From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755952Ab2IUCIe (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:08:34 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:42964 "EHLO mail-ob0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754860Ab2IUCId (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2012 22:08:33 -0400 Message-ID: <505BCC1C.6000006@acm.org> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:08:28 -0500 From: Corey Minyard Reply-To: minyard@acm.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120827 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Garrett CC: Corey Minyard , 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 References: <1348177573-7537-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> <505BC0B4.4010306@mvista.com> <20120921012625.GA13396@srcf.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20120921012625.GA13396@srcf.ucam.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/20/2012 08:26 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > 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. > Cool, I'm good with these, then. Thanks, -corey