Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 05 Feb 2002 02:51:19 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does |
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Horst von Brand wrote: > > 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.
"driver.conf" is a reference is a metadata file per driver or per-subdirectory, not one big file.
Linus suggested this back in December. See the links I posted.
> Why do I have this uneasy feeling it would somehow overlap with CML2's job?
It could either (a) generate CML2 or (b) make CML2 irrelevant, depending on the implementation.
Jeff
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