Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 06 Feb 2000 16:39:44 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: SCSI Makefile cleanup |
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david parsons wrote: > It might be worthwhile to add a requirements function call to the > kernel, so you can have drivers explicitly load what they depend > on before they start loading. Something like: > > need("aha1542"); > > in the buslogic driver?
That would be wonderful... I really don't like defining driver load order implicitly through Makefile link order. I imagine "need()" would have to be some sort of trigger which ld (or a pre-ld script) uses to figure out the link order for the static kernel image?
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