On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > 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. i'd suspected something along those lines, which is why i submitted the patch below to the LKML just a while ago. if anyone wants to pick it up and apply it somewhere, feel free. (i dropped the LKML from the CC list, i don't think they need to see any more of this.) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/pcmcia/Kconfig b/drivers/scsi/pcmcia/Kconfig index eac8e17..7dd787f 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/pcmcia/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/scsi/pcmcia/Kconfig @@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ # menu "PCMCIA SCSI adapter support" - depends on SCSI!=n && PCMCIA!=n && MODULES + depends on SCSI!=n && PCMCIA!=n config PCMCIA_AHA152X tristate "Adaptec AHA152X PCMCIA support" - depends on m && !64BIT + depends on !64BIT select SCSI_SPI_ATTRS help Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA SCSI host @@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ config PCMCIA_AHA152X config PCMCIA_FDOMAIN tristate "Future Domain PCMCIA support" - depends on m help Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA SCSI host adapter to your computer. @@ -28,7 +27,7 @@ config PCMCIA_FDOMAIN config PCMCIA_NINJA_SCSI tristate "NinjaSCSI-3 / NinjaSCSI-32Bi (16bit) PCMCIA support" - depends on m && !64BIT + depends on !64BIT help If you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA SCSI host adapter to your computer, say Y here and read @@ -62,7 +61,6 @@ config PCMCIA_NINJA_SCSI config PCMCIA_QLOGIC tristate "Qlogic PCMCIA support" - depends on m help Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA SCSI host adapter to your computer. @@ -72,7 +70,6 @@ config PCMCIA_QLOGIC config PCMCIA_SYM53C500 tristate "Symbios 53c500 PCMCIA support" - depends on m help Say Y here if you have a New Media Bus Toaster or other PCMCIA SCSI adapter based on the Symbios 53c500 controller. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
