Re: [PATCH 1/2] ACPI: Reorder IPMI driver before any other ACPI drivers

[Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>]

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 <mjg@redhat.com>
> ---
>   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/