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Message-ID: <4607CA5A.4040906@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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.
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Stefan Richter
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