From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ACPI: Reorder IPMI driver before any other ACPI drivers Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 02:26:25 +0100 Message-ID: <20120921012625.GA13396@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1348177573-7537-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> <505BC0B4.4010306@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:40847 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752829Ab2IUB0c (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:26:32 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <505BC0B4.4010306@mvista.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Corey Minyard Cc: yakui.zhao@intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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