Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

[Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:39:23PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 15:28 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote:
> 
> > For some customers _any_ amount is significant, especially
> > on large clustered systems where the amount is multiplied
> > by tens or hundreds of thousands of nodes.
> > 
> > You many not think wasting their cpu cycles is important, but they do.
> 
> Then they should be running locally built kernels in order to ensure

Why don't YOU run a locally built kernel?

> that there's no problematic code running at all. Distribution kernels
> will always contain code that some customers won't be interested in, and
> some of that code will end up executing.

We support multiple distros so if one does something the customer
does not like/need we can steer them to other distros.

> If you have specific bug reports, that would be helpful. But you're not
> describing actual failure conditions or showing any willingness to
> figure out what the underlying problem is.

You can't fix your problem without creating problems for
others to fix?


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Russ Anderson,  Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc          rja@sgi.com