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On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 03:30, Kai Germaschewski wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > > Does this combination make sense? If you are building a pnpbios driver > > into the kernel then the configuration should force pnpbios support to > > be built in as well. We don't allow this combination for things like > > scsi or ide, they require the common support to be built in if any > > drivers are built in. IMHO this problem should be fixed in .config, > > not in driver source. > > The affected drivers usually support different interfaces to the hardware, > like ISA, ISAPnP, PCI, so it makes sense to build them w/o ISAPnP support. True. > For instance, people may want to have built-in serial support (w/o ISAPnP > support is fine, because they've only got a standard SuperI/O chip), but > also modular isapnp and sound driver support, so they can demand load > sound support if necessary. Fine. > Making ISAPnP mandatory only because you build a driver which supports > ISAPnP hardware is not an option IMO. This would force people to build > ISAPnP support who don't even have an ISA bus (only because the driver for > their PCI card also supports an ISAPnP variant). You misunderstand. Obviously we don't want to force anyone to build in isa-pnp or pnpbios support. What Keith is saying is that IF isa-pnp code is enabled in a driver then the isa-pnp driver should also be built. Furthermore if isa-pnp code is enabled in an _integral_ (i.e., non-modular) driver, then the isa-pnp driver should also be built integrally. The combination of integral-driver-with-isa-pnp-support-enabled and modular isa-pnp driver should be disallowed by the configurator. Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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