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

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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