Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752089AbaBXCXt (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:23:49 -0500 Received: from mail-oa0-f52.google.com ([209.85.219.52]:47018 "EHLO mail-oa0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751042AbaBXCXr (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:23:47 -0500 From: minyard@acm.org To: OpenIPMI Developers Cc: Linux Kernel , Russ Anderson , Matthew Garrett , lenb@kernel.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 0/3] ipmi: Cleanups for allowing IPMI support to always be "y" Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 20:23:33 -0600 Message-Id: <1393208616-16500-1-git-send-email-minyard@acm.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Three patches to remove issues with probing interface default, to make sure the driver is completely idle if nothing is happening on it, and to compile the IPMI driver into the kernel if ACPI is enabled. The ACPI spec really requires that the IPMI driver be built into the kernel because ACPI uses IPMI for some operations. But some people do not want the driver even using the mimimal amount of CPU it uses when idle. And the default probing, even though sort of implied to be required by the spec, is really a bad idea and can result in hangs on systems with other hardware at those location. Hopefully these patches make everyone happy. -- 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/