Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 14:29:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Ricky Beam <jfbeam@bluetronic.net>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
cc: Olaf Zaplinski <o.zaplinski@broadnet-mediascape.de>,
       <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.4: disabling SCSI support not possible
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On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Russell King wrote:
>usb-storage should depend on SCSI rather than forcing SCSI to be
>enabled.

Actually, it should "require" SCSI, but the kernel configuration logic
does not support that.

>Using 'select' is all very well for the case where the target
>configuration symbol is not user selectable, but in the case that
>it is, it leads to the confusion shown above.

Indeed.  "select" is very useful for enabling options that cannot otherwise
be enabled.  However, it gets mis-applied in cases like this to address the
"stupid user" problem. (see above re: missing "require")  In fact, the
only place I can forgive the use of select on user selectable options in
within the input layer options -- select is used to force a valid usable
configuration instead of letting someone compile a kernel without any
keyboard support, BUT, it's still user tunable if "embedded" is enabled.

--Ricky

(see also: http://bk.troz.com:14690/linux-2.6-bk/user=jfbeam/cset@1.1396
 for additional SELECT removals.)


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