Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752803AbaBTU7G (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:59:06 -0500 Received: from relay3.sgi.com ([192.48.152.1]:49478 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751796AbaBTU7E (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:59:04 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 14:59:02 -0600 From: Russ Anderson To: Matthew Garrett Cc: "lenb@kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "minyard@acm.org" , "rjw@rjwysocki.net" , "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y" Message-ID: <20140220205901.GM17949@sgi.com> Reply-To: Russ Anderson References: <1392740909-2079-1-git-send-email-matthew.garrett@nebula.com> <20140220201458.GA7099@sgi.com> <1392927381.20109.0.camel@x230> <20140220204028.GJ17949@sgi.com> <1392929163.20109.5.camel@x230> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1392929163.20109.5.camel@x230> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:46:04PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:40 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > This is also a problem for systems with functional BMCs. Our > > large cluster systems do all IPMI traffic (monitoring) through > > a system controller back door. We do not want the kernel > > doing IPMI commands on those systems. > > Why not? Because some customers want to use cpu cycles for their application and let the ipmi monitoring go on through the system controller network. -- Russ Anderson, Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com -- 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/