Re: SCSI Makefile cleanup

[Jeff Garzik]

david parsons wrote:
>     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?

That would be wonderful...  I really don't like defining driver load
order implicitly through Makefile link order.  I imagine "need()" would
have to be some sort of trigger which ld (or a pre-ld script) uses to
figure out the link order for the static kernel image?

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