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From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: minyard@mvista.com, Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: acpi_find_bmc() and acpi_get_table()
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:03:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702152103.54960.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702102327.28312.lenb@kernel.org>

On Saturday 10 February 2007 21:27, Len Brown wrote:
> acpi_find_bmc() appears to be searching for 
> multiple SPMI tables in the RSDT and running
> try_init_acpi() on each of them
> until it doesn't find any more.

I can't remember why we look at the SPMI table(s) rather than
registering a normal ACPI (or even PNP) driver.  Unless we
need to poke the BMC very early, wouldn't it be better to
rely on the device description in the namespace?

Bjorn

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-16  4:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-11  4:27 acpi_find_bmc() and acpi_get_table() Len Brown
2007-02-11  4:53 ` Corey Minyard
2007-02-11  5:28   ` Len Brown
2007-02-16  4:03 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2007-02-16  5:15   ` Corey Minyard
2007-02-20  4:31     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-02-20  6:46       ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-02-20 13:55         ` Corey Minyard
2007-02-25 21:59           ` Matt Domsch
2007-02-26 18:30             ` Jordan_Hargrave
2007-02-26 19:32               ` [Openipmi-developer] " Bjorn Helgaas
2007-02-26 20:06                 ` Jordan_Hargrave
2007-02-26 22:39                   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-02-28 21:42               ` Corey Minyard
2007-02-28 22:05                 ` Jordan_Hargrave
2007-02-28 22:35                   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-02-28 22:44                     ` Corey Minyard
2007-04-13 17:44               ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-04-17 22:50                 ` Corey Minyard
2007-04-18 15:32                   ` [Openipmi-developer] " Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-18 16:49               ` Jordan_Hargrave
2007-07-18 19:19                 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-19 16:32                   ` [Openipmi-developer] " Jordan_Hargrave
2007-07-19 18:50                     ` Bjorn Helgaas
2008-07-17 18:32                     ` [Openipmi-developer] " Bjorn Helgaas
2007-07-20 14:11                   ` Corey Minyard

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