Adrian Bunk wrote: > 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").
The following bugzilla triggered this change and I think contains enough discussion on the subject. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8933 Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
