From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rocky Craig Subject: Re: [Openipmi-developer] IPMI device discovery [was Re: [PATCH ] IPMI: Locate the IPMI system interface in ACPI namespace] Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:53:38 -0700 Message-ID: <4B046CE2.90200@hp.com> References: <1258363089-26881-1-git-send-email-yakui.zhao@intel.com> <200911180945.45570.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <4B045BD9.8070906@hp.com> <200911181419.27238.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from g1t0027.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.34]:8041 "EHLO g1t0027.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751892AbZKRVvs (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:51:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200911181419.27238.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: "minyard@acm.org" , ykzhao , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" , Myron Stowe , "openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net" , "lenb@kernel.org" Bjorn Helgaas emitted: > I disagree that this requirement was lost.... Sorry, my words did not convey my intended meaning, which was that "conformance" or "coherence" was lost, with SPMI also being listed in ACPI general namespace. You actually stated this with greater clarity: > There may be firmware that has an SPMI but neglects to put the device > in the namespace. That may be the case on some legacy servers. Rocky