linux-kernel - Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules

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Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:27:54 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules

Robert P. J. Day wrote at LKML:
> drivers/scsi/pcmcia/Kconfig:
> ...
> config PCMCIA_AHA152X
>         tristate "Adaptec AHA152X PCMCIA support"
>         depends on m && !64BIT
>         select SCSI_SPI_ATTRS
>         help
>           Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA SCSI host
>           adapter to your computer.
> 
>           To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the
>           module will be called aha152x_cs.
> ...
> 
>   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".
> 
>   as jack nicholson would say, something's gotta give.

LSML a.k.a. linux-scsi may know what's gotta give.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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