Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264146AbUDBR4X (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Apr 2004 12:56:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264145AbUDBR4X (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Apr 2004 12:56:23 -0500 Received: from wsip-68-14-253-125.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.14.253.125]:55428 "EHLO office.labsysgrp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264137AbUDBR4V (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Apr 2004 12:56:21 -0500 Message-ID: <406DA946.7040202@backtobasicsmgmt.com> Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 10:56:22 -0700 From: "Kevin P. Fleming" Organization: Back To Basics Network Management User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell King CC: Greg KH , Olaf Zaplinski , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.4: disabling SCSI support not possible References: <406D65FE.9090001@broadnet-mediascape.de> <6uad1uv7kr.fsf@zork.zork.net> <20040402144216.A12306@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20040402165941.GA29046@kroah.com> <20040402181630.B12306@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040402181630.B12306@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 616 Lines: 15 Russell King wrote: > (b) have kconfig tell you why you can't turn off the option. > > Silently preventing options being turned off with no obvious reason > is a pretty major misfeature. It's even worse than that; with USB_STORAGE enabled, CONFIG_SCSI doesn't even show an option selection box, so it's not even obvious that it _is_ an option, rather than a comment. - 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/