Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753197AbaBTWHB (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:07:01 -0500 Received: from relay3.sgi.com ([192.48.152.1]:55690 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752412AbaBTWHA (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:07:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:06:57 -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: <20140220220656.GT17949@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> <20140220205901.GM17949@sgi.com> <1392930047.20109.6.camel@x230> <20140220212854.GO17949@sgi.com> <1392932363.20109.11.camel@x230> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1392932363.20109.11.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 09:39:23PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 15:28 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > For some customers _any_ amount is significant, especially > > on large clustered systems where the amount is multiplied > > by tens or hundreds of thousands of nodes. > > > > You many not think wasting their cpu cycles is important, but they do. > > Then they should be running locally built kernels in order to ensure Why don't YOU run a locally built kernel? > that there's no problematic code running at all. Distribution kernels > will always contain code that some customers won't be interested in, and > some of that code will end up executing. We support multiple distros so if one does something the customer does not like/need we can steer them to other distros. > If you have specific bug reports, that would be helpful. But you're not > describing actual failure conditions or showing any willingness to > figure out what the underlying problem is. You can't fix your problem without creating problems for others to fix? -- 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/