Re: USB init order dependencies.

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

Jeff Garzik writes:
> Putting a call into init/main.c isn't a long term solution, but it
> should get us there for 2.4.x...  init/main.c is also the best solution
> for ugly cross-directory link order dependencies.  I would say the link
> order of foo.o's in linux/Makefile is the most delicate/fragile of all
> the Makefiles...  touching linux/Makefile link order this close to 2.4.0
> is asking for trouble.  Compared to that, adding a few lines to
> init/main.c isn't so bad.

There'll be quite a few extra init calls going in there then, with lots
and lots of ifdefs ;(
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