I'm having a problem on a number of systems where the IPMI driver isn't able to find the ACPI IPMI device. This is happening because the ACPI scan is attaching the acpi_pnp handler to the ACPI IPMI device, which is happening because the IPMI device has a _CID of PNP0C01 in addition to an _HID of IPI0001. This is a problem because acpi_scan_attach_handler() doesn't know about the IPMI drivers (ipmi_si / ipmi_ssif), which don't register as PNP or ACPI drivers, but instead expect the ACPI scan find no applicable driver and thus create a platform device. This could be fixed pretty easily by modifying acpi_scan_attach_handler() to make it return 0 without attaching a handler to devices that have a _HID of IPI0001 when the kernel has an IPMI driver available (if, say, CONFIG_IPMI_SI, CONFIG_IPMI_SI_MODULE, CONFIG_IPMI_SSIF, or CONFIG_IPMI_SSIF_MODULE are defined)... but would this be accepted? Or is this something that will require reworking the IPMI drivers? Or is there another way? I'm willing to work on a patch, but I'm not sure what would be an acceptable way to fix this. Thanks, Stuart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
