From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261823AbTEHPmA (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 11:42:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261835AbTEHPmA (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 11:42:00 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:4743 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261823AbTEHPl7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 11:41:59 -0400 Subject: Re: The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order From: Alan Cox To: "David S. Miller" Cc: Dave Hansen , Andrew Morton , Russell King , rddunlap@osdl.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <1052395526.23259.0.camel@rth.ninka.net> References: <20030507141458.B30005@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20030507082416.0996c3df.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20030507181410.A19615@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20030507150414.1eaeae75.akpm@digeo.com> <3EB98878.5060607@us.ibm.com> <1052395526.23259.0.camel@rth.ninka.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1052405730.10038.51.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 08 May 2003 15:55:31 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.