From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932451AbXCZVHG (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:07:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932444AbXCZVHF (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:07:05 -0400 Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:50969 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932194AbXCZVHD (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:07:03 -0400 Subject: Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules From: James Bottomley To: Christoph Hellwig , Dominik Brodowski Cc: Stefan Richter , "Robert P. J. Day" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20070326203824.GA1430@infradead.org> References: <4607CA5A.4040906@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070326200257.GA28622@infradead.org> <1174941347.3549.41.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <20070326203824.GA1430@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:06:53 -0500 Message-Id: <1174943213.3549.53.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 21:38 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:35:47PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > 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. > > nope. While I don't have a pcmcia scsi card my 16 bit pcmcia wireless > cards work perfectly fine without any previous setup. OK ... I had the opposite experience ... A ZoomAir 802.11b card wasn't working because I'd accidentally config'd it non-modular. However, if Dominik confirms it's all supposed to work non-modular, I'm happy to conclude my experience was pilot error. James