From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corey Minyard Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ACPI: Reorder IPMI driver before any other ACPI drivers Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:19:48 -0500 Message-ID: <505BC0B4.4010306@mvista.com> References: <1348177573-7537-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-oa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.219.46]:50606 "EHLO mail-oa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752346Ab2IUBTv (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:19:51 -0400 Received: by oago6 with SMTP id o6so2853926oag.19 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2012 18:19:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1348177573-7537-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Garrett Cc: yakui.zhao@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/20/2012 04:46 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Drivers may make calls that require the ACPI IPMI driver to have been > initialised already, so make sure that it appears earlier in the build > order. The IPMI driver uses the ACPI namespace as an option to know the address and characteristics of the device. Does that still work? -corey > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett > --- > drivers/acpi/Makefile | 5 ++++- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Makefile b/drivers/acpi/Makefile > index 47199e2..82422fe 100644 > --- a/drivers/acpi/Makefile > +++ b/drivers/acpi/Makefile > @@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ acpi-y += video_detect.o > endif > > # These are (potentially) separate modules > + > +# IPMI may be used by other drivers, so it has to initialise before them > +obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_IPMI) += acpi_ipmi.o > + > obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_AC) += ac.o > obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON) += button.o > obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_FAN) += fan.o > @@ -70,6 +74,5 @@ processor-y += processor_idle.o processor_thermal.o > processor-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ) += processor_perflib.o > > obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR_AGGREGATOR) += acpi_pad.o > -obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_IPMI) += acpi_ipmi.o > > obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_APEI) += apei/