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To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does 
In-Reply-To: Message from Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> 
   of "Mon, 04 Feb 2002 10:34:48 +1100." <15269.1012779288@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> 
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 21:14:08 +0100
From: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
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Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> said:
> On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:42:11 +0100, 
> Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
> >Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> said:
> >> I know, it makes it even harder to see what the initialization order
> >> is.  Some are controlled by the Makefile/subdirs order, some by special
> >> calls in the code.

> >Just to repeat myself: This is clearly a problem for tsort(1): Give
> >restrictions of the form "This has to come after that" (perhaps a special
> >comment at the start of the file containing the init function?), tsort that
> >and pick the order out of the result. Should be a few lines of script. No
> >central repository for the dependencies, no messing around with half the
> >world to fix dependencies. Plus they become explicit, which they aren't
> >today.

> Just to repeat myself: That is exactly what I want to do.  Linus vetoed
> it in October 2000.

Right. And I still think Linus is dead wrong here. IMVVHO.
-- 
Horst von Brand			     http://counter.li.org # 22616
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