Re: [PATCH] PCI hotplug: acpiphp should be linked after vendor drivers

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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 05:35:21PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:19:48AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > But this only works for drivers that are built into the kernel, which no
> > distro does for the pci hotplug ones, right?
> 
> Fedora does for the most part. Given that there's generally nothing to 
> handle autoloading for these drivers, the alternative is a script that 
> loads them in the correct order.
> 
> > So how will this solve the "real" problem?
> 
> The kernel should do the right thing if the drivers are built in, but 
> doesn't at the moment. If they're modules, it's up to the distribution 
> to handle it and this patch doesn't change things.

Ah, ok, no objection from me about this then.

thanks,

greg k-h
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