From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org,
openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@osdl.org,
"Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.15] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:05:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601132205.30675.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601140219.39765.ak@suse.de>
On Friday 13 January 2006 18:19, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Saturday 14 January 2006 01:24, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Friday 06 January 2006 15:39, Matt Domsch wrote:
> > > diff --git a/arch/ia64/Kconfig b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
> > > ...
> > > +config DMI
> > > + bool
> > > + default y
> >
> > Should we have a way to turn this off?
>
> At least on i386/x86-64 it is largely used for hardware/firmware bug
> workaround and these have been traditionally always compiled in
>
> Or do you want to spend a lot of time on a bug report from
> a user only to discover they didn't enable the workarounds for
> their particular platform?
Yeah, that was a dumb idea. I just need to fix whatever's
currently broken and then there'll be no harm in having it
all the time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-14 5:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-04 22:16 [PATCH 2.6.15 1/2] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c Matt Domsch
2006-01-04 22:36 ` Alex Williamson
2006-01-04 23:29 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-05 16:41 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-05 17:37 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-05 17:54 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-06 0:02 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-06 17:15 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-04 22:55 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-06 17:21 ` [PATCH 2.6.15] " Matt Domsch
2006-01-06 22:39 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-14 0:24 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-14 0:45 ` Alan Cox
2006-01-14 1:19 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-14 5:05 ` Bjorn Helgaas [this message]
2006-01-18 0:17 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-18 2:32 ` Andi Kleen
2006-01-18 15:53 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-18 17:29 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-18 18:11 ` [Openipmi-developer] " Matt Domsch
2006-01-19 20:10 ` [PATCH 0/5] ia64 ioremap, DMI, EFI system table Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:12 ` [PATCH 1/5] EFI, /dev/mem: simplify efi_mem_attribute_range() Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:12 ` [PATCH 2/5] ia64: ioremap: check EFI for valid memory attributes Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:13 ` [PATCH 3/5] DMI: only ioremap stuff we actually need Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:13 ` [PATCH 4/5] EFI: keep physical table addresses in efi structure Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-19 20:14 ` [PATCH 5/5] ACPI: clean up memory attribute checking for map/read/write Bjorn Helgaas
2006-01-30 17:11 ` [Openipmi-developer] [PATCH 0/5] ia64 ioremap, DMI, EFI system table Matt Domsch
2006-03-17 23:54 ` [PATCH 2.6.15] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c Andrew Morton
2006-03-18 14:56 ` Matt Domsch
2006-03-18 15:43 ` Matt Domsch
2006-03-18 19:51 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-06 19:03 Tolentino, Matthew E
2006-01-06 22:36 ` Matt Domsch
2006-01-19 14:19 Tolentino, Matthew E
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