James Bottomley wrote: >> I personally think it's a bit odd to disallow building into kernel >> because of the peculiarity of the implementation (including c files and >> compiling them slightly differently) and also no one reporting doesn't >> necessarily mean no one has attempted it and failed. > > Heh ... I'll make you a deal. Find just one user of one of these > drivers who can make use of them built in, and I'll apply the patch.
I don't think I can. I didn't even know they were isa ones before actually looking at the code. > I'm just a bit reluctant to touch these drivers, since they're all > incredibly ancient. We don't have good luck with simple transformation > patches on the older drivers ... and it seems to take months before > anyone notices there's a problem. Alright then, please go ahead and disallow built-in. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
