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Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:45:54 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: Dan Aloni <karrde@callisto.yi.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk>
Subject: Re: cdrom driver dependency problem (and a workaround patch)
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On Sat, Apr 21 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 02:17:18AM +0300, Dan Aloni wrote:
> > One reason for this misdependency is that the IDE is initialized before
> > the cdrom driver, register_cdrom() gets called from inside the IDE
> > initialization functions. (ide_init() -> ide_init_builtin_drivers() ->
> > ide_cdrom_init() -> ide_cdrom_setup() -> ide_cdrom_register() ->
> > register_cdrom())
> > 
> > In order to get my kernel to boot, I've made the following temporary
> > workaround patch. I'd be glad to hear about other ways of solving this.
> 
> The link order is wrong. So why not changing the link order then?

That's perfect, I just hadn't looked into that. The superior solution,
clearly, thanks!

-- 
Jens Axboe

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