Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754005AbaBRXLO (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:11:14 -0500 Received: from v094114.home.net.pl ([79.96.170.134]:57261 "HELO v094114.home.net.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750871AbaBRXLL (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:11:11 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Matthew Garrett Cc: minyard@acm.org, lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y" Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 00:26 +0100 Message-ID: <1511662.Ly2fOjCGKz@vostro.rjw.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/3.13.0+; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <1392740909-2079-1-git-send-email-matthew.garrett@nebula.com> References: <1392740909-2079-1-git-send-email-matthew.garrett@nebula.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 11:28:29 AM Matthew Garrett wrote: > > The ACPI IPMI driver implements IPMI operation region support for the ACPI > core. Systems that declare ACPI operation regions may reference them at any > time, including during kernel initialisation. These accesses will fail > unless the ACPI IPMI driver is present, and undesirable system behaviour > may result. Set the default to Y in order to encourage distributions and > users to configure kernels to avoid awkward surprises. Do you have any examples of problems caused by that or is this just theoretical at the moment? Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/