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

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Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:06:53 -0500
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
Cc:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules

On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 21:38 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:35:47PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > I agree the non-legacy (CardBus and beyond) ones can be built in.  I
> > thought the legacy 8 and 16 bit type I and II still had to be modular
> > because they still need setting up.
> 
> nope.  While I don't have a pcmcia scsi card my 16 bit pcmcia wireless
> cards work perfectly fine without any previous setup.

OK ... I had the opposite experience ... A ZoomAir 802.11b card wasn't
working because I'd accidentally config'd it non-modular.  However, if
Dominik confirms it's all supposed to work non-modular, I'm happy to
conclude my experience was pilot error.

James


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