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

[Matthew Garrett]

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.

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