* drivers/net/Makefile - question about link order comment introduced in 2.3.43
@ 2010-10-06 11:04 Joe Perches
2010-10-06 20:15 ` David Miller
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From: Joe Perches @ 2010-10-06 11:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: netdev; +Cc: Sam Ravnborg, David Miller
It wasn't that way in 2.3.43-pre7 , but it is in 2.3.43
and has remained there since. There's nothing in lkml
history as far as I can find to describe a reason for it.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/2/10
(or thereabout)
Anyone know why it's like that or if that Makefile link
ordering is still needed?
Currently, drivers/net/Makefile line 42
#
# link order important here
#
obj-$(CONFIG_PLIP) += plip.o
[about 60 lines later...]
obj-$(CONFIG_STMMAC_ETH) += stmmac/
#
# end link order section
#
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* Re: drivers/net/Makefile - question about link order comment introduced in 2.3.43
2010-10-06 11:04 drivers/net/Makefile - question about link order comment introduced in 2.3.43 Joe Perches
@ 2010-10-06 20:15 ` David Miller
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2010-10-06 20:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: joe; +Cc: netdev, sam
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:04:09 -0700
> It wasn't that way in 2.3.43-pre7 , but it is in 2.3.43
> and has remained there since. There's nothing in lkml
> history as far as I can find to describe a reason for it.
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/2/10
> (or thereabout)
>
> Anyone know why it's like that or if that Makefile link
> ordering is still needed?
I suspect it's not needed any more.
I also suspect it's an obsolete sparc specific hack to get the primary
ethernet interface to always show up as eth0.
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