Re: PATCH: please backout this set of broken changes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 9 Aug 1999 18:25:17 +0100 (BST)

> On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > It needs priorities
>
> No.
>
> People need to re-order the makefile or similar. I'm not adding complexity
> to just handle simple ordering.

The linker will presumably order object files in link order then .a files
by reference, so for all drivers in .o archives we can force the link order
to match the 2.2 probe order

Does GNU ld behaviour guarantee this. If so a lot of problems go away rather
nicely.

Alan

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