Andrew Morton wrote:
> - The consensus here seems to be that I should continue to generate
> drivers/net/3c59x.o as well as drivers/net/pcmcia/3c575_cb.o. Fair
> enough.
The stumbling block seems to be pcmcia. If we can get pcmcia to load
3c59x.o for all its 3com needs, then there should be no reason why
3c575_cb.o continues to live.
> - I don't want to copy a single .o file into two places because the
> source _should_ be compiled twice.
What makes you think this? The source should not need to be compiled
twice. The PCI driver interface is designed to seamlessly support
hotplug and non-hotplug.
Jeff
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