Re: [PATCH -mm] ssb: Make pcmciahost depend on PCMCIA=y

[jfannin@gmail.com (Joseph Fannin)]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:43:33AM +0900, Paul Mundt wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:59:00PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 September 2007 12:17:45 Paul Mundt wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 12:09:09PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> > > > There we go. The usual SELECT dependency hell again...
> > > > Would changing SSB_PCMCIAHOST_POSSIBLE to tristate also fix it?
> > > > What would be the sideeffects?
> > > >
> > > I tried that first, if you do that you have to change the default to
> > > SSB && PCMCIA, and then anything that depends on it also has to be a
> > > tristate. That worked ok for SSB_PCMCIAHOST, but it didn't work ok for
> > > the b43 wireless + PCMCIA, which is why I opted for the PCMCIA=y thing
> > > instead, which makes sure that SSB_PCMCIAHOST can't be enabled if PCMCIA
> > > is modular.
> >
> > Ok, so much for "SELECT is easy and it works if used correctly..." :)
> > Well, let's apply that patch then. It needlessly restricts the
> > choice to not allow modular pcmcia in that case, though.
> >
> That is the compromise, yes. Feel free to propose a better solution ;-)

    I just ran into this link error (CONFIG_PCMCIA=m;
CONFIG_SSB_PCMCIAHOST=y).  No big deal; I don't have the hardware.

    But yeah, this is still a problem.

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