> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:38:05 -0500 (EST)
> From: Duncan Haldane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> >| Also, the order in which cpia and usbcore are listed in the Makefile
> >| is significant, it determines the order in which do_initcalls
> >| calls them in case of them being 'y'.
> > 
> > The case is both cpia and usb are 'y'.
> > cpia is being init-ed before usbcore.
> > Where's your patch/solution?  8;)

> But... such a Makefile change DOES fix it.   I see that the position of the
> cpia driver in
> drivers/media/video is anomalous: it started out as a parport driver
> and now supports both parport and usb devices.
> I moved the position of drivers/media.o to after drivers/usb.o in the Makefile,
> and the problem is gone.

I wrote Randy and proposed to move cpia_usb.c over to the
drivers/usb directory. The problem is that supporting
dependencies between drivers/media and drivers/usb is fragile:
someone can break them later as a side effect.

-- Pete


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