--- /dev/null
+commit e09dd7ae2076782c47a8b729b989e20af882415f
+Author: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
+Date: Sat May 8 16:03:34 2010 +0200
+
+ AR7: prevent race between clocks and devices initialization
+
+ ar7_clocks_init and ar7_register_devices are both called at arch_initcall
+ however, ar7_register_devices relies on clocks to be initialized, and clock.o
+ is to be linked later. Fix this by making clock.o be linked earlier.
+
+ Reported-by: Michael J. Evans <mjevans1983@gmail.com>
+ Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
+
+diff --git a/arch/mips/ar7/Makefile b/arch/mips/ar7/Makefile
+index 26bc5da..2df8910 100644
+--- a/arch/mips/ar7/Makefile
++++ b/arch/mips/ar7/Makefile
+@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ obj-y := \
+ memory.o \
+ irq.o \
+ time.o \
++ clock.o \
+ platform.o \
+- gpio.o \
+- clock.o
++ gpio.o
+ EXTRA_CFLAGS += -Werror