Re: The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2003-05-08 at 13:05, David S. Miller wrote:
> This is absolutely not guarenteed.  The linker is at liberty to
> reorder objects in any order it so desires, for performance reasons
> etc.
> 
> Any reliance on link ordering is broken and needs to be fixed.

That ahould keep you amused for a year or two. Unfortunately for the ISA
driver code we *have* to rely on link order or rip out the __init stuff
and use Space.c type hacks.