On Tuesday 02 May 2006 01:23, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : However you wouldn't expect that using it as a module would result in > : reduced functionality. (The same as how you wouldn't expect compiling > : something into your kernel would result in reduced functionality) > > At the same time, you'd expect it to behave like every other 'bus' in > the tree. We omit the attachments for drivers to that bus when the > kernel is built w/o that bus. This is why if you have, say, ep in the > kernel, but pccard loaded as a module, the 3c589 you just inserted > into the pccard slot won't work. > > It is a minor imperfection in the config system that no one has taken > on as a Problem To Solve. Solving it turns out to be somewhat tricky. Hmm, but I load acpi as a module and get acpi attachments.. (for sio and ppc) <shrugs> it's black magic to me anyway :) I didn't mean to belittle Marcel's work, I was just suprised that it would cause a functionality loss like that. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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