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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:02:57 +0100
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> >   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.