From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 10:34:48 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15269.1012779288@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:42:11 BST." <200202011342.g11DgBfd001291@tigger.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
On Fri, 01 Feb 2002 14:42:11 +0100,
Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de> wrote:
>Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> said:
>> I know, it makes it even harder to see what the initialization order
>> is. Some are controlled by the Makefile/subdirs order, some by special
>> calls in the code.
>
>Just to repeat myself: This is clearly a problem for tsort(1): Give
>restrictions of the form "This has to come after that" (perhaps a special
>comment at the start of the file containing the init function?), tsort that
>and pick the order out of the result. Should be a few lines of script. No
>central repository for the dependencies, no messing around with half the
>world to fix dependencies. Plus they become explicit, which they aren't
>today.
Just to repeat myself: That is exactly what I want to do. Linus vetoed
it in October 2000.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-03 23:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-01 0:42 Alan Cox
[not found] ` <20020131.162549.74750188.davem@redhat.com>
2002-02-01 0:30 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-01 3:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 4:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-02-01 4:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 4:25 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-01 4:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 5:10 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-01 5:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 5:18 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-01 13:42 ` Horst von Brand
2002-02-03 23:34 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2002-02-04 20:14 ` Horst von Brand
2002-02-01 5:59 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-01 6:01 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-01 6:11 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-01 6:26 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-01 6:43 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-01 15:03 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-01 14:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 15:12 ` Petr Vandrovec
2002-02-01 15:29 ` VESA Anybody out there Martin Dalecki
2002-02-01 15:42 ` Davidovac Zoran
2002-02-01 16:21 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-01 16:33 ` Thomas Capricelli
2002-02-01 16:53 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-01 16:35 ` Sergey S. Kostyliov
2002-02-01 16:37 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-02-01 16:33 ` Petr Baudis
2002-02-01 17:45 ` The Candyman
2002-02-02 13:41 ` Andreas Happe
2002-02-02 21:09 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-05 17:05 ` Pavel Machek
2002-02-01 16:08 ` [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does David Woodhouse
2002-02-04 13:24 ` Horst von Brand
2002-02-05 7:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 15:19 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-01 19:37 ` Rob Landley
2002-02-01 19:50 ` Jeff Garzik
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-31 22:59 [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does not David S. Miller
2002-01-31 23:24 ` [PATCH] Re: crc32 and lib.a (was Re: [PATCH] nbd in 2.5.3 does Alan Cox
2002-01-31 23:21 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-02-02 16:32 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-02-02 12:57 ` Jens Axboe
2002-02-02 13:16 ` arjan
2002-02-02 13:52 ` Jens Axboe
2002-02-03 11:37 ` David Woodhouse
2002-01-31 23:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-01 8:14 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-02 2:12 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-02-02 3:01 ` Andrew Morton
2002-02-02 7:30 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-02-02 7:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-02 8:08 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-02 19:20 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-02 8:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-02 8:08 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-02 8:40 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-02 8:59 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-02 9:14 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-03 4:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-02-03 7:01 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-02-03 9:13 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-02-03 12:16 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-03 12:33 ` Chris Wedgwood
2002-02-03 12:47 ` David Woodhouse
2002-02-03 13:40 ` Alan Cox
2002-01-31 23:45 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-01 0:32 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-01 10:07 ` Horst von Brand
2002-02-01 10:28 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-01 11:03 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-01 11:25 ` Keith Owens
2002-02-01 14:56 ` Jeff Garzik
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