On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:58:32PM +0000, John P. Looney wrote:
> Is it just me, or do less and less drivers compile statically into the
> kernel these days ?
supposedly drivers are going to be module-only in 2.6.
> Usually, there is loads of ifdef MODULE etc. In the eepro100 driver,
> there isn't any. At all. I rolled up a module-less kernel today, and it
> didn't detect the tulip or the eepro100 cards in the machine :(
i've always compiled nic drivers as modules if there was more then one.
kevin
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