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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 04:22:57PM +1100, CaT wrote:
> One question. Should PCMCIA_AHA152X only be compilable as a module? I
> found this in Kconfig:
> 
> config PCMCIA_AHA152X
>         tristate "Adaptec AHA152X PCMCIA support"
>         depends on m
>         help
>           Say Y here if you intend to attach this type of PCMCIA SCSI host
>           adapter to your computer.
> 	  ...
> 
> The help and the tristate seems to indicate that I should be able to
> compile it into the kernel, but menuconfig wont let me. This is
> presumably due to the dependancy but is it right?

I think all pcmcia drivers currently are compilable only as module.
This was because historically they need cardmgr to work properly, but
someone is working on fixing that IIRC.

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