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Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 09:21:57 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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To: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: driver initialisation order problem
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Tim Waugh wrote:
> 
> drivers/char depends on drivers/parport (lp requires parport)
> drivers/parport depends on drivers/char (parport_serial requires serial)
> 
> How should this dependency be expressed?  The link order of
> drivers/char and drivers/parport isn't enough.

I would move lp to parport, since IMHO it belongs there anyway.

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