Re: Linux 2.5.65

[CaT <cat@zip.com.au>]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:08:08AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Yes, this was the behaviour of the old config tools, which was restored 
> with 2.5.65. This means 'm' is a marker that this thing works only as a 
> module.
> If you want the other behaviour, that it can only be built as a module in 
> a modular kernel, but compile it into a nonmodular kernel, you can use "m 
> || !MODULES" instead.

Ahhh. So if I want module support but not use it as a module then I'm
SOL?

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