[PATCH 0/4] dmi: Rework to get IPMI autoloading from DMI tables

From	minyard@acm.org
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	[PATCH 0/4] dmi: Rework to get IPMI autoloading from DMI tables
Date	2016-01-30 00:50 +0100
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The IPMI driver would not auto-load from DMI tables.  So these patches
creates a platform device from an IPMI DMI table entry, and then
modify the IPMI driver to handle all this.

I followed how ACPI works mostly, with a fwnode and such.  But greatly
simplified, of course :).

I'm no sure if patch 4 is done in the right place.  Maybe it would
be better in the IPMI driver directory?  But it's pretty clean where
it is.

Also, I wasn't quite sure about the name of the device.  If the device
was named ipmi_si or ipmi_ssif, the driver override would not be
required, but then you really couldn't tell it came from DMI.

You could also create a firmware_node like ACPI does, but that might
be overkill.

-corey

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[PATCH 0/4] dmi: Rework to get IPMI autoloading from DMI tables minyard@acm.org - 2016-01-30 00:50 +0100

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