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

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Message-ID: <1286363049.2156.113.camel@Joe-Laptop>
Date:	Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:04:09 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: drivers/net/Makefile - question about link order comment
 introduced in 2.3.43

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?

Currently, drivers/net/Makefile line 42

#
# link order important here
#
obj-$(CONFIG_PLIP) += plip.o

[about 60 lines later...]

obj-$(CONFIG_STMMAC_ETH) += stmmac/

#
# end link order section
#


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