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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.65
To: cat@zip.com.au (CaT)
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:48:56 +0000 (GMT)
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> > > 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?
> > 
> > Yes, this was the behaviour of the old config tools, which was restored 
> > with 2.5.65. This means 'm' is a marker that this thing works only as a 
> > module.
> > If you want the other behaviour, that it can only be built as a module in 
> > a modular kernel, but compile it into a nonmodular kernel, you can use "m 
> > || !MODULES" instead.
> 
> Ahhh. So if I want module support but not use it as a module then I'm
> SOL?

vi .config

John.
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