Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 08 May 2003 15:55:31 +0100 |
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On Iau, 2003-05-08 at 13:05, David S. Miller wrote: > This is absolutely not guarenteed. The linker is at liberty to > reorder objects in any order it so desires, for performance reasons > etc. > > Any reliance on link ordering is broken and needs to be fixed.
That ahould keep you amused for a year or two. Unfortunately for the ISA driver code we *have* to rely on link order or rip out the __init stuff and use Space.c type hacks.
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