Re: [KBUILD] Re: SCSI Makefile cleanup

[Horst von Brand]

Peter Samuelson <[e-mail]> said:
> [mec]
> > Ultimately I would like to see the link order dependencies specified
> > explicitly in some way.  (foo.o needs to come before bar.o et
> > cetera), and then have Rules.make guarantee to honor that through
> > list manipulation.  But not in 2.4.

> When Linus did the link order thing, I thought at the time that it
> would be neat to have every init function be able to return -EAGAIN and 
> it would then be put back on the end of the queue.  The master init
> function would keep cycling through the list until one entire run with
> no success returns.

Urgh.

> Like you do with bubble sort. (:

Exactly.

I proposed some time back (on linux-kernel) to use tsort(1) for this, as it
was created just for keeping track of link order. The idea was shot down as
too hacky :(
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