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

From: Corey Minyard
Date: Thu Sep 20 2012 - 21:19:43 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
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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