From: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
To: Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@hp.com>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, lenb@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipmi: remove SPMI and update core driver with dev_printk
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:07:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B8FBE8F.3030203@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100304033146.30205.68689.stgit@bob.kio>
Myron Stowe wrote:
> These patches remove the SPMI based IPMI device discovery mechanism and
> update the driver's core to use dev_printk() and its constructs.
>
> As part of this patch series I wanted to remove the 'PFX' argument from
> ipmi_of_probe()'s dev_printk constructs as I believe it produces redundant
> output but I do not have a PPC platform to test against.
>
I like the dev_printk() stuff. The order of discovery change is
correct, too, I believe. I don't have a PPC platform (with OF, anyway)
with IPMI, so I can't test that, either.
> Ultimately, I would like to see if it is possible to also remove IPMI's
> SMBIOS based device discovery mechanism.
>
Maybe in an ideal world, but I don't know where an ideal world is, so I
have to live in the one I'm in. There's plenty of systems that only
document this in SMBIOS tables, there's plenty of systems with broken
ACPI, etc. So SMBIOS and SPMI are going to have to stay.
-corey
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-04 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-04 3:44 [PATCH 0/4] ipmi: remove SPMI and update core driver with dev_printk Myron Stowe
2010-03-04 3:44 ` [PATCH 1/4] ipmi: Raise precedence of PNP based discovery mechanisms (ACPI, PCI) Myron Stowe
2010-03-04 3:44 ` [PATCH 2/4] ipmi: Remove SPMI table based device discovery method Myron Stowe
2010-03-04 7:56 ` [Openipmi-developer] " Bela Lubkin
2010-03-04 18:47 ` Myron Stowe
2010-03-05 12:58 ` Bela Lubkin
2010-03-05 16:06 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-03-05 17:13 ` [Openipmi-developer] " Myron Stowe
2010-03-04 3:44 ` [PATCH 3/4] ipmi: Convert tracking of the ACPI device pointer to a PNP device Myron Stowe
2010-03-04 9:20 ` ykzhao
2010-03-04 20:48 ` Myron Stowe
2010-03-05 1:46 ` ykzhao
2010-03-05 16:41 ` Myron Stowe
2010-03-05 19:34 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2010-03-04 3:44 ` [PATCH 4/4] ipmi: Update driver to use 'dev_printk()' and its constructs Myron Stowe
2010-03-04 14:07 ` Corey Minyard [this message]
2010-03-05 16:31 ` [PATCH 0/4] ipmi: remove SPMI and update core driver with dev_printk Myron Stowe
2010-03-09 23:16 ` Myron Stowe
2010-03-10 14:55 ` [SPAM] - Re: [PATCH 0/4] ipmi: remove SPMI and update core driver with dev_printk - Email found in subject Andy Cress
2010-03-10 15:20 ` Corey Minyard
2010-03-10 17:55 ` [Openipmi-developer] " Myron Stowe
2010-03-11 17:10 ` Bela Lubkin
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