Re: 2.3.18ac5 PCMCIA

David Hinds (dhinds@tao.stanford.edu)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:40:13 -0700

Garst Reese wrote:
> Browsing the patch I find:
> + * cardbus-compile-command: "gcc -DCARDBUS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall
> -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c 3c59*.c -o 3c575_cb.o
> -I/usr/src/linux/pcmcia-cs-3.0.9/include/"
>
> This looks really screwy for several reasons:
> 1. there exists /usr/src/linux/include/pcmcia
> 2. pcmcia-cs-3.0.9 is no longer to be found.
> 3. One does not normally untar it in /usr/src/linux

I assume that this is just some left-over stuff that worked in Donald
Becker's compilation environment. It has no meaning outside that
context.

> 4. What is the point of putting pcmcia in the kernel if we still need
> pcmcia-cs-xxx ?

Some people prefer monolithic kernels and/or monolithic source trees
for one reason for another. And Linus wanted it that way.

-- Dave Hinds

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