From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Cc: yakui.zhao@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ACPI: Reorder IPMI driver before any other ACPI drivers
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 02:26:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120921012625.GA13396@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <505BC0B4.4010306@mvista.com>
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 08:19:48PM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> 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?
Yes, the ACPI interpreter is initialised earlier than the IPMI driver
discovery.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-21 1:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-20 21:46 [PATCH 1/2] ACPI: Reorder IPMI driver before any other ACPI drivers Matthew Garrett
2012-09-20 21:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] IPMI: Change link order Matthew Garrett
2012-09-21 1:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] ACPI: Reorder IPMI driver before any other ACPI drivers Corey Minyard
2012-09-21 1:26 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-09-21 2:08 ` Corey Minyard
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