From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
rddunlap@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order
Date: 08 May 2003 05:05:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1052395526.23259.0.camel@rth.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EB98878.5060607@us.ibm.com>
On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 15:28, Dave Hansen wrote:
> The linker will order things in the final object in the order that you
> passed them. We depend on this for getting __init functions run in the
> right order:
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.
--
David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-08 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-07 13:14 The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order Russell King
2003-05-07 15:18 ` Dick Streefland
2003-05-07 15:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-07 15:24 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-07 17:14 ` Russell King
2003-05-07 22:04 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-07 22:28 ` Dave Hansen
2003-05-08 12:05 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-05-08 14:55 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-08 14:54 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-08 16:24 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-05-08 16:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-08 16:30 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-11 18:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-08 17:56 ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-05-08 17:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-09 6:51 ` Richard Henderson
2003-05-08 19:32 Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-08 21:43 ` Eli Carter
2003-05-08 22:19 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-08 21:46 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-08 23:23 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-08 23:38 Ray Lee
2003-05-09 12:41 ` Dick Streefland
2003-05-09 14:33 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-05-10 7:42 Thomas Hood
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