From: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@nebula.com>
To: "rja@sgi.com" <rja@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"
Thread-Topic: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"
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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 21:51:26 +0000
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On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 15:49 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:46:04PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > You appear to be saying "SGI ship hardware that doesn't work. We don't
> > know why it doesn't work and we're not interested in fixing it, so we'd
> > prefer the default kernel configuration to be broken". That doesn't seem
> > like an especially compelling argument.
> 
> You appear to not understand the mess this causes.  We have hit
> this on 3rd party boards, not just SGI built hardware (much
> of which is industry standard components).  It causes problems
> both for flakey hardware _and_ functioning hardware.

Bug numbers?

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