Myron Stowe wrote:
These patches remove the SPMI based IPMI device discovery mechanism and
update the driver's core to use dev_printk() and its constructs.
As part of this patch series I wanted to remove the 'PFX' argument from
ipmi_of_probe()'s dev_printk constructs as I believe it produces redundant
output but I do not have a PPC platform to test against.
I like the dev_printk() stuff. The order of discovery change is
correct, too, I believe. I don't have a PPC platform (with OF, anyway)
with IPMI, so I can't test that, either.
Ultimately, I would like to see if it is possible to also remove IPMI's
SMBIOS based device discovery mechanism.
Maybe in an ideal world, but I don't know where an ideal world is, so I
have to live in the one I'm in. There's plenty of systems that only
document this in SMBIOS tables, there's plenty of systems with broken
ACPI, etc. So SMBIOS and SPMI are going to have to stay.
-corey
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