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Subject: Re: [PATCH] link time error in drivers/mtd (240t13p2)
To: kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens)
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:20:40 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org (David Woodhouse), rasmus@jaquet.dk (Rasmus Andersen),
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> David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> >The conditional compilation is far more obvious to people than subtle
> >issues with link order. So I prefer to avoid the latter at all costs.
> 
> The rest of the kernel already depends totally on these "subtle" issues
> with link order.  Why should mtd be different?

Why should mtd be broken just because the rest of the Makefiles are

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