linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/5] ACPI: Reorder IPMI driver before any other ACPI drivers

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Message-id: <1350420820-7156-3-git-send-email-minyard@acm.org>
Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2012 15:53:37 -0500
From:	minyard@....org
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	OpenIPMI Developers <openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
	Corey Minyard <cminyard@...sta.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] ACPI: Reorder IPMI driver before any other ACPI drivers

From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>

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.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@...sta.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/Makefile |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Makefile b/drivers/acpi/Makefile
index 47199e2..82422fe 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/acpi/Makefile
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ acpi-y				+= video_detect.o
 endif
 
 # These are (potentially) separate modules
+
+# IPMI may be used by other drivers, so it has to initialise before them
+obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_IPMI)		+= acpi_ipmi.o
+
 obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_AC) 		+= ac.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON)	+= button.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_FAN)		+= fan.o
@@ -70,6 +74,5 @@ processor-y			+= processor_idle.o processor_thermal.o
 processor-$(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ)	+= processor_perflib.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR_AGGREGATOR) += acpi_pad.o
-obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_IPMI)		+= acpi_ipmi.o
 
 obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_APEI)		+= apei/
-- 
1.7.4.1

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