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* [PATCH 0/3] ipmi: Cleanups for allowing IPMI support to always be "y"
@ 2014-02-24  2:23 minyard
  2014-02-24  2:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] ipmi: Turn off default probing of interfaces minyard
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From: minyard @ 2014-02-24  2:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: OpenIPMI Developers
  Cc: Linux Kernel, Russ Anderson, Matthew Garrett, lenb, rjw,
	linux-acpi

Three patches to remove issues with probing interface default, to make
sure the driver is completely idle if nothing is happening on it, and to
compile the IPMI driver into the kernel if ACPI is enabled.

The ACPI spec really requires that the IPMI driver be built into the
kernel because ACPI uses IPMI for some operations.  But some people
do not want the driver even using the mimimal amount of CPU it uses
when idle.  And the default probing, even though sort of implied to
be required by the spec, is really a bad idea and can result in hangs
on systems with other hardware at those location.

Hopefully these patches make everyone happy.


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2014-02-24  2:23 [PATCH 0/3] ipmi: Cleanups for allowing IPMI support to always be "y" minyard
2014-02-24  2:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] ipmi: Turn off default probing of interfaces minyard
2014-02-24 16:53   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-02-24 16:55     ` Matthew Garrett
2014-02-24 16:57     ` Corey Minyard
2014-02-24  2:23 ` [PATCH 2/3] ipmi: Turn off all activity on an idle ipmi interface minyard
2014-02-24 16:57   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-02-24 17:08     ` Corey Minyard
2014-02-24  2:23 ` [PATCH 3/3] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y" minyard
2014-02-24 12:43 ` [PATCH 0/3] ipmi: Cleanups for allowing IPMI support to always be "y" Rafael J. Wysocki

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