Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Feb 2014 16:06:57 -0600 | From | Russ Anderson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2] Change ACPI IPMI support to "default y" |
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 09:39:23PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 15:28 -0600, Russ Anderson wrote: > > > For some customers _any_ amount is significant, especially > > on large clustered systems where the amount is multiplied > > by tens or hundreds of thousands of nodes. > > > > You many not think wasting their cpu cycles is important, but they do. > > Then they should be running locally built kernels in order to ensure
Why don't YOU run a locally built kernel?
> that there's no problematic code running at all. Distribution kernels > will always contain code that some customers won't be interested in, and > some of that code will end up executing.
We support multiple distros so if one does something the customer does not like/need we can steer them to other distros.
> If you have specific bug reports, that would be helpful. But you're not > describing actual failure conditions or showing any willingness to > figure out what the underlying problem is.
You can't fix your problem without creating problems for others to fix?
-- Russ Anderson, Kernel and Performance Software Team Manager SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc rja@sgi.com
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