On 26 Mar, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> 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. James, maybe you want to take it since it's for drivers/scsi/pcmcia/Kconfig. Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:59:36 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [PATCH] PCMCIA: Allow PCMCIA SCSI drivers to be built into the kernel. Remove the Kconfig requirement that the PCMCIA SCSI drivers be built only as modules, and allow them to be built into the kernel. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- i imagine there's a historical reason for these drivers being forced to be built only as modules. and i'm not sure whether i should have CCed the SCSI folks, the PCMCIA folks, or both. or whatever. compile-tested on x86 with "make allyesconfig". 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
