On Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:26:43 -0800 (PST),
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> 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.
Again this is exactly what I argued back in 2000. I have long held
that the kernel link order is over defined where it should be fuzzy.
Defining an order between groups but not within groups is exactly what
I wanted but I was told that the initialization order must be
explicitly and fully specified for the entire kernel. Nice to see that
I have been proved right, pity it took this long. C'est la vie.
The Makefiles still control order within the .text.init section
(__init, module_init). Many drivers depend on the Makefile getting
that order correct, otherwise probes stuff up. But which entries are
order sensitive and which ones are from a developer picking a random
place to insert obj-$(CONFIG) is anyone's guess.
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