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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 05:07:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:00:34 +0100
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Not really - some of this code can be built as modules, so it's mostly 
> > module_init rather than anything from the initcall family.
> > 
> 
> hm.  So the ACPI code has found a way to defeat depmod? 

We don't express dependencies between available operation regions and 
the code that supports them. Most are set up in the core ACPI code and 
so the problem is avoided, but the IPMI code is a separate chunk.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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