[PATCH V3] ACPI / IPMI: allow ACPI_IPMI with IPMI_SSIF
Corey Minyard
minyard at acm.org
Sat Mar 25 18:25:05 PDT 2017
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 <cminyard at mvista.com>
Thanks,
-corey
> Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya at codeaurora.org>
> ---
> 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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