Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:55:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:55:21 -0500 Received: from panic.ohr.gatech.edu ([130.207.47.194]:41375 "HELO gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:55:13 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:55:10 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik To: Alan Cox Cc: "David S. Miller" , kaos@ocs.com.au, 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 Message-ID: <20020201095510.D17412@havoc.gtf.org> In-Reply-To: <20020131.222643.85689058.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:03:13PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:03:13PM +0000, Alan Cox 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. > > This was proposed right back at the start. Linus point blank vetoed it. My ideal would be to express dependencies in driver.conf (when that is implemented), and that will in turn affect the link order by autogenerating part of vmlinux.lds. Until then, initcall groups are fine with me... Jeff - 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/