Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932468Ab2JWAHH (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:07:07 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:43667 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932102Ab2JWAHE (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Oct 2012 20:07:04 -0400 Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:07:03 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Matthew Garrett Cc: minyard@acm.org, Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel , OpenIPMI Developers , Corey Minyard Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] ACPI: Reorder IPMI driver before any other ACPI drivers Message-Id: <20121022170703.03a11f39.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20121023000033.GA11756@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1350420820-7156-1-git-send-email-minyard@acm.org> <1350420820-7156-3-git-send-email-minyard@acm.org> <20121022164538.3b707397.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20121023000033.GA11756@srcf.ucam.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 996 Lines: 24 On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:00:34 +0100 Matthew Garrett 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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/