Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Oct 2015 11:52:24 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> wrote: > > I'm making dependencies the only ordering for annotated initcalls.
Yeah, and quite frankly, that just means that I'm not going to merge it.
We do not do "flag-day" things. We've done them in the past, and it has always been a major and unacceptable pain.
And if the dependency ordering is "outside" of the traditional link-time ordering, then it is by definition a flag-day event. Every time you add a dependency to even just *one* driver, it magically changes ordering wrt all the other drivers, because now it's in a different ordering domain.
So please reconsider. Or stop cc'ing me. Because "flag day" changes really are not acceptable.
Linus
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