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SubjectRe: x86 git acpi issue?

* Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:

> On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 12:02:37PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 May 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > Right. This Makefile is a nasty trap. I looked into it and the fix for
> > > > now is below. Long term this Makefile trickery needs to be cleaned up
> > > > to avoid trapping into this again.
> > >
> > > Thanks Thomas, i messed up that commit - i should have known that the
> > > NUMAQ build fix looked _too_ easy ;-)
> >
> > Also the move of
> > pci-$(CONFIG_ACPI) += acpi.o
> > is what broke things.
> >
> > There is a nasty init function ordering problem as well between
> >
> > pci-$(CONFIG_ACPI) += acpi.o
> > pci-y += legacy.o irq.o
> >
> > Sigh.
>
> This is the kind of stuff that has prevented me from unifying the two
> Makefiles. But if no-one beats me I will give it a shot soon. It will
> be a microsteps because we will likeky hit such issues.

yeah, it needs to be micro-steps (nice word! :) as this stuff is very
subtle.

Ingo


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