[8015] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: SCSI Makefile cleanup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (willy@thepuffingroup.com)
Sun Feb 6 15:16:19 2000
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 15:09:28 -0500
From: willy@thepuffingroup.com
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kbuild@torque.net, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
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In-Reply-To: <E12HWcc-0000aB-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from Alan Cox on Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 06:41:19PM +0000
On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 06:41:19PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > This patch reworks drivers/scsi/Makefile to use lists instead of
> > conditionals. I believe this idea is originally due to Michael Chastain.
>
> Be very careful not to change the link order. You'll notice 2.3.x sound
> recently changed a little explicitly because of this. if you re-order
> the object files (eg sorting them) then you change the init order, and you
> end up initialising boards in the wrong order, causing AHA1542 to grab
> buslogic cards etc
Oh, drat. I didn't reorder the lines in the file, but I did then use
$(sort $(obj_y)) to remove duplicates. I don't think duplicates really
matter, it was just an optimisation. If that sort is removed, how does
it look?
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