Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:35:47 -0500 |
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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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