Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

[Albert D. Cahalan]

>> 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.