Re: kernel config q

2008-10-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jochen Schulz wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom: But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's is immaterial as to the functioning of the driver. Am I correct? Generally yes. There are modules which are better compiled statically (IDE/S-ATA, filesystems) but they work either way. This in regard to trying

Re: kernel config q

2008-10-13 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's is immaterial as to the > functioning of the driver. > > Am I correct? Generally yes. There are modules which are better compiled statically (IDE/S-ATA, filesystems) but they work either way. > This in regard to trying to get smar

Re: kernel config q

2008-10-13 Thread Robert Walter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom schrieb: > Dave Ewart wrote: >> On Monday, 13.10.2008 at 09:46 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> [...] >> > > It works regarding smartctl but *not* using vga= or uvesafb, which is > a severe problem compared to using smartctl. > For m

Re: kernel config q

2008-10-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dave Ewart wrote: On Monday, 13.10.2008 at 09:46 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I am under the impression that for a kernel function, like a driver, to be present and function correctly one has to mark it either 'Y' or 'M' in the kernel .config. But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's is im

Re: kernel config q

2008-10-13 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 13.10.2008 at 09:46 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I am under the impression that for a kernel function, like a driver, > to be present and function correctly one has to mark it either 'Y' or > 'M' in the kernel .config. > > But that the combination of 'Y's and 'M's is immaterial as