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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.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: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:10:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121023001028.GB11756@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121022170703.03a11f39.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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@srcf.ucam.org> 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.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-23  0:10 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
2012-10-23  0:10         ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
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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