Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:40:13 -0700 | From | David Hinds <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.18ac5 PCMCIA |
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Garst Reese wrote: > Browsing the patch I find: > + * cardbus-compile-command: "gcc -DCARDBUS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall > -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c 3c59*.c -o 3c575_cb.o > -I/usr/src/linux/pcmcia-cs-3.0.9/include/" > > This looks really screwy for several reasons: > 1. there exists /usr/src/linux/include/pcmcia > 2. pcmcia-cs-3.0.9 is no longer to be found. > 3. One does not normally untar it in /usr/src/linux
I assume that this is just some left-over stuff that worked in Donald Becker's compilation environment. It has no meaning outside that context.
> 4. What is the point of putting pcmcia in the kernel if we still need > pcmcia-cs-xxx ?
Some people prefer monolithic kernels and/or monolithic source trees for one reason for another. And Linus wanted it that way.
-- Dave Hinds
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