netdev - Re: drivers/net/Makefile - question about link order comment introduced in 2.3.43

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Date:	Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:15:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	joe@...ches.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, sam@...nborg.org
Subject: Re: drivers/net/Makefile - question about link order comment
 introduced in 2.3.43

From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:04:09 -0700

> It wasn't that way in 2.3.43-pre7 , but it is in 2.3.43
> and has remained there since.  There's nothing in lkml
> history as far as I can find to describe a reason for it.
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/2/10
> (or thereabout)
> 
> Anyone know why it's like that or if that Makefile link
> ordering is still needed?

I suspect it's not needed any more.

I also suspect it's an obsolete sparc specific hack to get the primary
ethernet interface to always show up as eth0.
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