Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262299AbTEIGjW (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 02:39:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262303AbTEIGjW (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 02:39:22 -0400 Received: from are.twiddle.net ([64.81.246.98]:32667 "EHLO are.twiddle.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262299AbTEIGjU (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 02:39:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 23:51:38 -0700 From: Richard Henderson To: "David S. Miller" Cc: Dave Hansen , Andrew Morton , Russell King , rddunlap@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order Message-ID: <20030509065138.GA25054@twiddle.net> Mail-Followup-To: "David S. Miller" , Dave Hansen , Andrew Morton , Russell King , rddunlap@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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> <3EB98878.5060607@us.ibm.com> <1052395526.23259.0.camel@rth.ninka.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1052395526.23259.0.camel@rth.ninka.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 650 Lines: 17 On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 05:05:26AM -0700, 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. Not without some special flag it isn't. WAY TOO MUCH stuff depends on link order. In any case, gnu ld DOES NOT reorder sections away from the order the objects were given on the command line. r~ - 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/