From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: 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 15:27:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4607CA5A.4040906@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703250916090.22484@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6>
Robert P. J. Day wrote at LKML:
> drivers/scsi/pcmcia/Kconfig:
> ...
> config PCMCIA_AHA152X
> tristate "Adaptec AHA152X PCMCIA support"
> depends on m && !64BIT
> select SCSI_SPI_ATTRS
> help
> Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA SCSI host
> adapter to your computer.
>
> To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
> module will be called aha152x_cs.
> ...
>
> 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".
>
> as jack nicholson would say, something's gotta give.
LSML a.k.a. linux-scsi may know what's gotta give.
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-26 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703250916090.22484@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6>
2007-03-26 13:27 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2007-03-26 20:02 ` some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules Christoph Hellwig
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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