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Jeff Garzik <garzik@havoc.gtf.org> said: > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 03:03:13PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > If you have a dependency concern, you put yourself in the > > > right initcall group. You don't depend ever on the order within the > > > group, thats the whole idea. You can't depend on that, so you must > > > group things correctly. > > This was proposed right back at the start. Linus point blank vetoed it. > My ideal would be to express dependencies in driver.conf (when that is > implemented), and that will in turn affect the link order by > autogenerating part of vmlinux.lds. Until then, initcall groups are > fine with me... Not _one_ central file telling everything, please! Let each driver declare what it needs and provides, and sort it out from there. Even better would be something like "depmod -a" that doesn't need explicit dependencies declared, but that looks like too much hair IMVHO. Why do I have this uneasy feeling it would somehow overlap with CML2's job? -- Horst von Brand http://counter.li.org # 22616 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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