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SubjectRe: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules
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On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 21:02 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > it would seem to make no sense that the "depends on" clause for this
> > > option includes "m", forcing this (and all other four entries in that
> > > Kconfig file, by the way) to be built as modules, while the help text
> > > for all five entries suggests you can select "y".
>
> In the old days pcmcia drivers had to be modular because pcmcia required
> a lot of userspace setup. It's not needed anymore these days and the
> dependencies can go.

I agree the non-legacy (CardBus and beyond) ones can be built in. I
thought the legacy 8 and 16 bit type I and II still had to be modular
because they still need setting up.

James


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