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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig b/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig index 0baa8fab4ea7..db1c9b7adaa6 100644 --- a/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/Kconfig @@ -50,6 +50,18 @@ 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_WATCHDOG tristate 'IPMI Watchdog Timer' help |