Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

2000-11-24 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 11:34:45PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > The subject says it all. Is there any particular (technical) reason > > why I must have both the generic pcmcia code and the controller support > > built-in, or build all of them as mo

Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

2000-11-22 Thread Alan Cox
> Wasn't there some strange laptop model which had PCMCIA floppy/CDROM, > which are unavailable to bootstrap process, unless PCMCIA is supported > at the booting kernel ? I have seen a couple where the floppy/cdrom are supported by the bios but then vanish. Generally they are left mapped which me

Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

2000-11-22 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Is there a technical reason for this? Not that I know of; but then I > also cannot think of a good reason for wanting, say, the generic code > built in but the controller support as modules. I do see reasonable > arguments for all-builtin or all-modules. register_ss_

Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

2000-11-22 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, David Hinds wrote: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 11:34:45PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > The subject says it all. Is there any particular (technical) reason why I > > must have both the generic pcmcia code and the controller support > > built-in, or build all of them as mod

Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

2000-11-22 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 11:34:45PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > The subject says it all. Is there any particular (technical) reason > why I must have both the generic pcmcia code and the controller support > built-in, or build all of them as modules? > > /Tobias Wasn't there some strange lap

Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

2000-11-21 Thread David Hinds
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:44:30PM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote: > > If you have a laptop with an assortment of cards, you might want to have > the generic builtin and the cards themselves as modules. No, that's ok, and that's supported with the current config scripts. The original question was

Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

2000-11-21 Thread Horst von Brand
David Hinds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > Is there a technical reason for this? Not that I know of; but then I > also cannot think of a good reason for wanting, say, the generic code > built in but the controller support as modules. I do see reasonable > arguments for all-builtin or all-mo

Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

2000-11-21 Thread David Hinds
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 08:10:38PM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > Hmmm, I'm not the only one who doesn't like modules depending > on other modules. I suppose this is part paranoia about extra > complexity leading to problems, and part desire to avoid the > module overhead for common code tha

Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

2000-11-21 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
>> The subject says it all. Is there any particular (technical) reason >> why I must have both the generic pcmcia code and the controller >> support built-in, or build all of them as modules? > > Is there a technical reason for this? Not that I know of; but then I > also cannot think of a good re

Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

2000-11-21 Thread David Hinds
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 11:34:45PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > The subject says it all. Is there any particular (technical) reason why I > must have both the generic pcmcia code and the controller support > built-in, or build all of them as modules? Is there a technical reason for this? Not

Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

2000-11-21 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
The subject says it all. Is there any particular (technical) reason why I must have both the generic pcmcia code and the controller support built-in, or build all of them as modules? /Tobias - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [E