Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Albert D. Cahalan" <> | Subject | Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules | Date | Tue, 21 Nov 2000 20:10:38 -0500 (EST) |
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>> 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 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.
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 that will most likely get used. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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