From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751044AbXCZUgB (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:36:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751610AbXCZUgB (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:36:01 -0400 Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:50703 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751044AbXCZUgA (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:36:00 -0400 Subject: Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules From: James Bottomley To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Stefan Richter , "Robert P. J. Day" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20070326200257.GA28622@infradead.org> References: <4607CA5A.4040906@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070326200257.GA28622@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:35:47 -0500 Message-Id: <1174941347.3549.41.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-1.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 21:02 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > 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. I agree the non-legacy (CardBus and beyond) ones can be built in. I thought the legacy 8 and 16 bit type I and II still had to be modular because they still need setting up. James