[PATCH] ACPI / IPMI: allow ACPI_IPMI with IPMI_SSIF

Corey Minyard minyard at acm.org
Fri Mar 24 19:56:36 PDT 2017


Oops, yes, this is an issue.

However, it should probably depend on IPMI_HANDLER, not the individual 
interface types.

-corey

On 03/23/2017 10:53 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.
>
> Enabling ACPI_IPMI over IPMI_SSIF with this change.
>
> 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..8767062 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_SI||IPMI_SSIF
>   	default n
>   	help
>   	  This driver enables the ACPI to access the BMC controller. And it





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