Re: 2.3.4[89] fail to probe/id IDE properly (long)

From: Arjan van de Ven (arjan@fenrus.demon.nl)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 15:03:16 EST


In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003071104370.7246-100000@home.suse.com> you wrote:

>> Please don't. You don't don't want me to have to add PCI support (which
>> is only something like 100 kB compressed) to my kernels just to use my EISA
>> Ethernet card, do you?
>> mailing list do get here. ;-)

> Very fair concern, but there needs to be "PCI" config blocks for builds
> that are non-pci builds.

Hi,

My idea (and I think someone else said that as well) would be
to either provide enough stubs in the PCI code to not have to worry about
CONFIG_PCI, or to keep the existing (2.2) situation, with additional
dependencies for drivers that are PCI only, like

dep_tristate ' PCI NE2000 support' CONFIG_NE2K_PCI $CONFIG_PCI

For 2.5, the entire config-system must go, as it is way to limited for the
current kernels.

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven

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