From: Steven Walter <srwalter@yahoo.com>
To: Uwe Bonnes <bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why no modules for IDE chipset support?
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:34:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010725113445.B25434@hapablap.dyn.dhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15198.37357.879359.519563@hertz.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de>
In-Reply-To: <15198.37357.879359.519563@hertz.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de>; from bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:31:25AM +0200
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:31:25AM +0200, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> why are the IDE chipset support driver not modularized? Is there anything
> fundamental that inhibits using these drivers as a modules?
They are availible as modules. See "ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support," which is
a tristate. If you select that as a module, then all the chipsets you
select for support later will be compiled into one large module.
This is probably a bad idea, though, because if you compile IDE support
as a module, you will not be able to mount your root partition if it is
on an IDE disk.
I hope this clears things up for you.
--
-Steven
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
-- George Orwell
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-25 16:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-25 9:31 Uwe Bonnes
2001-07-25 16:34 ` Steven Walter [this message]
2001-07-25 17:05 ` Artur Frysiak
2001-07-25 17:23 ` Tomasz Kłoczko
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