From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
To: Tobias Ringstrom <tori@tellus.mine.nu>
Cc: dhinds@zen.stanford.edu, torvalds@transmeta.com,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:25:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001122122543.A28963@mea-ext.zmailer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011212328570.30344-100000@svea.tellus>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011212328570.30344-100000@svea.tellus>; from tori@tellus.mine.nu on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 11:34:45PM +0100
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 11:34:45PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
> The subject says it all. Is there any particular (technical) reason
> why I must have both the generic pcmcia code and the controller support
> built-in, or build all of them as modules?
>
> /Tobias
Wasn't there some strange laptop model which had PCMCIA floppy/CDROM,
which are unavailable to bootstrap process, unless PCMCIA is supported
at the booting kernel ?
Or was it about USB floppy at some other laptop?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-22 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-21 22:34 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
2000-11-22 1:50 ` David Hinds
2000-11-22 10:54 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2000-11-22 10:25 ` Matti Aarnio [this message]
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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