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From: Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
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To: Dan Aloni <da-x@gmx.net>
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        Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: Link order madness :-(
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On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Dan Aloni wrote:

> > 	So, I was trying to fix that, and I found a problem with
> > kernel link order.
> 
> It is possible that recent kbuild changes caused that.

I don't think so, I took extra care to leave it all the same. (Well, 
except for sound/, which is outside drivers/) It'd however surely be a 
good idea to go through it and document which dependencies there are.

There's surely stuff which could be cleaned up (Jeff, as you're CC'ed 
anyway, look where tulip/ is linked in drivers/net/Makefile, I think that 
could be straightened up a bit)

W.r.t to the original problem I have to say I didn't really look into yet, 
but I think it makes e.g. a lot of sense to initialize networking earlier 
(subsys_initcall). We have initcall levels, using them right will help a 
lot. (The block subsystem is only __initcall a.k.a. driver_initcall as 
well, that's asking for problems at some point)

--Kai


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