Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Aug 1999 13:47:27 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: More linker magic.. |
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On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > 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
Probably. I really think it's a matter of "if this device really doesn't have any ordering constraints, then we can use the new nifty feature to make it invisible to most users".
That still covers quite a lot of ground. Basically all PCI drivers, and a lot of software-only initializations. Stuff that can now be safely handled in modules, in short.
Linus
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