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From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
To: David Hinds <dhinds@lahmed.stanford.edu>
Cc: Tobias Ringstrom <tori@tellus.mine.nu>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:44:30 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200011220144.eAM1iUf08680@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from David Hinds <dhinds@lahmed.stanford.edu>  of "Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:04:44 -0800." <20001121160443.B18150@lahmed.stanford.edu>

David Hinds <dhinds@lahmed.stanford.edu> said:

[...]

> Is there a technical reason for this?  Not that I know of; but then I
> also cannot think of a good reason for wanting, say, the generic code
> built in but the controller support as modules.  I do see reasonable
> arguments for all-builtin or all-modules.

If you have a laptop with an assortment of cards, you might want to have
the generic builtin and the cards themselves as modules.

Pretty weak, I know.
-- 
Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile                               +56 32 672616
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-11-22  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-21 22:34 Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules Tobias Ringstrom
2000-11-22  0:04 ` David Hinds
2000-11-22  1:10   ` Albert D. Cahalan
2000-11-22  1:28     ` David Hinds
2000-11-22  1:44   ` Horst von Brand [this message]
2000-11-22  1:50     ` David Hinds
2000-11-22 10:54   ` Tobias Ringstrom
2000-11-22 10:25 ` Matti Aarnio
2000-11-22 12:29   ` Alan Cox
2000-11-24 17:06   ` Oliver Xymoron
2000-11-22 11:05 ` David Woodhouse

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