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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:59:41 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
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Subject: Re: IPMI
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Previously Corey Minyard wrote:
> config IPMI_HANDLER
>       tristate 'IPMI top-level message handler'
>       help
>         This enables the central IPMI message handler, required for IPMI
>         to work.  Note that you must have this enabled to enable any
>         other IPMI things.  IPMI is a standard for managing sensors
>         (temperature, voltage, etc.) in a system.  If you don't know
>         what it is, your system probably doesn't have it and you can
>         ignore this option.  See Documentation/IPMI.txt for more
>         details on the driver.

With modern systems it is quite likely that the system does have IPMI
but the user has no idea wat IPMI is.

Wichert.

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