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Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:34:45 -0500
From: Steven Walter <srwalter@yahoo.com>
To: Uwe Bonnes <bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de>
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Subject: Re: Why no modules for IDE chipset support?
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On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 11:31:25AM +0200, Uwe Bonnes wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> why are the IDE chipset support driver not modularized? Is there anything
> fundamental that inhibits using these drivers as a modules?

They are availible as modules.  See "ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support," which is
a tristate.  If you select that as a module, then all the chipsets you
select for support later will be compiled into one large module.

This is probably a bad idea, though, because if you compile IDE support
as a module, you will not be able to mount your root partition if it is
on an IDE disk.

I hope this clears things up for you.
-- 
-Steven
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
			-- George Orwell
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