Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:07:03 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] ACPI: Reorder IPMI driver before any other ACPI drivers |
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:00:34 +0100 Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 04:45:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Relying upon link ordering is the old-fashioned way of doing things, > > and I have vague memories that it only works by luck - that there's no > > hard-and-fast rule that the linker has to obey what we think we asked > > it to do. > > > > The usual way of doing this sort of thing is to use the initcall > > priority levels - core_initcall(), postcore_initcall(), etc. Can that > > be done here? > > Not really - some of this code can be built as modules, so it's mostly > module_init rather than anything from the initcall family. >
hm. So the ACPI code has found a way to defeat depmod?
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