Re: [PATCH] pcie hotplug: Change link order of pciehp

[Jesse Barnes]

On Monday, January 26, 2009 6:18 pm Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > commit bf53d46d80486fa613dc345aba5d42a29368056d
> > Author: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Tue Jan 27 11:29:02 2009 +1100
> >
> > pcie hotplug: Change link order of pciehp
> >
> > Some hardware exposes PCIE slots in such a way that they can be claimed
> > by either the acpiphp or pciehp driver. pciehp is the preferred driver if
> > the firmware allows the OS to claim control via the _OSC method so should
> > be loaded first - if it fails to bind (either due to a missing _OSC
> > method or the firmware refusing to hand off control) then we can fall
> > back to acpiphp or a vendor-specific driver.
> >
> > This patch simply changes the link order to ensure that pciehp will be
> > initialised before acpiphp if both are statically built into the kernel.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>

Ok, applied to my for-linus branch, since this is actually affecting users 
now.

-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/