Re: [PATCH 2/5] ACPI: Reorder IPMI driver before any other ACPIdrivers

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 04:45:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Relying upon link ordering is the old-fashioned way of doing things,
> and I have vague memories that it only works by luck - that there's no
> hard-and-fast rule that the linker has to obey what we think we asked
> it to do.
> 
> The usual way of doing this sort of thing is to use the initcall
> priority levels - core_initcall(), postcore_initcall(), etc.  Can that
> be done here?

Not really - some of this code can be built as modules, so it's mostly 
module_init rather than anything from the initcall family.

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