Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Dec 2007 18:48:43 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kbuild: implement modules.order |
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 10:49:37PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > When multiple built-in modules (especially drivers) provide the same > capability, they're prioritized by link order specified by the order > listed in Makefile. This implicit ordering is lost for loadable > modules. >...
What exactly are the drivers you are thinking of?
I would rather see us getting away from any link order dependencies.
E.g. we might one day want to compile the whole kernel with one gcc call (using "--combine -fwhole-program").
cu Adrian
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