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| author | Tony Camuso <tcamuso@redhat.com> | 2016-06-22 14:22:28 -0400 |
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| committer | Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> | 2016-07-27 10:24:38 -0500 |
| commit | b07b58a3e435a3d18004815e8364ec26c4236721 (patch) | |
| tree | e81e7cc7d7470882da5a220bc86b53ad4e32f94d /drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig | |
| parent | 0e06f5c0deeef0332a5da2ecb8f1fcf3e024d958 (diff) | |
ipmi: remove trydefaults parameter and default init
Parameter trydefaults=1 causes the ipmi_init to initialize ipmi through
the legacy port io space that was designated for ipmi. Architectures
that do not map legacy port io can panic when trydefaults=1.
Rather than implement build-time conditional exceptions for each
architecture that does not map legacy port io, we have removed legacy
port io from the driver.
Parameter 'trydefaults' has been removed. Attempts to use it hereafter
will evoke the "Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter" message.
The patch was built against a number of architectures and tested for
regressions and functionality on x86_64 and ARM64.
Signed-off-by: Tony Camuso <tcamuso@redhat.com>
Removed the config entry and the address source entry for default,
since neither were used any more.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig | 12 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig b/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig index 6ed9e9fe5233..5a9350b1069a 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig @@ -50,18 +50,6 @@ config IPMI_SI Currently, only KCS and SMIC are supported. If you are using IPMI, you should probably say "y" here. -config IPMI_SI_PROBE_DEFAULTS - bool 'Probe for all possible IPMI system interfaces by default' - default n - depends on IPMI_SI - help - Modern systems will usually expose IPMI interfaces via a discoverable - firmware mechanism such as ACPI or DMI. Older systems do not, and so - the driver is forced to probe hardware manually. This may cause boot - delays. Say "n" here to disable this manual probing. IPMI will then - only be available on older systems if the "ipmi_si_intf.trydefaults=1" - boot argument is passed. - config IPMI_SSIF tristate 'IPMI SMBus handler (SSIF)' select I2C |