64]:21401 "EHLO g6t0187.atlanta.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750991AbZKQO7D (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:59:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1258419550.3813.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: ykzhao Cc: "minyard@acm.org" , "openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net" , "lenb@kernel.org" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" On Monday 16 November 2009 05:59:10 pm ykzhao wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 01:51 +0800, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > On Monday 16 November 2009 02:18:09 am yakui.zhao@intel.com wrote: > > > From: Zhao Yakui > > > > In fact, I gave you detailed feedback on previous versions of this > > patch, and you've ignored it all. > > Understand what you said. You feedback contains two points. > a. Load the Pnp device driver to detect the IPMI device so that we can > use the IO/memory resource parse mechanism of PNP device. > b. Load a ACPI device driver to detect the IPMI device Yes, you're right. I'm sorry I forgot that you *did* respond to those. You didn't agree, and that's fine. I'll post a sample patch to make my suggestion more concrete. Bjorn