[plug] internal vs external modules kernel support

[russ]

--- Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote: > 
> If support for a device is integrated into the kernel or module support can
> be
> > loaded, how do you know which one is running and how do you force one or
> the
> > other to load? 
> 
> Usually, you either build both as modules and only load one, or there 
> will be some mechanism to tell the internal one not to activate. For 
> example, there are two drivers for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 at the 
> moment: e100 and eepro100. Typically if you wanted to try both you'd 
> build both as modules and load only one.
> 
> On the other hand, there are things like ACPI and APM where one (ACPI) 
> cannot be built as modules. In this case, I seem to remember you pass an 
> argument on the kernel command line to disable ACPI, making it possible 
> to load the APM modules.
> 
> There are two USB UHCI drivers, uhci and usb-uhci. These follow the 
> eepro/100 style.
> 
> The easy way may be to simply disable the built-in PCMCIA in your 
> kernel, but I don't know the details of the external PCMCIA support so 
> I'm not sure about this specific case.

That's what I was afraid you were going to say.  :)

I'll see if I can rebuild the kernel without it and see what happens.

Thanks Craig!


> 
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> 
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Best Regards,
Russ
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