From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: minyard@acm.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
OpenIPMI Developers <openipmi-developer@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] ACPI: Reorder IPMI driver before any other ACPI drivers
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:07:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121022170703.03a11f39.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121023000033.GA11756@srcf.ucam.org>
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:00:34 +0100
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
hm. So the ACPI code has found a way to defeat depmod?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-23 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-16 20:53 IPMI: Some minor fixes minyard
2012-10-16 20:53 ` [PATCH 1/5] IPMI: Remove SMBus driver info from the docs minyard
2012-10-16 20:53 ` [PATCH 2/5] ACPI: Reorder IPMI driver before any other ACPI drivers minyard
2012-10-22 23:45 ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-23 0:00 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-23 0:07 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2012-10-23 0:10 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-10-16 20:53 ` [PATCH 3/5] IPMI: Change link order minyard
2012-10-16 20:53 ` [PATCH 4/5] IPMI: Fix some uninitialized warning minyard
2012-10-22 23:49 ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-26 19:35 ` Corey Minyard
2012-10-26 19:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-10-27 13:12 ` [PATCH] Remove uninitialized_var() Ingo Molnar
2012-10-27 18:48 ` Andrew Morton
2012-10-28 10:20 ` [PATCH v2] " Ingo Molnar
2012-10-29 0:56 ` Ryan Mallon
2012-10-29 6:36 ` [PATCH v3] " Ingo Molnar
2012-10-29 18:55 ` [PATCH v2] " David Rientjes
2012-10-30 7:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-10-16 20:53 ` [PATCH 5/5] IPMI: Detect register spacing on PCI interfaces minyard
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