From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:02:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070326200257.GA28622@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4607CA5A.4040906@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
> > 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-26 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-25 13:20 some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules Robert P. J. Day
2007-03-26 13:27 ` Stefan Richter
2007-03-26 20:02 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-03-26 20:06 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-03-26 20:31 ` Stefan Richter
2007-03-26 20:35 ` James Bottomley
2007-03-26 20:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-03-26 21:06 ` James Bottomley
2007-03-30 20:48 ` Dominik Brodowski
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