Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Sep 2012 02:26:25 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [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.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
| |