Re: Fix for Donald Becker's DP83815 network driver (v1.07)

[Ion Badulescu]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> > Check again. drivers/net builds a .a, not a .o. Trust me, I've tried.
> 
> Sure, but if you are patching anyway, it much better to fix that than
> hack space.c :)

Well, I remember asking Alan if he'd prefer it done that way, and not 
getting a reply back. So I didn't press further.

The change to support __init/__exit in drivers/net is a no-brainer, and I 
did test it at the time -- it worked as expected. But it's really up to 
Alan to decide, I couldn't care less to be quite honest.

In a way I think I understand why he's reluctant: it's very easy to end up
changing the initialization order by mistake and messing up people's 
network setups.

Ion

-- 
  It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool,
            than to open it and remove all doubt.

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