On Saturday 14 January 2006 01:24, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Friday 06 January 2006 15:39, Matt Domsch wrote: > > diff --git a/arch/ia64/Kconfig b/arch/ia64/Kconfig > > ... > > +config DMI > > + bool > > + default y > > Should we have a way to turn this off?
At least on i386/x86-64 it is largely used for hardware/firmware bug workaround and these have been traditionally always compiled in Or do you want to spend a lot of time on a bug report from a user only to discover they didn't enable the workarounds for their particular platform? You might not need that right now but I can predict that at some point you'll need board specific workarounds - and then it will be very useful to have. > > > diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/Makefile b/arch/ia64/kernel/Makefile > > ... > > +dmi_scan-y += ../../i386/kernel/dmi_scan.o > > Ugh. I really hate this sort of sharing. Could dmi_scan.c go in > drivers/firmware/ or something instead? Well, i suppose it will be more common in the future. Perhaps get over that particular hatered? -Andi ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Openipmi-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openipmi-developer
