Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264108AbUDBQ77 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:59:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264109AbUDBQ77 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:59:59 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:11155 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264108AbUDBQ76 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:59:58 -0500 Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 08:59:41 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Olaf Zaplinski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.4: disabling SCSI support not possible Message-ID: <20040402165941.GA29046@kroah.com> References: <406D65FE.9090001@broadnet-mediascape.de> <6uad1uv7kr.fsf@zork.zork.net> <20040402144216.A12306@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040402144216.A12306@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 925 Lines: 25 On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:42:17PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 02:21:40PM +0100, Sean Neakums wrote: > > Olaf Zaplinski writes: > > > > > I cannot disable SCSI completely in 2.6.4's 'menuconfig'. > > > > I believe that some kernel components require SCSI to be useful and so > > force SCSI to be activated. One example that springs to mind is > > usb-storage. > > usb-storage should depend on SCSI rather than forcing SCSI to be > enabled. No, this is the way it used to be, and it caused all kinds of problems in the past. It was switched to use 'select' on purpose, and should stay that way. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/