Re: Link order madness :-(

[Dan Aloni]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 10:14:47AM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 02:43:14AM -0500, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
> > On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Dan Aloni wrote:
> > 
> > > > 	So, I was trying to fix that, and I found a problem with
> > > > kernel link order.
> > > 
> > > It is possible that recent kbuild changes caused that.
> > 
> > I don't think so, I took extra care to leave it all the same. (Well, 
> > except for sound/, which is outside drivers/) It'd however surely be a 
> > good idea to go through it and document which dependencies there are.
> 
>	Obviously Dan didn't bother to read my e-mail. The problem is
>  definitely not with kbuild. The problem is with the
> __define_initcall() levels.

I did in fact read your e-mail. I was just suggesting something that is 
drawn from previous experience concerning dependency problems with drivers 
compiled in as non-modules. And in my e-mail I was suggesting a workaround 
to make sure stuff gets initialized regardless of __initcall() levels.

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Dan Aloni
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