Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y"

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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 08:46:04PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:40 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote:
> 
> > This is also a problem for systems with functional BMCs.  Our
> > large cluster systems do all IPMI traffic (monitoring) through
> > a system controller back door.  We do not want the kernel
> > doing IPMI commands on those systems.
> 
> Why not?

Because some customers want to use cpu cycles for their
application and let the ipmi monitoring go on through
the system controller network.

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Russ Anderson,  Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager
SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc          rja@xxxxxxx
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