[Buildroot] Why linux26-modules before linux26

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:34:36PM -0700, Brian Beattie wrote:
>I have a kernel that does not want to compile the modules before the
>rest of the kernel.  I've worked around that, but it does raise a
>question that maybe somebody knows the answer to, why are the makefiles
>set  to compile the kernel-modules so early compared to the rest of the
>kernel?

This was added by Steven, IIRC. I don't see a reason why the modules are
built before the kernel.

Steven, can you please explain?