Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:19:48 -0500 | From | Corey Minyard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] ACPI: Reorder IPMI driver before any other ACPI drivers |
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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/
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