From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751574AbaCPIxx (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Mar 2014 04:53:53 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:47713 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751165AbaCPIxv (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Mar 2014 04:53:51 -0400 Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 09:53:41 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Corey Minyard Cc: Matthew Garrett , "lenb@kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "rjw@rjwysocki.net" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y" Message-ID: <20140316085341.GA18516@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> References: <1392740909-2079-1-git-send-email-matthew.garrett@nebula.com> <1511662.Ly2fOjCGKz@vostro.rjw.lan> <1392765307.3488.1.camel@x230.lan> <20140312230007.GA1817@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <1394666568.25122.1.camel@x230> <20140313072204.GA7181@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <1394695475.25122.4.camel@x230> <20140313083832.GA8902@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <5321B2B2.9060109@acm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5321B2B2.9060109@acm.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > Defaults are not right solution; system should still work if I select > > non-default settings. Which you claim is not a case, but you don't see > > why you should fix it. > > If something is implemented using IPMI, then IPMI has to be there to > use it. Matthew's statement was: > > For example, if you load the ACPI power meter driver before you've > installed the ACPI IPMI driver you'll typically get failures (most > vendors implement it via IPMI). Yes, and this failure is not fixed with different default. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html