Re: x86 git acpi issue?

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:02:37PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Sat, 3 May 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > Right. This Makefile is a nasty trap. I looked into it and the fix for 
> > > now is below. Long term this Makefile trickery needs to be cleaned up 
> > > to avoid trapping into this again.
> > 
> > Thanks Thomas, i messed up that commit - i should have known that the 
> > NUMAQ build fix looked _too_ easy ;-)
> 
> Also the move of 
> pci-$(CONFIG_ACPI)             += acpi.o
> is what broke things.
> 
> There is a nasty init function ordering problem as well between
> 
> pci-$(CONFIG_ACPI)             += acpi.o
> pci-y                          += legacy.o irq.o
> 
> Sigh.

This is the kind of stuff that has prevented me from
unifying the two Makefiles.
But if no-one beats me I will give it a shot soon.
It will be a microsteps because we will likeky hit
such issues.

	Sam
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