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From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPMI
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:59:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030114145941.GH606@wiggy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E241ECD.6000108@mvista.com>

Previously Corey Minyard wrote:
> config IPMI_HANDLER
>       tristate 'IPMI top-level message handler'
>       help
>         This enables the central IPMI message handler, required for IPMI
>         to work.  Note that you must have this enabled to enable any
>         other IPMI things.  IPMI is a standard for managing sensors
>         (temperature, voltage, etc.) in a system.  If you don't know
>         what it is, your system probably doesn't have it and you can
>         ignore this option.  See Documentation/IPMI.txt for more
>         details on the driver.

With modern systems it is quite likely that the system does have IPMI
but the user has no idea wat IPMI is.

Wichert.

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Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>           http://www.wiggy.net/
A random hacker

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-14 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-14  8:29 IPMI Rusty Russell
2003-01-14  9:23 ` IPMI Paul Mackerras
2003-01-14 11:55   ` IPMI Bruce Harada
2003-01-14 12:36     ` IPMI Arjan van de Ven
2003-01-14 13:07       ` IPMI Bruce Harada
2003-01-14 14:35   ` IPMI Corey Minyard
2003-01-15  3:36     ` IPMI Paul Mackerras
2003-01-15  3:55       ` IPMI Corey Minyard
2003-01-14 14:29 ` IPMI Corey Minyard
2003-01-14 14:46   ` IPMI Adrian Bunk
2003-01-14 14:59   ` Wichert Akkerman [this message]
2003-01-15  3:49   ` IPMI Rusty Russell
2003-01-15 20:46     ` IPMI Horst von Brand
2003-01-15  5:08 IPMI Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky

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