The IPMI spec states:
The purpose of the SPMI Table is to provide a mechanism that can
be used by the OSPM (an ACPI term for “OS Operating System-directed
configuration and Power Management” essentially meaning an ACPI-aware
OS or OS loader) very early in the boot process, e.g., before the
ability to execute ACPI control methods in the OS is available.
When we are probing IPMI in Linux, ACPI control methods are available,
so we shouldn't be probing using SPMI. It could cause some confusion
during the probing process.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
And get rid of the license text that is no longer necessary.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: Rocky Craig <rocky.craig@hp.com>
Fix typo in parameter description.
Fixes: 95e300c052 ("ipmi: Make the DMI probe into a generic platform probe")
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Rework the DMI probe function to be a generic platform probe, and
then rework the DMI code (and a few other things) to use the more
generic information. This is so other things can declare platform
IPMI devices.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Corey Minyard
Wei Yongjun