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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