Re: More linker magic..
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:35:07 +0100 (BST)
> in my opinion. In fact, I'm not convinced even the above is acceptable. I
> do not want people to introduce dependencies: if there are dependencies
> then you might as well use the old-style "real initialization" sequence.
> The whole point of automatic initialization is to make it easy to add
> independent stuff.
>
> So I think the "automatic initialization" is really only useful for
> anonymous stuff. Device drivers, normal kernel threads, that kind of
> things. Anything more complicated might as well just do proper
ISA device order has a lot of subtle ordering rules, some tied
to PCI
I2O before PCI
Network cards in a strict order for ISA probes
Sound cards before joysticks - ISA sound card order is critical
Maybe for ISA we should just admit defeat and leave ISA devices as they
are now
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