From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
hch@lst.de, Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.65
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 09:15:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030318091516.A3491@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030318052257.GB635@zip.com.au>; from cat@zip.com.au on Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 04:22:57PM +1100
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 04:22:57PM +1100, CaT wrote:
> One question. Should PCMCIA_AHA152X only be compilable as a module? I
> found this in Kconfig:
>
> config PCMCIA_AHA152X
> tristate "Adaptec AHA152X PCMCIA support"
> depends on m
> help
> Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA SCSI host
> adapter to your computer.
> ...
>
> The help and the tristate seems to indicate that I should be able to
> compile it into the kernel, but menuconfig wont let me. This is
> presumably due to the dependancy but is it right?
I think all pcmcia drivers currently are compilable only as module.
This was because historically they need cardmgr to work properly, but
someone is working on fixing that IIRC.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-18 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-17 22:31 Linux 2.5.65 Linus Torvalds
2003-03-18 0:53 ` John Cherry
2003-03-18 5:22 ` CaT
2003-03-18 8:15 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-03-18 9:12 ` CaT
2003-03-18 10:08 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-18 10:35 ` CaT
2003-03-18 10:43 ` Roman Zippel
2003-03-18 10:48 ` John Bradford
2003-03-18 15:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-18 15:33 ` CaT
2003-03-18 12:45 ` Remaining occurances of DEVFS_FL_AUTO_DEVNUM in 2.5.65 Adrian Bunk
2003-03-18 15:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-18 16:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-03-18 16:24 ` top Stack (l)users for 2.5.65 Jörn Engel
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