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

[Corey Minyard]

On 09/20/2012 08:26 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.
Cool, I'm good with these, then.

Thanks,

-corey
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