From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Message-Id: <200011041438.OAA05656@raistlin.arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: USB init order dependencies.
To: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik)
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 14:38:51 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: randy.dunlap@intel.com (Dunlap Randy),
        dwmw2@infradead.org ('David Woodhouse'), torvalds@transmeta.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <3A03C7C7.87CE750F@mandrakesoft.com> from "Jeff Garzik" at Nov 04, 2000 03:24:39 AM
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Jeff Garzik writes:
> Putting a call into init/main.c isn't a long term solution, but it
> should get us there for 2.4.x...  init/main.c is also the best solution
> for ugly cross-directory link order dependencies.  I would say the link
> order of foo.o's in linux/Makefile is the most delicate/fragile of all
> the Makefiles...  touching linux/Makefile link order this close to 2.4.0
> is asking for trouble.  Compared to that, adding a few lines to
> init/main.c isn't so bad.

There'll be quite a few extra init calls going in there then, with lots
and lots of ifdefs ;(
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