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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 12:25:43 +0200
From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
To: Tobias Ringstrom <tori@tellus.mine.nu>
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Subject: Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules
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On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 11:34:45PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote:
> 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?
> 
> /Tobias

Wasn't there some strange laptop model which had PCMCIA floppy/CDROM,
which are unavailable to bootstrap process, unless PCMCIA is supported
at the booting kernel ?

Or was it about USB floppy at some other laptop?
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