Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264305AbTEGWRD (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 18:17:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264308AbTEGWRD (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 18:17:03 -0400 Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.104]:47602 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264305AbTEGWRB (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 18:17:01 -0400 Message-ID: <3EB98878.5060607@us.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 15:28:08 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Russell King , rddunlap@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order References: <20030507141458.B30005@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20030507082416.0996c3df.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20030507181410.A19615@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20030507150414.1eaeae75.akpm@digeo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 937 Lines: 27 Andrew Morton wrote: > Russell King wrote: > >>A wild stab in the dark, I'd think maybe the init ordering changed: > > Well stabbed. The relative ordering of tulip and ne2k in > drivers/net/Makefile got changed. > > Maybe we should reorganise the 2.5 Makefile to copy the 2.4 Makefile's > ordering. How pleasant. > > I suspect the linker is at liberty to reorder these anyway. The linker will order things in the final object in the order that you passed them. We depend on this for getting __init functions run in the right order: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=linux.kernel.27361.1016068035%40kao2.melbourne.sgi.com -- Dave Hansen haveblue@us.ibm.com - 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/