From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753767AbXCZUDJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:03:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753769AbXCZUDJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:03:09 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:49050 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753763AbXCZUDH (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:03:07 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:02:57 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Stefan Richter Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules Message-ID: <20070326200257.GA28622@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Stefan Richter , "Robert P. J. Day" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <4607CA5A.4040906@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4607CA5A.4040906@s5r6.in-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > 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.