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Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 11:39:50 +0000 (GMT)
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
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On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Keith Owens wrote:

> The rest of the kernel already depends totally on these "subtle" issues
> with link order.  Why should mtd be different?

Because I maintain the MTD code and I want it to be. I think the link
order dependencies are ugly, unnecessary and far more likely to be
problematic then the alternatives. I'll code an alternative which is
cleaner than the current code, and Linus can either accept it or not, as
he sees fit.

-- 
dwmw2


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