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

kernel config q

2008-10-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, 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 to the functioning of the driver. Am I correct? This in rega