Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 01:44:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 01:44:21 -0500 Received: from zok.sgi.com ([204.94.215.101]:58244 "EHLO zok.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 01:44:07 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Keith Owens To: "David S. Miller" Cc: garzik@havoc.gtf.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, vandrove@vc.cvut.cz, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulus@samba.org, davidm@hpl.hp.com, ralf@gnu.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:26:43 -0800." <20020131.222643.85689058.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 17:43:57 +1100 Message-ID: <7507.1012545837@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:26:43 -0800 (PST), "David S. Miller" wrote: >If you have a dependency concern, you put yourself in the >right initcall group. You don't depend ever on the order within the >group, thats the whole idea. You can't depend on that, so you must >group things correctly. Again this is exactly what I argued back in 2000. I have long held that the kernel link order is over defined where it should be fuzzy. Defining an order between groups but not within groups is exactly what I wanted but I was told that the initialization order must be explicitly and fully specified for the entire kernel. Nice to see that I have been proved right, pity it took this long. C'est la vie. The Makefiles still control order within the .text.init section (__init, module_init). Many drivers depend on the Makefile getting that order correct, otherwise probes stuff up. But which entries are order sensitive and which ones are from a developer picking a random place to insert obj-$(CONFIG) is anyone's guess. - 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/