Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 3 authors, 2017-03-28

[PATCH V3] ACPI / IPMI: allow ACPI_IPMI with IPMI_SSIF

From: Corey Minyard <hidden>
Date: 2017-03-26 01:25:34
Also in: linux-acpi, linux-arm-msm, lkml

On 03/25/2017 09:02 AM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
ACPI_IPMI driver currently depends on IPMI System Interface (IPMI_SI)
driver to be enabled. IPMI_SI driver only handles KCS, SMIC and BT BMC
interfaces.

IPMI_SSIF is an alternative BMC communication method. It allows BMC to
be accessed over an I2C bus instead of a standard interface.

Change the dependency to IPMI_HANDLER so that ACPI_IPMI works with all
IPMI providers.
If the ACPI people ack this, I can queue it, or they can take it with:

Acked-by: Corey Minyard <redacted>

Thanks,

-corey
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <redacted>
---
  drivers/acpi/Kconfig | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
index 83e5f7e..3e15bf8 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/acpi/Kconfig
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ config ACPI_PROCESSOR
  
  config ACPI_IPMI
  	tristate "IPMI"
-	depends on IPMI_SI
+	depends on IPMI_HANDLER
  	default n
  	help
  	  This driver enables the ACPI to access the BMC controller. And it
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