Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] Makefile: sound/ must come before drivers/

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:09:03 -0800 (PST),
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 
> > Thinking about this, what about the patch below?
> > 
> > I don't know whether this might break anything else, but it fixes my 
> > problem.
> 
> I'd be much more worried about this than about your patch that just 
> modifies one driver.
> 
> Basically, this would make _all_ sound drivers initialize before the other 
> drivers, and that just makes me suspect you'll have a lot of new bugs that 
> get uncovered by the fact that the configuration changed radically.
> 
> So I'd much rather either fix one single sound driver (that can't mess up 
> anything else), or fix the sound _core_ to just initialize in the right 
> place. Moving _all_ sound drivers earlier sounds risky as hell, for no 
> good reason.

Agreed, it looks too radical at this stage.

Another workaround is to move the relevant module to sound/* directory
in order to get a sane initialization order.  It's nothing but a
workaround, though.


Takashi
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