[PATCH] Build in IPMI on x86

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 04:46:16PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> The ACPI IPMI driver implements IPMI operation region support for the 
> ACPI core. Systems that declare ACPI operation regions may reference 
> them at any time, including during kernel initialisation. These accesses 
> will fail unless the ACPI IPMI driver is present, and undesirable system 
> behaviour may result. This can be avoided by building in the code rather 
> than leaving it as modules.

Undesirable behavior how?  System crashes, random scribblings on kernel
memory, or just a lack of IPMI support?

I'm not doubting your conclusions, but I'm curious why this is a problem
now when we've had the drivers set as modules for 2 years.  I can't
recall any major problems.

josh