Re: SCSI Makefile cleanup

[david parsons]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Alan Cox  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> This patch reworks drivers/scsi/Makefile to use lists instead of
>> conditionals.  I believe this idea is originally due to Michael Chastain.
>
>Be very careful not to change the link order. You'll notice 2.3.x sound
>recently changed a little explicitly because of this. if you re-order
>the object files (eg sorting them) then you change the init order, and you
>end up initialising boards in the wrong order, causing AHA1542 to grab
>buslogic cards etc

    It might be worthwhile to add a requirements function call to the
    kernel, so you can have drivers explicitly load what they depend
    on before they start loading.   Something like:

	need("aha1542");

    in the buslogic driver?

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