From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: drivers/net/Makefile - question about link order comment introduced in 2.3.43 Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:15:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20101006.131545.59698295.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1286363049.2156.113.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org To: joe@perches.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:50401 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759939Ab0JFUPY (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Oct 2010 16:15:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1286363049.2156.113.camel@Joe-Laptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Joe Perches 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.