Re: Linux 2.5.65

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, 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?

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.

bye, Roman